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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

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Top 20 K-12 Schools | Green Power Partnership

epa.gov -   The Top 20 K-12 Schools list represents the largest green power users among K-12 school partners within the Green Power Partnership. The combined green power use of these organizations amounts to...
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Burbank instructor is named National Teacher of the Year

latimes.com - Though she was raised by two teachers, Rebecca Mieliwocki never figured she'd end up in front of a classroom. She first aspired to be a lawyer, then worked in publishing. Unfulfilled, she decided t...
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National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing

timeoutfromtesting.org - As of right now, 62 organizations have signed on to the Resolution on High Stakes Testing. The signatory organizations are listed below. back to the ResolutionNational Center for Fair & Open Testin...
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who is next « Diane Ravitch's blog

dianeravitch.net - New “blueprint” for Philadelphia calls for closing of 40 public schools of the city’s 249. They will be replaced by charters. With more to be closed in the years ahead. Similar shutdowns of public ...
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Old superintendents. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - I got a call yesterday from Dr. Fred. About ten years ago and for about ten years before that he was our district’s superintendent. In case you haven’t noticed, I’m not a great fan of administrator...
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why release test items? « Diane Ravitch's blog

dianeravitch.net - A reader said it would be expensive to release all test items as the test publishers would have to spend lots more money creating new ones. Actually there is another way to think about all this. Re...
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why release test items? « Diane Ravitch's blog

dianeravitch.net - A reader said it would be expensive to release all test items as the test publishers would have to spend lots more money creating new ones. Actually there is another way to think about all this. Re...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the First Lady For Immediate Release April 24, 2012 Century Link Center Omaha, Nebraska 12:31 P.M. CDT MRS. OBAMA:  Oh, wow.  Thank you all so much.  (Applause.)  Thank yo...
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Listen to WRHU - WRHU Radio Hofstra University 88.7 fm

hofstra.edu - Click below to tune in to a live webcast of Radio Hofstra University!E-mail us to report problems with the WRHU.org webcast.The broadcasters of tomorrow are at Hofstra today! Radio Hofstra Universi...
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Bruce Springsteen’s Appeal to Conscience « InterACT

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Bruce Springsteen’s Appeal to Conscience « InterACT: Bruce Springsteen’s Appeal to Conscienceby David B. CohenBruce Springsteen (image by GabboT, used by permission, via Flickr)Tonight, I’ll be amo...
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Procter & Gamble Becomes 13th Company To Drop ALEC

thinkprogress.org - Joining a dozen other major corporations, Procter & Gamble decided not to rejoin the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) this year, according to a statement from Color Of Change, which lau...
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Pineapple Rebellion in full swing

illinoisntu.ning.com - The N.Y. Times reports:   Anti-testing activists have taken up the cudgel, saying that the passage and the multiple-choice questions associated with it perfectly illustrate the absurdity of standar...
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Pearson | Always Learning

pearsoned.com - September 15, 2011.  Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, is announcing today the acquisition of Connections Education from an investor group led by Apollo Management, L.P. Through its Co...
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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: MUD BARON PLANTS WHAT HE PREACHES

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: MUD BARON PLANTS WHAT HE PREACHES:


MUD BARON PLANTS WHAT HE PREACHES

BY MARY MACVEAN, LOS ANGELES TIMES …BUT FROM THE KANSAS CITY STAR! | HTTP://BIT.LY/JMBHVE

Tue, Apr. 24, 2012 07:05 AM -- LOS ANGELES  ::   It's not easy to keep pace with the youth gardening evangelist Mud Baron - in the real world or the virtual one.
To keep up, you need to relentlessly advocate for schoolyard gardens full of food and flowers. You need to be a constant presence on Twitter. (He has more than 24,000 followers.) You need to schlep all over Southern California to collect seeds. And you need to be willing to make people mad, to push teenagers to get dirty and to nudge companies to make donations.
A bearded, baggy-pants-wearing Baron might quote Cicero, Lou Reed, Jonathan Swift or Wynton Marsalis to make a point. But he's also not above poop jokes born of the manure that feeds the gardens.
Rarely without pruners in his pocket, Baron is a rabble-rousing master gardener with a florist's touch. Or, as he likes to say, he has tattoos of Cornel West and Martha Stewart on his behind. (His girlfriend says that's not literally true.)
No school garden should fail for lack of stuff, he says, so he rustles up seeds, worm castings, compost, bulbs. Black plastic sheets from a film set become mulch liners. Last year, he says, he raised $5 million in in-kind donations.
Essentially unemployed - or at least without a regular paycheck - he works a few days a week with students at John Muir High in Pasadena, Calif., building a garden on 11/3 acres. He also spends time at a Los Angeles Unified School District science center in 
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All Things Education: Housing Policy & Educational Opportunity: Some Notes

All Things Education: Housing Policy & Educational Opportunity: Some Notes:


Housing Policy & Educational Opportunity: Some Notes

by Rachel Levy
Today I had the pleasure of being a panelist in Richmond at HOME's (Housing Opportunities Made Equal)Blogger Luncheon on Housing & Opportunity. Besides being treated to a tasty lunch (& free parking!) I got to listen to and partake in interesting conversations about Richmond Metro Area housing, public and mass transportation, families, parenting, entrepreneurship, politics, democratic process and institutions, social media, real estate, communities, and, of course, education. Here I'm going to summarize what I shared there, including links.

Three ways I could think of that housing influences educational opportunities and outcomes are:

1) Housing conditions, meaning the conditions and environment that students and their families live in. Such 
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Florida’s Education Commissioner Scoffs at Widespread Opposition to Testing | Scathing Purple Musings

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Florida’s Education Commissioner Scoffs at Widespread Opposition to Testing

by Bob Sikes
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With the number of parents organizing opposition to high-stakes testing mushrooming across the nation, Florida’s education commissioner shrugged:
“I don’t pretend anxiety doesn’t exist. … I don’t make a value judgment on whether we have too many tests, because the question I have is, compared to what? But what I will say is that there are through rule things that we can do to soften what is happening,” Robinson said. “The number of tests probably won’t change. What can we do to soften or put in some safety guards to deal 
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NYC Public School Parents: Noah Gotbaum on the SUNY charter committee's decision to table the hike in fees of Success Academy charter today

NYC Public School Parents: Noah Gotbaum on the SUNY charter committee's decision to table the hike in fees of Success Academy charter today:


Noah Gotbaum on the SUNY charter committee's decision to table the hike in fees of Success Academy charter today

by Leonie Haimson


The SUNY committee decided to table the motion to double the fees of Eva Moskowitz's controversial charter network, probably because of a dynamitecolumn by Juan Gonzalez today.  Here is the account of what happened by Noah Gotbaum, chair of the Overcrowding and Charter Committee of Community Education Council in District 3. 
There was no discussion before the Committee decided to table the motion to double the management fees of Success Academy network.  Ken O’Brien (SUNY Charter Committee Chair) just came in, called the meeting to order and then said that the Committee was “tabling” the fee portion of the merger resolution and that the rest would be discussed and voted on later in the meeting.   
In addition to the Committee and Charter Schools Institute reps Ralph Rossi and Susan Baker-Miller, about 30 others in the room in the room included a half dozen from Success (Jenny Sedlis , legal counsel from Paul Weiss, usual parents), Lindsay Christ (NY1) and Ben Chapman (Daily News), and two dozen from our side, including Jim Devor and many from New York 
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