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Good For The SOS Marchers

schooltechconnect.com - I'm so proud of the March organizers; you really can't get the attention of this administration unless you're a hedge fund manager, a person who wants to eliminate Medicare and Social Security, or ...

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Marty Castro First Latino Chairperson Civil Rights Commission

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 6:28 pm, July 28, 2011 Photo Credits: Hispanic Standout Marty Castro As political pundits try to figure out what if any influence the Latino community is having on the President’s agen...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Vice President For Immediate Release July 28, 2011 It is with great sorrow and sense of loss that I learned of the passing of the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States...

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Near-riot in Hollywood: Video from Electric Daisy premiere

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Numerous videos have emerged on YouTube showing Wednesday night's disturbance on Hollywood Boulevard involving the premiere of a movie about the Electric Daisy Carnival music festival. Crowds spill...

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Happy Blogiversary To Me!

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Pay to Play | MyFDL

my.firedoglake.com - Please Pay Here by stevendepolo on flickr Two interesting pieces here regarding the influence the private prison industry wield in its political affiliations and activities. Most of the reason the...

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Ex-PM Says Taliban Offer Talks For Pullout Date

tomhayden.com - As the Kabul-based report by Gareth Porter reveals, peace talks with the Taliban are a live option for a U.S. government beset by a worsening situation from Kandahar to Kabul. All that appears nece...

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gary locke confirmed as ambassador to china

blog.angryasianman.com - Yesterday, the Senate unanimously confirmed outgoing Commerce Secretary and former Washington governor Gary Locke as the next U.S. ambassador to China: Gary Locke confirmed as U.S. ambassador to Ch...

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California Supreme Court to hear Proposition 8 case Sept. 6

latimesblogs.latimes.com - The legal battle over Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that reinstated a ban on same-sex marriage, will go before the California Supreme Court on Sept. 6, when the justices will hear argumen...

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Good For The SOS Marchers

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Save Our Schools #SOSMarch Responds to the White House, DOE

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Save Our Schools March Responds to the White House, DOESave Our Schools March Responds to the White House, DOEby TeacherSabrinaFrom our e-mail exchange with a DOE staffer:“We sincerely appreciate t...

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      TheDartmouth.com: Klein urges public school reform

      TheDartmouth.com: Klein urges public school reform

      Klein urges public school reform

      By Emily Fletcher , The Dartmouth Staff

      Published on Friday, July 29, 2011

      Former New York City public schools chancellor and current News Corporation executive vice president Joel Klein described the “crisis” facing the American school system in an increasingly globalized economy and explained how competition and innovation can improve the quality of schools in a lecture in Moore Theater on Thursday. Klein, who lectured to an audience of approximately 350 people, is the sixth speaker in the Summer term lecture series, Leading Voices in Politics and Policy.

      The public school system’s powerful aversion to innovation is preventing Americans from

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      Grassley Questions Education Agency's Ties to Hedge Funds - NYTimes.com

      Grassley Questions Education Agency's Ties to Hedge Funds - NYTimes.com

      Grassley Questions Education Agency’s Ties to Hedge Funds

      BY BEN PROTESS
      Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, talks with a reporter.Philip Scott Andrews/The New York TimesSenator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, talks with a reporter.

      7:54 p.m. | Updated

      Senator Charles E. Grassley is examining whether Education Department officials disclosed confidential government information to hedge fund managers, including the well-known stock picker Steve Eisman.

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      The inquiry stems from the agency’s recent efforts to overhaul the for-profit college industry, which has been accused of saddling students with huge piles of debt. Expecting tough new rules in the wake of the controversy, Mr. Eisman and other hedge fund traders placed huge bets against the industry. In a letter this week, Mr. Grassley questioned the education secretary,Arne Duncan, about the agency’s ties to the hedge fund world and the lack of policies

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      Rise & Shine: In new poll, parents pan Bloomberg on schools | GothamSchools

      Rise & Shine: In new poll, parents pan Bloomberg on schools | GothamSchools

      Rise & Shine: In new poll, parents pan Bloomberg on schools

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      • A new poll has 70 percent of parents disapproving of Mayor Bloomberg’s school handling. (Crain’s NY)
      • A court date in the Shuang Wen School’s parent suit revealed details about charges there. (Daily News)
      • The UFT’s class size suit was rejected on procedural grounds. (GothamSchools, NY1, Daily News,Post)
      • Artists who make works for schools often involve students, but they don’t substitute for art teachers. (NY1)
      • At one school with no gym, budget cuts are costing the physical education teacher, too. (GothamSchools)
      • Teachers weigh in on the implications of the city’s successful bid to hand out tenure less readily. (WNYC)
      • Half of teachers whose probations were extended last year had them extended again. (Daily News)
      • Chicago parents are skeptical about the city’s new chief parent engagement executive position. (Times)
      • More Texas schools are charging fees to make up for what’s lost in state budget cuts. (Times)
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      Research Studies Of The Week (And There Are Some Very Good Ones) | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

      Research Studies Of The Week (And There Are Some Very Good Ones) | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

      Research Studies Of The Week (And There Are Some Very Good Ones) I often write about research studies from various field and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published ...

      The Best Online Teleprompters When you, or your students, are making a videocast, having a script or notes appear on your screen could come in handy. Here’s a quick list of free and easy online teleprompter-like tools that let you paste your words into them and then scroll up ...
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      CPS Effort to Engage Parents Arouses Skepticism - Chicago News Cooperative

      CPS Effort to Engage Parents Arouses Skepticism - Chicago News Cooperative

      CPS Effort to Engage Parents Arouses Skepticism

      CPS Effort to Engage Parents Arouses Skepticism
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      Whittier Elementary School parent Araceli Gonzalez cleans up in the field house library that was the site of parent protests, July 12, 2011.

      by REBECCA VEVEA | Jul 29, 2011

      The new leadership at Chicago Public Schools is taking another crack at one of the district’s thorniest problems: Involving parents in their children’s education. Parents, administrators and critics, who are skeptical and frustrated by past failures, say they hope the effort pays off this time.

      Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s new public schools team announced Wednesday that members were delivering on their promise to help parents navigate a system long known for its bureaucratic complexity by creating a Chief Community and Family Engagement Officer, which they say will make

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      Another setback in funding lawsuits | Thoughts on Public Education

      Another setback in funding lawsuits | Thoughts on Public Education

      Another setback in funding lawsuits

      Plaintiffs rebuffed in broad equal-protection claim

      Posted on 7/29/11 • Categorized as Adequacy suit

      By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

      An Alameda County Superior Court judge has dealt another blow to plaintiffs in two lawsuits claiming that the state’s “insufficient, irrational and unstable” school funding system violated children’s fundamental right to an education. Judge Steven Brick’s rulings this week (Go here and here) again limit attorneys’ constitutional claims and make an appeal of his rulings more likely.

      In January, Brick denied the core argument of plaintiffs in the suits, Robles-Wong v. State of California and Campaign for Quality Education v. State of California. They argued that the state constitution establishing education as a fundamental right requires the

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      D.C. teacher: Why I believe I was really fired - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

      D.C. teacher: Why I believe I was really fired - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

      D.C. teacher: Why I believe I was really fired

      by Valerie Strauss

      Peter Gwynn, a D.C. public school teacher who was one of 206 teachers fired this month under the IMPACT evaluation system, writes here about why he believes he was really let go. The fired teachers, my colleague Bill Turque reported, amount to 5 percent of the 4,100 teachers in the system. IMPACT was first implemented under the chancellorship of Michelle Rhee, who quit last October and was succeeded by her deputy, Kaya Henderson. IMPACT has been criticized on a range of issues, with critics calling it arbitrary and punitive and primarily a way to fire veteran teachers. D.C. schools officials reject the criticism.

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      #SOSMarch Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Sorry Mr. President. We didn't come all this way for tea and cookies at the White House

      Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Sorry Mr. President. We didn't come all this way for tea and cookies at the White House

      Sorry Mr. President. We didn't come all this way for tea and cookies at the White House

      Conferees discuss post-march strategies at our Think/Do Tank Workshop
      The first day of the SOS conference was powerful. Hundreds of teachers and ed activists from across the country crowded into the American University auditorium and cheered wildly as an angry Jonathan
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      #SOSMarch Accomplished California Teachers Take to Capitol Hill « InterACT

      Accomplished California Teachers Take to Capitol Hill « InterACT

      Accomplished California Teachers Take to Capitol Hill

      by David B. Cohen
      U.S. Capitol

      The U.S. Capitol Building (photo by the author)

      On Tuesday, July 26, 2011, a contingent of National Board Certified Teachers from California, including some members of Accomplished California Teachers (and hopefully, some future members) visited the offices of our state’s Senators and Representatives. Speaking in support of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, we sought to preserve what minimal federal spending goes towards education and supports NBPTS in particular. We noted that the research support for NBPTS is strong, especially considering the largest study of NBCTs, conducted by the National Research Council, which found unequivocally that students of National

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      Thursday, July 28, 2011

      #SOSMarch 'Save our Schools' Leaders Decline White House Invitation - Politics K-12 - Education Week

      'Save our Schools' Leaders Decline White House Invitation - Politics K-12 - Education Week

      'Save our Schools' Leaders Decline White House Invitation

      by Michele McNeil

      The organizers of the Save our Schools March and National Call to Action are saying "no thanks" to a White House invitation to meet with education advisers to President Barack Obama tomorrow.

      Organizers instead say the White House can come to them, or they'll come to the White House on Sunday. Obama officials had no comment on the executive committee's response to their invitation.

      In a statement this evening, the executive committee said:

      We sincerely appreciate the interest of the White House in the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action. We'd be pleased to host any White House or Department of Education personnel on the Ellipse on Saturday so they can hear firsthand what teachers, students, parents and community members from around the country have to say about public education. Thousands
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      Save Our Schools #SOSMarch Responds to the White House, DOE

      Save Our Schools March Responds to the White House, DOE

      Save Our Schools March Responds to the White House, DOE

      by TeacherSabrina

      From our e-mail exchange with a DOE staffer:

      “We sincerely appreciate the interest of the White House in the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action. We’d be pleased to host any White House or Department of Education personnel on the Ellipse on Saturday so they can hear firsthand what teachers, students, parents & community members from around the country have to say about public education. Thousands of concerned citizens will be sharing their experiences and their thoughts on the future of our schools. July 30th is your opportunity to listen to us. After the March, we will be open to meeting with White House or Department of Education leaders to further discuss our specific proposals.”
      -Bess Altwerger & Rick Meyer, on behalf of the Save Our Schools March Executive Committee

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      Daily Kos: Save Our Schools #SOSMarch responds to the White House, Dept. of Ed

      Daily Kos: Save Our Schools March responds to the White House, Dept. of Ed

      Save Our Schools March responds to the White House, Dept. of Ed

      by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

      The following message was just sent in response to a recent exchange with a Department of Education staffer:

      We sincerely appreciate the interest of the White House in the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action. We’d be pleased to host any White House or Department of Education personnel on the Ellipse on Saturday so they can hear firsthand what teachers, students, parents & community members from around the country have to say about public education. Thousands of
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