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Damn Good Education Daily #SOSMarch #edreform

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Damn Good Education Daily: Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011 Archives Damn Good Education Daily Published by Coopmike48 – 34 news spotters today Next update in about 9 hours See all articl...
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Save Our Schools March NEWS

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Save Our Schools March NEWS: Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011 Archives Save Our Schools March NEWS Published by Coopmike48 – 5 news spotters today Next update in about 9 hours See all art...
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McCarthy's Law #99

gyrewide.blogspot.com - The more paperwork we produce "proving" that we're good teachers, the less time we have actually being good.I've tried creating a single image with all four panels both in a block like this one abo...
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Inconvenient Income Inequality

nytimes.com - Is income inequality becoming the new global warming? In other words, is this another case where the facts of an existential threat lose traction among a weary American public as deniers attempt to...
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Selling Schools Out | Corporate Accountability

theinvestigativefund.org - 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...
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SOAPBOX: Be wary of charter schools

stuff.co.nz - DAN SEARLE REGIONAL CHAIRMAN PPTA & TEACHER AT MBCOPINION:The charter schools controversy reminds us all that the New Zealand Government still blindly follows United States' educational policies, r...
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Charter-school agency’s funding raises questions

wbez.org - A new government agency could boost the number of charter schools in Illinois. But the way the agency is financing itself raises questions.The Illinois State Charter School Commission, created by a...
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Poll: Negatives up for NYC Schools Chancellor

nydailynews.com - Voters have gotten to know city schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott since he assumed the important post last spring, but a new poll shows many haven’t liked what they’ve seen. The Quinnipiac Universi...
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Poll: Negatives up for NYC Schools Chancellor

nydailynews.com - Voters have gotten to know city schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott since he assumed the important post last spring, but a new poll shows many haven’t liked what they’ve seen. The Quinnipiac Universi...
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Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Announces Investigation of K12, Inc.

marketwatch.com - NEW YORK, Dec 16, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential securities fraud at K12, Inc. ("K12" or the "Company") /quotes/zig...
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Suffer the Little Children | NationofChange

nationofchange.org - Newt Gingrich, who recently admitted that his own childhood was comfortable, seems to have a problem with youth — poor youth, that is. Back in 1994, the Gingrich master plan to shrink the welfare r...
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Poll: Negatives up for NYC Schools Chancellor

nydailynews.com - Voters have gotten to know city schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott since he assumed the important post last spring, but a new poll shows many haven’t liked what they’ve seen. The Quinnipiac Universi...
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Poll: Negatives up for NYC Schools Chancellor

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    Schooling in the Ownership Society: Marie Antoinette, Meet David Vitale

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    Marie Antoinette, Meet David Vitale

    by Mike Klonsky
    As soon as one speaker was removed by security guards, another stood up to take their place.
    "Moral courage comes in many forms, but sometimes not at all. Faced with adversity last week, David Vitale retreated into executive session. Mr. Vitale is a banker who was picked by Rahm Emanuel to be president of the 
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    The Innovative Educator: An Alternative to High Stakes Testing. Facebook Stats - A More Effective Accountability Measure

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    An Alternative to High Stakes Testing. Facebook Stats - A More Effective Accountability Measure

    by noreply@blogger.com (The Innovative Educator)
    Earlier this week I was reading a provocative thread in response to a terrific post from Joe Bowers on the topic of accountability in my Innovative Learning Consortium group on Facebook. Deborah Meier weighed in suggesting folks set up high stakes testing sites near state capitols, post testing times, publish which politician showed up and who didn't, then publish THEIR scores in the paper.   Awesome!
    As I was fretting about the problem of accountability gone wrong and worthless high stakes tests, a notice came up informing me there were lots of other people that went to the same high school as I did. There was a link I could click on if I wanted to friend these people. With accountability on the mind, I clicked on the link and
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