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Gates: We know more about teaching than educators do

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Bill & Melinda Gates tell schools to operate like a business. They claim that they know more about how to teach than do teachers themselves. It may surprise you—it was certainly surprising to us—bu...

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Wisconsin Public Radio - Kathleen Dunn

wpr.org - Kathleen Dunn can be heard on WPR's Ideas Network stations Monday through Thursday mornings from 9-11am, leading balanced discussions about the issues of the day and the issues of our time. To join...

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William V. Healey: Heal for America

online.wsj.com - Considering the success of Wendy Kopp's Teach for America program?which this year will train and place more than 7,300 highly motivated teachers in our nation's neediest schools?perhaps we're ready...

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Virtual charter school plan prompts review of laws

northjersey.com - A proposal for a virtual charter school based in Teaneck that would end its first year with $4.7 million of taxpayer money left in the bank has sparked concern and calls Friday for deeper scrutiny....

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NYC DOE: Careers in NYC Schools

hostedjobs.openhire.com - Note: This grant funded assignment is for one (1) year with the possibility of renewal for up to three (3) years. Position Summary: The New York City school system is the largest in the country, c...

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The Ugliness Started With Bork

nytimes.com - On Oct. 23, 1987 — 24 years ago on Sunday — Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court was voted down by the Senate. All but two Democrats voted “nay.” The rejection of a Supreme Cou...

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Duncan drives, shoots and scores

dyn.politico.com - Arne Duncan grabbed headlines from the moment he arrived in Washington as President Barack Obama’s basketball-playing friend in the Cabinet. Nearly three years later, Washington insiders are paying...

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Soldiers May Be Leaving Iraq, But Contractors Will Remain

tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - Ryan J. Reilly October 21, 2011, 3:33 PM American troops may be leaving Iraq before the end of the year, but U.S. contractors aren’t going anywhere soon.ABC News reports that the State Department “...

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How many teachers does it take to screw a lightbulb?

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How Did Vincent Van Gogh Die? « CAFFEINATED POLITICS

dekerivers.wordpress.com - Spending last Sunday with friends in Lone Rock meant that 60 Minutes was taped. With everything happening this week it was not until this evening that I watched the show and saw one of the best se...

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What’s The Best English Verb Tense Chart You’ve Seen?

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Oct 22 2011 Larry FerlazzoI’d like to create a “The Best… list of verb tense charts for English Language Learners, plus determine which is the best one for using with my Beginning ELL class. I’ve b...

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Police Break Up "Occupy Sydney" Protest in Morning Raid

democraticunderground.com - Source: ReutersPolice break up "Occupy Sydney" protest in morning raidSYDNEY | Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:49pm EDTSYDNEY (Reuters) - Police broke up a Sydney protest camp inspired by the Occupy Wall Street...

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Occupy the Classroom

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    Using “Moneyball” to Explain Education Reform’s Value Added Data | Scathing Purple Musings

    Using “Moneyball” to Explain Education Reform’s Value Added Data | Scathing Purple Musings

    Using “Moneyball” to Explain Education Reform’s Value Added Data

    by Bob Sikes

    Full disclosure. I know Billy Beane, the inspiration for Moneyball.

    In another world I was part of some three decades ago as an athletic trainer in professional baseball, I was there when Beane arrived as a young kid from a San Diego high school. He didn’t play long in the major leagues, but then again, the vast majority of players who sign professional contracts do not. Making it to there – even for a day – is no small feat. Smart guy, Beane. He could have gone to Stanford and might have been John Elway’s replacement. We’ll never know what might have been, but even Beane now says of his 1980 decision to take the New York Mets’ cash instead of going to Stanford was the “only decision he would ever make in his life about money.”

    Hmmmmm.

    Only within the creative minds of our greatest story-tellers could Beane’s life story have been written. Even

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    Estado tiene una de las brechas más grandes del país en competencia en lectura en blancos hispanos | California Watch

    Estado tiene una de las brechas más grandes del país en competencia en lectura en blancos hispanos | California Watch

    Estado tiene una de las brechas más grandes del país en competencia en lectura en blancos hispanos

    by Sarah Garland

    Esta nota fue producida como parte de un trabajo en colaboración entre California Watch, parte del Centro para Información de Investigaciones, un centro independiente y sin fines de lucro, y The Hechinger Report, una agencia de noticias sobre educación no partidaria y sin fines de lucro que está afiliada a Teachers Collage, Columbia University.

    Esta nota fue editada por Denise Zapata. Fue corregida por Nikki Frick.

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    SOLEDAD - En una fría mañana de invierno Nicole Miller recorrió el salón de clases de cuarto grado en esta pequeña ciudad en el Valle de Salinas, haciendo preguntas a sus estudiantes sobre temas que probablemente




    React & Act: How do we close the Latino learning gap?

    Latino students in California – nearly 1.3 million of them English learners – are struggling to achieve academic success at the same level as their white peers. In “State has one of nation’s highest gaps in Hispanic-white reading proficiency,” Sarah Garland reports that only 12 percent of Hispanic fourth-graders in California tested proficient in reading in 2009. Nonprofits, government agencies and parents have all launched campaigns over the years to close the learning gap, but little progress has been made.

    To better understand the roots of the Latino learning gap and explore potential solutions, we spoke with Patricia Gándara, co-director of The Civil Rights Project at UCLA and an expert on the Latino achievement gap.

    California Watch: Does the Latino learning gap extend beyond the classroom? Just how pervasive of a problem is this?

    Patricia Gándara: We have research that shows children as young as 18 months old have significant gaps in


    State has one of nation’s highest gaps in Hispanic-white reading proficiency

    by Sarah Garland

    This story was produced as part of a collaboration between California Watch, part of the independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education-news outlet affiliated with Teachers College, Columbia University.

    This story was edited by Denise Zapata. It was copy edited by Nikki Frick.

    Sarah Garland/California WatchStudents practice
reading skills with an intervention teacher at an elementary school in Soledad, a small Salinas Valley town.

    SOLEDAD – On a cool winter morning Nicole Miller circulated through her fourth-grade classroom in this small town in the Salinas Valley, quizzing students on material they’d likely see on state tests in the spring.

    “How do you know ‘hit the lights’ is an idiom?” she asked a student.

    “ ‘Hit the lights’ is an idiom because if you hit the lights, they break,” the stude

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    School Tech Connect: I Heart Karen Lewis

    School Tech Connect: I Heart Karen Lewis

    I Heart Karen Lewis

    by noreply@blogger.com (Tim)
    I just do.

    Here she was at Occupy Chicago.

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    Longer clip at the CTU site.

    Hyperbole? No. We're living in a gilded age of fraud. Fraud is the business model.

    Anyway, can you imagine the recent leadership of the IEA rallying the troops like this? Can you imagine their
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    Is the NYC DoE planning to test preschoolers, or just kindergartners? « JD2718

    Is the NYC DoE planning to test preschoolers, or just kindergartners? « JD2718

    Is the NYC DoE planning to test preschoolers, or just kindergartners?

    by jd2718

    I cannot pretend to be outraged. The people who set policy at the New York City Department of Education are beneath contempt. I have known this for a long time.

    But standardized testing for five-year-olds? People, speak up. This is wrong, and there’s not another point of view worth considering. Not for an instant.

    On her listserve, Leonie Heimson copied a job listing: Periodic Assessment Associate, reporting to the K-2 Program Manager. Responsibilities include management of implementation activities for ECAM (Early Childhood Assessment in Mathematics)

    The UFT officially stands opposed to testing before 3rd grade (a New Action resolution, passed February 2010. A

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