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Top Ten Politics K-12 Moments of 2010 - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Top Ten Politics K-12 Moments of 2010 - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Top Ten Politics K-12 Moments of 2010

by Alyson Klein

Happy Almost New Year everyone!

When you're ready to take a break from returning those unwanted holiday gifts and buying champagne for New Year's Eve, check out these top ten ed politics moments of 2010:

10) Hawaii and Maryland are awarded with second-round Race to the Top grants by department officials who either a) didn't want to travel very far to monitor the grants or b) figured if they did have to travel far, it may as well be to someplace really awesome.

9) The Department gives $50 million Investing in Innovation grants to Teach For America and KIPP, in the

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Groups demand an end to mayoral control of Chicago schools

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Groups demand an end to mayoral control of Chicago schools

Groups demand an end to mayoral control of Chicago schools

by Mike Klonsky
WHO: Jitu Brown (KOCO), Karen Lewis (Chicago Teachers Union), Margarite Jacobs (People for Community Recovery), Michelle Young (Action Now), Rico Gutstein (Teachers for Social Justice), CPS youth and parent representatives

WHAT: Press Conference

WHEN: December 29, 2010 at 10:30 a.m.

WHERE: Thompson Center lobby, 100 W. Randolph Street Chicago, IL 60601

WHY: The above groups, joined by teachers, students, parents and others directly impacted by
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Poll: Best and Worst Developments for K-12 Education : Education Next

Poll: Best and Worst Developments for K-12 Education : Education Next

Poll: Best and Worst Developments for K-12 Education



By Education Next 12/15/2010

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The Koret Task Force on K-12 Education, based at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, has released its list of the best and worst developments of 2010 for K-12 education. Now is your chance to vote on which events you think were the two best and the two worst of the year.

Which were the two best events in education in 2010?
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2010 Census Data - 2010 Census

2010 Census Data - 2010 Census
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NYC Public School Parents: Fact-checking "Waiting for Superman": False data and fraudulent claims

NYC Public School Parents: Fact-checking "Waiting for Superman": False data and fraudulent claims

Fact-checking "Waiting for Superman": False data and fraudulent claims

by Leonie Haimson
In the movie Waiting for Superman, nominated for an Oscar as the best Documentary of 2010, the following statement is made:

" ...in Illinois, 1 in 57 doctors loses his or her medical license, and 1 in 97 attorneys loses his or her law license, but only 1 teacher in 2500 has ever lost his or her credentials."

While looking for the source of this claim, which is repeated without citation in the movie and its companion book, I came upon a 2007 newspaper article by Scott Reeder of the Small Newspaper Group:

During the past six years, 1 in 2,500 Illinois educators have lost their teaching credentials through suspension, revocation or surrender.

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California’s Grinches Arraign Student Protesters at Christmas « Student Activism

California’s Grinches Arraign Student Protesters at Christmas « Student Activism

California’s Grinches Arraign Student Protesters at Christmas

by Angus Johnston

It’s the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Students everywhere are far from their universities, celebrating the holidays with loved ones. Campuses are ghost towns. Blogs like this one are running at a tiny fraction of their usual traffic.

…And nineteen UC Irvine activists are being dragged in front of a judge.

Today is three hundred days exactly since the UC Irvine

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Education Revolution, “Genuine Learning Cannot be Standardized” (Magazine) | Democratic, Community-Based Education

Education Revolution, “Genuine Learning Cannot be Standardized” (Magazine) | Democratic, Community-Based Education

Education Revolution, “Genuine Learning Cannot be Standardized” (Magazine)

by Democratic Education

The Winter 2010/2011 issue of Education Revolution magazine is now viewable for free online (see below)! Edited by renowned author and educator, Dr. Ron Miller, this issue features public school alternatives, quaker education, reflections by veteran activists, and more!

Visit www.educationrevolution.org for more information on the publisher, Alternative Education Resource

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What Teacher Shortage? | NBC Los Angeles

What Teacher Shortage? | NBC Los Angeles

What Teacher Shortage?

What Teacher Shortage?

It may be puzzling to read stories like thisabout teacher shortages after a year that saw Californiaschool districts lay off thousands of teachers. Somecritics have mockedthis talk of teacher shortages. And there's reason to be skeptical about predictions of teacher shortages, since for years there was talk about California facing a prospective shortage of 100,000 new teachers right about now.

So is the teacher shortage talk just total bunk? Not exactly. California does face, right now, shortages in certain kinds of teachers. Highly qualified teachers who graduated in the top third of their class are in short supply. So are teachers with the skill to teach math, science an

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Truth Emerging on Unencumbered K-12 Education Funds

Truth Emerging on Unencumbered K-12 Education Funds

Truth Emerging on Unencumbered K-12 Education Funds

By Paul Soutar On December 27, 2010
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What could Kansas do with an extra $743 million? That’s a question legislators and the governor-elect want answered.

Kansas K-12 schools had $1.567 billion in unencumbered or carryover cash on July 1 and as much as $743 million of it could be made available for discretionary spending by school districts, according to state government research.

Those numbers, released in November, came as a surprise to legislators who were told in April, during final 2011 budget deliberations, that schools’ carryover balances would be $1.156 billion, $411 million lower than they actually were on July 1.

Republican leaders in Topeka want to put some of the carryover money to use.

House Speaker Mike O’Neal (R-Hutchinson) told Kansas Watchdog:

“There’s plenty of money in the system to fund any perceived deficits in the next fiscal year. I don’t know that the schools need to spend all that money. But certainly, using their own argument that we are X dollars underwater, I can tell you that

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Subject Matters: Science has an image problem - CNN.com

Subject Matters: Science has an image problem - CNN.com

Subject Matters: Science has an image problem

By Sally Holland, CNN
December 28, 2010 9:19 a.m. EST
Brittany Abbott and Laura Keller's teacher often buys materials for experiments at their Wilmington, Massachusetts, school.
Brittany Abbott and Laura Keller's teacher often buys materials for experiments at their Wilmington, Massachusetts, school.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Science teachers struggle with a lack of materials for experiments
  • Some students have a hard time believing they'll be good at science
  • Administrators often ask teachers to work with subject matter they're not familiar with
  • Math and English education are emphasized, while science is left behind, teachers say
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In Subject Matters, we reveal the struggles faced by educators who teach subjects like science, math, English and history, and the solutions they've found. Teachers, share more ideas in our weeklyTeachers' Lounge.

As science teachers try to educate the next generation of scientists in the United States, they worry about everything from a shortage of supplies for classroom experiments to their subject's nerdy image. Here are some of the challenges they face in their classrooms.

Pencils, paper ... and Alka-Seltzer?

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