Friday, January 6, 2012

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Ravitch to speak in California

cta.org - By Dina Martin Once an educational conservative and an early supporter of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind policy, Diane Ravitch has shaken up the education world by doing a complete...

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Turnaround Is Unfair Play | Gary Rubinstein's Blog

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - Superman has arrived and he takes Visa. As districts get more and more desperate trying to reach 100% proficiency by 2014, they begin to turn to a new breed of ‘experts.’ These experts claim that t...

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Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Benjamin Franklin did it. Henry Ford did it. And American life is built on the faith that others can do it, too: rise from humble origins to economic heights. “Movin’ on up,” George Je...

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Ten Things You Don't Know About DPS

huffingtonpost.com - I'll bet you think you know a lot about Detroit Public Schools from reading the headlines and watching the nightly news, right? Well, I'm about to surprise you with some things you don't know.The g...

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Arne Duncan's new job at the D.O.E.? Celebrity catcher

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - The ed secretary now appears to be in charge of silencing the administration's Hollywood critics.WaPo's Valerie Strauss broke the story with a leak from inside Duncan's department.According to two ...

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Rick Santorum's School Scandal | Mother Jones

motherjones.com - Patrick Fallon/ZumaThanks to his surprising surge, which brought him within eight votes of winning the Iowa caucuses, Rick Santorum is the candidate du jour. With his front-runner status is bound t...

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Chicago mayor stars in right-wing, anti-public school video

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Thanks to brother Fred I came upon this right-wing propaganda video targeting public school and teachers unions staring none other than Rahm Emanuel. "A Tale of Two Missions," co-stars the head of ...

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nypost.com - Fredric U. DickerANALYSIS ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo dialed back the sweeping promises of tax cuts and spending restraints that defined his first year in office yesterday with a big-on-rhetoric, modest-on...

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Matt Damon and Mother Reject Union's Award – SchoolBook

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Matt Damon and Mother Reject Union's Award – SchoolBook:Matt Damon and Mother Reject Union's AwardRobyn Beck/Agence France-Press-Getty ImagesMatt Damon with his mother, Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige, in...

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OB and Rest of Coast In Store For Major Waves

obrag.org - High surf on Nov 3, 2010, in OB. Photos by Jim Grant.CBS 8 Local San Diego News reports that Ocean Beach and the coast is in store for some major waves over the next few days.Meteorologist Shawn St...

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happy birthday, hayao miyazaki | angry asian man

blog.angryasianman.com - Happy birthday to one of the world's greatest living directors, Hayao Miyazaki. The master animator, responsible for such classics as Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and countl...

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Continuing Education, at the Bar

nytimes.com - FOR many, January means back to the lecture hall, and not just at colleges and universities. Across New York the backrooms of bars and the main stages of clubs are coming to resemble secret annexes...

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Ex-Walker aide arrested; charges to be announced

jsonline.com - The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel now is offering JS Everywhere, a new digital subscription package, which gives you unlimited access to JSOnline, the daily e-Edition, Journal Sentinel mobile site and...

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Chicago mayor stars in right-wing, anti-public school video

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Districts get power, if not cash, in Gov’s budget | Thoughts on Public Education

Districts get power, if not cash, in Gov’s budget | Thoughts on Public Education:

Districts get power, if not cash, in Gov’s budget - by Kathryn Baron

by Kathryn Baron
California schools could gain billions or once again face the threat of a midyear budget cut under the 2012-13 budget proposal released in Sacramento yesterday by Gov. Jerry Brown. At a hastily called news conference, held after the budget was accidentally posted days ahead of schedule on his finance department’s website, the Governor presented a plan [...]

Switch to weighted funding, local control - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing to overhaul how K-12 schools are funded, starting with next year’s budget. The move to a “weighted pupil funding” formula would vastly simplify the current complicated and inequitable funding system and shift responsibility for most spending decisions to the local level. It also holds the promise of providing extra money [...]
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NYC Educator: Nobody Doesn't Like Sandra Lee

NYC Educator: Nobody Doesn't Like Sandra Lee:

Nobody Doesn't Like Sandra Lee

by NYC Educator
Hi folks! I'm Sandra Lee, hostess of Food Network's best show, Semi-Homemade, and soulmate of none other than NY State Governor Andrew Cuomo! I have to tell you though, New Year's Day with Andy was no picnic!

Early in the morning I prepared my special Bisquick Boysenberry Surprise and Grape Kool-Aid Mimosas (recipes to follow in my upcoming book) but Andy wasnot happy. I could tell as he coughed out a chunk of Bisquick (I must remember to mix it more thoroughly.) that he was deeply troubled.

That was when he gave me The Look, and I knew
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New Hampshire’s 2012 anti-evolution legislation (and the shocking thing a sponsor said) - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

New Hampshire’s 2012 anti-evolution legislation (and the shocking thing a sponsor said) - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

New Hampshire’s 2012 anti-evolution legislation (and the shocking thing a sponsor said)

by Valerie Strauss

You can’t make up this stuff: The chief sponsor of a new anti-evolution piece of legislation in New Hampshire said that Darwin’s theory is “godless” and that such thinking is linked to Nazi atrocities, the 1999 Columbine shootings and more.

That analysis came from Republican Rep. Jerry Bergevin, who introduced one of two new anti-evolution bills (see below for full text of bills) in the Granite State’s legislature.

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Jersey Jazzman: My Commenters Rock, TN-style!

Jersey Jazzman: My Commenters Rock, TN-style!:

My Commenters Rock, TN-style!

by Duke
The always awesome jcg (come on, girl, start a blog already!) left a great comment about the clownish teacher evaluation system in Tennessee, which I now shamelessly steal as free material for a lazy Friday:

Hi Jazzman,
Do you know how difficult it is to walk into a classroom of 25 enthusiastic pre-service teachers and try to explain to them that sociopaths designed and adopted the TN TEAM evaluation system and they will be forced to endure it if they stay in the state to teach?

TN's Teach for America cultists in DoE insist that a 1 -5 Likert scale and an incomplete checklist of teacher behaviors is ALWAYS reliable and valid, not a principal's lying eyes, or, gasp, a teacher's
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The Educated Reporter: For-Profit Companies Getting Big Slice of Public Ed Pie, With Mixed Results

The Educated Reporter: For-Profit Companies Getting Big Slice of Public Ed Pie, With Mixed Results:

For-Profit Companies Getting Big Slice of Public Ed Pie, With Mixed Results

by Emily Richmond
When it comes to showing Adequate Yearly Progress, virtual public schools operated by for-profit companies are falling short, according to a new report by the National Education Policy Center. (Click here for the link.) The report, released today, found just 27.4 percent of virtual schools operated by for-profit companies (using public dollars) made AYP last year. The results were significantly stronger for the bricks-and-mortar public schools managed by the for-profit EMOs: 51.8 percent made AYP, which is about the same success rate as traditional public schools. Overall, charter schools operated by nonprofit EMOs had a better success rate on AYP, with 56.4 percent meeting state standards. There were some interesting statistics in the report, including that 35 percent of all charter schools are currently operated by for-profit and nonprofit "Education Management Organizations," known as EMOs. That figure is likely to top 50 percent in the next few years, according to Gary
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The Arrogance, Hubris and Dangerous Naivete Which Drives Florida Education Policy in Florida | Scathing Purple Musings

The Arrogance, Hubris and Dangerous Naivete Which Drives Florida Education Policy in Florida | Scathing Purple Musings:

The Arrogance, Hubris and Dangerous Naivete Which Drives Florida Education Policy in Florida

by Bob Sikes

Florida voters only need to listen to one of its republican legislators talk about education policy to become frightened. St. Augustine Rep. Bill Proctor – the chairman of the House Education committee – took his turn yesterday in the St. Augustine Record. Lets start with this:

According to Proctor, representatives of several educational disciplines spoke in favor of SB 736 at

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LAUSD AND FINALLY BREAKING THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE - Perdaily.com

LAUSD AND FINALLY BREAKING THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE (LAUSD y finalmente rompiendo LA ESCUELA HASTA PRISIÓN TUBERÍA) - Perdaily.com:

LAUSD AND FINALLY BREAKING THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE (LAUSD y finalmente rompiendo LA ESCUELA HASTA PRISIÓN TUBERÍA)

by Leonard Isenberg
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(Mensaje se repite en Español)

(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)

Rupturing the school to prison pipeline starts when the crimes of LAUSD and school districts like it throughout this country are confronted and stopped. It is 44 years since the Latino walkouts from E.L.A. schools and Latino public education at LAUSD is worse today than it was back then. So where is MALDEF...having self-congratulatory dinners and having its President Thomas Saenz back his client Mayor Villaraigosa's empty reforms with no measurable gains.

Whether gabachos like Latinos or not, one would think that these superior folks would be smart enough to
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