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• In the News

  
  PARENTING FREEDOM.com — Authority: 132
  Children hurt in playground fights can claim damages after boy injured by three-year-old boy wins right to payouthttp://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1227399/Children-injured-school-fight-claim-damages.htmlDistrict nixes cash-for-grades fundraiserhttp://www.newsobserver.com/news/education/story/185460.htmlPay ...
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• The Cost of College and the Three-Year Degree Option

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 413
  Again with the slapping . This time it’s for the jackasses in charge of higher education in this country. If you still feel they (the schools, the loan people, and the government) aren’t lacking in smarts and high-moral-ground-standing cojones, then please read this excerpt from WSJ’s Journal Editorial ...
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• An Idea Who’s Time Has Come

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  11/13/2009 An Idea Who’s Time Has Come David L Lamon I have an idea whose time is come or maybe past. It is Friday the 13th and good times to start a campaign of striking fear into those elected by “we the people”. Join me in writing our congressmen/women, Glenn Beck (me@glennbeck.com), Sean Hannity ...
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• The Education Wars III

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 147
  There is little doubt at all President Obama is the most anti-public education president in the nations history . The fact he appointed his buddy Arne Duncan to the secretary of education post tells it all. Charter schools are by and large jokes; the truly scary part is existing public school districts are being ...
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• Quotes

  
  Christianity Lived Out — Authority: 121
  I enjoyed these quotes form around the web. Tammy Drennan from Education Conversation Here’s a discovery that would really rock our country: Government involvement in education is linked to intellectual mediocrity, moral and cultural decay, destruction of community, and loss of liberty. Nancy Pelosi in ...
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• Arne Duncan, Secretary of Wheel Reinvention

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  The final guidelines for the Administration’s “ Race to the Top ” education reform program have now been released. It’s a system that stimulates competition between the states to produce results that the customer (Secretary Duncan) wants, using financial incentives. Déjà vu , anyone? It’s as though Arne ...
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• Our life with Shelby – part two

  
  HighCallingBlogs.com — Authority: 512
  Part two in a series. Click here to read part one. Shelby’s time in the psychiatric hospital was very hard on all of us. She was frightened to be there and wanted to come home badly. But Jeanene and I both felt strongly that she needed to finish her time of evaluation. She was there about 10 days. At the end ...
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• School Lunch Food Fight Ends In Arrest of 25 Chicago Students

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  cornelluniversitylibrarys Flickr photostream/Creative Commons We take school lunch very seriously here at TakePart, particularly efforts to increase access to healthy, local ingredients, but a Chicago middle-school may have gone a little overboard when they had 25 students arrested for a cafeteria food fight .  ...
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• School House Rock Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs

  
  Melissas Homeschool Blog — Authority: 128
  So what did you do this Veterans Day? Me, not what I planned. I have not gotten hardly anything done. So far today I walked down to see the parade, only for it to rain, and then to find out public school kids had school today. What is up with that? So no little kids actually got to see the parade, collect the ...
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• The National Education Association Recommends Alinskys Rules for Radicals

  
  The Common Room — Authority: 516
  Posted at HotAirs Greenroom, Directorblue writes : Hard as it may be to believe, the recommending reading list of the NEA — the powerful, Democrat-controlled teachers’ union — includes instruction manuals for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government . Two books by radical Communist activist Saul ...
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• PRESENTING: The ‘Fourth Graders For Obama’ YouTube Channel

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 806
  Here’s a little mid-week scare courtesy of the 4thgraders4obama YouTube Channel. (Don’t waste your time — I searched high and low and no luck finding the  4thgraders4bush YouTube Channel.) Yes, you read that right, an entire portal filled with nearly a dozen videos devoted to nine and ten year-olds ...
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• NCLB Act and Proficiency Testing

  
  NYC Private Schools Blog — Authority: 424
  Many NYC Private School families report that the substandard level of their locally assigned school’s educational programs are the top reason they chose to pull out and instead send their children to a private school. The No Child Left Behind act has changed much of the way public schools think about standardized ...
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• Hey Hypocrisy

  
  A Life Less Ordinary — Authority: 480
  Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. —François, duc de La Rochefoucauld I have never been a fan of school vouchers. My feeling is that taking away money from the public school system does nothing to improve it. I’m not sure that throwing more money at it will, but I’m certain that pulling funds from ...
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• 33 Posts On America’s Education System

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 413
  While writing the previous post , I went searching in the archives for relevant previous posts. I found entirely too many to tack onto the end of an already-lengthy post. Here they are, including some Education Reform posts proving I’m not always in disagreement with President Obama. Teaching and Teachers: ...
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• Can you read yet, little boy?

  
  Javaline — Authority: 117
  My 4yo is interested in reading. He had some exposure to phonetics at his Montessori * daycare, and I picked up on that method at home with him. He left that daycare when he joined the public school system in September and entered Junior Kindergarten. And he likes it there…but he is not interested in sitting ...
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• Discussion, not flaming torches, should drive teacher pay reform

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 549
  We live in a time when government is a form of theater; that is, it manages us by appearing to manage us. The current administration, perhaps because it came in with so much support, has broken new ground in what I’m calling Fantasy Government. It rails against health insurance companies, after giving them ...
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• Challenging the school-to-prison pipeline

  
  Equal Justice Works Blog — Authority: 111
  Equal Justice Works Fellow Cary Brege , an attorney at Legal Aid of North Carolina, is investigating suspension rates and challenging the school-to-prison pipeline. She recently helped one client – an eigth-grade student named Marcus Renkel – challenge his school and appeal suspension after he was disciplined ...
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• Send…More…Money

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 413
  I’m running out of productive things to say about the education system in the U.S. Mostly I just want to slap everyone involved and ask them what the f**k is going on. Is the answer to why our public schools are struggling so hard to put out decently educated students so obvious that no one can see it? It’s ...
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• Demarest School Open House

  
  Hoboken411.com — Authority: 148
  11/9/2009:For your consideration - Demarest High School is having an open house this Thursday, November 12th at 7pm.Learn about programs and more“DHS is having an Open House on November 12th, 2009 at 7pm. Find out more about our school featuring: A new exciting academic curriculum Industrial Technology Center ...
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• Singapore Math pilot in New Milford: SPED students ahead of general ed students

  
  kitchen table math, the sequel — Authority: 131
  Steve Hs question - whether any of us knows a district that has replaced Everyday Math, TERC, Trailblazers, etc. with Singapore or Saxon - has prompted me finally to post the material I saved on New Milford, CTs 2006 pilot program comparing Everyday Math, Saxon Math, and Singapore Math. (I can email copies of the ...
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