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A standardized path to school ruin

tampabay.com - By Diane Ravitch, special to the Times In Print: Sunday, June 12, 2011 ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENTGov. Rick Scott seems determined to ruin public education in Florida. Not only is he devastating sc...
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Arne Duncan's 'Plan B' May Leave 'No Child' Behind : NPR

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Arne Duncan's 'Plan B' May Leave 'No Child' Behind : NPRArne Duncan's 'Plan B' May Leave 'No Child' Behindby NPR STAFF AND WIRESSecretary of Education Arne Duncan is signaling that he's prepared to...
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AFT - A Union of Professionals

aft.org - Are We Testing Too Much?NY Times, June 12, 2011 For all the efforts to improve education that are made in classrooms, school board meetings, research institutions, congressional chambers and else...
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Education First Principles - E.D. Kain - American Times

blogs.forbes.com - Jun. 11 2011 - 3:28 pm | 0 views | 0 recommendations | By E.D. KAIN Shawn Gude has a terrific post up at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen. Much of it is an examination of my “shifting rhetoric” on ...
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Bravo, Joel! | Billionaires for Educational Reform

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Bravo, Joel! | Billionaires for Educational ReformBravo, Joel!by SmellingtonI say, it’s bold of Joel to write this piece, pointing out how billionaires have managed to influence the politicians to ...
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We Must Rally | The Mayoral Tutorial

mayoraltutorial.com - Many of us feel the President Obama has let us down and that the political system has failed us all. The truth is that this is always the way it's been. As my grandfather said: "Democracy is the ba...
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A Protest to Protect Our Jobs and Our Mountains

huffingtonpost.com - This week an important protest is taking place in the coalfields of West Virginia. The March on Blair Mountain began on Monday as several hundred people embarked on a five-day journey retracing the...
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Bringing Awareness to Deportation of American Veterans

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 6:40 pm, June 12, 2011 Photo Credits: Deportation of Military Vets Veterans of the United States Armed Forces who served under honorable discharge are facing court proceedings for depo...
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Do Congressional Districts Matter? - Rosemont, CA Patch

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Send Commissioner Brummer a Message! « Tangerine, Florida

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For you or me? | Connected Principals

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Timuel Black and Reginald Robinson

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Ignazio 'Ig' Vella, Sonoma cheese pioneer, dies

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Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky's blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky's blogSunday links.by Fred KlonskyJust Seeds print cooperative.The NEA’s Dennis Van Roekel wants an early no strings endorsement of Obama at this summer’s NEA conventio...
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Sacramento Press / Guide to firefighters' pay and benefits

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Apple store employee seeks to plant union seed

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Bravo, Joel! | Billionaires for Educational Reform

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When Food Kills - The Co

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    Bringing Awareness to Deportation of American Veterans - Hispanically Speaking News

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    Veterans of the United States Armed Forces who served under honorable discharge are facing court proceedings for deportations. Hundreds of Veterans are facing deportation and Somos Republicans would like to start by bringing awareness to the situation involving the Valenzuela Brothers. Manuel and Valente Valenzuela are currently awaiting trial and are facing deportation today. Therefore, the group is asking the President of the United States to stop the deportations of all veterans who served under honorable discharge conditions. They believe the President has the power to pardon those who have served our country honorably.

    Representatives of Somos Republicans noted:

    The mission is to leave “no man behind” and we hope to see President Obama make a symbolic move this year on Veterans Day, November 11, 2011, that will

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    Kimble's Corner: New Hampshire GOP Prefers Paperwork to Democracy

    Kimble's Corner: New Hampshire GOP Prefers Paperwork to Democracy

    New Hampshire GOP Prefers Paperwork to Democracy

    by Representative Kimble
    This has been a very trying couple of weeks for the Kimble campaign. I had many of my highest ranking campaign officials quit earlier in the week, but I was able to catch them before they could make it out of the parking lot to freedom. I was worried that this might happen if we let the windows open while they worked. That situation has been rectified with the purchase of several wall unit air conditioners.

    The big problem happened on Thursday when I was told that because my paperwork was incomplete I would not be allowed to compete in the New Hampshire Republican Presidential Debate this Monday. I tried to appeal to
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    Last Stand for Children First: Chinese Schools Let Down Education Reform Movement

    Last Stand for Children First: Chinese Schools Let Down Education Reform Movement

    Chinese Schools Let Down Education Reform Movement

    by Last Stand for Children

    It is with great disappointment that I read Chinese leaders wish to change the way that the country does education. For years, the thought of Chinese students exploiting our inferior American students has been a great image for those of us in the education reform movement. Thoughts of Chinese scholars with briefcases and laptops taking American jobs has been even more effective than images of Chinese tanks rolling down main street for education reformers.

    Now China has embarked on a "ten year plan including greater experimentation. China Central Television's main evening news program recently reported on Peking University High School's curricular reforms to promote individuality and diversity."

    Individuality and diversity? Good grief. Where is the army of tiger mothers when we need
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    Charter school capital projects: cashing in on kids | Dailycensored.com

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    Charter school capital projects: cashing in on kids

    Written by Danny WeilBusiness, EducationJun 12, 2011
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    Investing hundreds of millions in new charter schools for 40,000 students nationwide is a huge goal and one born of a partnership between tennis pro and local charter-school developer Andre Agassi and Bobby Turner, chairman and chief executive of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors in Los Angeles. According to their website:
    “Canyon Capital Realty Advisors LLC and its affiliate Canyon Capital Advisors LLC are registered investment advisors and money management firms based in Los Angeles, California, with approximately $19.2 billion of capital under management” (http://www.cc-ra.com/)

    Turner said that he had an epiphany while reading Agassi’s 2009 autobiography, “Open.” The book charted Agassi’s professional and personal life and included a discussion of his experiences with Agassi Prep in Las Vegas, the school he started in 2007. Turner, who has partnered with basketball great Earvin “Magic” Johnson since 2001 to invest nearly $2 billion in urban residential and commercial projects nationwide, thought Agassi might have a few good ideas — and a good way to make some hard cash off of little boys

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    First it was the Broadies and Now It's the TFA Tribbles

    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: First it was the Broadies and Now It's the TFA Tribbles

    First it was the Broadies and Now It's the TFA Tribbles

    by Melissa Westbrook
    It was pointed out in the Crosscut thread on UW and TFA that our new Manager of Recruiting, Nathan Fitzpatrick, is a former TFA alum. Actually he has quite a long association with TFA from his Linked-In page:

    Current:
    Manager, Recruitment at Seattle Public Schools


    Past:


    Manager, Non-Profit Alliances at Teach For America
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    Attention Fox viewers, this week Walker will manufacture a Wisconsin riot especially for you - blue cheddar blog

    Attention Fox viewers, this week Walker will manufacture a Wisconsin riot especially for you - blue cheddar blog

    Attention Fox viewers, this week Walker will manufacture a Wisconsin riot especially for you

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    A guest post from Jim Mueller:

    Here is what could happen now that the Republicans will be in Extraordinary Sessions:

    They do not want to let the Democrats rip about the Budget piece by piece on camera and win over people who haven’t been paying attention. So the Republicans need a distraction, large crowd will already be there, planted agitators start some violence, riot squads throw in some tear gas, the Republicans and Faux News spin it as

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    Is the Mayor Listening? « InterACT

    Is the Mayor Listening? « InterACT

    Is the Mayor Listening?

    by ACT Guest Blog Posts

    Today’s guest blog post on InterACT comes once again from Lisa Alva, a National Board Certified Teacher at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles. (Lisa recently shared a post with us regarding the “Job One” panelconvened as part of NBC’s Education Nation programming). While some large cities have experimented withmayoral control of schools, the approach in Los Angeles Unified School District has been to try out mayoral control in a subset of schools. Roosevelt High School is among those schools, and Lisa recently had an opportunity to talk with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and some of the other teachers in the Mayor’s “partnership” schools.

    How much rage the whole question of teacher quality and “failing schools” inspires! Pile on corporate efforts to secure a competent workforce and political issues and you have the current educational climate in Los Angeles, where roughly half of our low-income minority population does not graduate in four years with a diploma. Add mayoral control, which is getting increasingly bad press, to bring the whole thing to a frothy boil. For teachers in the Mayor’s Partnership for Los Angeles Schools (PLAS) this is a time of extreme change and challenge. Luckily for us, once in a while, the mayor gives us his ear.

    PLAS recently hosted a “listening session” between the mayor and fourteen teachers. The session, planned by teachers with support from PLAS, was intended to align priorities between the mayor and teachers in “his” schools. Encouragingly, this was the second such session in two months. Because the teachers expected a meeting with a problem-solving focus, the conversation turned to how the teachers defined good leadership. This

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