Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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The Save Our Schools March: Why I Won't Be Marching

laststand4children.blogspot.com - By: Monica Caldwell In May, I was appointed as Last Stand for Children First's East Coast Director of Teacher Development. This has been a wonderful experience for me and I would have to say even ...

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Schools Matter: The new tough FCAT writing test

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: The new tough FCAT writing testThe new tough FCAT writing testby skrashenThe new, tougher FCAT writing test based on incorrect assumptionsSent to the Orlando Sentinel, July 26, 2011...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release July 25, 2011 Generations of Americans with disabilities have improved our country in countless ways. Refusing to accept the worl...

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Please help Rochester save its public schools

dailykos.com - All over this country, our public education system and our teachers are under attack. Some people have accepted the meme shoveled out by the public school privateers (Republicans and Democrats alik...

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'Apocalypse Never' author to speak in Madison, Milwaukee

uppitywis.org - "Dr. Tad Daley, author of “Apocalypse Never," a book about the urgent need to abolish nuclear weapons, will speak in Madison on Thursday, July 28, and in Milwaukee on Friday, July 29. Daley is the...

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Gutierrez arrested during immigration march

abclocal.go.com - July 26, 2011 (WASHINGTON) (WLS) -- Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez was arrested during an immigration protest at the White House on Tuesday. The Democrat was one of about 10 protesters arres...

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Chicago police use more deadly force as gang war heats up

csmonitor.com - Chicago police have already shot and killed more people this year than they did in 2010. Officials blame a 'wanton disregard for law,' but critics say police have been too aggressive against gangs....

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release July 26, 2011 On June 25, 1950, the Korean peninsula erupted in conflict, becoming the front line of an intensifying Cold War. F...

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Off grid « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - We are heading north today from Grand Teton National Park just a few miles to Yellowstone. What is almost impressive as the incredible beauty of this part of Wyoming is the people we have met who w...

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Money Money Money « The Treehorn Express

treehornexpress.wordpress.com - The Treehorn Express If you have read Florence Patty’s The Shrinking of Treehorn you will know of Treehorn’s dilemma. As he shrunk, adults who cared for him, ignored his condition. Adult haughtines...

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Child poverty statistics - countries compared

nationmaster.com - A report by the United Nations Children’s Fund has found that child poverty has risen over the past decade in three-quarters of the 25 richest countries in the world. According to the study, Denmar...

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Wealth gap widens between whites, minorities

syracuse.com - WASHINGTON (AP) — The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century. The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leav...

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Bill Gates To Reinvent The Toilet

mashable.com - The man who revolutionized the personal computer is putting his efforts — and foundation — to revolutionizing toilets. Microsoft founder Bill Gates said he will dedicate $42 million towards reinven...

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Spare the rod and develop the child

educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ฮฉStudy suggests non-corporal discipline aids children's executive-functioning abilityChildren in a school that uses corporal punishment performed significantly worse in tasks involving "executive f...

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Our Think/Do Tank workshop at the SOS Conference in D.C.

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - American University Thursday, July 28 from 1:45 - 3:45 P.M. The national SOS action in Washington isn’t the end but hopefully the beginning of our organizing work in defense of public education a...

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    When the story is education, Rupert Murdoch gets involved | GothamSchools

    When the story is education, Rupert Murdoch gets involved | GothamSchools

    When the story is education, Rupert Murdoch gets involved

    by Elizabeth Green

    Rupert Murdoch takes a strong interest in his newspapers' education coverage. (Photo by WorldEconomicForum on Flickr)

    How involved is Rupert Murdoch at the newspapers he owns? When the subject is education, Murdoch’s views directly influence the coverage in the New York Post and, at the least, the sorts of meetings taken at the Wall


    Remainders: Jon Stewart patching in to Save Our Schools rally

    by Philissa Cramer
    • Comedian Jon Stewart will be appearing via video at the Save Our Schools rally. (Palm Beach Post)
    • A teacher tried to list reasons to attend the rally but came up with just one big one. (James Boutin)
    • An attempt to debunk the idea that charter schools are taking over public education. (Quick and Ed)
    • In a paper, Rick Hess looks at the thorny issue of quality control in online learning. (Fordham Institute)
    • Colorado loses an extra-large number of students during senior year. A look at why. (Ed News Colorado)
    • The Walton Foundation is giving $50 million to help Teach for America expand. (Teacher Beat)
    • Things improved at Collin’s school when the principal bought a round of drinks. (GS Community)
    • The new head of ACS, Ronald Richter, was a deputy through the agency’s troubles. (Daily Politics)
    • What can stop the government’s impasse over the debt ceiling? Junior high civics teachers! (The Onion)
    • In a letter, Tom Vander Ark defends his decision to pull out of NYC charter schools he started. (Times)
    • A wonk lamented to the House that it is easier to become a teacher than play college football. (HuffPo)
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    Michelle Rhee’s Golden Parachute into the Katrina Disaster

    Michelle Rhee’s Golden Parachute into the Katrina Disaster

    Michelle Rhee’s Golden Parachute into the Katrina Disaster

    by admin

    New Orleans has the highest percentage of privately-run charter schools in the country, with close to 70% of all students enrolled there. Rapid charterization in NOLA occurred post-Katrina and epitomizes more than any other state, the near death of the public school system. The process is overseen by the Recovery School District (RSD).

    In a new proposal, (Many thanks to Prof. Lance Hill for sending us the attached), the RSD will supervise and

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    Save Our Schools #SOSMarch and National Call to Action | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

    Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

    Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action

    by Frank Murphy

    This Saturday, the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action will take place in Washington D.C. The rally, which will be staged at the ellipse, starts at noon. Around 1:30 p.m., participants will march to the White House where the demonstration will continue.

    Many readers will recognize that most, if not all, of the issues that we regularly discuss in the comments of theNotebook blog are represented in the march's guiding principles.

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    All Education Matters: Let's Clear Up Our Differences - My Call To Robert Applebaum

    All Education Matters: Let's Clear Up Our Differences - My Call To Robert Applebaum

    Let's Clear Up Our Differences - My Call To Robert Applebaum

    by C. Cryn Johannsen
    I just put in a call to Robert Applebaum, the founder & executive director of ForgiveStudentLoandebt.com. I left him my number, and followed up by email.

    I have asked him to move past our differences and stop hurting the movement. He has done so much to help student loan debtors, and I know that my readers feel that way about him. They feel the same way about what I have done, too.

    I am sure our readers and supporters want nothing more than for us to make amends.
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    The battle cry of Tiger Mother ex-chancellor Rhee - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    The battle cry of Tiger Mother ex-chancellor Rhee - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    The battle cry of Tiger Mother ex-chancellor Rhee

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    Will someone please tell former D.C. Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee that she has already told us, over and over again, how much her two daughters “suck” at soccer and that she can stop disparaging their athletic abilities in public?

    Rhee, who quit as D.C. schools boss last October and took to the national stage as a proponent of test-based assessment systems, vouchers and charter schools, just gave yet another speechcomplaining that America has become one big, soft, anti-competitive marshmallow because parents keep telling their kids they are great

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    Sen. Shelby questions education grant competition | Reuters

    Sen. Shelby questions education grant competition | Reuters

    Sen. Shelby questions education grant competition

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The "Race to the Top" program extends the reach of the federal government too far into states' public schools operations, a leading Republican senator said on Wednesday.

    The Obama administration also risks neglecting poorer states by moving toward competitive education funding, Sen. Richard Shelby, the most powerful Republican on the Banking Committee, said at a hearing on education spending.

    "I'm concerned that the scoring process for Race to the Top applications essentially mandates which interventions should be used by states and local school districts to improve student achievement," Shelby said.

    "The federal government, I believe, should give states the flexibility to implement critical reforms," he added.

    President Barack Obama created the competitive Race to the Top program in the 2009 economic stimulus plan to encourage states to adopt unified education standards, implement teaching reforms and foster the spread of autonomous charter schools.

    States, eager for education money, competed heavily for more than $4 billion in grants, and the program's popularity led Congress to add $500 million in additional funding. In the budget he proposed in February, Obama suggested expanding

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    When Districts Break Up | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

    When Districts Break Up | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

    When Districts Break Up

    by Ryan Bowers on Jul 27 2011 Posted in Blogger commentary

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    A few weeks back I stumbled on an unusualproposal by the Wisconsin teachers’ union (WEAC) to deconsolidate, or break up, Milwaukee’s public schools.

    It appears that deconsolidation’s coming back in vogue as a "when-all-else-fails" strategy for district reform.

    After a cursory scan I found a handful of instances of proposed legislation to deconsolidate large urban school districts in the past two decades including:

    What caught my attention with Milwaukee was that this time it was the statewide teacher’s union that was fed up with the litany of reforms and turned to

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