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Nat'l anti-bullying group blasts anti-gay rant Education Week: From the Wires

Education Week: From the Wires

FROM THE WIRES

Federal Government Sets Stricter Rules on For-Profit Colleges
For-profit colleges are facing new federal regulations designed to stop some of the questionable marketing and sales tactics that have plagued the industry.
October 29, 2010
Ark. Board Member Who Posted Anti-Gay Rant to Quit
October 29, 2010
Oregon Adopts National Core Standards
October 29, 2010
Fed money supports Extended Learning Opportunities
October 29, 2010
N.J. Governor Names Teacher Evaluation Task Force
October 29, 2010
Ill. Schools Fall Further Behind Federal Standards
October 29, 2010
Ala school board considers change to ethics rule
October 29, 2010
Nat'l anti-bullying group blasts anti-gay rant
October 28, 2010
Va. Sets Pass Rates for Reading, Math
October 28, 2010
Kansas names deputy education commissioner
October 28, 2010
Report: Many Conn. students not ready for college
October 28, 2010
Big money raised in Wyoming superintendent race
October 28, 2010
Fifth-grader suspended for toy gun at school
October 28, 2010
Passing rate on SC exit exam improves
October 28, 2010
Taxpayers paid $9M for NY teachers' cosmetic work
October 28, 2010
Are Texting and Facebook Worse for Teens Than TV?
October 28, 2010
Family, teacher settle cross branding suit
October 28, 2010
Boston School Card Program Raises Privacy Concerns
October 28, 2010
Group gets $30 million for charter schools
October 28, 2010
College Tuition Costs Climbing Again This Fall
October 28, 2010
5 Maine Gov. Candidates Discuss Education at Debate
October 28, 2010
NCAA athletes improve overall graduation rates
October 28, 2010
Atlanta Schools Could Lose Accreditation
October 28, 2010
Lawsuit Accuses Union Adviser of Risky Investments
October 28, 2010
Watchdog: Education Foundations Not Doing Enough
October 28, 2010

Obama Plays Cheerleading Role for STEM Education

While most observers believe the president’s interest in the topic is genuine, some say his advocacy carries political benefits as well. (October 29, 2010)

Bill Would Offer Vouchers for Disabled Military Children

A pilot $5 million tuition-voucher program is among several items in the defense-spending bill that are intended to improve schooling for children with special needs from military families. (October 29, 2010)

Studies Find Benefits in Students Teaching Virtual Pupils

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Federal Government Sets Stricter Rules on For-Profit Colleges

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COLLEGE BOUND BLOG

3 Leaders Share Ideas for Preparing Students for College Success

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BUDGET AND FINANCE

English teacher Emma Saucedo, left, helps Ashlee Underwood during class at Sunnyside High School in Sunnyside, Wash., in March. The district will share a $1.1 million grant with two other districts to build better supports for students in their three high schools and four feeder middle schools.
—Andy Sawyer/Yakima Herald-Republic

Education Department Beefs Up Graduation Funding

States and districts are expected to use the nearly $50 million on dropout-prevention methods research shows to be more effective.(October 27, 2010) | Comments (2)

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Law Expert Proposes School Discipline Policies for Mobile Misuse

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Students accused of secretly recording Tyler Clementi withdraw from Rutgers | NJ.com

Students accused of secretly recording Tyler Clementi withdraw from Rutgers | NJ.com

Students accused of secretly recording Tyler Clementi withdraw from Rutgers

Published: Friday, October 29, 2010, 8:40 AM Updated: Friday, October 29, 2010, 8:46 AM
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molly-wei-dharun-ravi.jpgYearbook photosDharun Ravi and Molly Wei, both Rutgers students, are charged in connection with broadcasting a sexual encounter involving Ravi's roommate Tyler Clementi. Clementi later killed himself.
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One of the two students accused of secretly using a webcam to watch Tyler Clementi in an intimate encounter with another man has withdrawn from the university because of concerns for her safety, the student’s attorney said tonight.

Rubin Sinins said Molly Wei, 18, wrote to the university and asked to "withdraw without prejudice" after Clementi’s death.

"She is a student in good standing, has not been convicted of anything but had concerns for her safety," he said.

Wei e-mailed professors to get assignments and continued her courses in the days after Clementi committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. But the freshman pharmacy major eventually withdrew from Rutgers and may apply to other schools, longtime friends Scott Xu and Sean Yan said.

N.J. college students' tuition bills continue to rise despite increased financial aid

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By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger

October 28, 2010, 7:55PM
N.J. 2-year colleges charge an average of $322 more than U.S. average Full story »
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Gov. Christie appoints task force to revamp N.J. teacher evaluations

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By Rohan Mascarenhas/The Star-Ledger

October 28, 2010, 4:51PM
NJEA, the state's largest teacher union, did not get a seat on the 9-member panel Full story »

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Collaborate with charters — Joanne Jacobs

Collaborate with charters — Joanne Jacobs

Collaborate with charters

by Joanne

Columbus City Schools (Ohio) is renting an empty school site, but charter schools need not apply, writes Stephanie Groce, vice president of the school board. “The administration explained to me that they do not want to lease that building to any school that might compete for students with Columbus schools.” Learn to collaborate, Groce writes in the Columbus Dispatch.

Tucked away in a church in the Weinland Park neighborhood, just a few blocks from the vacant building, is Columbus Collegiate Academy, a public charter school that outperforms every middle school in Columbus City Schools. On its most recent report card, 100 percent of seventh-grade students scored proficient or better in math, a feat that none of our middle schools can claim. The students served by the academy are 94 percent economically disadvantaged and 81 percent

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Another Comment on the School Levy | Seattle Education 2010

Another Comment on the School Levy | Seattle Education 2010

Another Comment on the School Levy

by seattleducation2010

Another comment on the levy from an anonymous source. And no, it’s not me!

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Failing. � Fred Klonsky's blog

Failing. � Fred Klonsky's blog

Failing.

by Fred Klonsky

The email arrived from the superintendent yesterday afternoon.

Our district failed to make Annual Yearly Progress according to No Child Left Behind.

Yes.

We are a failing district.

Our students go on to Maine South in District 207. I hear they didn’t make AYP either.

And New Trier High School on the North Shore, with a college acceptance rate of over 98% and where they spend over $25,000 a year per student: Failure according to NCLB.

Will our school (among the top 50 performing elementary schools in the state) be closed? Will I be fired along with the rest of our staff. Will Arne Duncan and President Obama support our firing explaining that we are teachers who accept low expectations.

Will be featured in a new documentary financed by Bill Gates?

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“The Flight of a Butterfly” or “The Flight of a Bullet”: The Impossible Dream of Transforming Teaching into a Science � Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

“The Flight of a Butterfly” or “The Flight of a Bullet”: The Impossible Dream of Transforming Teaching into a Science � Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

“The Flight of a Butterfly” or “The Flight of a Bullet”: The Impossible Dream of Transforming Teaching into a Science

by larrycuban

According to many policymakers and researchers, teaching should be more like the “flight of a bullet” rather than the “flight of a butterfly.”* Using the latest social science findings, they are determined to re-engineer teaching to make it more efficient, less wasteful, and far more effective than ever before. Behind the current passion among policymakers and politicians for using test scores to evaluate teacher performance (and pay higher salaries) is the current “science” of value-added measures (VAM) that leans heavily upon the work of William Sanders. But these smart officials have ignored the long march that researchers have slogged through in the past century.

Before William Sanders, there was Franklin Bobbitt in the 1920s, Ralph Tyler and Benjamin Bloom in the 1950s, Nathaniel Gage in the 1970s and 1980s, and many other researchers. These scholars believed that teaching can be rational and predictable through scientifically engineering classrooms; they rejected the notion that teaching can be unpredictable and uncertain–”the flight of a butterfly.”

In How To Make a Curriculum (1924),Franklin Bobbitt listed 160 “educational objectives” that teachers should pursue in teaching children such as “the ability to use language …required for proper and effective participation in

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This Week In Education: AM News: "Residency" Programs For New Teachers Growing Up

This Week In Education: AM News: "Residency" Programs For New Teachers Growing Up

AM News: "Residency" Programs For New Teachers Growing Up

by Alexander Russo

News2Chamber of Commerce Backing Anti-Ed. Dept. Candidates Politics K12: My guess? I think education probably is really important to the Chamber, but, after doing a careful calculus, they decided that other things were more important, like revamping the new health care law, which they aren't fans of... In Sharp Rise, 47 City Schools May Close Over Performance NYT: Decisions on closings will be made by mid-December, and closings will be done by phasing out a grade each year... In Long Beach, a promise to help struggling students AP: An innovative system of help centers aims to give students extra support in such courses as math and English to ensure that they stay in college and eventually move on to four-year programs... Michelle Rhee outspoken to the end Washington Post: She is D.C. schools chancellor for just one more day, but that didn't stop Michelle A. Rhee from issuing one last warning Thursday, this one to ineffective teachers and the undergraduate education programs that granted them degrees. [ALSO: Rhee shared her views on CNN.]... Standards for Teacher 'Residency' Programs Teacher Beat: Endorsing the residency approach is one thing, but there are some hefty implications for the larger teacher ed. field, too. Will it be responsive to the idea of less emphasis on coursework, on the collection of things like value-added data and other outcomes-based measures?

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Schools Exploit Girls Who Report Sexual Assault | Education | Change.org

Schools Exploit Girls Who Report Sexual Assault | Education | Change.org

Schools Exploit Girls Who Report Sexual Assault

by Rose Garrett

Ah, school. A place to enrich the mind, strengthen the body, and … get used as rape bait by your teachers?

School should be a safe space for all, and victims of sexual assault are certainly no exception. But a rash of stories detailing how girls are not only assaulted by schoolmates, but taken advantage of by their schools, present a troubling truth: some schools are not only failing to keep students safe, they are putting them in harm’s way.

Take the case of a 14-year-old girl who had been repeatedly sexually harassed at her Alabama middle school. A

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