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whitehouse.gov - On Tuesday, April 3rd, Vice President Biden is traveling to Norfolk, VA to discuss how the Obama Administration is tackling rising college costs. Higher education can’t be a luxury – it’s an econom...



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One subject the candidates are flunking: Joel Klein



cleveland.com - Until former Sen. Rick Santorum called President Barack Obama "a snob" last month for wanting all Americans to attend college, education had been practically invisible in this presidential campaign...



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City Revokes Testing Word Ban – SchoolBook



nytimes.com - April 2, 2012, 6:14 p.m. New York City Department of Education officials said late Monday that they were pulling back on a clause in contracts for testing companies that list 50 words and topics th...



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Lawmakers to Consider Health Care Districts' Future



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Tell Scott Walker he's not welcome in Illinois!



afscme31.org - 03/28/2012Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is coming to Springfield on April 17 -- and we're going to be there to tell him, "Go home!" Join in solidarity, Tuesday, April 17, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Abr...



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GSA chief resigns amid reports of excessive spending



washingtonpost.com - Public Buildings Service chief Robert A. Peck, a fixture in the Washington area real estate community on his second stint running the department, was forced out, along with Johnson’s top adviser, S...



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Do Bunnies and Chicks Make Good Easter Gifts?



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2012 Time 'Person' Of The Year Prediction: The Slacktivist



forbes.com - Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” dates back to 1927. Charles Lindbergh’s famous aviation earned him the title in what was widely seen as an attempt to make up for Time’s lack of coverage on the...



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BPA, Flame Retardants & Toxic Jewelry « MomsRising Blog



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Study: Reading For Pleasure Makes Your Brain Grow (Literally)



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Can Arts Education Help Close the Achievement Gap? | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights

Can Arts Education Help Close the Achievement Gap? | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights:
Can Arts Education Help Close the Achievement Gap?

by obriena


A recent report from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) suggests that arts education can help narrow the achievement gap that exists between low-income students and their more advantaged peers. But new data from the federal government suggests that low-income students are less likely to have access to arts education than their higher-income peers.
Certainly arts education is important for its own sake. But in a time of tough budget choices, arts education advocates must speak to its tangible benefits, which the NEA report clearly does. By nearly every indicator studied, a student from a low-socioeconomic (SES) background with high-arts educational experience significantly outperformed peers from a low-arts, low-SES background, closing (and in some cases eliminating) the gap that 



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Students angry over pricey courses pepper-sprayed - Boston.com

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Students angry over pricey courses pepper-sprayed

In this photo provided by David Steinman, Nnaemeka Alozie, campaign manager for Steinman, reacts with milk on his face after being sprayed with pepper spray during a protest on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, in Santa Monica, Calif. Campus police pepper-sprayed as many as 30 demonstrators after Santa Monica College students angry over a plan to offer high-priced courses tried to push their way into a trustees meeting Tuesday evening, authorities said.In this photo provided by David Steinman, Nnaemeka Alozie, campaign manager for Steinman, reacts with milk on his face after being sprayed with pepper spray during a protest on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, in Santa Monica, Calif. Campus police pepper-sprayed as many as 30 demonstrators after Santa Monica College students angry over a plan to offer high-priced courses tried to push their way into a trustees meeting Tuesday evening, authorities said. (AP Photo/Courtesy David Steinman)
By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer


Associated Press / April 4, 2012
SANTA MONICA, Calif.—Campus police pepper-sprayed as many as 30 demonstrators after Santa Monica College students angry over a plan to offer high-priced courses tried to push their way into a trustees meeting, authorities said.

Raw video posted on the Internet Tuesday evening showed students chanting "Let us in, let us in" and "No cuts, no fees, education should be free."
Students were angry because only a handful were allowed into the meeting, and when their request to move the meeting to a larger venue was denied, they be


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CTU's Report on Schools Chicago's Students Deserve

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CTU's Report on Schools Chicago's Students Deserve

by sarah-ji
(Click here to download the full report.)
Back in the middle of this past February, the Chicago Teachers Union released a comprehensive report that offers research-based policy recommendations to improve student academic performance and to strengthen neighborhood schools. Chicago Public School (CPS) parents, Local School Council leaders, clergy and educators joined the CTU in supporting this proposal. The following is the executive summary from that report:
The Schools Chicago's Students Deserve is a new Chicago Teachers Union study which argues in favor of proven educational reforms to dramatically improve the education of more than 400,000 students in a district of 675 schools.
These reforms are desperately needed and can lead 
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Is Louisiana about to allow discrimination of gays in charter schools? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Is Louisiana about to allow discrimination of gays in charter schools? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:


Is Louisiana about to allow discrimination of gays in charter schools?

by Valerie Strauss
If a bill that passed a Lousiania Senate committee becomes law, charter schools in the state will be able to refuse to accept students based on sexual orientation or English language skills.
Here’s what’s behind the bill, which was sponsored by state Sen. A.G. Crowe, a Republican from Slidell.
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Some 2012 college admissions rates hit new lows

by Valerie Strauss
Ivy League schools along with some other highly selective colleges and universities have been proudly announcing historically low admissions rates for freshmen entering next fall — as if the figures actually have real importance and meaning.
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Seattle superintendent search process raises concern | Seattle Times Newspaper

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Seattle superintendent search process raises concern

Seattle School Board members have decided not to ask superintendent finalists to answer questions at a public meeting, in part because they're worried overly negative attendees would scare off candidates.
By Brian M. Rosenthal
Seattle Times education reporter
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In about a month, the Seattle School Board will choose the next leader of the city's public schools.
You will not meet this person before he or she is chosen.
That's because, unlike in previous superintendent searches, the board has decided not to let members of the public directly question the finalists at a public meeting.
Instead, each of the three finalists will interview 
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Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee Punks NY Teachers’ Union - NYTimes.com

Group Aims to Counter Influence of Teachers’ Union - NYTimes.com:


Group Aims to Counter Influence of Teachers’ Union in New York

By ANNA M. PHILLIPS
Published: April 3, 2012
Leaders of a national education reform movement, including Joel I. Klein and Michelle Rhee, the former schools chancellors in New York and Washington, have formed a statewide political group in New York with an eye toward being a counterweight to the powerful teachers’ union in the 2013 mayoral election.

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The group, called StudentsFirstNY, is an arm of a national advocacy organization that Ms. Rhee founded in 2010. Like the national group, the state branch will promote the expansion of charter schoolsand the firing of ineffective schoolteachers, while opposing tenure.
Led by Micah Lasher, who is leaving his job next week as the director of state legislative affairs for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the campaign is beginning while advocates of 
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NYC Educator: Chillin' With Mayor4Life

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Chillin' With Mayor4Life

by NYC Educator
Okay, now, you see that big guy in the picture? That's Mayor Mike. And the beautiful woman? Well, that's us I guess. What are those chains that bind us? Are they mayoral control? The UFT Contract? A stolen third term?

Whatever binds us, it'll be there for a good year-and-a-half. No sense letting him get too comfortable. I was at the closing hearing at Grover Cleveland High School on Monday, and I was just a little bit upset. I may have said one or two uncomplimentary things about Michael the Hut and his band of Tweedies. I could have researched good things about the school and made some kind of impassioned plea, but figured the DOE rep was probably playing a Pacman game under the table and just waiting for the moment he could go home.

Leo Casey pointed out that Cleveland did not meet the DOE's own 
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The Educated Reporter: How To Tell When School Turnaround Turns the Corner

The Educated Reporter: How To Tell When School Turnaround Turns the Corner:


How To Tell When School Turnaround Turns the Corner

by Emily Richmond
In an interview at The Atlantic’s "Jobs & Economy of the Future: Educating the Next Generation to Compete" Town Hall, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan pressed his case on the urgent need for America’s public schools to “get better faster than we ever have.”

But when it comes to the costly School Improvement Grant (SIG) program, a key plank in the Obama administration’s efforts to fix public education, there is no specific framework for measuring whether the initiative has succeeded or failed. What, exactly, qualifies as “better?” How much time do students, teachers and school communities have to satisfy the demand for “faster?”

Almost from its inception, No Child Left Behind was pilloried for setting what many educators (not to mention statisticians) argued was an unrealistic goal: that 100 percent of the nation’s public school students would be 
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Daily Kos: A time comes when silence is betrayal.

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A time comes when silence is betrayal.

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)
originally posted in 2008.  I can think of nothing more relevant for today
Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.
Today is the anniversary of one of the most significant public addresses in this nation's history. On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination in Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in Riverside Church in NYC to a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City, where he delivered an address 
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