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Friday, August 6, 2010

Quick Takes: Companies, Lawmakers, Gifts to Colleges - Inside Higher Ed

Quick Takes: Companies, Lawmakers, Gifts to Colleges - Inside Higher Ed

Companies, Lawmakers, Gifts to Colleges Rep. Charles B. Rangel is not the only lawmaker with a university program financed in part by gifts from companies with business before Congress, *The New York Times *reported. It said that nearly a dozen current or former lawmakers have such ...
Protest Sets Off Larger Debate Over Outsourced Cafeteria A student's protest at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, in British Columbia, has escalated into a larger debate over outsourcing and free speech. As part of a class project on "criminal criminology," the students handed out leaflets criticizing the ...
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Help for State Higher Ed

August 6, 2010

Agreement to provide $23 billion in federal Medicaid funds would shield colleges in states whose budgets counted on the money -- and mean increases for institutions elsewhere.
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Washed Up

August 6, 2010

Google Wave was supposed to be the most revolutionary Web 2.0 tool yet for higher ed. This week, Google pulled the plug. What happened?
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NCAA Grades Coaches

August 6, 2010

Organization now tracking how well teams' athletes perform in classroom under specific leaders.
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A Major Push on Advising

August 6, 2010

In attempt to raise graduation and retention rates, Portland State University adds slew of hires and changes requirements.
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Newly Tenured ... at Baldwin-Wallace, Roger Williams, Maine-Augusta

August 6, 2010

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City Sidesteps State Ruling to Expand Charter School - NYTimes.com

City Sidesteps State Ruling to Expand Charter School - NYTimes.com

Chancellor Declares Emergency to Sidestep State Ruling and Expand Charter School


By SHARON OTTERMAN

Published: August 5, 2010


Enlarge This ImageIt took almost six months for David M. Steiner, the state education commissioner, to decide that New York City had broken the law when it decided to take space from a program for autistic children on the Lower East Side and give it to an expanding charter school.
Chad Batka for The New York Times
Joel I. Klein, the chancellor, invoked emergency powers.

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It took less than two days for Joel I. Klein, the city schools chancellor, to say he would disregard the decision, at least temporarily.
On Wednesday, the chancellor announced he would use his little-known emergency powers, based in a clause in the State Education Law, to follow through with the city’s original

Exotic Deals Put Denver Schools Deeper in Debt

By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
DEFENDER OF THE DEAL Senator Michael F. Bennet of Colorado, above, who as superintendent of schools in 2008 recommended the financing, said no one could have predicted the financial crisis that caused it to go sour.
David Zalubowski/Associated Press
DEFENDER OF THE DEAL Senator Michael F. Bennet of Colorado, above, who as superintendent of schools in 2008 recommended the financing, said no one could have predicted the financial crisis that caused it to go sour.
Denver is now confronted with budgetary woes made worse by esoteric deals peddled before the credit crisis.

Corporate Money Aids Centers Linked to Lawmakers

By ERIC LIPTON
Nearly a dozen lawmakers have been honored by university endowments financed in part by corporations with business before Congress, posing some potential conflicts.

Senate Votes $26 Billion for States and Schools

By CARL HULSE
The money is to prevent the layoffs of tens of thousands of teachers and government workers. Senators also allocated $600 million to strengthen border security.
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Schools presenting risk of 'serious harm' get no relief | California Watch

Schools presenting risk of 'serious harm' get no relief | California Watch

Schools presenting risk of 'serious harm' get no relief

by Louis Freedberg
Successful schools inadvertently labeled as posing a risk of "serious harm" to their students' health, safety or "general welfare," as a result of an emergency declared by the State Board of Education, will get no relief from the state Legislature.
As I noted in a previous post, the State Board of Education has declared an emergency in 1,000 schools
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Great Presentation Advice! | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Great Presentation Advice! | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Great Presentation Advice! The Duarte blog has a great post about the presentation of a fifteenth century Italian architect. It’s titled Great Moments in Presentation History: The Architect and the Egg. Its focus is what they call S.T.A.R. Moments ™. This is how they define ...
Sharendipity Sharendipity lets you create online games that you can either link to or embed on your own site. It seems particularly easy to create a quick Word Search. I’m generally not a big fan of word searches, but they can have some value for Beginning ...
“Israel And Lebanon: Key dates in the Mideast neighbors’ conflicts” “Israel And Lebanon: Key dates in the Mideast neighbors’ conflicts” is the title of an Associated Press interactive. I’m adding it to The “Best” Resources For Learning About The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
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Parents find what they need and more at Mayor's Back-to-School Fair | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

Parents find what they need and more at Mayor's Back-to-School Fair | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

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Parents find what they need and more at Mayor's Back-to-School Fair



11:03 PM CDT on Thursday, August 5, 2010

By AVI SELK and MEREDITH MORIAK / The Dallas Morning News

They called it a fair, and it seemed to start out that way.
Mascots, jugglers and horses "bigger than teenagers," as one 8-year-old put it, entertained the thousands crammed into a corner of Fair Park on Thursday morning, awaiting entrance to a warehouse full of vendor booths.
"It felt like a carnival," said Linda Garcia, who waited in line that morning with her two small boys.
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School Tech Connect: Post-Mortem on Food Stamps

School Tech Connect: Post-Mortem on Food Stamps

Post-Mortem on Food Stamps

by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
Like I said yesterday, I'm mortified that I was gunning for the Edujobs bill without realizing that we paid for it with food stamps. Mea Culpa. I should have known, but here's what went down.

Like everyone else, I've been paying attention to David Obey, and I saw this article where he tells us that the Administration floated the food stamp idea rather than touching Race To Union Busting. I stopped following the thing at that point because I thought Obey had put

Who Could Have Known?

by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
In today's Times, there's a story about how the Denver schools bought a JP Morgan Chase derivative product to "plug the gap" in their pension system rather than issue traditional bonds. It failed, massively, what with nobody really understanding that derivatives were actually just other people's garbage bundled off by criminals.
Since it struck the deal, the school system has paid $115 million in interest and other fees, at least $25 million more than it originally anticipated.
Nice going! Anyway, here's the interesting part, and I'm just going to steal it with the
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Remainders: A new education film, “Race to Nowhere,” emerges | GothamSchools

Remainders: A new education film, “Race to Nowhere,” emerges | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: HS crowding is down but still severe, says IBO

by Philissa Cramer
  • High school crowding is down, but half of students still go to overcrowded schools. (Post, Daily News)
  • The emergency power Joel Klein claimed this week was given by last year’s mayoral control law. (Times)
  • A city school bus driver who also takes food to the homeless won a federal medal of honor. (AP)
  • Denver’s schools are deep in debt from a complicated financial deal meant to bail them out. (Times)
  • Early childhood education advocates say they were shut out of innovation fund winners. (Times)
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Schools Matter: Part 4 of a 3 Part Series

Schools Matter: Part 4 of a 3 Part Series

Part 4 of a 3 Part Series

by Kenneth Libby
This is the fourth installment of my 3-part series on charter management organizations (part 1, part 2,part 3). Maybe this should be called a post-script - I've only added it because part 3 came out as a dud due to the disappearance of comments from Tom Vander Ark's EdReformer blog.

Let me clarify a bit: I contacted EdReformer to find out what happened to the comments. They're claiming the comments were lost when they changed comment programs (from Disqus to something else), and I'm actually inclined to believe this statement. Could they recover the comments? Maybe. I'm going to act as though the removal wasn't done on purpose. It's an entirely different issue if they


The 15 for 15 Corrupt For Profits Named

by Jim Horn
From Inside Higher Ed:
Deceptive or Completely Questionable' Practices
Presenting the findings of the GAO investigation was Gregory D. Kutz, the office’s managing director of forensic audits and special investigations at the Government Accountability Office. In testimony made more powerful by the brief undercover video clips that punctuated it, Kutz detailed


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Thursday, August 5, 2010

NYC Public School Parents: Revised NYSED Grade 3-8 Math Exam Cut Scores: Say WHAT?

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NYC Public School Parents: Revised NYSED Grade 3-8 Math Exam Cut Scores: Say WHAT?

Revised NYSED Grade 3-8 Math Exam Cut Scores: Say WHAT?

by Steve Koss
NYS Education Commissioner David M. Steiner made waves last week by announcing a new, toughened regime for the state's annual Grade 3 - 8 standardized exams in Math and English Language Arts (ELA). Through an NYSED press release, Steiner assures the public that future exams and their "proficiency" (i.e., Level 3) cut scores will be set at a level to "indicate whether a student is on track to pass Regents exams and to go on to higher education prepared to do college-level work." As one mark of that new standard, aseparate NYSED press release defines the new Grade 8 cut score as "being set at a
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Schools Matter: The 15 for 15 Corrupt For Profits Named

Schools Matter: The 15 for 15 Corrupt For Profits Named

The 15 for 15 Corrupt For Profits Named

by Jim Horn
From Inside Higher Ed:
Deceptive or Completely Questionable' Practices
Presenting the findings of the GAO investigation was Gregory D. Kutz, the office’s managing director of forensic audits and special investigations at the Government Accountability Office. In testimony made more powerful by the brief undercover video clips that punctuated it, Kutz detailed “deceptive or completely questionable” practices at all 15 institutions.
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Children's Literacy Initiative gets $21 million federal innovation grant | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Children's Literacy Initiative gets $21 million federal innovation grant | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Children's Literacy Initiative gets $21 million federal innovation grant

by Dale Mezzacappa on Aug 05 2010

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Philadelphia-based Children's Literacy Initiativeis one of 49 winners of so-called i3 grants from the U.S. Department of Education, awarded to school districts and non-profit organizations to promote educational innovation.
CLI, as it is known, has worked for more than 20 years to train teachers, caregivers and child care workers to in how to create literature-rich environments and promote reading skills in the youngest children. Even before getting a foothold in the School District, it worked with the Philadelphia Housing Authority and individual child care providers, often grandmothers or informal neighborhood centers, to run workshops and
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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Chicago Math and Science Academy

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Chicago Math and Science Academy

Chicago Math and Science Academy

by The Perimeter Primate
NOTE: The Chicago Math and Science Academy is one of the 19 Gulen charter schools operated by Concept Schools. The CEO of Concept is Sedat Duman, the VP is Salim Ucan, the principal of CMSA is Ali Yilmaz. Click here to see the school's listing of Turkish activities and watch the video of CMSA students demonstrating their Turkish skills at the 2008 regional Turkish Olympiad held in Columbus, Ohio (as presented by Samanyolu, a Gulenist Turkish TV station), below.


PRESS RELEASE FROM THE CHICAGO ALLIANCE OF CHARTER TEACHERS AND STAFF:
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