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Original Technorati articles tagged “education reform”

• in Politics
  Matt Damon Fights for Teachers
  Save Our Schools March in Washington a success.
  by danbimrose / on Jul 31, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Parents and Community: The Overlooked Piece of the Education Puzzle
  An overlooked part of the education puzzle is the role parents play in their child's success.
  by amymyers / on Jun 30, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Getting Rid of Homework, Not a Bad Idea
  Finally a school reform proposal that makes sense, getting rid of homework
  by wksocmom / on Jun 18, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “education reform”

 

• LAltos SD & Bullis Charter: forum Tues. w/give lawsuit updates

  
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  UPDATE, May 20, 2013: A while back, we called the dispute over "reasonably equivalent facilities" (Prop 39 education code law) between th Bullis Charter School and the Los Altos School District the public ed version of the movie, "The War of the Roses." We were wrong. It more resembles Charles Dickenss Bleak House in ...
  4 days ago

• The Texas Tribune: Raise Your Hand Texas Wields Power on Charter Schools

  
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  Raise Your Hand Texas has become a seasoned lobbying force on education issues, and its No. 1 legislative priority is fighting private-school vouchers.        
  1 week ago

• Lynne Varner says Seattle teacher protests against testing are focused on the wrong problem

  
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  You would think that smarter kids would do better in school, right? Wrong--and least not for poor black kids. The fact is that any child of average intelligence can succeed in school--as long as he/she has a rich environment of verbal interactions, a wide variety of experiences, a safe home, preparation for ...
  1 week ago

• Are We Really Waiting for Superman?

  
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  Having spent the last week thinking a lot about teacher preparation, I’d like to share a few more thoughts on teaching, teacher preparation, and student achievement. In the last two posts, we’ve seen that far too many teacher preparation programs eschew preparation and that, instead, there’s an emphasis on ...
  1 week ago

• How to Save Billions and Better Prepare Students to Make Billions

  
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  This article was originally posted on The Huffington Pos t on May 8, 2013. Last February, The National Center for Education reported that 50 percent of the  3 million students  who begin college annually require some level of remediation. This trend costs students, parents, institutions, and taxpayers nearly  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Assbly Dem Caucus: No on LCF formula; Yes on child dev/early ed

  
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  May 9, 2013: Assembly Speaker John Perez, at left, introduced the Democratic Caucuss "Blueprint for a Responsible Budget" yesterday, which takes aim at Governor Browns Local Control Funding Formula for public education in readiness for the Governors submission of the "May revise" of the 13-14 budget next week. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Other Peoples Children": The Corollary of Bad Policy

  
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  By Mark Naison For some time, I have argued that School Reform is the most destructive bi-partisan initiative we have suffered in the United States since the Vietnam War, a policy which has, and will continue to inspire mass movements to limit the damage it inflicts through universal testing of the nations children, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Massively Open Online Medicine: Bad Idea or Just Before Its Time?--David Harlow

  
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  The new darling of the online educational community is Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The example which figures most prominently in the popular imagination is the Khan Academy, though its founder says otherwise, noting that MOOCs are merely online transplantations of traditional courses , while Khan Academy ...
  2 weeks ago

• 11 Ways to be an Inquiry-based Teacher

  
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  It’s hard to run an inquiry-based classroom. Don’t go into this teaching style thinking all you do is ask questions and observe answers. You have to listen with all of your senses, pause and respond to what you heard (not what you wanted to hear), keep your eye on the Big Ideas as you facilitate learning, value ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trying to make some noise

  
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  So I am trying to draw some attention to the fact that they are proposing an increase to the number of charter schools in MA. Below is my email to my State Senator and the Chair of the Joint Education Committee: Dear Senator Chang-Diaz: My name is Googie Baba. I am a resident of Jamaica Plain and your constituent. I ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6 Smart and the Dumb Things They Say(and why that matters)

  
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  The setting was Education Nation 2.0 2011 at Stanford University.  Yeah it has been two years,  but this still very much applies today.  So as we look back, think of today.  "Master interviewer and PBS host Charlie Rose and a distinguished panel of luminaries tackle the tough questions of how to improve our ...
  2 weeks ago

• Child Urged to Take Exam From Hospital Bed

  
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  Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons In a recentpost I pointed out the absurdity of the CaliforniaDemocratic Party’s criticism of the education reform movement because of itscommodification of children . As vulgar and impersonal as it may seem tosensitive, liberal ears, in purely economic and political terms ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lecturing in High Def

  
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  At the risk of being declared obsessive, I have one more rant about the educational philosophy of Bill Gates based on the Fast Company interview with him. This time, his vision of that classic instructional tool: the lecture. That’s one more goal: to revolutionize the lecture in terms of cost and quality. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Howl About These Numbers Instead

  
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  In the article that triggered the previous rant , both the writer and the subject, Bill Gates, make reference to the frequent howl of politicians and corporate types, that students in US schools have fallen far behind their counterparts in other countries. The line has been repeated so many times that it has become ...
  2 weeks ago

• Standardized tests measure kids and teachers, but whos measuring the tests?

  
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  Teachers have to document and defend their effectiveness. Test makers dont. A high school English teacher rues the irony.
  2 weeks ago

• Don’t Like Common Core, Go Ahead And Leave

  
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  Last week, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) hosted “information sessions” throughout the state about the new Common Core State Standards. I noted in my last blog post that citizens showed up to these meetings with questions. DESE officials, on the other hand, showed up with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Civil rights groups oppose "big 9" request for separate NCLB waiver

  
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  UPDATE, May 6, 2013: The Los Angeles Daily Newss education reporter Barbara Jones reports: A coalition of civil rights groups is opposing efforts by Los Angeles Unified and eight other school districts to get a waiver from a federal law requiring that all students be proficient in English and math by 2014. In a letter ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Final Power Grab: Get the minds of the children!

  
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  Americans were told in the early 1960′s by a funny looking short chubby Russian leader named Khrushchev that America would be defeated by Communism and not a shot would be fired.  If you care to go to my right side column   you will find a series of videos made in the 1980′s by a former KGB (Russia’s top spy ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lynne Varner gets one right

  
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  Lynne Varner of the Seattle Times wrote an editorial,  Moving education theory from the lab to the classroom , in which she got it mostly right. She now seems to support making education reforms based on research. This is a big change from her previous support for education reforms that had no research to support ...
  3 weeks ago

• School Choice: Fix our schools to erase poverty

  
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  By John Conlin, Founder End The Education Plantation The single most accurate indicator of a child’s academic performance in the United States is their family’s income. The poorer the family, the poorer the academic performance of their children. I know people who believe it’s okay that schools serving poor ...
  3 weeks ago

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