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My View: The other types of cheating – Schools of Thought

schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com - By Gary Rubinstein, Special to CNN Editor’s Note:  Gary Rubinstein is a high school math teacher and the author of two guidebooks for new teachers, “Reluctant Disciplinarian” and “Beyond Survival.”...
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The Wages of Ideology

nytimes.com - Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin is struggling to fight off a determined effort to replace him in an extraordinary recall election scheduled for June 5. The original reason more than 900,000 Wisconsi...
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U.S. Schools Are Still Ahead—Way Ahead

mobile.businessweek.com - U.S. Schools Are Still Ahead—Way Ahead By Vivek Wadhwa January 12, 2011 9:01 PM EST America has an inferiority complex about its education system. You hear the sirens every year, when the OECD Prog...
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VIDEO: 'Katehi Isn't Going Anywhere'

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Why And How Democratic Candidates Should Talk About Education In 2012 | OurFuture.org

Why And How Democratic Candidates Should Talk About Education In 2012 | OurFuture.org:


Why And How Democratic Candidates Should Talk About Education In 2012

by Jeff Bryant
So the "general election has begun" proclaims The Hill, and the exhortations from the punditry are for candidates to either, shore up their base or move to the center.
One interesting bit of advice, coming from more than one source, is for the candidates to "talk about education." Recent research results from the College Board strongly suggest that advice may not be a bad idea. But if Democratic candidates want to take that advice to heart, they need to develop more effective education talking points than what's currently being conveyed.
Education Is "Top Tier" In 2012 Election
According to the College Board survey, "education is a top issue for voters in this year’s elections." Interesting data nuggets available in the pdf (link above) include:
    • 67 percent of the responders say education will be extremely important to them personally in this year’s elections for president and Congress. • Education ranks behind jobs and the economy (82 percent extremely important) and is on par with government spending (69 percent), health care (67 percent), and the federal budget 
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A well-funded intimidation campaign against ALEC? They’re kidding. Right? « Fred Klonsky

A well-funded intimidation campaign against ALEC? They’re kidding. Right? « Fred Klonsky:


A well-funded intimidation campaign against ALEC? They’re kidding. Right?

by Fred Klonsky

ALEC complaining about a “well-funded campaign of intimidation” is like the Klan complaining about the rise in sheet prices.
The American Legislative Exchange Council has for years been a weapon in the corporate attack on working people. They literally write the anti-labor, anti-civil liberties legislation that conservative state legislators introduce in state general assemblies. Some dopey legislators have even forgotten to remove the ALEC logo from the bill before presenting it.
It has been funded by the biggest corporations in American, most specifically by the Koch brothers.
When it was discovered that they and the National Rifle Association were behind the Stand Your Ground and Kill laws that resulted in the Florida death of Trayvon Martin, public notice hit the tipping point. The last few days 
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Creating Safe Schools for LGBT Students — Whole Child Education

Creating Safe Schools for LGBT Students — Whole Child Education:


Creating Safe Schools for LGBT Students

by ASCD Whole Child Bloggers
ASCD Annual Conference
Post submitted by whole child blogger Christine Fisher, a senior majoring in journalism at Temple University.
When parents at one North Carolina school refused to return a library book that featured a gay main character, the issue drew mixed reactions and international attention. Some parents wrote to the school to ask that their child not be given access to the book. Conversely, others wrote to ask that their son or daughter read the text. Before the controversy settled down, 32 copies of the book were donated to the school's library, from as far away as Australia.

A teacher from that North Carolina school shared this story during Peter DeWitt's "Dignity for All: Safeguarding LGBT Students" session at the recent ASCD Annual Conference in Philadelphia, Pa.
DeWitt is a principal and national consultant in New York—a state seen as progressive for passing the Dignity for All Students Act, which requires that public schools safeguard all students from harassment and bullying. But Dewitt and fellow teachers know that when it comes to protecting LGBT students, there is room for improvement 
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Hechinger Report | Report highlights lagging Latino college achievement state by state

Hechinger Report | Report highlights lagging Latino college achievement state by state:


Report highlights lagging Latino college achievement state by state

by Nick Pandolfo
A student receives help at Bronx Community College in New York City (photo by Ryan Brenizer)
It’s no secret that the growing Latino population in America will have large implications for the U.S. educational landscape over the next generation. By 2020, Latinos are projected to account for 25 percent of the nation’s population aged 18-29. Government officials, policymakers and teachers alike face the challenge of improving the services and support provided to Latino students, particularly when it comes to increasing college completion rates. As of 2011, 21 percent of Latinos had an associate degree or higher, compared to 57 percent of Asians, 44 percent of whites and 30 percent of blacks.
“It is pretty clear in the data that our ability to educate Latino students and prepare them for [college] is a failed enterprise,” said Tony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, on a conference call yesterday about a new report on Latino college completion rates.
The report—by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit focused on how America can better serve Latino students—


Q&A with Patricia Gรกndara: Parents are greatest driver to improve Latino college graduation rates

by Nick Pandolfo
Patricia Gรกndara
Increasing educational attainment among Latino students—who are the fastest-growing ethnic group in the country, and who consistently lag behind their white and Asian peers in college completion—is a priority of many advocates and policymakers. Patricia Gรกndara, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, has been focused on this issue for decades. She recently spoke with The Hechinger Report about how we can better address low completion rates.
Q: Excelencia in Education released a report this week that included a state-by-state fact sheet on Latino achievement in higher education, which showed a ballooning younger Latino population that 
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Chicago parents win a round over better v longer school day « Parents Across America

Chicago parents win a round over better v longer school day « Parents Across America:


Chicago parents win a round over better v longer school day

by pureparents

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced yesterday that the district’s new longer school day will be 7 hours, not 7.5, as he had previously demanded. Though not the 6.5 hours that many parents have been asking for, this is clearly a major victory for the newly-formed coalition, Chicago Parents for Quality Education (of which PAA’s Chicago affiliate, Parents United for Responsible Education – PURE- is a member). CPQE started a petition driveagainst the 7.5 hour day and held a press conference to express parents’ opposition to the Mayor’s proposal, which started as a campaign slogan last spring.
Kudos to all the organizers who pulled together an impressive, diverse collection of parent and community groups who have had their fill of the arrogant, unresponsive, irresponsible 
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