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Generals Offer Apology for Violent Clashes in Egypt

nytimes.com - CAIRO — Egyptian generals offered an unusual apology on Thursday for the killings of protesters in Tahrir Square, the iconic landmark of Egypt’s revolution, as violence around the huge plaza was re...

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APPR Paper - Long Island Principals

longislandprincipals.org - In May 2010, the New York State Legislature—in an effort to secure federal Race to the Top funds—approved an amendment to Educational Law 3012-c regarding the Annual Professional Performance Review...

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Video game taps into Occupy Wall Street

in.reuters.com - By Liana B. Baker NEW YORK | Thu Nov 24, 2011 3:14am IST NEW YORK (Reuters) - When gamers take the wraps off the new "BioShock" video game next year, they should not be surprised if parts of the ga...

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For Philly public schools, barbarian is Gates

articles.philly.com - Then how has Bill Gates become the liberals' Grover Norquist? Just as Norquist, elected by and accountable to no one, tied the hands of the "supercommittee" with his no-new-taxes pledge, Gates unde...

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Thanks to you! - Thanksgiving

salon.com - In keeping with American tendencies, Thanksgiving is a bastard holiday, cobbled together from homegrown traditions and the hokey imaginings of 19th century writers, along with actual historical fac...

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

chronicle.com - November 23, 2011, 2:57 pm By Peter Wood Sunday, unseasonably warm and beautiful for late fall, I wandered coatless across Central Park to a meeting of the New York affiliate of the National Associ...

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Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation

seattleducation2010.wordpress.com - Last year Sue and I discovered that a lot of money from Bill Gates and the Broad Foundation was being funneled into several organizations in Seattle to push the ideas of ed reform. See The Lines of...

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TCRecord: Article

tcrecord.org - This summer I had the pleasure of visiting DC Prep, a charter school in Washington, D.C. whose most recent class of eighth graders scored 100% proficiency in reading and math, as measured by standa...

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In New York, Mexicans Lag in Education

nytimes.com - In the past two decades, the Mexican population in New York City has grown more than fivefold, with immigrants settling across the five boroughs. Many adults have demonstrated remarkable success at...

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In New York, Mexicans Lag in Education

nytimes.com - In the past two decades, the Mexican population in New York City has grown more than fivefold, with immigrants settling across the five boroughs. Many adults have demonstrated remarkable success at...

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Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Here are a few more additions to The Best Sites To Learn & Teach About Thanksgiving: Classic Thanksgivings is a Newsweek slideshow. Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Thanksgiving is a slideshow f...

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Live Blog for #Occupy Movement: Thanksgiving Day

dissenter.firedoglake.com - There will probably be very few items here today, as I take a break and enjoy Thanksgiving with family. I wrote up a post on why Occupy is significant this Thanksgiving. Here are a few items to get...

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Top Content this Week - The Educator's PLN

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Top Content this Week - The Educator's PLN:Top Content this WeekTop Content Rank1Propose #edchat Questions here!Posted by Shelly Terrell on November 10, 20092What can Academics learn from Athletics...

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A Misconception About Asian Schooling

nytimes.com - Nicholas Kristof (“When school comes first,” Views, Nov. 11) is right when he says Americans should care more about education, like people do in Asia. However, the key to building human capital is ...

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Russian anchor off air for finger gesture in Obama story

baltimoresun.com - Reuters 3:08 p.m. EST, November 24, 2011 MOSCOW (Reuters) - A famous Russian TV anchor has been taken off the air for making an obscene gesture after mentioning U.S. President Barack Obama in a liv...

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Brined, Deep-Fried Turkey

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - Trust me; Alton Brown knows what he is talking about: I didn't do the ladder, because that's just silly, but I did brine in the large cooler with the salt and brown sugar, and the bird was really m...

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What to do with those Thanksgiving leftovers

beinglatino.wordpress.com - - via News Taco Thanksgiving, a day of family, fun and most of all food. It is inevitable that you will have leftovers that can feed you for the next week. But it can be boring to eat them the same...

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J.K. Rowling chased from home by press, she says

cnn.com - Actress Sienna Miller testified being hounded by the press was "terrifying."London (CNN) -- Paparazzi hounded "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling so constantly after her children were born that she ...

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More Than Celluloid...

sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com - George Clooney's been pushing for peaceful change in the Sudan...Ed Norton's been focusing on biodiversity, and sustainability and the environment.And then there's Morgan Freeman, David Stratha...

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Festive Thanksgiving Day Parade heads through NYC

northjersey.com - NEW YORK — A festive mood prevailed Thursday as the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade made its way through the crowded streets of Manhattan beneath brilliant sunshine. AP FILE PHOTO The Kermit ...

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Active Game-Based Learning « Whole Child Education

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education:Active Game-Based Learningby ASCD Whole Child BloggersPost submitted by Andrew Miller, an international consultant who works independently and for group...

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Occupy Gives Hope to Struggling Americans This Thanksgiving

dissenter.firedoglake.com - More than two and a half million Americans slipped into poverty this year bringing the total number of Americans in poverty to 46.2 million. There are millions more Americans near or in danger of g...

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    StoryCorps: Join StoryCorps. Thank a Teacher on November 25! #edreform

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    Is there a teacher who changed your life?

    This Friday, November 25, marks StoryCorps' 4th annual National Day of Listening, and we are asking everyone to take a moment to thank the teacher who made all the difference.

    It only takes a few minutes. You can write a dedication post on Facebook (@storycorps), send a "thank you" Tweet (#thankateacher), record a video tribute, send an email, call--whatever works for you. It's that simple!

    NPR and StoryCorps will Retweet some memorable posts, so be sure to shine a spotlight on your favorite teacher November 25!

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    Daily Kos: 99.9 versus .1 - Krugman explains the top 1/1000th #ows

    Daily Kos: 99.9 versus .1 - Krugman explains the top 1/1000th:

    99.9 versus .1 - Krugman explains the top 1/1000th

    by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

    His column is titled We are the 99.9% and it is very much worth your time. As he writes, according to a CBO report which only examines data up to 2005 (and it has gotten worse)

    between 1979 and 2005 the inflation-adjusted, after-tax income of Americans in the middle of the income distribution rose 21 percent. The equivalent number for the richest 0.1 percent rose 400 percent.

    And if we look at Capital Gains taxes, currently at only 15%,

    taxes on capital gains are much lower than they were in 1979 — and the richest one-thousandth of Americans account for half of all income from capital gains.

    Given this history, Krugman asks a very basic question, why do Republicans advocate further tax cuts for the very rich even as they warn about deficits and demand drastic cuts in social insurance programs?

    Please keep reading.

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    Democrats divided over re-election support for Mayor Kevin Johnson - Sacramento City News - sacbee.com

    Democrats divided over re-election support for Mayor Kevin Johnson - Sacramento City News - sacbee.com:

    Democrats divided over re-election support for Mayor Kevin Johnson

    By Ryan Lillis
    rlillis@sacbee.com
    Published: Friday, Nov. 25, 2011 - 12:00 am | Page 1A
    Last Modified: Friday, Nov. 25, 2011 - 6:35 am

    Kevin Johnson faces a political puzzle in his bid for re-election.

    As he seeks a second term as Sacramento mayor, Johnson has accumulated the support of some of the most recognizable politicians in California's Democratic establishment – names like Brown, Steinberg, Pérez, Feinstein, Lockyer, Harris and Newsom.

    But what still eludes Johnson is the support of Sacramento's major Democratic organizations.

    What's more, the mayor's campaign is not counting on the support of some of the area's most



    Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/25/4078969/democrats-divided-over-re-election.html#ixzz1ejEdQAFo
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    Thank you, Mr. B! - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

    Thank you, Mr. B! - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:

    Thank you, Mr. B!

    By Katy Murphy
    Thursday, November 24th, 2011 at 7:37 pm in teachers.

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    This morning on NPR, there was a show (I tuned in late, but I think it was this segment on “Talk of the Nation”) dedicated to thanking a teacher who had made a difference in your life.

    I thought of my sixth-grade English teacher, Mr. Belloumini, a quirky man who rarely stayed on topic and loved to tell long, circuitous stories. But Mr. B was the one who made me see writing as something other than a formula or a set of rules, who guided me through my first real short story and my first poem. I might have

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    Should value-added models account for poverty? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    Should value-added models account for poverty? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

    Should value-added models account for poverty?

    by Valerie Strauss

    This was written by Sarah Garland and produced by The Hechinger Report, a non-profit, non-partisan education-news outlet based at Teachers College, Columbia University. This post underscores strong disagreement over value-added methods of evaluating teachers, which use student standardized test scores to assess educators. The controversy is deep enough to give pause to anyone who thinks these formulas are acceptable to use in a high-stakes fashion to evaluate anybody.

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    Schooling in the Ownership Society: 'Virtual' schools #ows

    Schooling in the Ownership Society: 'Virtual' schools:

    'Virtual' schools

    Mike Klonsky at Schooling in the Ownership Society - 2 minutes ago
    The Nation reports: *If the national movement to “reform” public education through vouchers, charters and privatization has a laboratory, it is Florida. It was one of the first states to undertake a program of “virtual schools”—charters operated online, with teachers instructing students over the Internet—as well as one of the first to use vouchers to channel taxpayer money to charter schools run by for-profits.* *From Idaho to Indiana to Florida, recently passed laws will radically reshape the face of education in America, shifting the responsibility of teaching generations of Ame... more »

    THANKSGIVING ON WALL STREET

    Mike Klonsky at Schooling in the Ownership Society - 14 minutes ago

    Bradley Foundation: Sugar daddy for racism and right-wing school reform

    Mike Klonsky at Schooling in the Ownership Society - 4 days ago
    Mike De SistiFrom its headquarters at 1241 N. Franklin Place on Milwaukee's lower east side, the low-profile Bradley Foundation gives away millions of dollars every year, acting like a venture capital fund for conservative ideas.Yesterday's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel carries a feature on the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.The Bradleys were the main source of support for Gov. Walker's assault on Wisconsin's teachers and public employee unions. Indiana's T-Party Gov. Mitch Daniels sat on Bradley's board of directors. His teacher-bashing, anti-union school "reform" initiative was ... more »

    Charter schools: public in form but private in essence

    Mike Klonsky at Schooling in the Ownership Society - 6 days ago
    ** *"With these charter schools, people are trying to say, ‘I want a custom-tailored education for my children, and I want you, as my neighbor, to pay for it.’ ”* -- Matthew Stewart, resident of upscale Millburn, N.J. There was no question about the early charter schools being public. An outgrowth of the small schools movement, these schools, usually a small number within urban school districts, were started and run by teachers who were all members of the local teachers union. The idea was to empower collaborative groups of teachers with innovative ideas about classroom practic... more »

    How Zuckerberg's money is being spent

    Mike Klonsky at Schooling in the Ownership Society - 2 weeks ago
    According to this story in the Newark Star-Ledger, records obtained by the Education Law Center in Newark show that of the first $13 million spent out of the total $148 million donated, about a third has been been spent since September 2010 to pay political and educational consultants and contractors. There's plenty to go around, especially if you're friends with Mayor Booker or Ed Commissioner Chris Cerf. The pass-through is called the Foundation for Newark's Future. Here's who's on the board (don't laugh).

    More on Imagine charters, Inc.

    Mike Klonsky at Schooling in the Ownership Society - 2 weeks ago
    This from WaPo's Valerie Strauss:* * *Essentially, Imagine sells its buildings to a company that leases them back to Imagine, which pays extremely high rent with public dollars. The paper reported that Imagine’s 2010 annual report shows that revenue grew to $265 million that year from $95 million in 2006. Furthermore, students in Imagine schools in St. Louis performed worse this year on standardized tests than practically any other school in the city. Now, Missouri Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro is urging Missouri Baptist University to close the six Imagine charters that it s... more »

    Are union-bashing charter reformers sobering up?

    Mike Klonsky at Schooling in the Ownership Society - 2 weeks ago
    NYT's *Joe Nocera *("Teaching With the Enemy") says *Steven Brill* was shocked when AFT prez *Randi Weingarten* held a book party for him at her home. To tell you the truth, I was too. But the real story Nocera tells is about Brill's own attitude adjustment while researching his virulent union-bashing book, ultimately leading him to make a u-turn and actually nominate Weingarten to become Mayor Bloomberg's next schools chancellor. *As most reviews have noted, however, as “Class Warfare” nears its conclusion, it suddenly veers in a different direction. Instead of bashing the union a... more »

    Imagine, Inc.: Operating horrible charter schools for fun and profit

    Mike Klonsky at Schooling in the Ownership Society - 2 weeks ago
    St. Louis charter school building has been sold and resold for 10 times original price. Skeptical educators often ask me how it is possible to make a profit from operating a charter school. Here's one way. *Imagine Schools Inc., the nation's largest charter school operator, runs six charter schools in St. Louis. Together, their performance on state standardized exams is worse than any school district in Missouri. Nevertheless, those schools are generating millions of dollars for Imagine and a Kansas City-based real estate investment company through real estate arrangements ultimat... more »
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    Chancellor Katehi Claims Her Police Force Disobeyed Her; So Why Is She Still Chancellor? | MyFDL #ows

    Chancellor Katehi Claims Her Police Force Disobeyed Her; So Why Is She Still Chancellor? | MyFDL:

    Chancellor Katehi Claims Her Police Force Disobeyed Her; So Why Is She Still Chancellor?

    by Teddy Partridge

    Linda Katehi (photo: The National Academy of Sciences)

    Linda Katehi claimed in a wide-ranging Sacramento Bee interview — in her office in the still-closed-to-the-public Administration Building — that her own police force no longer respects her authority. The UC/Davis Chancellor and global handmaiden to authoritarians made the best arguments for her own swift removal. Using the royal “we” to describe the orders she gave her militarized police force, Katehi showed that her authority and leadership are hollow:

    “We told the police to remove the tents or the equipment,” Katehi said in an interview with The Bee

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