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What I Did Last Summer, Part One - Bridging Differences

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,I wish I could say I had a restful summer, but I didn't. I finished writing an epilogue for the paperback edition of The Death and Life of the Great American School System, which shoul...

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The bait and switch of school "reform" - Education

salon.com - In recent weeks the debate over the future of public education in America has flared up again, this time with the publication of the new book "Class Warfare," by Steven Brill, the founder of Americ...

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Privatizing Teaching - Teacher in a Strange Land

blogs.edweek.org - Latest news from the Mitten State: Legislators propose privatizing teaching. Lots of ways to accomplish this, including designating Michigan a "right-to-teach" state, preserving the right to collec...

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Chicago Shopping

chicagotribune.com - The tongue-lashings Chicago Public Schools has endured in the last several weeks over its short school day — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan called it a "disgrace" — have overshadowed the fact...

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Woo-hoo! Seattle passes paid sick days ordinance

teamsternation.blogspot.com - What's not to like about public health and economic justice? (We're not asking the Tea Party or the Chamber of Commerce.) Last night the Seattle City Council passed an ordinance that requires busin...

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Texas Justice - Forbes

forbes.com - Tim Murphy uncovers some of failures of governance in Texas that have led to the protraction of the sexual abuse scandals plaguing that state: For years, the Texas juvenile justice system was wrack...

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Why I'm Not Afraid to Draw

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Talking to your kids about marijuana

ednewsparent.org - Q. How do you talk to your kids about your own past experiences with marijuana or is it best to leave this one alone? With so much medical marijuana everywhere, my kids sometimes have questions. Ne...

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Obama Looks for Big Health Cuts, Worrying Democrats

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — As Congress opens a politically charged exploration of ways to pare the deficit, President Obama is expected to seek hundreds of billions of dollars in savings in Medicare and Medicaid...

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Michael Moore | Today Show Michael Moore Death Threats

mediaite.com - video On the Today show to discuss his new memoir, Here Comes Trouble, Michael Moore maintained that he would not take back his contraversial 2003 Oscar speech, but holds certain regrets for the to...

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MA-Sen: Warren to Officially Announce for Senate Tomorrow

news.firedoglake.com - Elizabeth Warren, the former Obama Administration official and Harvard law professor who creates, fought to pass and stood up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will formally announce her ca...

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Obama May Limit Tax Breaks on Muni Bonds

democraticunderground.com - Source: BloombergPresident Barack Obama proposed curbing the amount of interest from municipal bonds that top earners can exclude from their taxable income, a step that may diminish demand for stat...

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This Week In Education: Thompson: The "Big Deal" in Chicago

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - This Week In Education: Thompson: The "Big Deal" in Chicago:Thompson: The "Big Deal" in Chicagoby john thompsonThe only things I know about the Chicago Teachers Union are what I read in the newspap...

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Our First Rodeo (Part Deux)

justgabe.com - Posted by Gabe on September 13, 2011 under Kids are Heroes |For me at least, preparing for “our first rodeo” was quite stressful. After all, MaryMargaret and I had spoken in front of schools before...

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      Upgrading Schools and Putting Teachers Back to Work | ED.gov Blog

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      Upgrading Schools and Putting Teachers Back to Work

      Posted on September 13, 2011 by Cameron Brenchley

      Earlier today, Secretary Arne Duncan joined President Obama at Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School in Columbus, Ohio to highlight the American Jobs Act. The Act proposes a major investment that will modernize at least 35,000 public schools, and support 280,000 teacher jobs nationwide.

      Putting Teachers Back to Work

      At the White House on Monday, out-of-work teachers applauded as the President outlined how the American Jobs Act will grow the economy and create jobs. Following the Rose Garden event, the teachers shared their stories with Secretary Duncan at the Department of Education headquarters.

      Lisa Bruska, a mother of three who’s fighting cancer, explained to Secretary Duncan the hardship of being laid off from teaching first grade in Minnesota, and she hoped that Congress would move to put educators like her back to work.

      American Jobs Act Facts:

      • $30 billion to support teachers’ jobs
      • $25 billion in funds will be used to upgrade existing public school facilities
      • $5 billion investment in modernizing community colleges

      See what impact the American Jobs Act will have in your state.

      Learn more on how the American Jobs Act will repair and modernize America’s schools.
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      This Week In Education: Thompson: The "Big Deal" in Chicago

      This Week In Education: Thompson: The "Big Deal" in Chicago:

      Thompson: The "Big Deal" in Chicago

      by john thompson

      RahmThe only things I know about the Chicago Teachers Union are what I read in the newspaper, so my first impressions of that local are not good. On the merits of extending the school day, however, the CTU has the better arguments. CTU President Karen Lewis says that the district should use this year to plan for a better school day. As she told NBC Chicago, "Quality is infinitely more important [than quantity]." The Chicago Sun's Rosalind Rossi reported that Lewis told Mayor Rahm Emanuel that adding ninety minutes to the school day without planning would just be warehousing and baby sitting. And on the biggest issue, the divide and conquer tactic of seeking individual school waivers, the mayor is clearly wrong. Catalystpresents the case that he is violating the law. In addition to offering $150,000 to schools where teachers agree to work longer hours for almost no increase in pay, it has even been charged that some teachers were warned of


      Chart: Middle-Income Schools Left Behind

      by Alexander Russo

      Picture 36Everyone claims to want a diverse student body, economically and racially, but there is a special hell for schools that aren't high-poverty but aren't high-acheiving yet, either. They don't have the poverty money from the state or feds, or the track record of accomplishments that attracts parents, donors, and all the rest. They just sit there, sliding a bit or improving here


      Quote: How Higher Ed Is Like K-12 Education

      by Alexander Russo

      Quotes2The way higher education works in America is to deliver the most resources to the people who need the least help. -- Matthew Yglesias
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