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School Tech Connect: Everyone Has A Price

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Everyone Has A Price: Everyone Has A Priceby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)And in some Chicago Public Schools, it's pretty low. So many questions. Are all of the schools where the t...

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In Honor of Teachers

nytimes.com - Since it’s back-to-school season across the country, I wanted to celebrate a group that is often maligned: teachers. Like so many others, it was a teacher who changed the direction of my life, and ...

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In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores

nytimes.com - CHANDLER, Ariz. — Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They’re studying Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” — but n...

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In Honor of Teachers

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Teacher pay, evaluations tied to student data - Miami-Dade

miamiherald.com - More than a grade will be at stake when Jessica Fishbein’s 10th-grade students take the reading FCAT in the spring.Depending on their performance: Extra pay for their teacher and part of her annual...

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In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores

nytimes.com - CHANDLER, Ariz. — Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They’re studying Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” — but n...

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Daily Kos: In Honor of Teachers

dailykos.com - I am now in my 17th year of public school teaching, a profession to which I came as I approached 50. I have been fortunate to work for principals and in schools were teachers and teaching were hon...

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On Race, the Silence Is Bipartisan

nytimes.com - THE economic crisis in the United States is also a racial crisis. White Americans are hurting, but nonwhite Americans are hurting even more. Yet leaders in both political parties — for different re...

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Ozone decision: The final green straw? - Darren Goode

politico.com - For green groups, President Barack Obama’s retreat on ozone standards is yet another reason to question how aggressively they want to support his reelection in 2012.Even more bruising: The realizat...

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What the Left Doesn’t Understand About Obama

nytimes.com - This has been the summer that liberal discontent with Obama has finally crystallized. The frustration has been simmering for a while — through centrist appointments, bank bailouts and the defeat of...

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BREAKING NEWS!!!! God Saves E4E Crew!

southbronxschool.com - Whew! If there ever was a time to sit down, think, and praise God, now is the time. Except if you are an agnostic or atheist.It has been reported by Educators4Excellence on their official Facebook ...

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Daily Kos: I don't belong here

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Four Ways QR Codes Could Revolutionize Education

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Obama Administration Abandons Stricter Air-Quality Rules

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — President Obama abandoned a contentious new air pollution rule on Friday, buoying business interests that had lobbied heavily against it, angering environmentalists who called the move...

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Health Care - California Teachers Association

cta.org - The CTA-opposed measure, SB 161, requiring school employees to rectally administer the drug valium to students experiencing epileptic seizures while in classes, has cleared both the Assembly and th...

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CDC: 2 children sickened by new swine flu strain

northjersey.com - A new strain of swine flu has shown up in two children in Pennsylvania and Indiana who had direct or indirect contact with pigs. The virus includes a gene from the 2009 pandemic strain that might l...

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Daily Kos: I don't belong here

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School Tech Connect: More Chicago Nonsense

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: More Chicago Nonsense: More Chicago Nonsenseby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)He Who Raises The BarI know there are people for whom the Common Core Standards are the ultimate in fant...

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Save Our Schools March NEWS #NOLAED #SOSMARCH

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    Cheese, Brats, Beer, Polka, Unions! The Homegrown Revolution in Wisconsin | The Nation

    Cheese, Brats, Beer, Polka, Unions! The Homegrown Revolution in Wisconsin | The Nation:

    Cheese, Brats, Beer, Polka, Unions! The Homegrown Revolution in Wisconsin

    Tom Hayden
    September 1, 2011

       “My family comes from Oconomowoc and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, my dad from the tradition of
       Joseph McCarthy and my mom from that of Robert La Follette, so I have been well educated
       in the tensions between reactionary and progressive populism, the poles of our politics down
       to thepresent. The Tea Party is the rising counter movement against the rights gained in the
       sixties and thirties, including the rights of teachers, cops, firefighters and all public sector workers
       to form unions and bargain collectively. In response to the attacks on these rights by Governor
       Scott Walker, a great social movement has arisen this year in Wisconsin on which the future of
       America, and the next presidential election may depend.”
                      —Tom Hayden, from a speech to the Democracy
                       Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, August 24
     
    Madison—Thousands marched to the Capitol steps and through the massive rotunda on August 25, “black

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    Must be all those bad teachers that causes: N.J. students do better on AP tests than students from any other state | NJ.com

    PolitiFact New Jersey: N.J. students do better on AP tests than students from any other state | NJ.com:

    PolitiFact New Jersey: N.J. students do better on AP tests than students from any other state

    Published: Sunday, September 04, 2011, 5:30 AM
    By Star-Ledger Staff

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    New Jersey's public school students do better than other students across the country on Advanced Placement tests, according to the New Jersey Education Association.

    The NJEA, the state's largest teachers union, pointed out that statistic on its website. PolitiFact New Jersey checked it with The College Board, the organization that administers Advanced Placement exams, and confirmed that New Jersey's public schools students have the highest average AP test scores in the country.

    Read our True ruling on this statement at PolitiFactNJ.com and then join the conversation about it at NJ.com.

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    On Assignment: No Child Left Behind, the education reform act everyone loves to hate - ContraCostaTimes.com

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    On Assignment: No Child Left Behind, the education reform act everyone loves to hate

    Posted: 09/04/2011 12:00:00 AM PDT

    This is an excerpt of On Assignment, education writer Theresa Harrington's blog on Contra Costa County schools. Read more and post comments at IBABuzz.com/onassignment. Follow her atTwitter.com/tunedtotheresa.

    Sept. 1

    Educators across the state and country are struggling with what many view as an impossible task: bringing all students to proficiency in math and English in the next three years.

    The taskmaster is the federal government, which has mandated success in every school that receives federal funding for its low-income students, under the No Child Left Behind law.

    But the mandate, established under President George W. Bush, has proved so difficult to achieve that it has become known among public relations and marketing professionals as "the most negative brand in the United States," said Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, during an education town hall meeting last month in Pleasant Hill.

    "We're trying to rewrite the Elementary Secondary Education Act," said Miller, who is the ranking Democrat on the Education and Workforce Committee and who helped write the law 10 years ago. "You can't say, 'No Child Left Behind.' It's really negative."

    The rewrite is four years overdue, causing Miller to refer to it as static and outdated. Yet, he defended its goals.



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    Data Center: 2011 California School API Scores

    Posted: 08/31/2011 11:45:00 AM PDT
    Updated: 09/01/2011 10:25:09 AM PDT

    2011 School Scores: API Scores | STAR Test Results | Exit Exam Results

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    AlamedaAlameda City UnifiedAcademy of Alameda770
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