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Governor Quinn’s Proposal Will Somersault TRIP

teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com - Sure, let’s take away $87 million from the retired teachers of Illinois, and then let’s give that money away perhaps to more corporations as a gift from the governor. a retired teacher pays a tota...

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Shanker Blog » Revisiting The "5-10 Percent Solution"

shankerblog.org - In a post over a year ago, I discussed the common argument that dismissing the “bottom 5-10 percent” of teachers would increase U.S. test scores to the level of high-performing nations. This argume...

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Paul Krugman is a MUST-READ

dailykos.com - In States of Depression he explains, in detail, why the recovery is not stronger, including providing specific comparison with the recovery on Reagan's watch. The biggest single drag on the econom...

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School junk food -- chicagotribune.com

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School junk food -- chicagotribune.com:"I am a pediatrician on Chicago's North Side and have two children who attend a Chicago Public Schools school, Inter-American Magnet. I became the chair of ou...

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STUDENTS’ BALLOON SOARS AND TRANSMITS

utsandiego.com - A high-altitude weather balloon jammed with cameras rose far, far higher than jets fly, traveling to the edge of space during a journey that thrilled its “pilots” back at San Diego’s Mt. Carmel Hig...

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Pearson's edu-testing profits soar

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - London-based Pearson Publishing, the standardized testing giant, reports a 72% "surge" in profits during 2011. But the profit picture in the U.S. is not as rosy as it looks. Most of the profits are...

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Map: Fannie and Freddie's Bay Area Properties

baycitizen.org - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have quietly become major residential landowners in the Bay Area’s hardest hit neighborhoods, thanks to the mortgage crisis. According to records provided by ForeclosureR...

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How I Did It: Jill Donenfeld, Founder of The Culinistas

mariashriver.com - How I Did It: Jill Donenfeld, Founder of The Culinistas By Jill DonenfeldI'm one of those lucky kids who grew up eating around the family table. The middle child between two boys and all the produc...

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March 5 Update! | Occupy Education California

occupyeducationca.org - 5:28pm EST 17 arrests so far at Occupy the Capitol action at the Governor’s Office in Albany. 5:21pm EST Now up 13 arrests at the Governor’s Office in the Capitol Building in Albany chanting “The s...

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So many students are hurting; listen and learn from their views | Thoughts on Public Education

So many students are hurting; listen and learn from their views | Thoughts on Public Education:

So many students are hurting; listen and learn from their views - by Miriam Hernandez

by Miriam Hernandez
As I wake each morning, I tell myself, “Thank you, God, for another day; may I encounter smiles on people’s faces.” I walk to school and I run into a lot of my fellow students. Sadly, I can tell some are hurting inside. I wonder about their stories and if they receive help at school [...]

ACSA: Waiver too weak as is - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
The organization representing state school administrators says that if California wants its request for a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law to be taken seriously, then the State Board should give Secretary of Education Arne Duncan more of what he is demanding. The Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) is suggesting several amendments that [...]
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When did teacher bashing become the new national pastime?

When did teacher bashing become the new national pastime?:

When did teacher bashing become the new national pastime?

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With spring training under way, fantasy baseball owners across the country are hard at work readying their draft boards and preparing to select their championship rosters. As they do, I have a modest proposal to make that will simplify the whole process: Let’s stop getting weighed down by multiple data points, and start looking at just one number instead – the number of doubles a player hit the previous season.

Too simplistic a way to evaluate something as complex as a player’s overall value to your team? Hogwash. For example, look at last year’s stats and you’ll see that the Kansas City Royals’ Jeff Francoeur smacked almost 50 two-baggers. By contrast, some guy named Albert Pujols hit half as many. By my calculations, then, Francoeur must be twice as good.

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Is Rahm falling from White House grace?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Is Rahm falling from White House grace?:

Is Rahm falling from White House grace?

by Mike Klonsky
Following up on my post from Saturday, I'm told that Nancy Pelosi had a come-to-Jesus talk with Rahm Emanuel following her Saturday appearance at Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH. It looks from here like Rahm, the autocrat, has been taken down a peg by the party bigwigs and told in no uncertain terms to heal his rift with Jackson. .

It was only a little more than a week ago that Rev. Jackson openly sided against Rahm and with the CTU and community activists, who had packed a CPS board meeting to protest the board's decision to close more neighborhood schools and hand them over to a politically connected, privateturnaround company, AUSL.

Jackson and CTU President Karen Lewis openly denounced the policies of Rahm's hand-picked board as "education apartheid," a move which immediately re-framed the whole reform discussion and put Rahm and his
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10,000 California students protest tuition increase at Capitol. « Fred Klonsky #ows

10,000 California students protest tuition increase at Capitol. « Fred Klonsky:

10,000 California students protest tuition increase at Capitol.

by Fred Klonsky

irtual Lobby Day Tuesday.

by Fred Klonsky

You have two lobby jobs today.

The first is to contact your state senator and state representative and remind them of the promise that the state made to meet their obligations to state employee pensions. No three-tier schemes. No shifting of the obligation to local school boards.

Remind them that early voting is going on right now. That there is a primary election in a few days. That you vote. And you will vote again in November.

You can email them here.

And then go here and sign the petition to Governor Quinn. Don’t cut the state’s obligation to retiree health insurance. Don’t double cost of insurance to retired teachers.

Send the petition to five people you know.


I consider myself as having a safe pension and health insurance in June when I retire.

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Minority Students Face Harsher Discipline, Fewer Options, New Federal Data Shows

Minority Students Face Harsher Discipline, Fewer Options, New Federal Data Shows:

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Minority Students Face Harsher Discipline, Fewer Options, New Federal Data Shows

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Posted: 03/ 6/2012 12:01 am



Minority students have less access to advanced courses, more inexperienced teachers and face tougher disciplinary consequences than their counterparts, a new trove of federal data shows, affirming long-held beliefs about disparities in the classroom.

Civil rights advocates expect this data, collected during the 2009-10 school year, will provide new ammunition for compliance reviews, advocacy and lawsuits involving educational fairness in America.

"The undeniable truth is that the everyday educational experience for too many students of color violates the principle of equity at the heart of the American promise," U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said on an embargoed phone call Monday afternoon. "It is our collective duty to change that." Duncan is expected to make similar remarks Tuesday at Washington, D.C.'s Howard University.

The numbers, to be released Tuesday, are jarring. Black students are more than three-and-a-half times as likely as white students to be suspended or expelled, according to the Education

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