Thursday, November 10, 2011

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Jessica Lahey « The Core Knowledge Blog

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Student protests over tuition fees: live

telegraph.co.uk - #nov9 #N9 And to make things more confusing 800 black cabs staging critical mass style demo in Trafalgar Sq later. Certain gridlock.09.55 With thousands expected to take to the streets here is a lo...

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Charter School Plan Stirs Debate

chicagonewscoop.org - The newest battleground in the citywide conflict between the teachers’ union and charter schools has emerged at a parcel of vacant land near Chicago’s far northwest edge. And on Tuesday evening, ro...

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Harry Pachon, Hispanic Scholar and Civic Leader Passes Away

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Harry Pachon, a scholar and activist, has died at age 66. According to The Los Angeles Times, he succumbed to lung failure at Kindred Hospital in Ontario, California after several months of illness...

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Raindrops on Roses, and Whiskers on Kittens...

edupln.com - … EdTech and iPads, and Tools for the Teacher! ….These are a few of my favorite things! Two days into owning an iPad and I’ve become obsessed, so I figured I could share a f...

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More arrests at Sotheby's tonight, 'hair raising vibe'

teamsternation.blogspot.com - We're just not sure how many people got, or are getting arrested, tonight at Sotheby's, where months ago the 1% running the auction house threw 43 Teamsters art handlers out of work just because th...

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Alabama's Jefferson County OKs bankruptcy filing

reuters.com - By Melinda Dickinson BIRMINGHAM, Alabama | Wed Nov 9, 2011 5:51pm EST BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Legislators in Alabama's Jefferson County on Wednesday voted 4 to 1 to file for bankruptcy cour...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 09, 2011 EXECUTIVE ORDERPROMOTING EFFICIENT SPENDINGBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and t...

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Event: IPCC 34th Session - Climate Change Policy & Practice

climate-l.iisd.org - The 34th session of the IPCC will be held back to back with the first joint Sessions of IPCC Working Groups I and II to approve and accept the IPCC Special Report on “Managing the Risks of Extreme ...

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Sierra Club: Email - 10,000+ House Guests for Obama

action.sierraclub.org - 12,000 House Guests for Obama Last Sunday, 12,000 concerned citizens, including thousands of Sierra Club members and supporters, young and old, from every walk of life and every corner of the natio...

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Environmentalists May Cause Delay of Pipeline Decision

tomhayden.com - Protesters rallied against the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would run from Canada to the Gulf Coast. (Photo: New York Times)After major environmental demonstrations outside the White House, and ...

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WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE ? « Teachers Fight Back

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE ? « Teachers Fight Back:WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE ?by alkleenThe Personnel and Pension Committee in the Illinois Legislature voted 5-4 to send a “Pension Reform” bill to the full Ho...

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    4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: THIS “CHOICE” WAS NOT A GOOD CHOICE

    4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: THIS “CHOICE” WAS NOT A GOOD CHOICE:

    Administrators Host Long Island Iced Tea Party?: PRINCIPALS REBEL AGAINST VALUE-ADDED EVALUATION

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    By Valerie Strauss. Washington Post | http://wapo.st/twfkoP 11/3/2011| updated 11/9/2011 - Scores of public school principals in New York are fighting the state’s new educator evaluation system, which ties the evaluations and pay of teachers and principals to how well students do on standardized tests. New York has a new law requiring that 20 percent to 40 percent of the evaluations be linked

    THIS “CHOICE” WAS NOT A GOOD CHOICE

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    by School Boardmember Tamar Galatzan in the Galatzan Gazette | http://bit.ly/uyHS8v Monday, November 7, 2011 at 5:02PM - On November 1, LAUSD launched a new program to fill out 2012-2013 magnet applications on-line. To my great frustration, just days into the application process, major glitches plague the system. Traditionally the application, known as the Choices brochure, is mailed out to
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    ‘Jaw-dropping’ costs of NCLB waiver | Thoughts on Public Education

    ‘Jaw-dropping’ costs of NCLB waiver | Thoughts on Public Education:

    ‘Jaw-dropping’ costs of NCLB waiver

    Some dispute high estimates of state compliance

    Posted on 11/10/11 • Categorized as No Child Left Behind

    By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

    An ambivalent State Board of Education discussed but took no action Wednesday on pursuing a temporary waiver from strictures of the No Child Left Behind law. The state will pass up the two application deadlines as a result.

    California could still apply in June for a two-year relief from the law. Los Angeles Unified is among the districts favoring a waiver, and several Board members indicated interest as well – if the state can negotiate terms more to its liking. However, the Obama administration has given no public indication yet that it’s willing to bend on its terms.

    Because Congress has been unable to agree on how to fix a flawed NCLB, President

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    Eduwonk » Blog Archive » Too Much? Too Little? Just Right? Our Goldilocks Problem On Teacher Pay

    Eduwonk » Blog Archive » Too Much? Too Little? Just Right? Our Goldilocks Problem On Teacher Pay:

    Too Much? Too Little? Just Right? Our Goldilocks Problem On Teacher Pay

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    This week’s TIME column takes a look at teacher pay – always a lively debate and one that often obscures more than it reveals:

    Listen to the pundits, and public education has a Goldilocks problem. Are teachers being overpaid, underpaid or paid just right? Few arguments in education are as contentious — or as misleading. A report released Nov. 1 by two conservative think tanks, the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation, set off fireworks with the claim that teachers are overpaid by a collective $120 billion each year and that their pensions, health care and other benefits make their total compensation 52% higher than “fair market levels.”

    The report looked at a variety of factors to reach its conclusion. Some are well known issues; for instance,

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    The Innovative Educator: Debunking 7 Myths About BYOD in THE Journal

    The Innovative Educator: Debunking 7 Myths About BYOD in THE Journal:

    Debunking 7 Myths About BYOD in THE Journal

    by noreply@blogger.com (The Innovative Educator)
    BYOT Facilitates Collaboration!
    Click here to watch videos of BYOT in action.
    More than a decade into the 21st century and we are still keeping learners and teachers prisoners of the analog past by enforcing outdated mandates that ban and block them from using the digital resources of their world. Fortunately, today’s students are standing up, speaking out, and, in many cases, using the technology and websites they do not have access to in school to do so.


    This week THE Journal invited me to dispel common myths about bringing your own device (BYOD) to school. When we do, we can begin
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