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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Big Education Ape Wildly Achieving Cohort Award



THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Big Education Ape Wildly Achieving Cohort Award

My Gift to you during this holiday season and nearly everyday is the voices of people who love public education. Most of the people are fighting to keep education Public and Free. I follow these people for news, ideas and inspiration. There are others but these guys are working it everyday to fight privatization of our Public Schools and for a free and great education for all kids. They are truly American Heroes. 



 Rheefirst
www.RheeFirst.com: Exposing Michelle Rhee's lies and deceptions, 140 characters at a time
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 Rita Solnet

 Jersey Jazzman
Music educator, composer, and political gadfly
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 Bob Sikes
Former NY Mets trainer is a current high school teacher. By blog's currenty focused on the dynamic that exists between education reform, politics and money
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 Anthony Cody
Worked in Oakland schools for 24 years, 18 of them teaching in a high needs middle school. He writes a blog, Living in Dialogue, for Teacher Magazine
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 Cynthia Liu
Founder, K12NewsNetwork. Education news: made and reported by parents, students, educators
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 Arne Duncan 
The official Twitter page of the US Secretary of Educatio
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 ModernSchool
High school science teacher, union organizer, activist and advocate for children and teachers
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 Tom Torlakson
California State Superintendent of Public Instruction. My staff & I provide updates on events and education issues. Official SSPI & CDE feed is .

 Angus Johnston
Historian and advocate of American student activism. I teach at CUNY
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 SmallSchoolsWorkshop
Rethinking public school design, teaching & learnin
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 Alfie Kohn
author and lecturer on topics in education, parenting, and human behavio
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 Walter ASCD
Lifelong learner, teacher, leader and connector making use of social media to take it to the next level
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 Shanker Blog
Commentary and research on education, labor, and democracy from the Albert Shanker Institute. You can also follow us on Facebook: 

 Maria Shriver 
I am an activist, author, journalist and mother. I consider myself a work in progress. My mission: to inspire and empower people to be Architects of Change
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 Bruce Baker
Professor at Rutgers University specializing in school finance, education policy & quantitative analysis
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 Brett Dickerson
An Oklahoma high school history teacher who is committed to integrity in education and government
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 Bruce Lesley
President of First Focus ( &). Child advocacy, politics, policy. Father: 4 kids. Basketball fanatic. Views expressed are mine alone
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 Jeanne Newman
public school math teacher, obama canvasser, proud mother, adoring wife, bleeding heart liberal, Woodstock 69 attende
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 Milton Ramirez
Education, Translation, Math, Physics, Technology, Social Media, Blogging
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 Deborah Meier
Education Activist/Write
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 Richard Lakin
educator, child and teacher advocate, edu-tweeter, author of Teaching as an Act of Love:Thoughts and Recollections of a Former Teacher, Principal and Ki
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 Kenneth Bernstein
tchr Quaker liberal Dem, music, puns, 60+, blogger (Daily Kos, BLue Commonwealth, etc
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 SCUSD Superintendent
Striving to do all we can so our young people can achieve their goals and dream
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 Valerie Strauss
The Washington Post's Valerie Strauss writes about everything that matters in education -- and some things that don't
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 Ken Libby
PhD student at CU-Boulder studying education. Doctoral student researcher at NEPC. Tweets do not represent the university. RTs ≠ endorsements
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 Tomas Karkalas
My pictures opens my diary where poetry embellishes rough luck
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 Emily Alpert

 Education Nation
Examining and redefining education in America. Hosted by .

 John Fensterwald
Educated Guess blogger on California ed policy and editor, Thoughts on Public Education in Calif. (top-ed.org); former opinion writer for San Jose Mercury News
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 Jose Vilson
You can't stop my go. I been born to be where I am. Bright light from a distant star ...

 Tom Whitby
Prof of Education. Founder: , The EDU PLN Ning, Linkedin group Technology-Using Professors et al. BLOG: My Island View 

 Larry Ferlazzo
Inner-city High School teacher -- ESL & Mainstrea
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 fklonsky
Art teacher, union gu
y

 leonie haimson
NYC public school parent, Exec. Director, Class Size Matters and founding member, Parents Across Americ
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 David B. Cohen
English teacher, blogger, assoc. dir. of Accomplished California Teachers. Interests: ed. leadership, practice & policy. Follows/retweets are not endoresements
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 Tim Furman
Chicago-Based 2.0 Teacher, Tech Support Person. All about reclaiming the progressive vision of education before it's tested completely away
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 TeacherReality
FL teacher; parent; advocate for public education; working tirelessly to expose 'ed reform' profiteer
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 CJ
Hoping Godot will come
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 Sabrina Stevens
Teacher, writer & advocate for teachers, kids, & communities. Tweets, bad jokes, & unpopular opinions are mine alone :
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 Monise L. Seward
 Alum, Soccer Mom, Edu-Blogger, Fndr ,  & CEO of. Advocate 4 all things Kid-Arts-Education related
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 Katy Murphy
Education reporter and blogger for the Oakland Tribune. Reach me at kmurphy@bayareanewsgroup.com
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 Stud Protest

 alexanderrusso
I used to be a Hill staffer. Now I write about education. Follow my other feeds  (Chicago schools) & (ed-related gossip and pop culture)
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 Justin Hamilton 
Official twitter account for Department of Education Press Secretary Justin Hamilto
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 Diane Ravitch
I write about education. I blog at Bridging Differences at Education Week
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 Mike Klonsky
Education prof, writer, blogger, high school basketball coac
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 A. Mercer
Elementary teacher, ed tech enthusiast, wife, mother. Oh, and I knit too. Like a ninja, I'm full of surprises
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Please Note: Many others qualify for the 
Big Education Ape Wildly Achieving Cohort Award
they have been remove for National Security Reasons


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Editorial: Real hurdle to education reform is poverty - Chicago Sun-Times

Editorial: Real hurdle to education reform is poverty - Chicago Sun-Times:


Editorial: Real hurdle to education reform is poverty

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Chicago Teachers UniPresident Karen Lewis addresses City Club Chicago during luncheMaggiano's Banquets Chicago Ill. Tuesday November 20 2012. | Andrew
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis addresses the City Club of Chicago during a luncheon at Maggiano's Banquets in Chicago, Ill., on Tuesday, November 20, 2012. | Andrew A. Nelles~Sun-Times Media
There is nothing easy about trying to boost academic outcomes for poor kids.
That is why we’ve supported a range of aggressive interventions for the Chicago Public Schools over the years, including school closures, charter openings, turnarounds, improved teacher evaluations, a longer school day and changes to teaching tenure, hiring and firing rules.
We remain convinced those interventions can make the difference at individual schools, for individual kids and, across all schools, can move the needle slightly.
But until society and our schools figures out a way to deal, in a comprehensive and systemic way, with child poverty — a parent’s income and educational level is the biggest predictor of school success — the odds of major improvement are low.
The Chicago Teachers Union has been pressing this point with greater urgency in recent days — 
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School Reform Network Shutters National Office - District Dossier - Education Week

School Reform Network Shutters National Office - District Dossier - Education Week:


School Reform Network Shutters National Office

By Gina Cairney on December 31, 2012 12:00 PM

District Dossier

From guest blogger Gina Cairney
The Public Education Network has announced plans to close its national office in Washington, D.C., today, after 21 years of working to help all children—especially minority and disadvantaged children—have access to quality education. The announcement did not give a reason for the national office's closing.
But PEN's network of independent, community-based, nonprofit organizations called local education funds, will continue working with their school districts and local communities in high-poverty areas—much as they did before PEN was formed, Amanda Broun, PEN's former senior vice president, said in an email.
The LEFs were first started with funding from the New York-based Ford Foundation in 1983 as a response to the landmark "A Nation At Risk" report, Broun said, with the intention of 
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Daily Kos: Please read Eugene Robinson: Stop the gun madness

Daily Kos: Please read Eugene Robinson: Stop the gun madness:


Please read Eugene Robinson: Stop the gun madness

from Daily Kos by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)


Georgia has featured Robinson's Washington Post column in the pundit round- up, which is good.
It is not enough.
Everyone should read it.  Consider:
In 2010, guns took the lives of 31,076 Americans. Most of the deaths were suicides; a few were accidental. About a third of them — 11,078 — were homicides. That’s almost twice the number of Americans who have been killed in a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.In Britain, by comparison, the number of gun homicides in 2010 was 58. Here we’d consider that a rounding error.
Let's convert those actual gun homicides into death rates:  UK  58 deaths in an estimate population of 62.3 million
US 11,078in a population of  308,745,538
Deaths per 100,000 of population
UK 58/623 = .093
US 11078/3087 = 3.59
.093/3.59 = .0259    
The UK is increasingly diverse in its population.
It has a strong rural constituency that hunts - with shotguns, with hunting rifles.
And it has a gun homicide rate less than 3% of ours.
Or if you prefer, 3.59/.093 = 38.6
The gun homicide rate in the US is 38 times that of the UK.
Stop the gun madness
There is more. . .   unfortunately too much more . . .
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Modern School: Labor History Timeline--The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras

Modern School: Labor History Timeline--The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras:


Labor History Timeline--The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras

by Michael Dunn


The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras
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1619    First slaves brought to American colonies: They were brought to Jamestown by Dutch traders who had stolen them from a Spanish ship. Because the Spanish usually baptized captured Africans and the English exempted baptized people from chattel slavery, these first African Americans joined 
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