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• National Briefing | South: North Carolina: Cash-for-grades Plan Principal Quits

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Susie Shepherd will retire after school district leaders halted a fund-raiser she approved that would have allowed students to buy 20 test points for a $20 donation.
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• 3 MINUTE SURVEY: Why isnt your school organization making more progress?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 559
  Why aren’t schools making more progress when it comes to effective implementation and integration of digital technologies? Here’s what K-12 educators usually tell me when asked (list is in no particular order): Lack of adequate funding Unsupportive state / federal legislators Teacher / union resistance Lack ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Trade Regulation Talk — Authority: 125
  Principal and Sales Rep Could Be Liable for Attorney’s Fees on Separate Claims This posting was written by John R.F. Baer of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, author of CCH Sales Representative Law Guide . When a sales representative presented two claims against its principal, one for pre-termination ...
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• School secretary honored for compassionate and caring attitude

  
  BuscoVoice — Authority: 143
  Susan "Susie" Egolf has been awarded the 2009 Indiana Association of School Principals Secretaries Compassion Award. Egolfs caring and supportive attitude is the reason ...
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• D.C. school principals report improved resources, support

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 967
  Five years ago, some principals from D.C. public schools took part in a survey that revealed their disappointment with the lack of support and resources they received from the school system. Some principals were so unprepared that they began the school year without adequate staffing, textbooks,...
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• You Have Email. I Have a Blog. Let’s Work Together.

  
  PrincipalsPage The Blog — Authority: 416
  Would you like to receive the PrincipalsPage.com Blog via email? It’s easy. Just sign up (next to my cartoon wife’s right elbow) to receive notifications when new blog entries are posted. That’s it. It’s so easy, my dog Buddy could do it. And he doesn’t have thumbs.
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• School secretary honored for compassionate and caring attitude

  
  BuscoVoice — Authority: 143
  Susan "Susie" Egolf has been awarded the 2009 Indiana Association of School Principals Secretaries Compassion Award. Egolfs caring and supportive attitude is the reason ...
  3 days ago

• Racial Achievement Gap Still Plagues Schools

  
  Carol J. Carter — Authority: 124
  CAROL’S SUMMARY: The big question posed by the NPR story below that has yet to be answered is whether lower-level classes can hold students to higher standards, or whether any sorting system sends the wrong message to students about their ability to learn. Tracking has been a fundamental aspect of education in the ...
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• Does Leadership Matter? It Does When I’m Selecting a High School for My Son In NYC

  
  Samuel Bacharach Blog — Authority: 125
  It’s high stress time in NYC. The exams for the specialized high schools occurred on Saturday morning and rotational visits to schools are in full force. Getting your child into the right high school in NYC is running the gauntlet of evaluations, ambiguous criteria, and often unspecified standards. However, my ...
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• Rate schools, not teachers

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 612
  Teacher ratings “in most districts are as discerning as peewee soccer award night, with everyone getting a trophy,” writes Jay Mathews in the Washington Post.  Less than one percent of teachers were rated unsatisfactory in a New Teacher Project study of 12 districts,  including Chicago, Denver, Cincinnati and ...
  5 days ago

• Literacy Challenges of The Social Technographic Ladder

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  The ladder. Charlene Li and Josh Bernofff have written a great book titled Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies . In their book they describe The Social Technographics ladder. “Each step on the ladder represents a group of consumers moreinvolved in the groundswell than the ...
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• Dumber Together? Brainstroming in a Professional Learning Community

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  You have seen it before. The PLC agenda says, “Brainstorm ideas for…” You look around and see the chartpaper, pens, and Post-It notes lying on the table, and you think toyourself, “Why do we waste the time.” You know the rules of brainstorming in PLCs … 1. No criticism 2. Wild ideas are ...
  6 days ago

• Principals

  
  Seattle Public Schools community blog — Authority: 137
  A reader asked for a thread on new principals but heck, lets just open it up. What are your thoughts on principals? What, to you as a parent, makes a good principal? Is your principal responsive to parents? To staff? How is staff morale at your school? I have said many times that I used to think that a ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Melbourne Shall Be Your New Mecca #7: "By The Very Nature Of Your Naming"

  
  insultadarity — Authority: 117
  We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. Rabindranath Tagore But "meaning" is "yours" to "plagiarise." So thats alright then! Try to dig what Im layin down: 1] Melbourne Shall Be Your New Mecca 2] Melbourne Shall Be Your New Mecca #2: What I & I Wish I & Id Said 3] Melbourne ...
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• Educational Video Games Mix Cool With Purpose

  
  Carol J. Carter — Authority: 124
  CAROL’S SUMMARY: Today’s generation of students loves video games and some companies are trying to put this passion “to good use.” In the article below, children “are playing educational video games as part of their school curriculum, in after-school programs or via the Web from home.” Sasha Barab, ...
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• Understanding AdminSDHolder and Protected Groups

  
  John Policelli's Blog — Authority: 119
  NOTE: I revised this article to fix some mistakes and to include new content from Windows Server 2008 R2.Active Directory has built-in processes that exist to secure users that are members of privileged groups. These processes have been around for quite some time, but Active Directory administrators still get stumped ...
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• The (un)certainty of professional persistence

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 559
  There has been a lot of good discussion on my post about the future of books, libraries, librarians, and schools  (thank you, everyone). In addition to the comments on the post itself, there are some excellent thoughts elsewhere as well: Flat World Library Corporation Dangerously irrelevant libraries Ten ...
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• The Impact of Teachers

  
  Carol J. Carter — Authority: 124
  CAROL’S SUMMARY: Who are your most memorable teachers? What did they do that made such a lasting impression on you? For one thing, you were probably inspired by them to achieve more, and they may have been instrumental in helping you experience a learning breakthrough. The breakthrough wasn’t just about the ...
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• Why Your Local Bank May Not Be The Best Place To Acquire Unsecured Business Loans

  
  Loans For People On Benefits — Authority: 103
  There are no easy solutions or magical magical when it comes to the field of business financing nowadays. Why limit your financing options by going to your local bank when considering unsecured business loans and the following: * The loan representative at your bank is not the underwriter and has no power to give ...
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