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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: 536
  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: 103
  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 ...
  12 hours ago

• Send…More…Money

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 412
  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: 145
  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 ...
  13 hours ago

• Singapore Math pilot in New Milford: SPED students ahead of general ed students

  
  kitchen table math, the sequel — Authority: 430
  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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• Molestation in Elementary School Library by Third Grader on Classmate; Librarian Mishandles 8 Year Old Victims Plea for Help; School Refuses Comment

  
  SafeLibraries — Authority: 451
  " Mom Says 3rd Grader Performed Sex Act On Her Son ," by Kelly Hessedal , WREG-TV CBS3 , 6 November 2009 (and see the video at this site): FAST FACTS: * Mom says her sons 3rd grade classmate performed sex act on him * Alleged incident happened in library, while librarian was there * District says ...
  2 days ago

• Teaching Is Starting To Be Fun Again. Finally.

  
  Education On The Plate — Authority: 406
  Image via Wikipedia I’ve spend most of my teaching career trying to push, pull, and otherwise motivate students who have failed so often that they have all but given up on the idea of school. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t think that giving up on school is always a bad thing, just that there are sometimes ...
  2 days ago

• Meeting the School Turnaround Challenge

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  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 ...
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• Salwan cross-country attracts 30,000 students

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 7(IANS) Around 30,000 students from across the country will vie for the gold medal at the Salwan Cross Country Run at the Army Equestrian Centre here Sunday.The “marathon” in its 15th edition will see the participation of over 140 outstation schools from Vadodra, Pune, Jamshedpur and Darjeeling and ...
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• Seven students injured in truck-school van collision in Delhi

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 7 (ANI): At least seven students were injured when their school van was hit by a mini-truck near Kashmere Gate here this morning.According to sources, the mishap took place around 7:30 am when the children of Delhi Public School Mathura Road were going to school.The injured students were rushed to ...
  3 days ago

• Seven DPS students injured in accident

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) Seven students of Delhi Public School on Mathura Road were injured Saturday when a speeding truck jumped traffic signal and rammed into a school van in north Delhi, police said.Eyewitnesses said the accident took place around 8 a.m. at Majnu ka Tila, near the Inter-State Bus Terminus at ...
  3 days ago

• "Education is not the filling of a vessel, it is the lighting of a...

  
  Soccer Mom in Denial — Authority: 116
  flame. William B. Yeats For more Singular Saturdays go visit its new home at Finding My Way (aka MoJenn) .
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• The Education Wars II

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 445
  I liked this comment from this blog (typos in original): Anonymous said... As a teacer Im not inclined to agree with any negative comments regarding seniority. Furthermore, imagine the ridiculous standards that teachers are measured by, would be used to hold doctors and lawyers "accountable". It is like telling ...
  3 days ago

• Empowering One Student at a Time: Community of Unity

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  There are some non-profit education-based organizations whose mission and programs are so uniquely effective that they become stand-out models for others to emulate. I recently discovered Community of Unity in New York City which is definitely one such program. Founded in 2001 by Eric Komoroff ,  Community of ...
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• Why did Colorado voters change up their school boards?

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 672
  In the days since Tuesday’s election, much has been written about the fact that voters instigated sweeping changes in two of the Front Range’s most contentious school board elections. What do the election results mean? In the Douglas County Public School system, voters elected a Republican-backed, ...
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• The Necessity of the Christian School

  
  The Reformed Reader — Authority: 420
   Making my way through Machen’s excellent Shorter Writings I came across a great article on Christian schooling (originally delivered by Machen in 1933 before the Educational Convention of the National Union of Christian Schools in Chicago, IL.).  As always, Machen is clear and quite thought-provoking. His ...
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• Absolute Corruption Is the Rule in America

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 485
  America’s former middle class is joining the ranks of the poor, and the foreclosed are filling the nation’s homeless shelters. Short of bold government action of Rooseveltian proportions, there will... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• More allegations of school misconduct

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 672
  Last night, the Denver Public School District seized hard drives from the Contemporary Learning Academy, in order to investigate allegations that the school set up “dummy classrooms” with “dummy students.” The alleged misconduct would have increased government funding to the Academy. Schools receive state ...
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• “The school starting age should be raised to six to help eradicate illiteracy.”

  
  PARENTING FREEDOM.com — Authority: 133
  Second expert calls for school starting age to be raised to sixhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225357/Second-expert-calls-school-starting-age-raised-six.html#ixzz0W59zw2YY“The school starting age should be raised to six to help eradicate ...
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• More Nutty Teachers Indoctrinating Children

  
  PARENTING FREEDOM.com — Authority: 133
  ELEMENTARY EPIDEMIC: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obamahttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/04/elementary-epidemic-11-uncovered-videos-show-school-children-performing-praises-to-obama/My original post on ...
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