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Perdido Street School: DNAinfo: Eva Moskowitz Plans To Open 100 News Success Academy Charter SchoolsFrom DNAinfo:WILLIAMSBURG — The controversial charter network Success Academy plans to open 100 New York schools in the next decade, DNAinfo New York has learned.The charter chain already has 20 schools in the city with another seven slated to open next year, despite fierce opposition from public sc

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Corruption at Pennsylvania’s largest cyber-charter school as founder charged with funneling $8 million into private account | The Raw Story

Corruption at Pennsylvania’s largest cyber-charter school as founder charged with funneling $8 million into private account | The Raw Story: Corruption at Pennsylvania’s largest cyber-charter school as founder charged with funneling $8 million into private accountBy Pando DailyTuesday, August 27, 2013 8:17 EDTFor the last decade, cyber charter schools have been springing up all over the country. C

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-27-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Congratulations, John Owen, “Bad Teacher” of the Year!A terrific interview in USA Today with John Owen, who patiently explains what is really happening today in education. A sample: Q: You call yourself a “bad” teacher. When did this idea first occur to you? A: I was a bad teacher because I was a teacher. Today, “bad teacher” a

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8-27-13 MomsRising Blog

MomsRising Blog: Fifty Years On: Toward a Politics of InclusivityMy 5 year-old son and I have had two conversations about the police — or “la policia,” as we call them – already this week. In the first, he declared to me that “all police are not bad.” That’s part of a larger and ongoing post-Trayvon talk we’ve been having this summer (more on that here). Then yesterday morning, he pointed out t

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Arne Duncan Wants Special Education Students To Take General Exams

Arne Duncan Wants Special Education Students To Take General Exams: Arne Duncan Wants Special Education Students To Take General ExamsShould students with disabilities be held to the same academic standards as their peers? And should schools and teachers be held accountable for their progress?U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan answered that question with a resounding yes, proposing a seemingl

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Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: The progressive South rises again. North Carolina NAACP legal chair Al McSurely, Rev. William Barber and the Klonsky brothers. It wasn’t their plan, but the Republicans and Tea Party folks in North Carolina have created a progressive, multi-racial movement that has rocked the state over the past few

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Teachers deserve a shot at running their schools | EdSource Today

Teachers deserve a shot at running their schools | EdSource Today: Teachers deserve a shot at running their schoolsAugust 27th, 2013 | 1 Comment | By Charles Taylor Kerchner / commentaryShare on twitterShare on facebookShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing ServicesTed Kolderie, the Minnesotan who had a large hand in drafting the nation’s first charter school law, is selling ideas again. This ti

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How the public is deceived about ‘highly qualified teachers’

How the public is deceived about ‘highly qualified teachers’: How the public is deceived about ‘highly qualified teachers’By Valerie Strauss, Published: August 27 at 7:00 amE-mail the writer0CommentsMoreFor years now a charade has been perpetuated on the public by politicians in Washington and school reformers about the definition of a “highly qualified teacher” — an issue that has real-life conse

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Wondering where your kids can hide in a school shooting | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com

Wondering where your kids can hide in a school shooting | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com: Wondering where your kids can hide in a school shooting COMMENT(12) 0 1 0 6View Larger In the last 10 years since my twins started school, school safety has become an issue of greater concern to parents.By Maureen DowneyWhen my children began elementary school, not only could parents stroll into the building, wil

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Special Late Nite Cap UPDATE 8-26-13 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

Nite Cap UPDATEUPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATECORPORATE ED REFORMRedemption for Educators!Redemption for Educators! August 26, 2013 by Melanie Olmstead Educators may bear the brunt of school performance criticisms, but the public's opinion of educators is on the rise, with the majority of Americans believing that educators teach students well and keep them safe. This post has been generated by Page2RS

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Nite Cap 8-26-13 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change

James Baldwin said it best: "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAPTODAYRedemption for Educators! — Whole Child EducationRedemption for Educators! — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGRedemption for Educators!August 26, 2013 by Melanie OlmsteadEducators may bear the brunt of school performance criticisms, but the

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Redemption for Educators! — Whole Child Education

Redemption for Educators! — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGRedemption for Educators!August 26, 2013 by Melanie OlmsteadEducators may bear the brunt of school performance criticisms, but the public's opinion of educators is on the rise, with the majority of Americans believing that educators teach students well and keep them safe. More than 70 percent of Americans have trust and confide

by mike simpson / 16h

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Immoral Monday in Chicago

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Immoral Monday in Chicago: Immoral Monday in ChicagoStreets and Sanitation workers made a gruesome discovery a half-block from a Safe Passage route this morning: Mayor cancels walk with students after confronted by protesters Mayor Rahm Emanuel was scheduled to lead a group of children from Cather Elementary School on the West Side to a nearby community center for af

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Anne Gassel’s Common Core Action List | Truth in American Education

Anne Gassel’s Common Core Action List | Truth in American Education: Anne Gassel’s Common Core Action ListFiled in Common Core State Standards by Shane Vander Hart on August 26, 2013 • 1 Comment658This weekend I spoke this weekend at an event called “Exposing the Common Core” in Collinsville, IL (outside of St. Louis, MO). Anne Gassel, the co-editor of Missouri Education Watchdog, also spoke. I

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No Experience Necessary | EduShyster

No Experience Necessary | EduShyster: No Experience Necessary Meet the new Superintendent of the Camden Public Schools: EduShysterThere is only one thing thing tempting enough to rouse me from the vaca coma in which I’ve spent the last 10 days: a handsomely compensated new job with a career trajectory heading up, up and up. Reader: I’ve got excellent news to share. No longer will I be toiling away

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Microsoft’s lesson on what not to do with teachers

Microsoft’s lesson on what not to do with teachers: Microsoft’s lesson on what not to do with teachersBy Valerie Strauss, Published: August 26 at 4:02 pmE-mail the writer2CommentsMoreBill Gates (By Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been spending billions of dollars on education reform for years, first with a small-school initiative tha

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Architecture 101 Fall and Winter Workshops | Seattle Education

Architecture 101 Fall and Winter Workshops | Seattle Education: Architecture 101 Fall and Winter WorkshopsBesides my activities as an education advocate and architect, I teach introductory classes in Architecture for students from grade three through college and beyond.This fall I will be offering weekday classes for homeschool students, Saturday classes for grades 3 through high school and some H

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Diane in the Evening 8-26-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Special Education in New Orleans: “Thoroughly Broken”Lance Hill, a New Orleans civil rights activist, describes the ongoing debacle of special education in that city. The Southern Poverty Law Center sued the state in 2010 for pervasive discrimination against students with special needs. Just recently, SPLC filed another suit agains

by mike simpson / 18h

CCSS Publications Available - Year 2013

CCSS Publications Available - Year 2013 (CA Dept of Education): State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Announces Two Publications toHelp Schools and Students Transition to Common Core State StandardsSACRAMENTO—With schools beginning the year deeply engaged in the transition to the Common Core State Standards, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today announced that they are availab

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We Need More EdTech, But Less Technology In The Classroom | toteachornototeach

We Need More EdTech, But Less Technology In The Classroom | toteachornototeach: We Need More EdTech, But Less Technology In The Classroomby Jordan ShapiroTechnology plays a primary role in my teaching, but I rarely turn on the computer that makes the classroom “smart.”Occasionally, I project the class tweet stream. I am an advocate of Twitter for higher ed. But generally, during class time, I try

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The Takeover of PS 154 by Bronx Classical Charter Has Begun southbronxschool.com

http://www.southbronxschool.com: The Takeover of PS 154 by Bronx Classical Charter Has BegunWe here at SBSB wish to extend a laurel and hearty handshake to our new overlords and betters at PS 154, Bronx Classical Charter II. We look forward to years of acquiescence and seeing how the monies flow into BCC II and out of PS 154.We also have come to realize that as your school expands, 154 will shrin

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Parents 4 Teachers offers school closing accountability hotline Parents United for Responsible Education

Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » Parents 4 Teachers offers school closing accountability hotline: Parents 4 Teachers offers school closing accountability hotlineFrom Parents 4 TeachersFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Aug. 26, 2013CONTACT:Erica Clark, 773-851-6287Sarah Simmons, 773-573-9100CPS parents from closed schools urged to call School Closings Accountability Line to report

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Organizing – It’s Contagious! | NEA Today

Organizing – It’s Contagious! | NEA Today: Organizing – It’s Contagious!August 26, 2013 by twalker Filed under Featured News, Top StoriesLeave a CommentBy Amy Jordan and Nathan AllenGreat things happen when educators, administrators and parents work together to make their community stronger.Just ask Kristi Smith, a physical science teacher at Hellstern Middle School in Springdale, Arkansas.Smith

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Sabrina Stevens Shupe: 'Bad' Women, Teachers, and Politics

Sabrina Stevens Shupe: 'Bad' Women, Teachers, and Politics: 'Bad' Women, Teachers, and PoliticsSabrina Stevens Shupe: 'Bad' Women, Teachers, and PoliticsJust three months into 2012, as the Republican primary season continues, the tenor of the political conversation around contraception and other "women's" issues has grown increasingly alarming (to those of us firmly grounded in the 21st Century, a

by mike simpson / 21h

The Great Proficiency Debate

Shanker Blog » The Great Proficiency Debate: The Great Proficiency DebatePosted by Matthew Di Carlo on August 26, 2013A couple of weeks ago, Mike Petrilli of the Fordham Institute made the case that absolute proficiency rates should not be used as measures of school effectiveness, as they are heavily dependent on where students “start out” upon entry to the school. A few days later, Fordham presid

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A new challenge for Common Core — from the left | Tampa Bay Times

A new challenge for Common Core — from the left | Tampa Bay Times: A new challenge for Common Core — from the leftTALLAHASSEE — Conventional wisdom held that liberals and teachers supported the new Common Core curriculum standards.Until the Badass Teachers Association crashed the party.The 25,000 BATs, as they call themselves, are pushing back against the national standards with Twitter strikes, t

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A new challenge for Common Core — from the left | Tampa Bay Times

A new challenge for Common Core — from the left | Tampa Bay Times: A new challenge for Common Core — from the leftKathleen McGrory, Times/Herald Tallahassee BureauSunday, August 25, 2013 11:32pmFacebook61EmailShare92Print 34TALLAHASSEE — Conventional wisdom held that liberals and teachers supported the new Common Core curriculum standards.Until the Badass Teachers Association crashed the party.Th

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8-26-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools - A System that StrugglesWe've heard from many parents who are unhappy about enrollment issues like waitlists. My understanding is that the district was switching technology systems. Reading the Queen Anne Elementary principal's blog, it would seem that the whole system has been down, in one form or another.Principal Elliot's explains that on Bac

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Feds propose eliminating scores from modified testing as part of AYP SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources

SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources: Feds propose eliminating scores from modified testing as part of AYPBy Tom ChorneauMonday, August 26, 2013NCLB Reorganization As part of a long-standing and controversial commitment to holding all students to challenging content and achievement standards, the Obama administration proposed late last week ending a practice allowing states to use scorin

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K-12 News Network | Et tu, 5-2?

K-12 News Network | Et tu, 5-2? (LAUSD School Board Meeting, August 20, 2013): Et tu, 5-2? (LAUSD School Board Meeting, August 20, 2013)admin August 26, 2013 Charter Schools, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, State Education Law 0Special to K12NN from Karen Wolfe. Karen is an LAUSD parent leader and activist in support of public schools.While corporate education reformers take every op

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8-26-13 Wait What?

Wait What?: Mass Insight swaps out more consultants: Further reducing experience for CT Alliance DistrictsAs Connecticut’s Alliance Districts have become painfully aware, rather than utilize the tremendous expertise and experience within the Connecticut State Department of Education, Governor Malloy and his “Education Reform” Dream Team led by Commissioner Stefan Pryor decided to replace Connectic

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Civil Rights Leaders Condemn Privatization of Prisons and Schools - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Civil Rights Leaders Condemn Privatization of Prisons and Schools - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Civil Rights Leaders Condemn Privatization of Prisons and SchoolsBy Anthony Cody on August 26, 2013 11:23 AMSpeakers at this weekend's March for Justice in Washington, DC, drew attention to the failed war on drugs, and called for its end as one step towards reducing the number of people

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Cali Education Headlines Monday, August 26, 2013

FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: Adams: School bullying prevention efforts falling short, state audit saysEducation HeadlinesMonday, August 26, 2013New Inglewood Unified leader rescinds wave of campus security layoffsThe move to undo the wave of about 40 layoffs and demotions amounted to one of the first major decisions by Don Brann since he became the troubled district’s la

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Katrina Pain Index 2013: New Orleans Eight Years Later | Dissident Voice

Katrina Pain Index 2013: New Orleans Eight Years Later | Dissident Voice: Katrina Pain Index 2013: New Orleans Eight Years Laterby Bill Quigley / August 26th, 2013Eight years after Katrina, nearly a hundred thousand people never got back to New Orleans, the city remains incredibly poor, jobs and income vary dramatically by race, rents are up, public transportation is down, traditional public housi

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Arne Duncan’s endless supply of ‘game changers’

Arne Duncan’s endless supply of ‘game changers’: Arne Duncan’s endless supply of ‘game changers’By Valerie Strauss, Published: August 26 at 11:00 amE-mail the writer0CommentsMoreEducation Secretary Arne Duncan (By Jacquelyn Martin-Associated Press)Education Secretary Arne Duncan has something of an affinity for the phrase “game changer.” Just how much is chronicled in this post by

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8-26-13 Jersey Jazzman

Jersey Jazzman: The Merit Pay Virus SpreadsThe Camden teachers contract is up for negotiation, just as the state has taken over the district and is ready to install a new, reformy superintendent, Paymon Rouhanifard. This young fellow spent his career in New York City forcing charter school co-locations on communities that did not want them; consequently, there here is little doubt he is being inst

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Morning Wink 8-26-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSTODAYBridging the Higher Education Divide | Deborah Meier on EducationBridging the Higher Education Divide | Deborah Meier on Education: Bridging the Higher Education DividePosted on August 26, 2013 by debmeier“In our nation’s struggle to promote social mobility ….education has always been a key driver,” notes the Century Foundation’s president in the fore

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