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Monday, December 12, 2011

Big Education Ape: 12-12-11 AM Ravitch: Billionaires (and millionaires) for education reform EDition #edreform

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2011 UNITY NewU Startup Funds

landing.k12newsnetwork.com - BIOCynthia Liu, PhD, is CEO/Founder of the online organizing and education news site K12NewsNetwork.com, a "MoveOn" for supporters of public education.In 2011, she received the BlogHer.com / HTC 20...

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Growing Push in Newark to Retake School Reins

nytimes.com - NEWARK — For a generation of Newark students, every education decision, including choices on curriculum, spending and superintendent, has been made by state officials in Trenton. That l...

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Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Photo: CAJLA Time Magazine’s Judith Warner asks, “Why are the rich so interested in public school reform?” She says, “Let’s hope that the time to reform this business-modeled mindset has finally co...

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America's Best Judge

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - The honorable Judge Sheila Rappaport from the great state of Colorado:In declaring Colorado's school finance system "significantly underfunded," Denver District Judge Sheila Rappaport rejected virt...

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'I Don't Care About That'

huffingtonpost.com - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry says he wants a huge tax break for the rich, and he doesn't care what it means for income inequality.Rick Perry announced on Tuesday that if elected pre...

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Mitt Romney & Chris Christie Redux

bluejersey.com - Mitt Romney is going to be at the Parsippany Hilton tomorrow night, sharing a stage with his #1 stand-in, Chris Christie. Got $500? That'll get you in. They'll rake in big bucks; $500 gets you in t...

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Are Girls Really Alright? - THE DAILY RIFF

thedailyriff.com - "Now in this country, girls outpace boys in test scores, high school and college enrollment and grad rates, and leadership positions in high school, and YET. . . it all depends on WHAT you are mea...

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blog.angryasianman.com - George Takei is the Broker of Star Peace: Our elder statesman George Takei, best known as Sulu on Star Trek, steps in to broker the peace between warring internet supporters of the Star Trek and St...

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Sofia Vergara, George Lopez to be Part of CCN Heroes Tonight

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 2:28 pm, December 11, 2011 Photo Credits: George Lopez & Sofia Vergara on CNN Heroes Tribute CNN, the worldwide leader in news, announced new show details and additions to the line-up ...

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America’s Greediest: The 2011 Top Ten Edition

ourfuture.org - One puts on football pageants. Another makes millions on a virtual farm. From Too Much, the Institute for Policy Studies inequality weekly, we present the year's ten most avaricious. All ten remind...

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The Few, the Proud, the Very Rich

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Another Special Edition Of “School Reform Round-Up” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

Another Special Edition Of “School Reform Round-Up” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…:

Another Special Edition Of “School Reform Round-Up”

by Larry Ferlazzo

Boy, there sure have been some great articles on education policy issues this weekend:

Class Matters. Why Won’t We Admit It? is an op ed in The New York Times about poverty’s effect on our students. Here’s how it ends:

Yes, we need to make sure that all children, and particularly disadvantaged children, have access to good schools, as defined by the quality of teachers and principals and of internal policies and practices.

But let’s not pretend that family background does not matter and can be overlooked. Let’s agree that we know a


This Week’s “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t”

by Larry Ferlazzo

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 a minimal description. It forces me to look through these older links, and help me organize them for my own use. I hope others will find them helpful, too. These are resources that I didn’t include in my “Best Tweets” feature because I had planned to post about them, or because I didn’t even get around to sending a tweet sharing them.

Here are This Week’s “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t”:


The Day Of The Virgin Of Guadalupe

by Larry Ferlazzo

December 12th is a Mexican National Holiday, and an important day for many Mexican-Americans — The Day Of The Virgin Of Guadalupe.

I’ve just updated The Best Sites For Learning & Teaching About The Day Of The Virgin Of Guadalupe.

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Online schools are largely untested - NorthJersey.com

Online schools are largely untested - NorthJersey.com:

Online schools are largely untested

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2011
BY LESLIE BRODY
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

A proposed virtual charter school based in Teaneck has led to a roiling debate about academic rigor and oversight of a new breed of schools where laptops replace most in-person interactions with teachers and classmates.

Education researchers say these full-time cyber schools are so new there is scant independent evidence on their outcomes for students. The founder of the proposed Garden State Virtual Charter School says he aims to provide a high-quality option for children statewide whose lives don't fit the traditional school setting, but skeptics argue much is lost when students attend all their classes sitting at home.

Even so, virtual public schools are growing fast. Evergreen Education Group, a consultant, estimate

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Schools Matter: Join the Coalition on Teacher Quality

Schools Matter: Join the Coalition on Teacher Quality:

Join the Coalition on Teacher Quality

by Jim Horn

While the corporate ed reformers give lip service to the importance of great teachers, they are working overtime to replace professionally-trained teachers with temporary missionaries armed with Doug Lemov's bible who learn to teach on poor people's children before moving on to their real careers.

Below are the Seven Principles of the Coalition on Teacher Quality, along with the list of 84 organizations that have endorsed these principals. Click here to view a briefing sponsored by Senator Sanders and the 84 organizations of the Coalition on Teaching Quality.

Principles toEnsure Student Access to Fully Prepared and Effective Teachers Under ESEA andHEA Title II
Research indicates that teacher quality is the mostimportant school factor impacting student achievement. Yet,
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