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Schools Matter: What school is all about

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: What school is all aboutWhat school is all aboutby skrashenSent to the Los Angeles Times, July 17, 2011In addition to influencing the medical literature (LA Times, July 16), J.K. Ro...

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Rupert Murdoch Says Obama Will Win

huffingtonpost.com - Carlsbad, CA -- Tonight at the "All Things Digital" conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch -- Chairman of News Corp, new WSJ owner, and longtime torchbearer for conservativ...

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Privately run charter schools often let students down

lacrossetribune.com - There has been much chatter — on both the local and national level — about charter schools. There is also a lot of misinformation out there, too. Unlike their public counterparts, privately run cha...

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Blowing smoke on school reform

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - This NYT editorial "Hold the line on school reform," harks back to the days when they were calling for the invasion of Iraq to get rid of those "weapons of mass destruction." In other words, the T...

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Are They Learning?

nytimes.com - A cheating scandal in which scores of teachers and principals in Atlanta’s public schools falsified student test results has thrown the system into chaos and made its name synonymous with fraud. Th...

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Charter School Battle Shifts to Affluent Suburbs

nytimes.com - MILLBURN, N.J. — Matthew Stewart believes there is a place for charter schools. Just not in his schoolyard. Mr. Stewart, a stay-at-home father of three boys, moved to this wealthy towns...

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The Mind Of A Bronx Teacher 07/19 by Bronx Teacher

blogtalkradio.com - History will be made this Tuesday night, July 19, at 9 PM EDT. Join us as we welcome Matthew's mom, Karen Sprowal as she takes us through the Kafkaesque hell she went through as she took on Harlem ...

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Can school reformer Joel Klein reform News Corp?

reuters.com - By Joseph Ax and Noeleen Walder NEW YORK | Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:12pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Joel Klein stepped down from running New York City's schools last year to head the education divisio...

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Rebekah Brooks, Former Rupert Murdoch Executive Arrested

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nytimes.com - LONDON — As a textbook example of how not to manage the relationship between private industry and the academy, Deutsche Bank’s agreement with two leading German universities to sponsor their joint ...

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Today only 2 CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS Yeah!

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALSAbramson Science and Technology Charter School *"Records show glaring faults at school with ties to Turkish charter network.”* Times-Picayune (LA) 7/15/2011 Inci Akpinar, the...

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In Space Between Genders a 'Seahorse' Emerges

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School Tech Connect: Do Something Today!

schooltechconnect.com - Whether you're going to the SOS March or not, there's something very smart and productive you can do this week to help save our schools, and that is to contact your member of congress with a specif...

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      Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » Ditch Testing (Part 5): Testing Has Not Improved Education Despite all the Costs

      Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » Ditch Testing (Part 5): Testing Has Not Improved Education Despite all the Costs

      Ditch Testing (Part 5): Testing Has Not Improved Education Despite all the Costs

      by YongZhao
      Ditch Testing (Part 5): Testing Has Not Improved Education The evidence is clear. Test-score cheating is not isolated to Atlanta, Baltimore, and a few other schools, as testing proponents tend to suggest. It is not a problem that can be fixed with technical measures such as tightened security. It may be human nature but it is the high and unreasonable pressure of high-stakes standardized testing that leads to corruption. Thus, we cannot minimize the problem, trivialize potential solutions, or blame a few educators who have been caught. The Atlanta scandal should ...
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      Support Save our Schools « Cooperative Catalyst

      Support Save our Schools « Cooperative Catalyst

      Support Save our Schools

      by joebower

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      On my Twitter avatar I have chosen to show support for American educators who rightfully see corporate reform efforts to link their pay to student test scores and eliminate tenure as a direct assault on their profession.

      The Save Our Schools March & National Call to Action will be held July 28-31, 2011 in Washington, D.C & Nationwide.

      You can follow Save Our Schools on Twitter here.

      For a taste of what this group stands for, here is an excerpt from the Save Our Schools site on High-Stakes Testing:

      The primary and most important purpose of assessment is to find out what learners know and can do so that teachers can develop their strengths, support the areas where they struggle, and promote the learning process. High-stakes testing, however, distorts and undermines that process. By directing our focus to the scores instead of the learning process, high-stakes testing makes it difficult to fully understand what exactly is happening in our schools, and it makes it even more difficult for teachers and students to engage in real learning.
      Students who know that a test may keep them from moving on to the next grade or graduating, or that their school may be closed or converted, face tremendous stress.

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      U.S. Education Policy: “School Isn’t for Everyone” « Larry Miller's Blog

      U.S. Education Policy: “School Isn’t for Everyone” « Larry Miller's Blog

      U.S. Education Policy: “School Isn’t for Everyone”

      by millerlf

      How is it that we can afford to double our military budget since 9/11, can afford the carried-interest tax loophole for billionaires, can afford billions of dollars in givebacks to oil and gas companies, yet can’t afford to invest in our kids’ futures?

      Our Broken Escalator

      By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: July 16, 2011 NYtimes

      THE United States supports schools in Afghanistan because we know that education is one of the cheapest and most effective ways to build a country.

      Alas, we’ve forgotten that lesson at home. All across America, school budgets are being cut, teachers laid off and education programs dismantled.

      My beloved old high school in Yamhill, Ore. — a plain brick building that was my rocket ship — is emblematic of that trend. There were only 167 school days in the last school year here (180 was typical until the recession hit), and the staff has been reduced by 9 percent over five years.

      This school was where I embraced sports, became a journalist, encountered intellectual worlds, and got in

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      Summarizing Learning Environment Surveys from Bronx High Schools « JD2718

      Summarizing Learning Environment Surveys from Bronx High Schools « JD2718

      Summarizing Learning Environment Surveys from Bronx High Schools

      by jd2718

      Learning Environment survey results came out earlier this month. Most people ignore them. Quite a few look at their own school, or schools of a few friends, or a school or two that’s been in the news. Scan 16 pages of tabulated results, and move on.

      But I decided to look. Maybe the data was readily available. I don’t know. But I searched for schools in the Bronx with grade 9, and downloaded the pdfs, one at a time. I considered campus schools, non-campus schools, CTE schools, and specialized schools. I considered 6-12 schools. I also threw in charter schools. I did not use data from D75 schools. There are several schools that do not yet have data. There are several where too few teachers filled in the surveys to be considered meaningful (Bronx Leadership Academy II, Global Enterprise HS, ELLIS, and Bronx Studio School for Writers). Two small schools that are not completely staffed had 100% or almost 100% of the staff – I included them even thought the raw number of teachers was small: Crotona Academy and the Cinema School. I looked at 115 schools.

      I chose four questions to summarize:

      The Principal is an effective manager who makes the school run smoothly

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      SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Van Jones on What We Can Learn From the Tea Party

      SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Van Jones on What We Can Learn From the Tea Party

      Van Jones on What We Can Learn From the Tea Party

      by Paul B
      Friday 8 July 2011
      by: Amy Dean, Truthout | Interview

      Van Jones speaks at the "Save the American Dream" rally in Washington, DC, February 26th 2011. (Photo: markn3tel)
      In late June, Van Jones - a former "green jobs" czar in the Obama administration and currently a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress - officially launched a new organization known as Rebuild the Dream. The group's first mission is to help spark a new economic justice effort called the American Dream
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      Blog For the Save Our Schools March #bloggermarch « Cooperative Catalyst

      Blog For the Save Our Schools March #bloggermarch « Cooperative Catalyst

      Blog For the Save Our Schools March #bloggermarch

      by Paula White

      Will you? http://www.saveourschoolsmarch.org/

      This is from the official site:

      Save Our Schools March & National Call to Action!

      July 28-31, 2011 in Washington, D.C. and around the country

      We’re putting the Public back in public schools!

      We, a collection of people from all walks of life and every corner of this nation, embody a mixture of ideas and opinions regarding how we can improve educational opportunities for all children. We stand united by one belief – it’s time for teachers and parents to organize and reclaim control of our schools.

      As concerned citizens, we demand an end to the destructive policies and rhetoric that have eroded confidence in our public schools, demoralized teachers, and reduced the education of too many of our children to nothing more than test preparation.

      A well-educated society is essential to the future of the United States of America. Our students must have access to a fully funded, world-class public education system, and it is our responsibility to hold our government accountable for providing the means to achieve it. Please join!

      It’s time to show the “powers that be” what the people of America think of their support for education and how we should be teaching our children. Please blog and share your link here in a comment. We’ll once again compile them. Please join us and share YOUR voice to put the public back in public schools! Use the twitter hashtag #bloggermarch to share your Blog for the SOS March!

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      Do Americans understand the debt crisis? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

      Do Americans understand the debt crisis? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

      Do Americans understand the debt crisis?

      By
      How well do Americans understand the complexities of the nation’s debt crisis? If a comprehensive study of American financial literacy is any indication, the answer is not very well.
      A comprehensive national study of the financial capability of American adults, conducted in 2009, revealed:
      *Nearly half of survey respondents reported facing difficulties in covering monthly expenses and paying bills.
      *The majority of Americans do not have “rainy day” funds set aside for unanticipated financial emergencies and similarly do not plan for predictable life events, such as their children’s college education or their

      Lessons we learned from ‘Harry Potter’

      by Valerie Strauss
      What, after all these years, did we learn from “Harry Potter”?
      That miracles can happen, at least to:
      *A single mother named J.K. Rowling who was living on public assistance and didn’t give up on her brilliant idea for a book series about a boy wizard.
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