Sunday, July 10, 2011

Big Education Ape: 1-10-11 PM Edelman apology + Oligarchs' Blueprint for Crushing EDition

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The Best School $75 Million Can Buy

nytimes.com - How do you sell a school that doesn’t exist? If you are Chris Whittle, an educational entrepreneur, you gather well-to-do parents at places like the Harvard Club or the Crosby Hotel in ...

DianeRavitch

Jonah Edelman apologizes to my blog readers. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - Fred Klonsky blog readers: After watching the fourteen minute excerpt and then viewing the whole video of the hour-long session, I want to very sincerely apologize. My shorthand explanation in the ...

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Jonah Edelman Spills the Oligarchs' Blueprint for Crushing the Teaching Profession

schoolsmatter.info - Please share this WIDELY. Why? Here's why in 15 minutes or less: As Lisa Guisbond said, "this is an amazing video from the Aspen Ideas Festival in which Stand For Children’s Jonah Edelman explain...

DianeRavitch

Let’s get livid. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - Mark writes: Audrey’s outrage at being ‘snookered’ by the loonies is probably a distant second to her outrage at being exposed as complicit in the sellout of her members. But it’s not her discomfor...

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National-Academies.org | Newsroom

nationalacademies.org - Date: May 26, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Current Test-Based Incentive Programs Have Not Consistently Raised Student Achievement in U.S.; Improved Approaches Should Be Developed and EvaluatedWA...

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EducationSee all

Sunday Dialogue: What to Do to Make Our Schools Better

nytimes.com - A lively debate about charter schools, high-stakes testing and impoverished students arose as David Brooks criticized Diane Ravitch, she answered back and readers joined the fray. THE L...

DianeRavitch

Education Department 'Concerned' About Wave of Cheating Probes, Allegations - FoxNews.com

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Education Department 'Concerned' About Wave of Cheating Probes, Allegations - FoxNews.comEducation Department 'Concerned' About Wave of Cheating Probes, AllegationsPublished July 10, 2011| FoxNews....

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An educator on the Brooks-Ravitch debate - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - An educator on the Brooks-Ravitch debate - The Answer Sheet - The Washington PostAn educator on the Brooks-Ravitch debateby Valerie Strauss--This was written by educator Anthony Cody, who taught sc...

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PoliticsSee all

Boehner abandons efforts to reach comprehensive debt-reduction deal

washingtonpost.com - Unless Congress acts to raise the $14.3 trillion legal limit on the debt, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said that the government will begin to default on its obligations after Aug. 2. The...

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NY Mag: Klein should be well-prepared for fixing Murdoch scandal

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - He took a position with News Corp. after stepping down from his education post in December, and now it looks as if he's got his first big project on behalf of Rupert Murdoch: Klein, a lawyer by tra...

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Boehner abandons efforts to reach comprehensive debt-reduction deal

washingtonpost.com - House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) abandoned efforts Saturday night to reach a comprehesive debt-reduction deal worth more than $4 trillion in savings, telling President Obama that a mid-size p...

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Art & EntertainmentSee all

Scandals Redefine Rules for the Press in Europe

nytimes.com - (Page 2 of 2) In France and Britain, the past days and weeks have shown both models of reporting to be strained to the point of failure, leaving journalists in both countries to define the role the...

DianeRavitch

Jonah Edelman apologizes to my blog readers. « Fred Klonsky's blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jonah Edelman apologizes to my blog readers. « Fred Klonsky's blogJonah Edelman apologizes to my blog readers.by Fred KlonskyJonah Edelman writes:Fred Klonsky blog readers:After watching the fourte...

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Laid-Off Art Teachers Turn to Their Craft to Express Themselves

nytimes.com - Katrina Barge, an artist who was among the 1,000 public schoolteachers laid off last summer, sat up a bit straighter as she described a recent painting. “It’s called ‘Though I’m Broken and Bruised,...

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StoriesSee all

School Tech Connect: Aspengate and HuffPo

schooltechconnect.com - So.... Arianna was at the Aspen Approved Ideas Only Festival; she's been appointed as a voice for progressives for some reason. She's also personally very much in the ed deform camp from what I can...

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School Tech Connect: Stranger and Stranger...

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Stranger and Stranger...Stranger and Stranger...by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)This site has become muckraker central. Go a head and read the gross Edelman apology, and then...

coopmike48

“Sit Your A** Down!” (Excuse my French!)

oldschoolteach.wordpress.com - It”s Sunday, so this really shouldn’t be the title of my post, but it fits so well. I thought of the title as I sat, in all places, in a church in Boston. I recently read an article about that chil...

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LivingSee all

Renaming Schools: Why are the “Sanitizers” Bent on Re-writing History?

edupln.ning.com - You cannot get more American than George Washington, the President who adorns the One Dollar bill emblazoned with “In God We Trust.” Yet in 1992 he came under attack when the parents and staff at a...

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The Normalization of Corruption | Firedoglake

firedoglake.com - Corruption Box (photo: watchsmart) A decade ago the wise American public told us something important: they believe corruption is so endemic to our political system that unethical acts are no longer...

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Busted! Bachmann Clinic Caught Doing "Ungaying" They Said They Didn't Do

my.firedoglake.com - The Fabulous Marcus Bachmann, courtesy Ken AvidorMost Minnesotans who follow politics in the state figured that Bachmann and Associates, the counseling clinic run by Michele Bachmann’s husband Marc...

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EnvironmentSee all

asahi.com（朝日新聞社）：Beef from Fukushima found with high levels of radioactive cesium

asahi.com - The Tokyo metropolitan government on July 8 detected levels of radioactive cesium 4.6 times the national standard in meat from a cow raised in Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, officials said.The ...

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