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Saturday, March 3, 2012

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Mitt Romney Defends Rush Limbaugh

opposingviews.com - During an interview with Time‘s Mark Halperin, Mitt Romney was asked if he thought controversial radio host and former drug addict Rush Limbaugh had too much influence on the Republican Party. “You...

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Who I Am and What's On My Mind

southbronxschool.com - I originally wrote this for the Huffington Post on February 5. I have slightly rewritten it. This is a big step for me. My name is Peter Zucker. I am a teacher at PS 154 in District 7 in The Bronx...

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Finnish Lesson #5: How to kill 99.9% GERMs?

pasisahlberg.com - In FINNISH LESSONS: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland? I conclude that rather than introducing sequential educational revolutions, Finnish education policy has been built ...

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A critical look at ed reform

journalgazette.net - Northeast Indiana residents who support public education should mark their calendars for two upcoming events: On Sunday and Monday, Cinema Center in Fort Wayne will host a free showing of "The Inco...

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Cinda. Rub that sleep from your eyes. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Back on February 24th we reported on the Governor’s plan to cut state funding for TRIP, the retiree health insurance program. From our IEA leaders there has been no word. Today, two weeks later, IE...

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| ThinkProgress

thinkprogress.org - Yesterday, he unleashed a hateful tirade against 30-year-old Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke, who became a birth control activist after her friend developed ovarian cysts and found that the ora...

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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - No time to sit and savor the coffee this morning. Ulysses had a grooming appointment at 11:00. I don’t want to say what it costs us to get our dog’s hair cut. But Joe charges me $20 for clippers an...

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A Statement from Rush - Democratic Underground

democraticunderground.com - Source: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/03/03/a_staRush Limbaugh Apologizes To Sandra Fluke After days of criticism from the left and Democrats -- and the loss of several advertisers -- Rush...

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Rahm's school "reforms" cause problems in ranks of the Dems

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Rahm Emanuel is mayor of Chicago for two reasons. One -- he was given a multi-million-dollar campaign war chest by a handful of billionaire Koch Bros. types. Two -- he rode back into town on the go...

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Limbaugh says we need to return to ‘segregated buses.'

thinkprogress.org - Last week, a video of a school bus beating showing two African American children assaulting a white student began circulating the internet. Despite claims by authorities that the attack was not nec...

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WEEKLY ADDRESS: Taking Control of Our Energy Future

whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 03, 2012 WASHINGTON, DC—In this week’s address, President Obama told the American people that three years after helping the...

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Jersey Jazzman: The Reformy Dr. Steve Perry Show - Part III

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: The Reformy Dr. Steve Perry Show - Part III:The Reformy Dr. Steve Perry Show - Part IIIby DukeWhen we last left the very reformy Dr. Steve Perry, he was in the throes of a Twitter s...

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Tweak. « Fred Klonsky

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Tweak. « Fred Klonsky:Tweak.by Fred KlonskyFredWhen I was starting out, it seemed like all the principals were wizened career veterans. Now that I’m a wizened career veteran, it seems like there’s ...

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What You Feel Or What You Think

schooltechconnect.com - The more I read about the Common Core Standards--- in fact, the more I read the actual standards--- the more worried I get about what the near term future is going to hold for our nation. The so-ca...

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A critical look at ed reform

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Digital | The limits of online assessments

Digital | The limits of online assessments:

The limits of online assessments

by Jill Barshay

How tough is it for a math teacher to know if his or her students understand basic math?

Tougher than you think, according Marilyn Burns, a veteran math educator and founder of Math Solutions, a unit of Scholastic Inc.

She found that an alarming number of middle-school students couldn’t subtract 998 from 1000 in their heads. Instead, they cross out zeroes and subtract digit by digit without really understanding or thinking through what they’re doing. Burns says teachers too often assume that students who compute properly understand what they are doing, but often these students are unable to apply simple math in the real world.

“Right answers can mask confusion and wrong answers can hide understanding,” says Burns.

Burns’ latest math solution? Teachers in grades 4 through 8 should spend oodles of time interviewing students

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The last I’ll post on teacher data reports | Outside the Cave

The last I’ll post on teacher data reports | Outside the Cave:

The last I’ll post on teacher data reports

by Stephen Lazar

I’m just about ready to move on to writing about more important and pressing topics than the release of teacher data reports, but wanted to share a couple more great pieces that point out flaws in the reports, and their release. What all three of these pieces share — and every piece I’ve read in the New York Times, Daily News, and Post have lacked — is actual statistical analysis. This is what we call rigor! Shame on New York’s largest papers for lazy reporting.

Gary Rubinstein is brilliant once again:

Out of 665 teachers who taught two different grade levels of the same subject in 2010, the average

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Limbaugh Apology Makes It Obvious He Has No Idea What Sandra Fluke Said « Student Activism

Limbaugh Apology Makes It Obvious He Has No Idea What Sandra Fluke Said « Student Activism:

Limbaugh Apology Makes It Obvious He Has No Idea What Sandra Fluke Said

by Angus Johnston

Three days after causing a huge uproar by calling Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “slut,” a “prostitute,” and a “feminazi,” Rush Limbaugh has apologized. But his statement makes clear that he has absolutely no idea what Fluke said in her testimony to Democratic members of Congress, or what her arguments on the subject of contraceptive coverage actually were.

Here. Take a look.

Limbaugh: “I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing

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Money Pours Into Coffers of Heartland Institute, The Propaganda Arm of the Right Wing « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

Money Pours Into Coffers of Heartland Institute, The Propaganda Arm of the Right Wing « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!:

Money Pours Into Coffers of Heartland Institute, The Propaganda Arm of the Right Wing

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Right Wing Heartland Institute Moves to Exclusive New Offices

One South Wacker #2740

Chicago, Illinois 60606

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After 15 years in offices on South LaSalle Street, Heartland Institute recently moved to an exclusive larger new office on the 27th floor of One South Wacker across the street from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

As an elected school member in Milwaukee, each month, I receive a stack of polished newspapers from this Chicago-based right-wing ”think tank” called the Heartland Institute. Under the banner of “free market” solutions to education, healthcare, taxes, the environment, telecommunication regulation and budgetary issues the Heartland Institute is a highly funded propaganda publishing house advancing the arguments of the most

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