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Economic Terrorists and the Save Our Schools March

onlineschools.org - This last weekend saw about 8,000 people — estimates vary, but we’ll go with the bigger number out of politeness — gathered in Washington for the Save Our Schools March. The rally brought together ...

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Darling-Hammond: The mess we are in - The Answer Sheet

washingtonpost.com - Stanford University Education Professor Linda Darling-Hammond helped Barack Obama draft his educational plan when he was a presidential candidate, and advised him on education issues during the tra...

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A stand to save our schools

socialistworker.org - LAST SATURDAY, I joined thousands of educators, parents, students and activists who gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Save Our Schools (SOS) march. Coming from all parts of the country, partici...

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Darling-Hammond: The mess we are in - The Answer Sheet

washingtonpost.com - Stanford University Education Professor Linda Darling-Hammond helped Barack Obama draft his educational plan when he was a presidential candidate, and advised him on education issues during the tra...

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Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action

saveourschoolsmarch.org - This collection will continue to grow– stay tuned! July 30th Rally & March in DC:Highlights: From 3rd Grade Teacher Thom Ryder, Roanoke County, VA: From the Hastings Teachers Association, Hastings-...

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More Save Our Schools Videos! - Living in Dialogue

blogs.edweek.org - 19686 « Save Our Schools Rocks the Capital! | Main One of my hopes is that our spirits can be sustained in the tough months ahead by revisiting some of the inspirational words we heard this weekend...

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VIDEO: Matt Damon rips Koch-funded cameraman

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Here's our union brother Matt Damon and his mom (our union sister) talking to a Reason newsgatherer and cameraman after Saturday's rally for teachers. The cameraman butts into the interview with t...

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Now That The March Is Over…. « Hello Family

tdanyelonline.wordpress.com - Hey Family, How is everyone doing? Those following me on Twitter saw my tweet earlier today about having to do lesson plans for a class I got late notice that I will be teaching beginning tomorrow....

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Matt Damon Shitty Camera Man | Damon SOS March | Video

mediaite.com - Video Last Saturday, actor Matt Damon joined his mother, a Boston-area schoolteacher, for this year’s SOS (Save Our Schools) March in Washington DC and agreed to an on-camera interview with Liberta...

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The Global Leadership Summit 2011

willowcreek.com - The Summit experience is planned to be identical whether at the originating campus or a satellite location. Premier Host Sites are preferred by some attendees for convenience, affordability, and co...

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We never change, do we? :: Sabrina Stevens Shupe

sabrinastevensshupe.com - “The paradox of education is precisely this– that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education…is to create in a perso...

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Putting an Antebellum Myth to Rest

nytimes.com - Princeton, N.J. WAS slavery an idyllic world of stable families headed by married parents? The recent controversy over “The Marriage Vow,” a document endorsed by the Republican presid...

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Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action

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Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action

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CNN News Coverage of March

myemail.constantcontact.com - We're Home from the March! Exhausted - - but excited, inspired and looking forward to growing our grassroots movement . . . For those of you who couldn't go to to DC and for those of you who...

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    Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

    Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

    Answers To “What Are You Going To Do Differently Next Year?” In June, I asked readers to contribute their responses to the question “What Are You Going To Do Differently Next Year?” I’m sorry to be a bit behind in compiling them all in a post, but better late than never [image: :)] . I did a similar feature ...

    “Conversations With The Earth” Is An Impressive New Smithsonian Site “Conversations With The Earth” is a new site from the Smithsonian. Here’s how it describes itself: *This exhibition—the first of its kind devoted to indigenous science—provides a Native perspective on global climate change. Through photographs, ...

    New Ramadan Resources Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Teach & Learn About Ramadan: The Onset Of Ramadan is a Wall Street Journal slideshow. Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Ramadan Ramadan Starts For Quarter Of The World is a lesson for English ...

    The Best Resources For Learning About Common Core Standards & English Language LearnersI’ve previously written about my concern and skepticism related to Common Core Standards (see The Best Articles Sharing Concerns About Common Core Standards). Right now, there are no specific guidelines on applying Common Core English standards to ...

    The Best Resources For Learning About Common Core Standards & English Language Learners I’ve previously written about my concern and skepticism related to Common Core Standards (see The Best Articles Sharing Concerns About Common Core Standards). Right now, there are no specific guidelines on applying Common Core English standards to ...

    What Are Free Online Math Sites That Let Teachers Register “Classrooms” For Their Students? The Best Sites That Students Can Use Independently And Let Teachers Check On Progress is a “The Best…” list that can come in very handy for teachers and for students. It lists free sites where teachers can register their students, and both can keep ...

    The Best Art & Music Sites Of 2011 — So Far I usually just do a year-end list of The Best Art & Music Sites and many other topics, but it gets a little crazy having to review all of my zillion posts at once. So, to make it easier for me — and perhaps, to make it a little more useful to ...

    “AloofDoof” Is A Useful Drawing Web App AloofDoof is a useful drawing web app with a weird name. After registration, you can either upload an image, choose an image that someone has already uploaded, or start with a blank canvas — then draw away. I’m adding it to The Best Art Websites ...

    Back From My Train Trip (With A Few Photos) I’m recovering from taking the California Zephyr train from Denver. It was a fun adventure. You haven’t lived until you’ve spent thirty-size hours in the same railcar with twenty family members [image: :)] . Here are a few photos: [image: View of ...
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    Regresa a la escuela y obtén tu GED - Univision Vida y Familia

    Regresa a la escuela y obtén tu GED - Univision Vida y Familia

    Regresa a la escuela y obtén tu GED

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    Regresa a la escuela y obtén tu GED

    Si sus hijos son mayores o la reinscripción no es una opción, animarlos a estudiar la preparatoria abierta y a obtener el título de equivalencia de estudios.

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    Interactúa con La Dra. Isabel sobre educación

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    De cada 10 hispanos que desertan la escuela sólo uno regresa a sacar suGED (diploma de Educación General o GED es conocido como "General Education Development" o "Graduate Equivalency Diploma).

    aseguró hoy en el programa de la doctora Isabel, Adriana Flores delCollege Board. Pero existen varias opciones del distrito escolar para reintegrarse a las clases, puntualizó la invitada.

    La experta y "El Ángel de la Radio" resaltaron que los padres deben hacerse conscientes de la importancia de la educación para sus hijos y reforzar su autoestima y encontrar sus habilidades y resaltarlas.

    "Los padres tienen que asegurarse de que tomen clases después de clases, cursos de verano, que motiven a los

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    Education in the 20th Century: A Reflection « Cooperative Catalyst

    Education in the 20th Century: A Reflection « Cooperative Catalyst

    Education in the 20th Century: A Reflection

    by alanthefriesen

    Last week, a friend of mine came across a film in the archives called “Stand And Deliver.” This film from 1988 was curious: the schooling system found in the film is radically different from our own system, but as we watched the film, we got the impression that the teacher who was leading change in his classroom was presented by the filmmakers as a radical reformer. My friend wondered what had changed in education over the past seventy years that would make this schooling system seem so foreign, even to a couple of Canadian students. As she wanted to continue her line of inquiry at the time, I decided to take a break from my own studies in Renaissance literature and briefly examine the differences between schools then and now.

    In the 20th century, according to my research, schools were a much different place than they are today. A small

    Helping Students Live Big Lives

    by zoeweil

    Award-winning educator and educational revolutionary, John Taylor Gatto, wrote in his book, Weapons of Mass Instruction:

    “Being a mature being means living with a purpose, your own purpose: it’s about welcoming responsibility as the nourishment a big life needs: it’s about behaving as a good citizen – finding ways to add value to the community in which you live; it’s about wrestling with your weaknesses and developing heart, mind, and spirit – none of them properties of the spectator crowd.”

    What I love most about this quote is its underlying call: choose to

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    Daily Kos: Of poets and war - a meditation

    Daily Kos: Of poets and war - a meditation

    Of poets and war - a meditation

    by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)
    If I should die, think only this of me:
    That there's some corner of a foreign field
    That is for ever England. There shall be
    In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
    A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
    Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
    A body of England's, breathing English air,
    Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

    And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
    A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
    Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
    Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
    And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
    In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

    The words are of Rupert Brooke, a poet born this day in 1887, who died in 1915. The sonnet is titled simply "The Solder."

    Brooke was one of a series of British poets of the Great War, the War to End All Wars, as it was called until in

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    Moody's gives student lending outlook a failing grade | California Watch

    Moody's gives student lending outlook a failing grade | California Watch

    Moody's gives student lending outlook a failing grade

    by Erica Perez

    A new report from Moody's Analytics finds that while improvements in the economy have caused most types of consumer loans to see decreased delinquencies, the performance of student loans has not gotten better – making the outlook for student lending and borrowers worrisome.

    The analysis [PDF], reported by Inside Higher Ed and written by Moody's researcher Cristian de Ritis, notes that delinquency and default rates on student loans are likely to rise in coming years because tuition will continue to


    LA officials step up efforts to address school seismic safety

    by Corey G. Johnson

    Concerned about a renewed state focus and the potential for lawsuits, the Los Angeles County Office of Education has stepped up efforts to help local school officials investigate the seismic safety of their buildings.



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    A plan to reinvigorate science ed | Thoughts on Public Education

    A plan to reinvigorate science ed | Thoughts on Public Education

    A plan to reinvigorate science ed

    Stanford prof explains new frameworks for STEM

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    By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

    A new report by the National Research Council offers an alternative approach than that which many states, including California, have taken toward science education. The Council, affiliated with the National Academy of Sciences, released “A Framework for K-12 ScienceEducation” earlier this month. Its broad goal, according to the report, is that by the end of 12thgrade, “all students, not just those pursuing careers in science and engineering, should have gained sufficient knowledge of the practices and core ideas of science and engineering to engage in public discussions on science-related issues, to be critical consumers of scientific

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    How to improve teacher education now (and why Teach for America isn’t the answer) - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    How to improve teacher education now (and why Teach for America isn’t the answer) - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    How to improve teacher education now (and why Teach for America isn’t the answer)

    by Valerie Strauss

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    This was written by Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and former president of Teachers College, Columbia University.

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    A missed opportunity for the White House

    by Valerie Strauss

    Make of this what you will.

    Late last week, a few days before the Save Our Schools March in Washington D.C., organized to protest the Obama administration’s standardized test-centric school reform policies, an invitation to several of the march leaders materialized from the White House.

    After many months of planning the march, after letters were sent to President Obama asking him to reconsider policies that blamed teachers for things they were not responsible, after pleas to U.S. officials to listen to critics, a message was sent saying that a handful of march leaders could come to the White House last Friday to meet with Roberto J. Rodríguez, special assistant to Obama for education.

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    NYC Educator: Don't Say That it Can't Get Any Worse

    NYC Educator: Don't Say That it Can't Get Any Worse

    Don't Say That it Can't Get Any Worse

    by Miss Eyre
    You'll have to excuse Miss Eyre for being a bit of a Debbie Downer today. Yes, I'm just back from a vacation in more tropical parts and I'm continuing to enjoy summer break, and I'm even starting to get those happy back-to-school butterflies as I order a few new professional books and pick up my (NON-CITY-COUNCIL-SUBSIDIZED, THANKS GUYS) whiteboard markers and correcting pens. But I can't help but feel general dismay, malaise, and pessimism, mostly because of those clowns in Washington (and "clowns" is, believe me, the most family-friendly term I can use, or rather substitute for my usual terms, in this blog). "When I look at the world, I am pessimistic," admitted humanist psychologist Carl Rogers, "but when I look at human beings, I am optimistic." I'll be doing a lot of looking at human beings, it seems, as
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    Jersey Jazzman: "Fear"

    Jersey Jazzman: "Fear"

    "Fear"

    by Duke
    It's spreading:
    In that session and the two others I attended (one on how teachers can find a voice in policymaking, highlighting the work of the Accomplished California Teachers network and one on the education blogosphere, which included a panel of premiere teacher bloggers, including some what have written for our blog in the past – Nancy Flanagan, Anthony Cody, David Cohen and Kathy Wiebke, with an appearance by Renee Moore), a theme that came up a number of times was fear.
    Teachers (and principals) are afraid to talk to the press. They are afraid to talk to
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    The ‘alien structure’ of education, and other thoughts | Taking Note

    The ‘alien structure’ of education, and other thoughts | Taking Note

    The ‘alien structure’ of education, and other thoughts

    by John Merrow

    As always, remember that John’s book The Influence of Teachers is for sale at Amazon.

    I am reading a collection of essays called “I Used to Think … and Now I Think,” which is billed as reflections by leading reformers on how they themselves have changed over the years. The essays I’ve read so far make me think about testing, cheating, the ‘Save our Schools’ rally in Washington, DC, and the approaching school year.

    In her essay, Deborah Meier reflects on “how utterly alien” the basic structure of school is to “normal

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