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Conrad Black granted bail - thestar.com

Former Hollinger International CEO Conrad Black pictured on June 27, 2007.Tasos Katopodis/Getty file photoJasmeet Sidhu and Emily MathieuStaff ReportersFormer media baron Conrad Black was granted b...

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The Fixer: Bus shelter has roof with a view

A transit shelter on the southwest corner of Don Mills Rd. and Gateway Blvd. has a huge hole in its roof, which makes standing inside it a soggy experience on a rainy day.JACK LAKEY/TORONTO STARA t...

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Eduwonk � Blog Archive � Let’s Do The Time Warp Again!

Eduwonk � Blog Archive � Let’s Do The Time Warp Again!

Let’s Do The Time Warp Again!

by arotherham

Turning around low performing articles…
I woke up today and thought it was 2004, when this blog first launched. There in The New York Times was a Michael Winerip story that, well, left a few things out. Read the story but the basic take is that federal turnaround policy is forcing a great principal out of a good school.
Russo grabs three pieces of low-hanging fruit: Is a really excellent principal representative of the overall landscape of persistently under-performing schools? The last line of the story indicates the principal isn’t actually being fired but is rather taking over the district’s school improvement work. Seems fishy? But most obvious: Federal law doesn’t hold schools accountable for the performance of students they haven’t had a least a

Long Gates

by arotherham

Businessweek takes a long and analytic look at The Gates Foundation and education.

City backs away from sweeping contract plan after Liu protests | GothamSchools

City backs away from sweeping contract plan after Liu protests | GothamSchools

City backs away from sweeping contract plan after Liu protests

by Maura Walz

Protests from Comptroller John Liu have promted the city to scrap a proposal that would have let it enter into certain contracts without individual approval from the citywide school board.
Since the state legislature voted last summer to extend Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s control over the city schools, the Panel for Educational Policy has been required to approve all contracts worth more than $1 million

Remainders: In the salary wars, Joel Klein beats David Paterson

by Anna Phillips

• Chancellor Joel Klein is making a lot more money than Governor David Paterson. (Politics K-12)
• The city wants the Panel for Educational Policy to give up some of its limited power. (City Room, GS)
• How did the Columbus Secondary School principal get tenure if principal tenure doesn’t exist? (Chaz)
• Rotherham thanks the Times’ NCLB-forced-out-a-good-principal story is simplistic. (Eduwonk)
• Valerie Grey is the State Education Department’s new COO. (NYSED)
• Doug Lemov describes great teachers as great problem-solvers. (Flypaper, Education Next)
• Head Start programs could be in for a rude awakening, funding-wise. (Early Ed Watch)
• NBC’s Education Nation convention is public-service meets marketing. (Sacramento Bee)
• A Berkeley playwright is making a school board the setting for a culture war. (Times)
• Charter schools may be hurting middle-class kids’ scores because they don’t focus on tests. (Flypaper)

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: WEB DuBois Academy

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: WEB DuBois Academy

WEB DuBois Academy TWO CHARTER SCHOOLS FACE CLOSURE, June 17, 2010, Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer Two local charter schools, East End Community Heritage School in Bond Hill and W.E.B. DuBois Academy in Over-the-Rhine, are on a watch list" to be shut down due to poor ...

Education Research Report: How New York City's New Small Schools Are Boosting Student Achievement and Graduation Rates

Education Research Report: How New York City's New Small Schools Are Boosting Student Achievement and Graduation Rates

How New York City's New Small Schools Are Boosting Student Achievement and Graduation Rates Ω Since 2002, New York City has closed more than 20 underperforming public high schools, opened more than 200 new secondary schools, and introduced a centralized high school admissions process in which approximately 80,000 students a year indicate ...

K-12 Education in Philadelphia Undergoing Dramatic Change A comprehensive new study from The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Philadelphia Research Initiative finds that K-12 education in Philadelphia is undergoing a sweeping transformation that has given parents a new array of choices about where to send their ...


K-12 Education in Philadelphia Undergoing Dramatic Change A comprehensive new study from The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Philadelphia Research Initiative finds that K-12 education in Philadelphia is undergoing a sweeping transformation that has given parents a new array of choices about where to send their ...

The Washington Teacher: Why Not Blame DC's Teachers ?

The Washington Teacher: Why Not Blame DC's Teachers ?

Why Not Blame DC's Teachers ?

by The Wash. Teacher

Are the winds changing under Chancellor Michelle Rhee ? Given the recent announcement of low standardized test scores on the elementary level in DCPS, Efavorite poses some interesting questions for us to consider.

Written by Efavorite, guest writer

Have you noticed that Chancellor Rhee has not pointed the finger of blame at

openSUSE Education 11.3 - still not there yet | ZDNet

openSUSE Education 11.3 - still not there yet | ZDNet

openSUSE Education 11.3 - still not there yet

By Christopher Dawson | July 18, 2010, 11:18pm PDT

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Is it openSUSE or their educational package that’s the problem? Hardware and installer issues certainly suggest that the problem lies with Novell, not a hugely dedicated group who wants students to have access to the best FOSS available.

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I really wanted to love the latest version of openSUSE’s education-oriented distribution, Li-F-E (Linux For Education). It was released this weekend, alongside version 11.3 of the main openSUSE distribution, and was incredibly promising with a host of great features. Ultimately, though, it was let down by poor hardware support and a glitchy installer that left me anxious to switch back to Ubuntu.

openSUSE is Novell’s community-driven, free Linux distribution. It’s powerful, fast, and feature-rich. Layer on a group of super-smart, completely dedicated educators/developers/volunteers who run the Education group and it would seem that you have a recipe for success. According to the group’s website,

The Penn State Problem � The Quick and the Ed

The Penn State Problem � The Quick and the Ed

The Penn State Problem

by Erin Dillon

Ben posted last week on what I think of as the “Penn State Problem”. It’s a problem that only data nerds would spend much time thinking about, but it actually matters for parents and students. And it is important for the one, small piece of accountability (cohort default rates) that we have in our higher education system.
Ben does a good job of describing the problem in his post. I wanted to illustrate the problem with a couple charts, using Penn State as an example.
Penn State likes to think of all of its campuses as part of one, large, happy family and reports data to the Office of Postsecondary Education this way. As a result, it reports one student loan default rate–3.5%–for all of its 23

Eduwonk � Blog Archive � Long Gates

Eduwonk � Blog Archive � Long Gates

Long Gates

by arotherham

Businessweek takes a long and analytic look at The Gates Foundation and education.

Cut Ups

by arotherham

It would be nice to think New York is the only state with this problem, but it’s not. A lot of states have been using sleight of hand on tests and proficiency rates to make themselves look better than they are. It’s part of the whole pathology in education governance around looking good rather than doing well.
You’re hearing a lot of excited chatter about how common standards will make this problem go away. That’s

45,000 Fewer Students and 7,800 More Teachers | Intercepts

45,000 Fewer Students and 7,800 More Teachers | Intercepts

45,000 Fewer Students and 7,800 More Teachers

by Mike Antonucci

Click here to read:
1) 45,000 Fewer Students and 7,800 More Teachers
2) NEA Reduces Media Fund Spending for State Affiliates
3) Last Week’s Intercepts
4) Quote of the Week

Announcing "Race to the Top": the reality show NYC Public School Parents

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Announcing "Race to the Top": the reality show

by Leonie Haimson

Inspired by a recent news account of the firing of a popular principal, the US Department of Education has announced a new reality show, to be co-produced by the Gates Foundation and aired this fall on MSNBC, called “Race to the Top.”



Each week will feature three inner-city public schools, with large numbers of immigrant, poor, homeless and/or special education students.


These three schools will then compete before a panel of judges, who will decide whether the principal should be fired

My high school experience, the second time around | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

My high school experience, the second time around | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

My high school experience, the second time around

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This week's guest blog post is from Tony Franklin, a Microsoft employee who wrote about his experience with School of the Future.

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I graduated from a Harrisburg high school in 1991. Like many graduates before me, I walked out the doors for the final time, thankful to be out of there. So, imagine my surprise when, 15 years later, I’m asked by my employer, Microsoft to go back to high school.

In 2003, Microsoft and the Philadelphia School District entered into a partnership to design a public high school in West Philadelphia, the heart of one of

Thursday at Michigan and Wacker. Support hotel workers. � Fred Klonsky's blog

Thursday at Michigan and Wacker. Support hotel workers. � Fred Klonsky's blog

Thursday at Michigan and Wacker. Support hotel workers.

by preaprez

This Thursday hotel workers, food service workers, and airport workers in fourteen cities from Honolulu to Boston will engage in civil disobedience to draw attention to their — and others’ — struggles for decent wages and working conditions. Along with other community supporters, I will be with UniteHere Local 1 members in

Guilty Plea Entered in Obama Student Loan Case | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Weather | Local News

Guilty Plea Entered in Obama Student Loan Case | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Weather | Local News

Guilty Plea Entered in Obama Student Loan Case

Story Created: Jul 19, 2010 at 11:46 AM CDT

Story Updated: Jul 19, 2010 at 11:46 AM CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Another person accused of viewing President Barack Obama's student loan records at a U.S. Department of Education contractor in Iowa has pleaded guilty.

Patrick Roan pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor. The Iowa City man is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 12.

He was one of nine people indicted on charges of accessing Obama's student loan records while they were employed at Vangent Inc. in Coralville.

A telephone message left for Roan's attorney wasn't immediately returned. Court records did not

At long last, state offers evidence that test standards are low | GothamSchools

At long last, state offers evidence that test standards are low | GothamSchools

At long last, state offers evidence that test standards are low

by Anna Phillips

In recent years, teachers, principals, parents, and much of the city’s press have met the annual unveiling of climbing test scores with increased skepticism, if not

This Week In Education: Thompson: What Statisticians Whisper

This Week In Education: Thompson: What Statisticians Whisper

Thompson: What Statisticians Whisper

by john thompson

Over at the National Journal's education blog, Kati Haycock defined an effective teacher as an angel bending over a blade of grass who "whispers, ‘Grow, grow.’" Somewhere, I imagine, there must be statisticians sitting at their desks whispering to their growth models, "be good enough, good enough." Reformers have caused a huge mess for the Obama Administration because they raced ahead with the