Public Education

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• Paramedics Endanger Vancouver.

  
  Vancouver Secrets — Authority: 129
  Unions playing with people’s lives: Following last week’s government-imposed back-to-work contract after a seven month strike…. Over 50 paramedics booked their shifts off right before they were about to start on Friday night,  pulling 35 ambulances off the road. On Saturday more shifts were booked off, ...
  19 hours ago

• Nerd News: Edu-Crats Have Ruined Math Education

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 484
  Surprise! OK, not really. You can now drive yourself mad by thinking about how edu-crats have ruined just about every other school subject too. Golly, it is time and past time to get rid of edu-crats and let real teachers -- oh, I dont know -- maybe TEACH.
  23 hours ago

• History for No Reason or Motivation

  
  Punchinello's Chronicles — Authority: 116
  Remember when you took history classes in high-school? I went through the system back in the 1960s, and what I mostly remember is outlines. We were told to take our history book home, read pages something through something, then outline what we read. It was probably the most stupid set of classes I ever took [...]
  1 day ago

• No to California Interscholastic Federation (CIF); Yes to Senate Bill 225

  
  San Diego Education Report Blog — Authority: 125
  I never understood why so many schools use taxes from all families to support athletics for a small minority of students. I was appalled about ten years ago when Valhalla High School changed its admissions policy to the girls tennis club from open enrollment to top players only. The result was that more than forty ...
  2 days ago

• WHAT IF HOPE WAS A NATIONAL PROMISE?

  
  "El Milagro Weblog" — Authority: 109
  So we are down in Georgia attending a community charity event for Intuit. I didn’t bring my laptop so I am writing this post from my phone. No pics today… just this thought: what if the “free and public education” system extended into college? Like here in Georgia. Clay told me that every graduating ...
  2 days ago

• Students and Parents Sue the Chicago School District

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 140
  On September 24th of this year, a student at Fenger High School in Chicago was beaten to death while walking home from school.  The incident was caught on film .  Since then, parents who have tried to transfer their children to other schools out of concern for their safety have been stonewalled by a system that ...
  2 days ago

• Natural Health Center: Living Well and Learning

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 146
  Find Natural Health Center (s) in the United States and Canada. At a natural health center , individuals can receive natural healing treatments and can also acquire knowledge about the various natural medicines available today. Whether you’re making your initial trip to a natural health center , ...
  3 days ago

• Lake-Sumter Community College professor is a Professor of the Year finalist

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 440
  Lets give a shout out this morning to local professor Sybil Brown, who teaches math at Lake-Sumter Community College. Shes one of three finalists in the running to become the Florida Association of Community Colleges Professor of the Year. And...
  5 days ago

• This Should Definitely Work …

  
  FITSNews — Authority: 648
  After somehow managing to worsen what was already the worst system of public education in the entire nation, S.C. Superintendent of Education Jim Rex has a brilliant idea that we’re sure will fix absolutely everything … Give ‘em guns … No, really . Reviving an old idea that he first championed this summer ...
  5 days ago

• The Other Side Plays Dirty

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  On the day that we honor veterans for defending our freedom, I read this : Community groups and Los Angeles Unified officials on Tuesday condemned an anonymous flyer handed to Latino parents that threatened them with deportation if they supported plans to convert their neighborhood school to a charter. Calling it ...
  5 days ago

• LGBT Visibility in the 2010 Census

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  This post is from Tom Sullivan, HRC’s family project deputy director: Yesterday marked the official launch of the OurFamiliesCount.org website which will promote LGBT visibility and participation in next year’s U.S. Census. This online public education campaign is a collaboration of LGBT community ...
  5 days ago

• Its NOT Ok.

  
  Homeschool and Etc. — Authority: 128
  Woodjie goes to preschool soon, and its going to be so special. Too bad it has to be in this district, and too bad for me that Im heavily invested in this house and didnt know back when I was house-hunting what I know now... I went to get testing results yesterday. To my mind, testing results and IEP drafting are ...
  6 days ago

• OurFamiliesCount.org Census Campaign Officially Launched

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  Today, the Human Rights Campaign joined leaders and advocates among the LGBT community today in the launch of Our Families Count ( www.ourfamiliescount.org ) — a new voluntary public education initiative promoting LGBT visibility and participation in next year’s U.S. Census.  The new 2010 Census education ...
  6 days ago

• American Public Education !

  
  . . . With Both Hands — Authority: 431
  I doubt very much that the manager of this Gary Burger King was a graduate of Bishop Noll Institute, Andrean High School, or La Lumiere School in the Gary Diocese. That is too bad. Were School Choice a Reality, the Sign Might be less Amusing . . .yet Sad. Hat tip to Detective Shaved of the Chicago Police ...
  6 days ago

• DreamBox Teacher Presents at the Kentucky Center for Mathematics Conference

  
  Math Learning, Fun & Education Blog : Dreambox Learning — Authority: 118
  DreamBox recently presented at the Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics (KCTM) conference in Paris, Kentucky.  We were excited to be invited by our friends at the Kentucky Center of Mathematics (KCM) to present at and attend the conference, and it was wonderful to have a chance to meet personally with ...
  6 days ago

• Are You Smarter than an Eigth Grader… from 1954?

  
  AmeriCAN-DO Attitude — Authority: 122
  The U.S. Constitution Test from May 1954 for 8th Grade students in America. (via AoSHQ).I am proud to say that my private Catholic grammar school — St. Turibius in Chicago, IL — taught us all of this. In 7th grade (IIRC), we had to take the “Constitution Test”. It consisted of 100 questions. [...]
  1 week ago

• CHILDREN GROOMED TO SOW OUR FATHER’S PEACE

  
  "El Milagro Weblog" — Authority: 109
  My father was a  member  of the “greatest generation”.  Salt of the earth.  Bright.  Self-educated.  A patriot.  As an officer of the United States Navy he saw action in both World War II and Korea.  He was on the blockade in the Mediterranean when Krushchev’s missile-bearing fleet tested JFK’s ...
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• Meeting the School Turnaround Challenge

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 607
  In recent months, the federal government has made it perfectly clear that one of its key education reform goals is to turn around the nation’s chronically underperforming schools. In fact, President Obama pledged to devote billions of dollars to fund a federal school turnaround program which would close 5,000 of ...
  1 week ago

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  Math Learning, Fun & Education Blog : Dreambox Learning — Authority: 118
  DreamBox recently presented at the Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics (KCTM) conference in Paris, Kentucky.  We were excited to be invited by our friends at the Kentucky Center of Mathematics (KCM) to present at and attend the conference, and it was wonderful to have a chance to meet personally with ...
  1 week ago

• NJEA looks to thwart Chris Christies urban education agenda

  
  The Ridgewood Blog — Authority: 488
  AFTER CORZINE LOSS, NJ EDUCATORS CONCERNED ABOUT FUTURE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION Jennifer Husko ( jhusko@nbc40.net ) - 11/5/09 04:42 pm http://www.nbc40.net/view_story.php?id=11176 ATLANTIC CITY-- Thousands of New Jersey Education Association members from across the Garden State converged on the Atlantic City ...
  1 week ago

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