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Joy in Education

commondreams.org - The failure of the market place view of education should be evident to everyone. In a little publicized announcement the College Board said that SAT scores fell across the nation. The average writi...

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Students ‘Occupy Chicago’ - News - The DePaulia

depauliaonline.com - Sam Abrahamson stood in front of the Federal Reserve Bank on Sept. 28 holding a sign that read, "The banks robbed us blind." Abrahamson, a senior majoring in advertising, is one of several students...

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Troy Davis Mourned As A Martyr In Georgia : NPR

npr.org - Stephen Morton/AP Pallbearers carry the casket of Troy Davis followed by family and supporters after his funeral in Savannah, Ga., Saturday. Davis died by injection for the 1989 slaying of off-duty...

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Teachers join Wall Street occupation

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - On Sunday, a group of New York public school teachers sat in the plaza, including Denise Martinez of Brooklyn. Most students at her school live at or below the poverty level, and her classes are ja...

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The Shortest, Most Important Education Blog Ever

huffingtonpost.com - NBC's Education Nation was and is an absolute disgrace. However, it was a brilliant piece of marketing propaganda. Corporate sponsors and a media blitzkrieg sold the "failing public schools" narrat...

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Things That Didn't Happen, Part 2

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Students | The Nation

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Students | The Nation:AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer: “Youth Face An Abyss Now”Josh Eidelson - September 28, 2011A conversation with AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler about organized labor's new ...

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Tale of One City, Two Worlds

schooltechconnect.com - Isn't this charming? Doesn't it bathe you in earthly delight? Don't you want to drop what you're doing and register your children for it? Meanwhile, kids at the mayor's school are off to the Dunes....

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Late Night FDL: When Can You Pay Me to Care?

firedoglake.com - Schoolchildren are getting free lunches! That’s 67 cents that could have gone to feed a millionaire! This time around, Rehberg set his sights a little lower down the educational ladder. On a tour o...

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Democracy Is Coming to the USA

schoolsmatter.info - Photo from teacher NYC Grade-In. Lyrics by Leonard Cohen."Democracy"It's coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It's coming from the feel that this ain't exactly ...

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Snag for Perry: Offensive Name at Texas Camp

nytimes.com - The campaign of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas found itself on the defensive on Sunday over a report that he had hunted at and taken guests to a West Texas camp with a racially charged name that his fath...

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As Goes Pottermania, So Goes Childhood

oberlinreview.org - Sept. 9, 2011 We cried during the Harry Potter series. A lot. And we don’t mean just the books, but the movies, too. We sobbed over Cedric Diggory. We wept when Sirius went through the veil. We blu...

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October 3, 2011 - PrivatizationWatch.Org

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - October 3, 2011 - PrivatizationWatch.Org:October 3, 2011by nospam@example.com (Editor)HeadlinesFL: Florida judge rules prison privatization procedure unconstitutionalPA: 17 of 24 on state privatiza...

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Things That Didn't Happen, Part 2

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    Back and Forth with Senator Bill Ferguson on DFER and Parent Revolution | Re:education in Baltimore

    Back and Forth with Senator Bill Ferguson on DFER and Parent Revolution | Re:education in Baltimore:

    Back and Forth with Senator Bill Ferguson on DFER and Parent Revolution

    To Senator Bill Ferguson:

    Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my post on the parent trigger law, Parent Revolution and Democrats for Education Reform. You’d written to me that your comments were written “off the cuff.” I’ve tried my best to respond in the same fashion, and I thank you, too, for laying out ideas that have helped me clarify my thinking. I am hoping this is only the beginning of an extended conversation.

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    My take on the Democrats for Education Reform rhetoric, which I describe as pitting the interests of children against those of unionized teachers, is based on the first paragraph of DFER’s “Statement of Principles”:

    A first-rate system of public education is the cornerstone of a prosperous, free and just society, yet millions of American children today – particularly low-income and children of color – are trapped in persistently failing schools that are part of deeply dysfunctional school systems. These systems, once viewed romantically as

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    #OCCUPYDOE with United Opt Out National

    by Peg
    Wall Street has occupied the Department of Education long enough. It’s time to put the public back in public education. Occupy Department of Ed. now and show them who education REALLY BELONGS to.
    Spread the word through FB, Twitter, email, smoke signals, whatever it takes.
    Join United Opt Out National & #OCCUPYDOE in Washington D.C.
    April Fools!
    No Child Left Behind – Fool Me Once.
    Race to the Top – We Won’t be Fooled Again.
    Join us. Friday, March 30th to Monday, April 2nd, 2012

    Action for Week of October 2nd

    by Peg
    Education Nation may be over, but it’s time to fill their forum and blog comment sites with information about ending high stakes testing as well as the negative ramifications for our children’s education. Here’s the link to the site – there are plenty of places to change the narrative and we need to change it quickly – people are LISTENING and we are gaining momentum. Let’s not lose it. We are not going away. End high stakes testing and save and improve our public schools. Be sure to share our website within your postings!!! For twittering use hashtag #educationnation Ready..set..go!. www.educationnation.com
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    The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

    The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:

    An Oakland classroom, on national TV

    By Katy Murphy
    Monday, October 3rd, 2011 at 7:02 pm in achievement gap, Algebra/Math,elementary schools, students, teachers
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    Think College Now teacher Kristen Casaretto
    photo of Kristen Casaretto by Hasain Rasheed Photography

    Did anyone watch Education Nation on NBC last week? It highlighted the work of three teachers, including Teach for America alum Kristen Casaretto, who teaches fourth grade at Think College Now in East Oakland.

    Talk about courage — the segment includes a live video feed from Casaretto’s classroom during a math lesson. (The above link takes you right to the Oakland part; to see the whole “Classrooms in Action” segment, go here.)

    At one point, `Today’ show host Ann Curry says to Wendy Kopp, founder and CEO of Teach For America: “In this particular school, the numbers — I’ve gotta be honest with you — are not great … but these numbers are going up dramatically every single year.”

    Kopp responds by saying she saw “a whole different set of data,” particularly for math — numbers that put the school on par with schools in Palo Alto, a district often used to illustrate the top half of the achievement gap. She went on to praise the teaching staff at Think College Now and its turnaround.

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    Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - The Best Resources To Learn About Alabama’s Awful Immigration Law (& Its Impact On Schools)

    Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - The Best Resources To Learn About Alabama’s Awful Immigration Law (& Its Impact On Schools):

    The Best Historical Photo + Video Map-Based Sites There are quite a few sites out there that show historical photos or videos, along with their location on a map — you’re able to see what a particular street looked like fifty or one hundred years ago. Here are my choices for The Best Historical ...
    September’s Best Tweets Every month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. Now and then, in order to make it a bit easier for me, I may ...
    Contribute To The 25th Edition Of The EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival The next edition of the EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival will be published on November 1st by Berni Wall She just announced the details: *The theme for this carnival is:* * The Most Popular Posts on your Blog* *So, go and search through your archives, ...
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    Great Bilingual Materials From The St. Paul Public Schools The St. Paul’s Public Schools produces some great bilingual materials in English and in Khmer (Cambodia), Hmong, Oromo, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese. They’re not online, and you have to purchase them, but the prices are very reasonable. I’ve used ...
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    A new yardstick to measure schools? | SignOnSanDiego.com

    A new yardstick to measure schools? | SignOnSanDiego.com:

    A new yardstick to measure schools?

    Legislation on Brown’s desk would overhaul how California measures academic success



    What is the API?

    The Academic Performance Index measures how students in grades 2 through 11 fare on a series of standardized tests. Among those: reading, history, math and English. The high school exit exam also counts.

    The results show the federal government, the state, the school and community the overall progress the school is making toward meeting proficiency targets. Schools are given a score, ranking and growth targets.

    How would it change?

    Senate Bill 547 would still use standardized test results, but those could account for only 40 percent of the overall yardstick.

    Other measurements would include career- and college-readiness and graduation rates. The language of the bill also suggests school districts could adopt some of their own assessment policies.

    What’s next?

    Gov. Jerry Brown’s deadline to act is Sunday. If he signs the bill, the state Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Public School Accountability Act advisory committee would develop a comprehensive package of recommendations.

    The state Board of Education would have until Aug. 1, 2014 to adopt those reforms.

    Changes would be in effect for the 2014-15 school year.

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    We look forward to feedback on our stories and education issues at large. Please send letters, story ideas and other comments to us via email:

    education@uniontrib.com.

    SACRAMENTO — California’s traditional yardstick of success in public schools may be broadened beyond the existing method solely driven by test scores.

    Legislation sitting on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk would scrap the state’s reliance on the Academic Performance Index — a measurement that ranks school performance based on a series of standardized exams.

    In its place, the state Board of Education would be directed to adopt a more comprehensive set of high school accountability benchmarks that would include graduation rates and career and college readiness.

    Some weight, but not more than 40 percent of the overall scores, would still be assigned to how many test questions students

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