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Obama’s Education Record : Education Next

educationnext.org - Does the reality match the rhetoric? By Michael Petrilli and Tyson Eberhardt | Print | NO PDF | Share SPRING 2012 / VOL. 12, NO. 2 We are now entering the fourth and final year of the first term of...

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Education as "Politically Contested Spaces"

dailykos.com - "Politically Contested Spaces" First, let me offer where I believe the discussion of education as political (or not) often becomes distorted. We must begin this discussion with a clarification of t...

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New York Judge Rules Town Can Ban Gas Hydrofracking

nytimes.com - In a victory for opponents of the drilling process known as hydrofracking, a New York State judge ruled on Tuesday that the upstate town of Dryden in Tompkins County can ban natural gas drilling wi...

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“It’s Gotten So Bad” | Occupied Chicago Tribune

occupiedchicagotribune.org - By Joel Handley “We worry more about our students now more than we ever have in the past.” Since the latest Chicago Public Schools “reform” efforts began in 1996, Orr Academy High School in the Wes...

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“It’s Gotten So Bad” | Occupied Chicago Tribune

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Yard sale. « Fred Klonsky

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Coal Power: Warming America, Warming The Planet

americascoalpower.org - Thanks to the hard work of America's 600 coal-fired power plants and the miracle of carbon dioxide and methane, we could see a noticeably warmer climate by 2050 -- maybe even sooner. With your cont...

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New York Judge Rules Town Can Ban Gas Hydrofracking

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Obama Offers to Cut Corporate Tax Rate to 28%

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — President Obama will ask Congress to scrub the corporate tax code of dozens of loopholes and subsidies to reduce the top rate to 28 percent, down from 35 percent, while giving preferen...

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The Prescience of Rev. Calvin Morris

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Activists, Parents 'Occupy' School Slated for Turnaround

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GET UP, STAND UP. BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE. | GoingPublic

GET UP, STAND UP. BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE. | GoingPublic:

GET UP, STAND UP. BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE



“First they came for the……and then they came for me, but there was nobody left.” Most of us can quote Pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous lines, at least some of them. At least the gist of it. Most of us give tacit voice to it’s message. We get it, so of course we’d like to think we would stand up for the oppressed, the least among us.
Well, people, the time is now.
CHOICE. STANDARDIZED TESTS. PUBLIC HUMILIATION OF TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS. FOR PROFIT CHARTERS. We’re seeing the newest fads in public education take over our lives. Yet where is the movement to counteract it? We’re watching an entire generation of teachers who have learned nothing but to “teach to the test.” And students, if they care at all, are learning to spew factoids in record time.
“Grandma,” my six year old granddaughter told me, “If I don’t get to Step Six in math I can’t go to second grade.” What! Believe me, people, she did not think that up all by herself.
Kids are being judged on tests that may not even be valid or reliable (remember those words from Statistics 101?) and we’re being told that the only skills worth testing are reading and math.
Reading and math are important, sure, but what about the legacies that civilizations leave? See, for example, Ancient Greece, Mozart, cubism, Michael 
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How Project-Based Learning Educates the Whole Child « The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education

How Project-Based Learning Educates the Whole Child « The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education:

How Project-Based Learning Educates the Whole Child

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Post written by Thom Markham, a psychologist, educator, and president of GlobalRedesigns. His goal is to help young people gain the advanced skills and core knowledge necessary to prepare for the workforce, contribute to global progress, and work toward a sustainable future. He served as a director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students; taught at an award-winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly acclaimed internship-based program; and cofounded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Calif. Connect with Markham on theASCD EDge® social network and his website.

Over the past decade and a half, I’ve seen how well executed project-based learning (PBL) can provide a joyful learning experience for students. Joy is not our number one standard, I realize, but when projects offer the right mix of challenge, engagement, and personalized support, blended with a motivating, meaningful learning experience that reaches deep into the soul, joy is the outcome. You can see it

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solidaridad: What Nury Martinez and Mónica García want to cut while privatized charter schools increase market share

solidaridad: What Nury Martinez and Mónica García want to cut while privatized charter schools increase market share:

What Nury Martinez and Mónica García want to cut while privatized charter schools increase market share

by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene
Por que digamos: Mónica García y Nury Martinez de LAUSD ¡No a las recortes a nuestra escuelas adultos y nuestra escuelas publicas!

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