Monday, March 19, 2012

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School Turnarounds Are Succeeding

ed.gov - America cannot keep the promise a quality education to every child without ending the cycle of failure in our chronically low-performing schools. From the early days of the Obama Administration, th...
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NAICU - Round Two of Teacher Neg Reg

naicu.edu - The first meeting of the Department of Education rulemaking panel on teacher education in January was largely characterized by negotiators holding their cards.  In February's second session, though...
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Go Rudy! Beat Jonah! « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - In the race for the 21st Illinois House District the names on the ballot may say Rudy Lozano and Sylvana Tabares. The race is really between Rudy and Jonah Edelman and tens of thousands of dollars ...
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Why Some People Like TFA Somewhat Less Than Others Do

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - A recent post by one of the most thoughtful TFA bloggers on this site was called ‘Don’t Hate Me Because I’m TFA.’  In it, Tony B responds to another blogger that I think is great, Katie Osgood, fro...
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In Defense of Facing Reality - The Huffington Post

huffingtonpost.com - I recently wrote two review articles for the New York Review of Books about the teaching profession. The first was a review of Pasi Sahlberg's Finnish Lessons, about the exceptional school system o...
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Mitt Romney Pledges To Push Back Against Teachers Unions

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Big Education Ape: Jersey Jazzman: Where My Head Explodes

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Measuring My Value

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More About Mike Daisey, This Time with George Clooney!

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Remarks by the President at Campaign Event

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Journey to a New View: Seeing Alzheimer’s Differently

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5 Ways Health Reform Supports Women « MomsRising Blog

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Modern School: Helping SPED Students by Increasing Their Class Sizes?

Modern School: Helping SPED Students by Increasing Their Class Sizes?:


Helping SPED Students by Increasing Their Class Sizes?

by Michael Dunn

Full Inclusion or Full Immersion? (Image from Flickr, by Gui Seiz)
One of the latest trends in Special Education is “Full Inclusion.” The idea is that all students benefit from being in the “least restrictive” environment. Special day classes (SDC)—where many special needs students were traditionally exposed to much of their curriculum—segregated them from the general student population and relied on special education (SPED) teachers who were not necessarily credentialed in the subjects which they were teaching.

Many schools are now placing these same students in regular education classes (e.g., science, English, social studies, math). In California, this means they are sometimes in classes with 35-38 students. In the past, most SDC students would have been in small classes of 7-14 students, with a SPED teacher and another 1-3 
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Mulgrew spells conditions for backing college loan forgiveness | GothamSchools

Mulgrew spells conditions for backing college loan forgiveness | GothamSchools:


Mulgrew spells conditions for backing college loan forgiveness

by Philissa Cramer
The UFT would consider supporting Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to pay back the loans of top college graduates who become city teachers — but only under certain conditions.
In a letter to Chancellor Dennis Walcott today, UFT President Michael Mulgrew spelled out what it would take for him to support a loan forgiveness program of the type Bloomberg proposed in January during his State of the City address. At the time, Bloomberg said the city would give teachers in the “top tier” of their college class $25,000 to repay their loans. A Department of Education spokeswoman said Bloomberg’s proposal would likely apply to students in the top quarter of their class.
Other proposals Bloomberg made at the time — closing and reopening 33 struggling schools, increasing the salaries of teachers who earn high ratings in a new evaluation system — immediately drew union censure. But Mulgrew did not dismiss the loan forgiveness proposal.
In today’s letter, he explains what it would take to bring the union on board. The program should be focused as 
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Department of Justice WILL NOT be present at meeting to discuss racial bias in hiring and firing of teachers Denver's far northeast - The Denver Post

Department of Justice will not be present at meeting to discuss racial bias in hiring and firing of teachers Denver's far northeast - The Denver Post:


Department of Justice will not be present at meeting to discuss racial bias in hiring and firing of teachers Denver's far northeast
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 The U.S. Department of Justice this morning said it is neither hosting nor will it send a representative to a meeting planned for 6:30 p.m. tonight at Green Valley Ranch Recreation Center where the issue of the hiring and firing of minority teachers in far northeast Denver will be discussed.
Late last week, e-mail messages spread inviting current and former Denver Public Schools employees to discuss "racial bias concerns about DPS delivery of educational services" at the meeting.
One of the e-mail messages, from retired teacher and former chairwoman of the Black Caucus for the Denver Classroom Teachers Association Annette Sills-Brown, said the meeting was organized by retired DPS teacher Cozette Hammock-West.
In the message, Sills-Brown said Hammock-West was "asked by a DOJ attorney to schedule a meeting on Monday, March 19th so that attorney and one other colleague can hear from current and former DPS persons with racial bias concerns about DPS delivery of 
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