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H.R.4170: Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

H.R.4170: Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress:


.4170 - Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012

To increase purchasing power, strengthen economic recovery, and restore fairness in financing higher education in the United States through student loan forgiveness, caps on interest rates on Federal student loans, and refinancing opportunities for private borrowers, and for other purposes. view all titles (2)

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Hansen Clarke
D-MI
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Recent News Coverage

03/23/12
The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 Introduced
Rep. Hansen Clarke introduced The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 (H.R. 4170) on Thursday, March 8. This bill would forgive outstanding student loan debt for Americans who have made payments equal to 10 percent of their discretionary income ...
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03/23/12
Hansen Clarke: Congressman Introduces The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012
On March 8, Congressman Hansen Clarke (D-Mich.) introduced H.R. 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012. Clarke exclaimed that the bill, “provides that if a student loan borrower makes payments equal to 10% of their discretionary income for a ...
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03/21/12
The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 Introduced
Rep. Hansen Clarke introduced The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 (H.R. 4170) on Thursday, March 8. This bill would forgive outstanding student loan debt for Americans who have made payments equal to 10 percent of their discretionary income ...
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03/24/12
equal pay for equal work for part time faculty: Bill would cut student ...
I am your constituent. Actively support HR 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012. Even if you don't know who represents you in Congress, if you know your own zip code, you can find their contact information here.
Source: Professor Smartass
03/24/12
equal pay for equal work for part time faculty: Bill would cut student ...
I am your constituent. Actively support HR 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012. Even if you don't know who represents you in Congress, if you know your own zip code, you can find their contact information here.
Source: Professor Smartass
03/24/12
equal pay for equal work for part time faculty: Bill would cut student ...
I am your constituent. Actively support HR 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012. Even if you don't know who represents you in Congress, if you know your own zip code, you can find their contact information here.
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Divisive Darling of the Right Wing Michelle Rhee continues to split Californians | EdSource Extra!

Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst organization has 170,000 members in California | EdSource Extra!:


Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst organization has 170,000 members in California

March 23rd, 2012 | Add a Comment
By Louis Freedberg ~ EdSource Extra

Michelle Rhee ~ Photo courtesy of Neighborhood Centers
Michelle Rhee ~ Photo courtesy of Neighborhood Centers
StudentsFirst, the newest entrant into the California school reform landscape, has 170,000 members in California, according to its founder Michelle Rhee, the former Washington D.C. schools chief and wife of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson.

“Week in and week out the largest number of membership gains we saw were from California,” she said in an interview yesterday.  ”When we first hit 100,000 we finally said, ‘something is happening in California.’”
Rhee founded the organization about a year ago after her controversial stewardship of DC public schools came to an end in 2010 when then-Mayor Adrian Fenty, who had appointed her, lost his reelection bid. As she unabashedly explained at a StudentsFirst gathering in San Jose last night, she was awarded the DC public schools chief post as a 37-year-old despite never having been a principal of a school, let alone run a district.
Rhee said that her organization now has 1.3 million members nationwide. What is still unclear is how active these members are, and the extent to which Rhee will be able to mobilize them. 
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Fermin Vasquez: Education Not Incarceration for Young Men of Color

Fermin Vasquez: Education Not Incarceration for Young Men of Color:


Education Not Incarceration for Young Men of Color


When people hear the name "Lil Wayne," music of resistance and social criticism is not what comes to mind. However, I was sitting in L.A. traffic last week when my friend played a song I had never heard before. It was Lil Wayne's "Misunderstood" from Tha Carter III album, and it resurrects an ugly monster that haunts boys and men of color across the country, and certainly here in Los Angeles.
Around minute three into the song, Wayne drops the facts about this monster, the Prison Industrial Complex. According to the song, the fact of the matter is "You see, 1 in every 100 Americans are locked up, 1 in every 9 Black Americans are locked up." Lil Wayne is not the first person to speak about the fact that we have chosen to deal with social problems through incarceration.
In the book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness, Michelle Alexander writes that "More African-American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began."
Statistics and celebrities can only go so far to raise some eyebrows on this issue, but in Los Angeles 
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The Answer Sheet - A School Survival Guide for parents (and everyone else). - The Washington Post

The Answer Sheet - A School Survival Guide for parents (and everyone else). - The Washington Post:
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‘Occupy’ the Ed Department starts Friday

Valerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 10 minutes ago
A group of activists is planning a four-day protest event starting next week called “Occupy the DOE in D.C.” that is aimed at alerting the Obama administration to growing unhappiness with its education reform policies. Read full article >> [image: Add to Facebook] [image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to Reddit] [image: Add to StumbleUpon]

In Texas, a revolt brews against standardized testing

Valerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 21 hours ago
More than 100 school districts in Texas have passed a resolution saying that high-stakes standardized tests are “strangling” public schools, the latest in a series of events that are part of a brewing revolt in the state where the test-centric No Child Left Behind was born. Read full article >> [image: Add to Facebook] [image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to Reddit] [image: Add to StumbleUpon]

Teacher: One (maddening) day working with the Common Core

Valerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 1 day ago
This *was written by Jeremiah Chaffee, a high school English teacher in upstate New York for the last 13 years. It’s long but worth reading*. By Jeremiah Chaffee The high school English department in which I work recently spent a day looking at what is called an “exemplar” from the new Common Core State Standards, and then working together to create our own lessons linked to that curriculum. An exemplar is a prepackaged lesson which is supposed to align with the standards of the Common Core. The one we looked at was a lesson on “The Gettysburg Address.” Read full article >> [imag...more »

The Answer Sheet - 1 day ago

Why not Race to the Top for political reform?

Valerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 1 day ago
This *was written by Julie A. Gorlewski, assistant professor of secondary education at the State University of New York at New Paltz.* By Julie A. Gorlewski Why should schools have all the fun? If the policies undergirding the Race to the Top education reform are good enough for learning, shouldn’t we use them to improve other public systems? Let’s start with political reform. Read full article >> [image: Add to Facebook] [image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to Reddit] [image: Add to StumbleUpon]

What standardized tests should assess

Valerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 2 days ago
This *was written by Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer and author. * By Marion Brady If you fly, thank Myron Tribus for helping make your flight safer. He played a major role in the development of the equipment that keeps airliner wings free of ice. Read full article >> [image: Add to Facebook] [image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to Reddit] [image: Add to StumbleUpon]

Student mocked by teacher for missing state standardized test

Valerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 2 days ago
A middle school student who didn’t take the writing portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test because he was sick at home was later forced by a teacher to wear a sign that said: “I decided to come to school today, but I didn’t come to school during the FCAT.” Read full article >> [image: Add to Facebook] [image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to Reddit] [image: Add to StumbleUpon]

Best part of ‘schools-threaten-national-security’ report: The dissents

Valerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 3 days ago
The most interesting part of the new Condoleezza Rice-Joel Klein report, which bemoans how American national security is threatened by the poor state of public education, is not in the body of the document itself. The real story is in the dissents at the end of the report. Read full article >> [image: Add to Facebook] [image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to Reddit] [image: Add to StumbleUpon]

A million teachers may be on the march — out of the classroom

Valerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 3 days ago
This *was written by educator Anthony Cody, who worked for 24 years in the Oakland schools, 18 years teaching science at a high-needs school and six years as a mentor and coach of teachers. He is a National Board-certified teacher. You can follow him on Twitter at @anthonycody. A version of this post appeared on his Education Week Teacher blog, Living in Dialogue *. Read full article >> [image: Add to Facebook] [image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to Reddit] [image: Add to StumbleUpon]

Condi Rice-Joel Klein report: Not the new ‘A Nation at Risk’

Valerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 4 days ago
*Correction: One of the five names of task force members marked with an asterick below wrote an additional comment rather than a dissent, like the other four did. An earlier version said all five wrote dissents.* Read full article >> [image: Add to Facebook] [image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to Reddit] [image: Add to StumbleUpon]

Bribing students: Another ‘magical solution’ that doesn’t work

Valerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 4 days ago
This *was written by Larry Ferlazzo, who teaches English and Social Studies at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California. He writes a popular blog for teachers and a weekly advice column for Education Week Teacher, as well as several books on education*. Read full article >> [image: Add to Facebook] [image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to Reddit] [image: Add to StumbleUpon]

Teacher: I dare you to measure my ‘value’

Valerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 4 days ago
This was *written by Donna McKenna, an elementary ESL teacher who is passionate about language learners and language learning, and a new mom trying to raise her daughter in a bilingual/bicultural home. This first appeared on her blog, No Sleep ‘til Summer. * Read full article >> [image: Add to Facebook] [image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to Reddit] [image: Add to StumbleUpon]

Teach for America’s new partnership with largest for-profit charter network

Valerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 5 days ago
Teach for America loves to expand its reach, and so it has again, this timepartnering with the controversial Imagine schools, the nation’s largest for-profit charter school network. That’s an interesting pairing. Read full article >> [image: Add to Facebook] [image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to Reddit] [image: Add to StumbleUpon]

Fourteen reasons schools are troubled (and no, it’s not all about teachers)

Valerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 6 days ago
This *was written by Ronald Willett, a former university professor, researcher and administrator, and former corporate executive, entrepreneur and CEO. For the last decade, as an avocation, he has tracked and researched U.S. K-12, and advocated its legitimate reform and pursuit of innovation.* Read full article >> [image: Add to Facebook] [image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to Reddit] [image: Add to StumbleUpon]
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Bilingualism’s False Friends, Spanish bilinguals,Bilingual latinos - Hispanically Speaking News

Bilingualism’s False Friends, Spanish bilinguals,Bilingual latinos - Hispanically Speaking News:


Bilingualism’s False Friends by Raul Guerrero

Bilingualism’s False Friends by Raul GuerreroNow that science has corroborated that bilingualism makes us smarter, and profoundly benefits the brain, as reported by the New York Times, people are brushing up on their Spanish. At least resorting to words both languages have in common—not few. In 1060 the French invaded the British Iles and injected English with a heavy dose of Latin, accounting for over fifty percent of its vocabulary, and of course Spanish derives from Latin.
Be careful! The French coined false amies for similar words meaning different things in different languages. Some differences can be amusing and others dangerous. Linguists like to recall the story of President Carter on a visit to Mexico, he said: Estoy muy embarazado por no hablar español, “I am very pregnant for not speaking Spanish.” To be embarrassed is avergonzado. Not so funny to mistake estúpido for stupid. English has softened it to silly, but Spanish retained the original sense of the Latin stupidus, dense, obtuse, the typical block-head. 
 
Here is a list of seven dangerous false cognates:

1.    Molestar has nothing to do with the predatory act of molestation. Molestar is to bother, to annoy, as in no 
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Three Qualms About Standardized Tests and How the Common Core Consortia Hope to Address Them

Three Qualms About Standardized Tests and How the Common Core Consortia Hope to Address Them:


Three Qualms About Standardized Tests and How the Common Core Consortia Hope to Address Them

by guest blogger

Standardized testing is one of the most polarizing topics in education policy. Policymakers have advocated for tests as an objective measure of both teacher and student performance. Teachers, though, largely despise the tests, the preparation for them, and the time it takes away from classroom instruction in the springtime.
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Proponents of the Common Core State Standards say relief is on the way: With new state standards will come new assessments in 2014-2015, aimed at providing teachers a more thorough report on their students’ progress that will ultimately help them drive instruction. During a recent webinar, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) explained how they are tackling three common criticisms of today’s standardized tests:
1) “These tests represent three days out of the 180 day school year. They do not show that the student 
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Missouri Education Watchdog: These Teachers Probably won't be Appearing in a YouTube "Rah Rah" Common Core Video.

Missouri Education Watchdog: These Teachers Probably won't be Appearing in a YouTube "Rah Rah" Common Core Video.:


These Teachers Probably won't be Appearing in a YouTube "Rah Rah" Common Core Video.

by stlgretchen
The Common Core standards have been distributed for teacher review and implementation and may not be as thrilling as presented by the private companies developing the standards.  A high school English department studied them and this writer finds them just a bit lacking.  From the Washington Post:

The Common Core exemplar we worked with was intellectually limiting, shallow in scope, and uninteresting. I don’t want my lessons to be any of those things. 



How does this teacher's article compare with the youtube video about English teachers singing the 
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