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blog.nj.com - 2008 Associated Press file photoEducation Secretary Arne Duncan, left, with President Obama shortly before they took office, says charter schools and outside philanthropy are important parts of imp...

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laststand4children.blogspot.com - You may have noticed that we have not been as active in this blog lately. I would like to apologize for that, but we have had a hard time promoting our reform group. The problem is innovative ref...

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washingtonpost.com - This post was written by Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun P rofessor of Education at Stanford University, where she was founding director of the National Commission on Teaching and Americ...

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blogs.hbr.org - Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University.One o...

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laurencejarvikonline.blogspot.com - Someone I know sent me this post from our local listserv about DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee. I thought it expressed the issues at stake in DC rather well. In addition to appealing to local r...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Trying to Balance Coercion, Inspiration & Facilitation | Lefty ParentTrying to Balance Coercion, Inspiration & Facilitationby Cooper ZaleDerry, another member of our Alternative Education Resource ...

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michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Gen Tata & Palin"I'm talking about diversity sir," ABC11 I-Team reporter Jon Camp said."I'm talking about achievement," Tata replied. -- ABC News According to the Washington Post, the Wake County ...

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laprogressive.com - “More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began,” Michelle Alexander told a standing room only house at the Pasadena ...

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pressdemocrat.com - Published: Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 4:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, April 1, 2011 at 4:24 p.m. Citing the mounting cost and ill-defined goals of American military action in Libya, Rep. Lynn Woolse...

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news.yahoo.com - By RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press Richard Lardner, Associated Press – 25 mins ago WASHINGTON – The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says the U.S. and its allies need to know much mor...

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kochwatch.org - April 2, 2011- This is huge. Police and firefighter unions have been aligned with Republican candidates for a long time, and even the callous treatment of 9/11 workers wasn't enough to turn them ag...

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schooltechconnect.com - Setting aside politics and policy for a moment---- I was doing a little thinking about basic "digital storytelling" today, and as usual, I came up with more questions than answers. I work with a lo...

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preaprez.wordpress.com - For over a dozen years we have had a tradition at my school. We do it on the last records/planning day in June. The kids are off and the teachers are doing report cards and getting ready for the en...

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huffingtonpost.com - The 2011 international James Dyson Award has issued a call for entries, starting on April 5, 2011. The award program challenges young engineers and designers to develop problem solving inventions a...

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suntimes.com - Chaz Ebert, president of Ebert Productions and executive producer of “Ebert Presents At the Movies,” clutches the Celestial Award. She was joined by her husband Roger Ebert. | Scott Stewart~Sun-Tim...

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defendwisconsin.org - – April 4, 2011Posted in: Blog Liam Gerner, a singer-songwriter from Australia, just shared a song with us that is a perfect listen as you get ready for today’s MLK commemoration. Gerner wrote this...

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lbo-news.com - Reading Diane Ravtich’s excellent takedown of (private school grad and college dropout) Bill Gates for his interventions in public education reminded me that the only reason people listen to him is...

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heraldsun.com.au - CONSUMER prices rose to a 14-month high in March, driven by rises in the escalating cost of food and petroleum products, brought about by disasters in Queensland and the civil war in Libya. The TD ...

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democracynow.org - Clashes are underway in Libya’s eastern oil of town of Brega as rebel fighters try to reverse the momentum of forces loyal to Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi. The rebels are said to have made ga...

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WikiLeaks files detail U.S. unease over Turks and charter schools | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/04/2011

WikiLeaks files detail U.S. unease over Turks and charter schools

By Martha Woodall and Claudio Gatti

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Classified documents recently released by WikiLeaks recount U.S. officials' growing concern over large numbers of Turkish men seeking visas to work at American charter schools founded by followers of Fethullah Gulen, a powerful Turkish Muslim political figure who lives in the Poconos.

"Gulen supporters account for an increasing proportion of [the] . . . nonimmigrant visa applicant pool," a consular official in Istanbul, Turkey, wrote in 2006, according to one of the documents posted by WikiLeaks two weeks ago.

"Consular officials have noticed that most of these applicants share a common characteristic: They are generally evasive about their purpose

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‘Rhee the Reformer: A Cautionary Tale’ - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

‘Rhee the Reformer: A Cautionary Tale’ - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

‘Rhee the Reformer: A Cautionary Tale’

Anybody can — and plenty do — write conventionally about Michelle Rhee and the controversial school reforms she pushed when she was chancellor of D.C. schools for 3 1/2 years. But nobody has told the story quite this way.

A teacher explains why she is offended

A teacher writes an open letter to President Obama, Arne Duncan, Bill Gates and other billionaires who support business-focused school reforms, to explain why their agenda offends teachers and hurts kids.
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“As The Stakes Go Up, The Validity Goes Down” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
This Week’s “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t” I have a huge backlog of resources that I’ve been planning to post about in this blog but, just because of time constraints, have not gotten around to doing. Instead of letting that backlog grow bigger, I regularly grab a few and list them here with ...
Excellent Speaking Activity Paul Nation is particularly known for his research on helping English Language Learners develop vocabulary, but he knows far more than just that area. In this video, he shares a simple activity that lets students develop greater speaking fluency. ...
“As The Stakes Go Up, The Validity Goes Down” Well-known and respected author/researcher David Berliner (I’ve posted about his work several times) gives a very understandable explanation of “Campbell’s Law” in this video (this post’s title comes from his comments). The “law” says: *The more any ...
Helping Students Write Essays In a previous post, Three Good Questions For Teachers To Ask Themselves (& Answer Them Here If You Feel Like It), I shared that one of the areas where I have improved this year is in teaching writing. There have been a number of reasons for that ...
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Brown’s CalSTRS problem | Thoughts on Public Education

Brown’s CalSTRS problem | Thoughts on Public Education

Brown’s CalSTRS problem

Taxpayers, new teachers to bear the brunt

Posted on 4/04/11 • Categorized as Pensions

By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

Gov. Jerry Brown last week made a down payment on pension reform in the form of seven specific recommendations to slow the growth in pensions for public employees, including teachers. It’s the obvious steps to curb abuse, like banning retroactive pension increases, the purchase of additional pension credits, and the spiking of income the final year to boost pension payouts.

But the release of CalSTRS’ annual report and the Legislative Analyst Office’s readable summary of it last week shows why Brown is taking his time on dealing with the bigger issue: CalSTRS’ large unfunded liability. The remedy for straightening out the retirement

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We Party Patriots » Blog Archive » Tea Party Group Using Names of Dead People on Fraudulent “Grassroots” Petitions
Tea Party Group Using Names of Dead People on Fraudulent “Grassroots” Petitions Nobody would stoop so low as to practice posthumous petition fudging, would it? It would. It has been revealed that a Tea Party Group pursuing harmful deregulation efforts under the auspices of freedom is using the names of dead people when collecting ...
Collective Bargaining Under Attack in…Maryland!? It may seem unlikely. But it’s true. IBEW-trained activist and leader of the Young Trade Unionists, Cory McCray, has laid out the on-going struggles in several Maryland counties on his blog: In Anne Arundel County, the County Council voted unanimously ...
Remembering an Unsung Hero, Nate Smith: The Martin Luther King, Jr. of Construction Unions A documentary is being developed to commemorate the life of Nate Smith, a Pittsburgh union activist and civil rights leader who died last week at the age of 82. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review published a touching recount of Smith’s life, including some ...
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False Flag Candidate – Obama in 2012

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This is a political crime of deception, an enormous bait and switch, in which liberals and quite a few independents were misled by a serial liar who purposely characterized himself as a reformer…

Did you receive your email from Barack Obama yet? If you are a Democrat, or on his campaign mailing list, the president has promised you are going to be the first to know when he formally launches his reelection campaign. It could be any moment now; apparently the White House is waiting for a slow news day when Libya and Fukushima and Congressional budget negotiations aren’t dominating the media agenda. Once the news is out, you are expected as a loyal Obama supporter to start sending in campaign donations and begin attending campaign organization

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Week in Lab Week Twenty-seven 2011 | Reflections on Teaching

Week in Lab Week Twenty-seven 2011 | Reflections on Teaching

Week in Lab Week Twenty-seven 2011

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I feel like I’m getting my blogging groove back, and I feel like writing and sharing about what I’m doing with the students. Maybe it’s the sun coming out, maybe it’s all the writing I did at and after ASCD. Whatever the reason, I’m back, and glad to be here! In celebration, I’ve redone the blog theme

First Grade

I’ve switched to showing them “Between the Lions” and having them do activities that tie-in with the show. The shows are longer, but the quality is pretty impressive. I’m liking this. Next I may try to create some “Gwain’s

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Malcolm X in the Eyes of Manning Marable | The Jose Vilson

Malcolm X in the Eyes of Manning Marable | The Jose Vilson

Malcolm X in the Eyes of Manning Marable

by Jose

I’ll keep this one simple. RIP Manning Marable. Good night, all.

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Daily Kos: Lessons from Memphis, April 4, 1968

Daily Kos: Lessons from Memphis, April 4, 1968

Lessons from Memphis, April 4, 1968

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)
During a heavy rainstorm in Memphis on February 1, 1968, two black sanitation workers had been crushed to death when the compactor mechanism of the trash truck was accidentally triggered. On the same day in a separate incident also related to the inclement weather, 22 black sewer workers had been sent home without pay while their white supervisors were retained for the day with pay. About two weeks later, on February 12, more than 1,100 of a possible 1,300 black sanitation workers began a strike for job safety, better wages and benefits, and union recognition. Mayor Henry Loeb, unsympathetic to most of the workers' demands, was especially opposed to the union. Black and white civic groups in Memphis tried to resolve the conflict, but the mayor held fast to his position.

As the strike lengthened, support for the strikers within the black community of Memphis grew. Organizations such as COME (Community on the Move for Equality) established food and clothing banks in churches, took up collections for strikers to meet rent and mortgages, and recruited marchers for frequent demonstrations. King's participation in forming a city-wide boycott to support the striking workers was invited by the Reverend James Lawson, pastor of the Centenary Methodist Church in Memphis and an adviser to the strikers. Lawson was a seasoned veteran of the civil rights movement and an experienced trainer of activists in the philosophy and methods of nonviolent resistance.

Those are two paragraphs of Teaching With Documents:
Court Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis Sanitation Workers, the Background, found on the website of the National Archives, in the section for Teachers called Teaching with Documents. (since these are US Government documents, there is no issue of copyright violation). In case you did not know, King was in Memphis to help with the strike of the Sanitation workers when he was assassinated, 43 years ago this evening, which is why today is an appropriate day to show support for those government workers - municipal and state - who wish to be unionized.

Allow me to offer a bit more about King in Memphis.

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More Grass Roots: The Fight for Special Ed Continues

More Grass Roots: The Fight for Special Ed Continues

More Grass Roots: The Fight for Special Ed Continues

by California Father

“I’m not convinced that anyone at the DOE has the best interest of the children in mind,” said Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, “We are not going to allow the students anywhere within PS 67 to be treated like second-class citizens.”

Parents fight for the rights of their special needs kids. I love New York!

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NYC Public School Parents: To Satisfy KIPP Space Demands DOE Takes Building to 120% of Capacity

NYC Public School Parents: To Satisfy KIPP Space Demands DOE Takes Building to 120% of Capacity

To Satisfy KIPP Space Demands DOE Takes Building to 120% of Capacity

by Patrick J. Sullivan

Our March 23rd meeting marked the end of the Panel for Educational Policy’s winter residence at Brooklyn Tech HS in Fort Greene. The bulk of the agenda was devoted to co-location of charter schools in Board of Ed facilities:

Girls Prep Charter Co-Location

After last year’s vote to expand Girls Prep middle school in M088 was found to be unlawful by State Education Commissioner Steiner, the DOE found space being vacated by the closing Ross Global Academy Charter School. This solution and was supported by CEC in District 1. The resolution passed unanimously.

East Harlem Scholars Charter School in Jackie Robinson Complex (M013)

This was a difficult vote for me as the after-school program creating the charter, East Harlem Tutorial, is well

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NYC Educator: All the News that Fits

NYC Educator: All the News that Fits

All the News that Fits

by NYC Educator
Providing yet another indispensable morsel, Gotham Schools reveals:

Cathie Black made a joke that proved she understands she’s had a rough start.

What does this, or the Daily News piece it links to, reveal about NYC's Schools Chancellor? That she has a keen perception of the obvious? Or not even that? Actually, it reflects only a single instance of such perception. Had Ms. Black the remotest awareness of what this job entailed, she'd have declined it on the basis of utter lack of qualification. Nonetheless,
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Teaching in Turbulent Times: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA

Teaching in Turbulent Times: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA

Teaching in Turbulent Times

Mon, Mar 28, 2011 -- 10:00 AM


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Randi Weingarten speaks during day one of the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Randi Weingarten leads the American Federation of Teachers at a time when debates over declining budgets, labor issues and education reform are raging all over the country. We talk with Weingarten about the teaching profession during turbulent times. The American Federation of Teachers represents 1.5 million members in more than 3,000 local affiliates nationwide.

Host: Scott Shafer

Guests:

  • Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers
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