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Big Education Ape: 1-28-12 AM Extra! Extra! The White House Announces Another Federal Education Non-Policy - Tenured Radical

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Tackling Business Problems - Harvard Business Review

hbr.org - Tackling Business Problems Stop Tying Pay to Performance The evidence is overwhelming: It doesn’t work.by Bruno S. Frey and Margit Osterloh Time frame: next week | Degree of difficulty: operational...

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Draft of Teachers Letter to President Obama

withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com- We, the undersigned, a cross section of the nation’s educators, want to express our extreme displeasure with the policies implemented during your administration by Secretary of Education Arne Dunca...

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Rye Principal Retires to Fight Standardized Tests

thedailyrye.com - Osborn School Principal Clarita Zeppie announced she will be retiring at the end of 2011-12 school year to fight the "unhealthy" and "wrong" direction of the State's education program for grade-sch...

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A Score Card for Changing Schools – SchoolBook

nytimes.com - Jan. 27, 2012, 10:52 a.m. Sixty-two New York City schools are on a path to be closed or otherwise re-shaped this year. Here’s a score card to help you keep track of what schools are affected and ho...

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There’s One Big Worm In Checker Finn’s Apple

edwize.org - On the Fordham Foundation’s Flypaper blog and in the electronic pages of the Hoover Foundation’s Education Next, Checker Finn is bemoaning the state of the American work ethic, and blaming American...

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Render Unto Caesar...

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - Let's go back to Amir Khan for a minute or two:Pastor Khan - anti-marriage equity crusader and promoter of school voucher legislation to his congregation (is that allowed by the IRS?) - was granted...

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Jobs, Jobs and Cars

nytimes.com - Mitch Daniels, the former Bush budget director who is now Indiana’s governor, made the Republicans’ reply to President Obama’s State of the Union address. His performance was, well, boring. But he ...

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Unionization Rate Rises in 2011

news.firedoglake.com - This isn’t how conservatives wanted things to play out. They wanted to use the post-Tea Party period as a time to crush union membership. They sought out a coordinated strategy, in places like Wisc...

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I’m Looking At The Boy In The Bubble

tbogg.firedoglake.com - Roy has an interesting post up about how Charles “Coloreds Is Dumb” Murray has moved on from explaining why white people are superior to the dusky races and how now Murray is trying to instigate Wh...

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Parents 4 Teachers says, “Call Brizard.” « Fred Klonsky

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Parents 4 Teachers says, “Call Brizard.” « Fred Klonsky:Parents 4 Teachers says, “Call Brizard.”by Fred KlonskyHi Fred,My name is Erica–I’m a CPS parent (going on 14 years in the system!), an avid ...

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Tax Cut Extender: Boon to Charter Schools

citypragmatist.com - Illustration: FRBSF Charter schools are among the big winners in the tax cut extender deal signed into law on December 17 by President Barack Obama. Section 733 of H.R. 4853 provides for an additio...

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Jersey Jazzman: Merit Pay Fails Outside of Schools

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Merit Pay Fails Outside of Schools:Merit Pay Fails Outside of Schoolsby DukeMerit pay is a disaster wherever it goes:We’ve talked about this since the financial meltdown. Now it’s t...

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gr2 presents year of the dragon, january 28 - february 15

blog.angryasianman.com - More good stuff for art lovers in Los Angeles... Giant Robot is celebrating the Year of the Dragon, an art exhibition featuring dragons! And dragons are awesome. It's running January 28 through Feb...

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Daily Kos: WAM

dailykos.com - Mozart could have a sense of humor, which is why I offer this duet in English:We saw this opera perhaps the best way to see - the voices of great singers but done by marionnettes in Salzburg Mozart...

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Transitional kindergarten, California confusion - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

Transitional kindergarten, California confusion - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:

Transitional kindergarten, California confusion

By Katy Murphy
Friday, January 27th, 2012 at 4:16 pm in elementary schools, families.

TRANSITIONAL KINDERGARTEN

A transitional kindergarten class at Oakland’s Greenleaf Elementary. — Laura A. Oda/ Bay Area News Group

The parents of 4-year-olds with fall birthdays — not yet in the public school system — have already come face to face with the topsy-turvy ways of Sacramento.

Take the parents of kids born in November 2007. Since 2010, they’ve been told their children will be too young for kindergarten in 2012 under the new cutoff date, but that they will be entitled to a spot in a new grade-level, transitional kindergarten.

Now, about seven months before the first day of school, they learn that the governor is proposing to cut the program to save $223 million.

The final decision is up to the state Legislature, but — as we all know — that’s likely

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Daily Kos: If this is Saturday . . .

Daily Kos: If this is Saturday . . .:

If this is Saturday . . .

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

it must be time for my normal Saturday morning reflection on teaching, life and everything else.

I don't know which bothers me more, that the recent Republican debates have not discussed education, or the policies of the Obama administration that I see as destructive.

I am reminded of something a former National Teacher of the Year wrote. Anthony Mullen once got frustrated being in a room full of political types and consultants talking about education "reform" who for the most part ignored him, until finally they asked him what he thought. He then wondered aloud why his opinion was not asked about improving medical outcomes, since he had about as much expertise on medical matters as they did on education. They did not respond well to his words.

On Tuesday I will see if at the local level things can be different. Our Superintendent is having one of several meetings he will hold with teachers. Each school in our immediate area was invited to send one teacher to a 90 minute meeting with the Superintendent and his top assistants. I am actually not the selectee of our school, in large part because I am increasingly likely to retire at the end of the year - the woman picked is actually my former student teacher!. But the President of the union was asked to select 5 additional teachers and he asked me, surprisingly during a phone call in which I first informed him I was resigning as lead union rep for our building (I have too much else on my plate at this point). The Superintendent knows me and my work, and several of his assistants who will be there are people with whom i have worked. I'm not sure what will be accomplished, as we have been given no agenda to help prepare us, but at least it is an attempt to include the voices of teachers as policy is being discussed.

I mentioned that I am increasingly likely to retire. I have no idea if I will be accepted either for the doctoral program at Harvard to which I have applied, or for the fellowship at Columbia to which I have also applied. It might be both, it might be neither. But the process of applying has helped me think through seriously what I want to do with the rest of my life. I am as I write this less than 4 months from my 66th birthday, and less than 1 from when my first Social Security check will be deposited in my account. That helps make more pertinent the reflections about my future.

The combination of the increasing pace of the political season, the possible impending approach of the end of my teaching career, the concerns about my own future and the future of this country - this is the context in which i write this morning.

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Proposed HB 543 to Rate Parents « Tangerine, Florida

Proposed HB 543 to Rate Parents « Tangerine, Florida:

Proposed HB 543 to Rate Parents

by 5redherrings

HB 543 doesn’t sound bad at first blush:

“Parent Involvement” HB 543 by Rep. Stargel (R-Lakeland) passed the House K-20 Competitiveness Committee by a vote of 10 to 3. Three Democrats (Chestnut, Clark-Reed, Fullwood) voted NO. Voting YES were nine Republicans (Bileca, Burgin, Coley, Corcoran, Davis, Fresen, Grant, Perry, and Trujillo) and one Democrat (Reed).

This bill would require that school districts inform parents of its expectations regarding parental responsiveness to teacher requests for communication, such as accurate contact, emergency and medical information and oversight of their child’s school attendance, completion of homework and preparation for tests. They can use existing guides or checklists or new formats to communicate

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