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The choice not taken | Editorials

arktimes.com - The Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, which is subsidized by $200,000 annually in city tax dollars, continues its work to tear down the best hope for a vibrant community — its public school...

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School Tech Connect: Faxed To Springfield

schooltechconnect.com - Round up your colleagues and drag them to the phones. This is the message I just faxed to my senator: November 8, 2011Dear Senator Steans,I hope you are as alarmed as I am by the report from Buck C...

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Union rights win big in Ohio. « Fred Klonsky

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Here it is, your moment of Zen

bluejersey.com - There's a certain point tonight, after dozens of your volunteers have worn down their shoe leather, the GOTV calls have reached and passed critical mass and the candidate is teetering on the point ...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the First Lady For Immediate Release November 08, 2011 Georgetown University Washington, D.C.2:25 P.M. ESTMRS. OBAMA: Hey! How are you all doing? AUDIENCE: Good.MRS. OB...

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Join the "Occupy Your Block" Sidewalk Chalk Campaign

occupywallst.org - Posted 25 minutes ago on Nov. 8, 2011, 10:22 p.m. EST by OccupyWallStThe Outreach Group of the NYC General Assembly has an idea inspired by this story of unity between strangers using the original ...

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World Languages Mapped by Twitter - Global

theatlanticwire.com - Twitter is a linguist's dream come true: it compiles millions of messages in hundreds of languages daily, making the question "Who speaks what languages where?" easy to answer. That is the question...

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PA Cyber Charter PSSA AYP 2007 - 2011 from PDE

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Occupy Oakland's new target - foreclosed buildings

sfgate.com - Noah Berger / Special to The Chronicle Occupy Oakland resident Lucas Enos smokes a cigarette in the 165-tent downtown encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Now that their general strike is over, Occupy ...

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Join the "Occupy Your Block" Sidewalk Chalk Campaign

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On Election Day, Cuomo protesters voted with their voices

gothamschools.org - The Occupy Wall Street movement spawned another education protest spin-off today, this time led by parents and held at the steps of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office in midtown Manhattan. The new coalitio...

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    The Innovative Educator: Preparing Students for Life-Long Success is Not Preparing Students for Long Bubble Tests

    The Innovative Educator: Preparing Students for Life-Long Success is Not Preparing Students for Long Bubble Tests:

    Preparing Students for Life-Long Success is Not Preparing Students for Long Bubble Tests

    by noreply@blogger.com (The Innovative Educator)
    Unfortunately, in the 21st century education reform has equated to measuring a school’s ability to produce good test takers. But think about it. In real life there are few if any tests to be taken. More than a decade into the 21st century and I have yet to take a test and I don’t envision any being in my future either. How did we get to a point in America where we’re measuring schools by their success in forcing students to waste their time being good at something few will ever need to do in real life? Could it be that this meaningless time waster is doing exactly what it was designed to do? --Line the pockets of testing companies and publishers who are good at following the money, but know this does little to prepare students for success.



    For some it is hard to imagine anything different or better. There are tools however, like Personal Success Plans or Project Foundry that help schools
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    MA Plans Birth-Grade 3 Professional Development Program «

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    MA Plans Birth-Grade 3 Professional Development Program

    November 9, 2011 by Irene Sege

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    We talk often about the importance of aligning children’s learning experiences, from birth to third grade. For instance, “Turning the Page: Refocusing Massachusetts for Reading Success,” the 2010 report we commissioned from literacy expert Nonie Lesaux of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, outlines strategies to improve the language development and literacy of children from birth to age 9. Now the Massachusetts Departments of Early Education and Care (EEC) and Elementary

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    LAO: Deal with CalSTRS’ unfunded burden | Thoughts on Public Education

    LAO: Deal with CalSTRS’ unfunded burden | Thoughts on Public Education:

    LAO: Deal with CalSTRS’ unfunded burden - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

    by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
    The Legislative Analyst’s Office generally praised Gov. Jerry Brown’s 12-point proposal for pension reform in an analysis released Tuesday, save for one gaping omission: CalSTRS’ unfunded liability. A failure to face up to it when suggesting big changes to public pension programs, like raising the retirement age, “doesn’t make sense to us,” wrote LAO analyst [...]

    We’ve created transitional kindergarten; now, how and what to teach them? - by Scott Moore

    by Scott Moore
    My college mentor, renowned political scientist James Q. Wilson, always said that more important than getting the right answer is asking the right question. This week, about 500 educators and policymakers from across California came together at the Transitional Kindergarten Implementation Summit to ask questions and to hear practical information for getting California’s groundbreaking transitional [...]
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    Abandoned Youth – No More Future | Dailycensored.com

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    Abandoned Youth – No More Future

    Written by Daily Journal (Opinion), World NewsNov 9, 2011
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    By Michael Collins
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    If you are twenty four or younger, you are likely either under or unemployed. Only about 60% of those 16 to 24 years old are in the labor force (those employed or seeking jobs). Their unemployment rate is 18%.

    For years, Money Party lackeys, our (s)elected officials, put out a propaganda line that said, Get an education or there’s no future for you. Well, lots of people got a college or trade school education or on the job training and there are no jobs for them.

    Here’s why.

    youth1 Abandoned Youth No More Future

    There has been no increase in jobs in the United States since 2000. In fact, the number of jobs relative to the total workforce has actually declined.

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    NYC Educator: A Lesson for Joe Nocerra

    NYC Educator: A Lesson for Joe Nocerra:

    A Lesson for Joe Nocerra

    by NYC Educator
    There are a lot of things you can do if you don't wish to investigate a situation beyond whatever you hear on the news. You could continue watching your TV and believe whatever it told you. You could join a cult, perhaps. Of course, a far more desirable option is to get a column with the New York Times, the paper of record, and spout whatever gibberish happened to catch your fancy.

    To Joe Nocerra, Steven Brill's book is revelatory, Never mind that it's largely billionaire-sponsored nonsense. The important thing, as Mr. Nocerra sees it, is that Brill's goals can be easily achieved by courting former part-time UFT President Randi
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