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Big Education Ape: 5-4-12 AM The results are in! There’s too much testing EDition #soschat

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Thank You, Governor Dayton « Diane Ravitch's blog

dianeravitch.net - Public school teachers have endured three years of sustained attacks, since Race to the Top unleashed the nutty idea that student scores on standardized tests are the key to teacher quality. This w...
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Educators, parents fight testing system

kxan.com - AUSTIN (KXAN) - It is testing time for Central Texas students required to pass the state's new standardized State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness -- or STAAR -- test. KXAN News got a rar...
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Joseph A. Palermo: Protesting Students, Striking Faculty

huffingtonpost.com - As the student loan debt in the United States surpasses $1 trillion for the first time in the nation's history, thirteen courageous students from six California State University campuses will be en...
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G.O.P. Leaders in City Seek Candidate for Mayor

nytimes.com - Saying that the likely Democratic candidates for mayor are too liberal for the average New York voter, the city’s five Republican county chairmen said Wednesday that they wanted to identify by the ...
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Illinois voters will decide pension question this fall

chicagotribune.com - House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton, seen in February, sponsored a constitutional amendment asking voters if it should be tougher to increase government employee pensi...
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School Tech Connect: The Waterbug

schooltechconnect.com - I heart Medea Benjamin from Code Pink. I'm going to flat-out steal and post a very short clip from Democracy Now where Medea Benjamin shows how it's done when you need to make an unpopular point. I...
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Love Lessons: What Does Love Look Like? | Maria Shriver

mariashriver.com - Love Lessons: What Does Love Look Like? By Michelle KennedyFor our second date, Byron suggested a hike through Runyon Canyon. We’d enjoyed a nice dinner the week before, and I looked forward to get...
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A visit to the Governor’s Office. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Fifty on the bus for eight hours to Springfield and back. More drove down.  In preparation for our IEA Region’s occupation of Springfield, I had called ahead last week to Governor Quinn’s office. Q...
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Kim Kardashian tapes Armenian genocide PSA for Glendale

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Kim Kardashian –- who recently made headlines after she said she wanted to run for mayor of Glendale –- has also taped a public service announcement for the city's official commemoration of the Arm...
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“50 Most Beautiful” Issue of PEOPLE en Español 2012

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 10:39 am EST, May 3, 2012 This year’s new “50 Most Beautiful” issue of PEOPLE en Español, highlights some of today’s most popular names in Hispanic entertainment.The cover features eig...
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Nearly 800 Joliet Caterpillar workers on strike

abclocal.go.com - May 1, 2012 (JOLIET, Ill.) (WLS) -- Hundreds of hourly workers are off the job and on the picket line at the Caterpillar hydraulics plant in Joliet. About 800 workers are on strike. But the company...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: When It Rains, It Pours

An Urban Teacher's Education: When It Rains, It Pours:


When It Rains, It Pours

by James Boutin

Having gone to school in a middle-class community, and having been placed in classes with similarly-motivated peers, my first year teaching in a low-income school caught me off-guard in lots of ways. That only three or four of my students would do the homework I assigned; that the consequences I assigned for coming late were generally greeted with apathy; that I only met three parents on open-house night....all of those things astonished me.

I think we generally blow over the vast differences that exist between schools in our national education debate. As many erudite observers have noted, the problem with education in the United States is NOT that we don't know how to do it; the problem is that we're unwilling to do it for everyone. Public education is stillcatastrophically inequitable.

On a daily basis, I am reminded of the myriad ways the students I teach are disadvantaged. I am, however, far less often cognizant of the widespread public ignorance regarding schools like mine and the challenges they face.

Students coming from low-income urban communities generally receive a vastly inferior quality of education for 
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New York State: Release the tests! « JD2718

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New York State: Release the tests!

by jd2718
New York State contracted with Pearson to produce what now appear to be flawed tests. The problem starts before that:  New York State, not a for-profit company, should be writing the tests (if we really need them at all), and the tests should be written for the students of NY State, not in order to make a fast buck.
But now we all know about the pineapple race. And have heard that there were other problems.
And today I have a new one. But I can’t share it with you. I don’t know exactly what it is. But on the 7th grade math test, Pearson asked a question that’s not a 7th grade math question in New York State. It’s not a k – 6 math question either.
Apparently it involves angles inside a parallelogram, or angles formed when a third line crosses two parallel lines. How hard are parallelogram questions? Not so hard. If you have studied them. But NY State puts out a very specific roadmap of stuff to teach. Grade by grade. And there’s so much in there, most schools stick pretty close to it, so that the kids will be familiar with everything on the test. Extra topics that are due to be taught in

 

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