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Essay: Public Education's Dangerous Silence

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Editorial Cartoons

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Study: Wide variation in success of PA charters

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Department of Education layoffs hit poor areas hardest

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TEACHERS NOT ENOUGH? WHO KNEW?

theconcordreview.blogspot.com - This situation will persist as long as those funding programs and projects for reform in education pay no attention to the actual academic work of our students... BREAKTHROUGH Will Fitzhugh The C...

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Sen. Loni Hancock acts to thwart Amazon referendum

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      Schools Matter: Join In the Opting Out: Make Schools Matter Once More

      Schools Matter: Join In the Opting Out: Make Schools Matter Once More:

      Join In the Opting Out: Make Schools Matter Once More

      by Jim Horn
      From the Baltimore Sun. See below op-ed comments by Monty Neill.
      By Shaun Johnson
      4:14 PM EDT, August 25, 2011

      <a href="http://a.collective-media.net/jump/q1.bmoresun/news;sz=300x250;click0=;ord=4678744?" target="_blank"><img src="http://a.collective-media.net/ad/q1.bmoresun/news;sz=300x250;click0=;ord=4678744?" width="300" height="250" border="0" alt=""></a><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/trb.baltimoresun/news/opinion/editorial;;ptype=ps;slug=bs-ed-school-testing-20110825;pos=1;sz=300x250,336x280;tile=1;ca=education;en=washingtondc;at=education;at=academicprogress;at=publicschools;at=schools;at=gameplaying;u=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-school-testing-20110825,0,5413264,print.story;ord=3174889?" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img scr="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/trb.baltimoresun/news/opinion/editorial;;ptype=ps;slug=bs-ed-school-testing-20110825;pos=1;dcopt=ist;sz=300x250,336x280;tile=1;ca=education;en=washingtondc;at=education;at=academicprogress;at=publicschools;at=schools;at=gameplaying;u=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-school-testing-20110825,0,5413264,print.story;ord=3174889?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt=""></a>

      Here's an update to a clichéd philosophical question: If a test is scheduled and no one is around to
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      Fox news guest tells parents: "Beat kids with love" : The Mommy Files

      Fox news guest tells parents: "Beat kids with love" : The Mommy Files:

      Fox news guest tells parents: "Beat kids with love"

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      Earlier this week a guest on Fox News basically said that there's nothing wrong with parents physically abusing their kids as long as it's done out of love.

      Bill Cunningham thinks parents should beat their kids with love.

      Bill Cunningham thinks parents should beat their kids with love.

      "I say beat kids appropriately and with love," shouted out Bill Cunningham, a nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host.

      We can blame this hogwash on Jessica Beagley, aka Hot Sauce Mom, an Alaskan mother who poured hot sauce into the mouth of her adopted 7-year-old Russian son and was convicted of misdemeanor child abuse on Tuesday. The video of the 37-year-old mother punishing her kid aired on "Dr. Phil" and has led news anchors all over the country to talk about what constitutes child abuse--and ask people such as Cunningham what they think about Beagley's conviction. Is this mom really a child abuser?

      Cunningham criticized the state for getting involved in how parents discipline their children. "Because the state is so involved in this, it is one of the reasons, of many, why children today are out of control," Cunningham argued. Parents are afraid to discipline their children because prosecutors may lock them up and throw away the key."

      Cunningham's mother stuck Camay soap in his mouth and made him eat it until bubbles came out



      Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=96234#ixzz1WEdBwXP7
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      Geaux Teacher!: Standardized Tests and Cheating

      Geaux Teacher!: Standardized Tests and Cheating:

      Standardized Tests and Cheating

      by lpbharley@gmail.com (Lee Barrios, M.Ed., NBCT)
      The Times-Picayune today published an editorial "Investigate cheating claims" that addressed charges made in the spring of 2010 that Miller-McCoy Academy staff was providing questions from the state's high-stakes test to prepare students.

      http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2011/08/investigate_cheating_claims_in/3743/comments-newest.html

      This is my comment in response to the story and another comment by Oh-Really?

      lbarriosAugust 27, 2011, 12:09AM

      Oh-Really? said: "The schools now seem to only be teaching the answers to the test questions without regard for the actual learning process."

      Your statement is so masterfully worded that it shows clearly the problem with using standardized tests to measure learning, the dichotomy between teaching and testing, and the hypocrisy of expecting teachers to teach and students to learn answers for questions they are not allowed to see. Makes no sense does it? If you


      New Watchdog for Charter Schools

      by lpbharley@gmail.com (Lee Barrios, M.Ed., NBCT)
      The Lens, the first non-profit journalism venture in New Orleans, was launched by co-founders Ariella Cohen and Karen Gadbois in 2009.

      Last night, August 25, the on-line newspaper hosted a gathering called the Summer Salon Focus on NOLA Charter Schools at the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities building on Lafayette Street to announce their newest investigative venture. They will assign a corps of reporters to cover every Charter School Board meeting in New Orleans.

      The Lens admitted that their first hurdle will be obtaining schedules from the schools, which has been a bone of contention for parents and anyone else attempting to lift the "veil of transparency" that hangs over most of these independent charters. Charters are public schools and subject to the Freedom of Information Act, Public Meetings Law and other regulations for public entities. The information should be filed with the Secretary of State's office and The Louisiana Association of Public Charters should have the information regarding their
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