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• Stimulus funds bring Mich. few private-sector jobs

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  DETROIT - An analysis by The Detroit Free Press has found that most of the federal stimulus funding thats reached Michigan has created few private-sector jobs. The Free Press examined more than 1,800 awards to agencies, departments, municipalities and firms in Michigan under the stimulus act. It found that the biggest ...
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• Essential Education: "Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom" by Alan November

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
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• 3 MINUTE SURVEY: Why isnt your school organization making more progress?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 552
  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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• Public School Graduates and Dropouts: School Year 2006-07

  
  Data Detectives — Authority: 424
  This First Look report presents the number of high school graduates, the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), and dropout data for grades 9 through 12 for public schools during the 2006-07 school year. State education agencies (SEAs) provided the data to the Common Core of Data (CCD) nonfiscal survey.
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• Paterson: NYS Will Be Broke Before Christmas

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  http://wcbstv.com/cbs2crew/david.paterson.special.2.1300362.html quote: Delivers Scary News To Legislature, Says Only Way To Fix Problem Is To Have Immediate Cuts To Education, Hospitals Reporting Marcia Kramer ALBANY (CBS) ? Gov. David Paterson told the state Legislature on Nov. 9, 2009, if there aren’t ...
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• Homeschooled students left out of H1N1 clinics in some districts

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 604
  Middletown resident Cathy Gallagher breathed a sign of relief when she learned last week that Neshaminy students would get swine flu vaccines later this month. Then school district officials told her that her 17-year-old daughter Brianna wouldn’t get one. The reason, Gallagher said, is that Brianna is home ...
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• 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 ...
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• Bucks will begin vaccinating school kids starting Tuesday

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 604
  Bucks County Health Department officials today unveiled its plans to begin mass swine flu vaccinations for school children starting Tuesday. The process could be completed by the end of the month, if the county continues recieving vaccine.  This week, the county received 20,000 doses of injectable and FluMist ...
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• The (un)certainty of professional persistence

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 552
  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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• LI Attorney Must Repay State $240K In Pension Scam

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 576
  ALBANY—Long Island attorney Lawrence W. Reich will pay more than $240,000 for his nearly 30 years of abusing the state’s public pension system.Reich will pay to the State of New York and the state pension system a total of $240,565.74 to end Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s investigation into his nearly 30 years ...
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• Data-driven decision-making resources from CASTLE

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 552
  I have done a lot of work over the years on various data-driven decision-making projects. Ive taught courses, given workshops, delivered multi-day institutes for state departments of education and corporate partners, and written book chapters and white papers. I collected some of the highlights of that work on my ...
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• Are we too connected?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 552
  WHO TV (Des Moines) aired a special report, Are we too connected ? , on last night’s news broadcast. Among others, they interviewed me and Dr. Michael Bugeja , Professor and Director of Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication . I have interacted with Michael a couple of ...
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• 10 questions about books, libraries, librarians, and schools

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 552
  [ cross-posted at LeaderTalk ] October apparently was ‘Library Month’ for me. I was the keynote speaker for the Minnesota MEMO conference and did a breakout session for the Iowa Library Association (ILA) conference . I also brought Dr. Mike Eisenberg  to Iowa for three days to talk with school administrators ...
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• Do The Math- The Networked Collaborative Formula

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  The Professional Networked Learning Collaborative has a large network surface area. Network surface area is a measurement of the extent and number of connections from the team members who are physically present with each other, and community partners, useful outsiders, specialists, consultants, professors, etc. who ...
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• Grits for Breakfast: Texas AG Greg Abbott ‘thwarting transparency’

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 557
  One of our favorite blogs, the law-related site Grits for Breakfast, is putting a whipping on Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott for not making public records public in cases like school districts’ police forces’ use-of-force policies and the Cameron Todd Willingham execution case: There’s just no excuse for ...
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• Show-Me Your Movie

  
  The Wired Classroom — Authority: 114
  Show-Me a Movie is a digital storytelling contest for Missouri students to demonstrate their creativity and digital moviemaking skills. Based on curriculum and with a content focus, the videos will showcase what students know, care about, and are able to do. Join us in this fun event! Contest Timeline ...
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• April Media Literacy VC for K-12 Staff: News Violence & the Effects on Young People

  
  The Wired Classroom — Authority: 114
  NEW DATE! April 14, 2010: This Just In!: News Violence and the Effects on Young People Around the clock, breaking news is a staple of our culture. We have more access to up-to-the-minute information now that ever before, and so do young people. So, when an event such at the Virginia Tech attack or the failing ...
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• Educations Triple Bottom Line

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  How does an organization measure success?  One measure, or should I say three, is the Triple Bottom Line . According to Wikipedia , “The phrase was coined by John Elkington , co-founder of the business consultancy SustainAbility in 1994. It was later expanded and articulated in his 1998 book Cannibals with ...
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• Marge Beatty, Nebraska ESU 16, talks about 1:1 laptop programs

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 552
  [ cross-posted at CASTLEs 1-to-1 Schools blog ] While at Nebraska’s first-ever Educational Administrators Technology Conference , I learned that 8 of the 16 districts in Educational Service Unit 16 have 1:1 laptop programs. Marge Beatty , chief administrator for the ESU, was willing to let me ask her a few ...
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