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• Friday News Roundup: Week of November 30-December 4

  
  Federal Education Budget Project: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 127
  Author(s):  Emilie Deans December 4, 2009 At Ed Money Watch , we discuss and analyze major issues affecting education funding. In our Friday News Roundup, we try to highlight interesting stories ...
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• Testing Industry Misadventures

  
  Teacher Leadership Today — Authority: 107
  Ken Bernsteins review of Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry will intrigue and very possibly disturb you, if you are an educator weathering the standardized testing storm. Check it out at the TLN Teacher Voices blog, where we regularly post reviews of professional books for ...
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• Balls to tell 1,400 schools to improve

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Childrens secretary calls for action plan in 10 underperforming local authorities after tables show fall in standards More than 1,400 primary schools in England will be told to improve by the childrens secretary, Ed Balls, this morning. Balls will say at least 55% of pupils should be leaving school able to write a ...
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• Tories to pay off loans of trainee science teachers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Shadow schools secretary says top science graduates who go into teaching would have their loan repayments covered by a Tory goverment Good science students could have their loans paid off if they go into teaching, under Tory plans to improve teaching standards. The shadow schools secretary, Michael Gove, says a ...
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• 21st Century Schools-The Gobal Challenge

  
  Flux — Authority: 113
  21st century schools: The Globalised Challenge The world might be flat, China and India are a growing power and the challenge is undoubtedly global but will we have 21st century schools to help us meet that challenge? That was the key question at the 17th SSAT annual conference at the ICC in Birmingham last week. ...
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• Sats case study: Blue Bell Hill primary and nursery school, St Anns, Nottingham

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Jessica Shepherd on one primary and nursery school that is thriving in the face of adversity A school in one of the most deprived parts of the country is top of the primary league tables for added value. Almost half – 48% – of the pupils at Blue Bell Hill primary and nursery school in St Anns, inner-city ...
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• Separate & Unequal

  
  StickWithANose — Authority: 127
  One of the reasons our corporate masters were so willing to gobble up the craptastic Hoxby study on NYC charter schools is that Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s assault on public schooling has been one of the most successful in the country in terms of the number of charters. The key to the little dictators success is ...
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• More primaries failing to teach majority of pupils the basics, league tables reveal

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • More than half fell short of Sats level 4 in 885 schools • Opposition parties say standards are slipping Growing numbers of primary schools are failing to teach children to write a proper sentence using commas or tackle basic arithmetic in their heads, primary school league tables published today show. In just ...
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• Obituary: Lady David

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Labour champion of education in the Lords The Labour life peer Lady David, who has died aged 96, made a great success of drawing on her local government experience in the House of Lords. Both major parties were on the lookout for such ability, and Lady Trumpington, Davids tennis and political opponent on Cambridge ...
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• Year one, Obama; Year seven, NCLB— where, when will the two meet?

  
  The Leading Source — Authority: 125
  Last Tuesday I wrote about ASBJ ’s December forum, which features seven education experts commenting on the Obama Administration’s ambitious agenda for the public schools. It’s titled “ Year One ,” for obvious reasons, and perhaps by the time we get to “Year Four,” or possibly, “Year Eight,” ...
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• Underperforming league tables must go | Jackie Schneider

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Parents arent stupid – we can tell if a primary school is good or bad. Its time to stop wasting teachers time on this charade Will parents be huddling in the playgrounds up and down the country poring over the newly released primary school league tables ? Will there be urgent conversations about who is promoted ...
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• Response: Intelligent design should not excluded from the study of origins

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Complex biological systems have not been explained by neo-Darwinian processes Your article stated that "the government is ready to put evolution on the primary curriculum for the first time after years of lobbying by senior scientists" ( Scientists win place for evolution in primary schools , 9 November). Andrew ...
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• The Gravy Train

  
  StickWithANose — Authority: 127
  In previous posts, I’ve pointed toward the underlying motivation behind the charter school movement as being the colonization of a new marketplace funded by taxpayers, see here and here . However, it would be a mistake to believe that this trend is isolated to K-12 education. As this AP article details, the ...
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• Foreign Universities in India: The Bill Sent Back

  
  Sunday Posts — Authority: 423
  The Prime Ministers Office has sent back the bill allowing the Foreign Universities to operate in India for revisions.Not again! This bill is jinxed, and have been in a state of flux for more than seven years now. But, as I learnt why, I am truly surprised. My expectations were the obvious: The PMO has found that ...
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• The State of the Revolution

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Author’s Note: I would like to thank the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy for sponsoring my next speech, which this Thursday, December 3rd. The speech will take place in the Talley Student Center Grand Ball Room at N.C. State University in Raleigh, NC. It will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will be free and open to ...
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• Letters: School budgets

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  So Ed Balls is to claw back £750m a year from schools ( Report , 27 November). Will there be similar cuts at the banks? Will lights dim at Canary Wharf? Will senior bankers posts be trimmed? Will banks be told how much they can keep in reserve, pay in salaries, hand out in bonuses or gamble on investments? In other ...
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• Dont let parents ruin local schools

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Toby Young wants to found his own school, but schemes like his will harm his poorer neighbours Parent-promoted schools – sounds like a great idea, doesnt it? Every parent probably has a secret vision of what their perfect school might look like. Why shouldnt an incoming Conservative government sweep away planning ...
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• Too many initiatives not enough teaching | Harriet Sergeant

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Harriet Sergeants controversial report, launched today, argues that schools are failing because teachers spend too much time fulfilling government iniatives instead of teaching I have spent the last year investigating education. I have interviewed Ofsted inspectors, teachers, pupils and parents and visited schools. I ...
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• Schools of incendiary thought | Shaaz Mahboob

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Faith schools that may be promoting extremist ideas must be closely monitored – and should certainly not receive public funds Any institution that promotes segregation and openly prescribes members of society to lead separate lives deserves no sympathy and most definitely not public support in the form of tax ...
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• Boris Johnson announces first mayoral academy will open in September

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Schools secretary gives green light to Turin Grove school in Edmonton Boris Johnsons ambition to set up new schools in the capital began to bear fruit today as he announced that the first "mayoral academy" will open next September in Edmonton, north London, despite concerns at his decision to pour millions of pounds ...
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