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Common-Core Work Must Include Teacher Development

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 22, Clicks: 4)
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Stephanie Hirsh -- While we are promoting radical change in creating a coherent national framework for what students should know and the way they learn, we have not yet committed to offering teachers the deep learning they will need to transform the way they work.

2 comments | Tags: professional development common core state standards stephanie hirsh learning forward | Topic: Teaching Jobs BAD >_<

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New D.C. principal’s termination letter from Dallas

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 20, Clicks: 4)
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Valerie Strauss -- D.C. schools spokesman Melissa Salmanowitz said system officials are reviewing what happened in Dallas. She has not responded to questions about whether anyone in the D.C. system was aware of the accusations against Carter in Dallas when she was hired, or who actually hired her.

1 comments | Tags: valerie strauss washington d.c. roslyn carter dallas texas standardized test scores | Topic: Teaching Jobs BAD >_<

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Mass hysteria rare, but usually seen in girls

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 18, Clicks: 4)
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Fifteen teenage girls report a mysterious outbreak of spasms, tics and seizures in upstate New York. But tests find nothing physically wrong.

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Ellen DeGeneres: Public education’s new funding stream

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 20, Clicks: 4)
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Valerie Strauss -- Yet there is something sad and scary when a check from an entertainer is seen, in history’s wealthiest country, as a godsend to a school principal who herself has spent her own money trying to help her students, or to a school where teachers are working for free because of budget cuts, bad management and other factors.

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How Race to the Top is like ‘Queen for a Day’

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 18, Clicks: 5)
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James Arnold -- Race to the Top is marketed as a “solution” for states and districts in search of reform. The catch — as with all federal money — is the cash comes with strings that will continue the emphasis on high-stakes testing and the top-down management theories that were the basis of No Child Left Behind. The U.S. Education Department wants teacher evaluations tied to student test scores regardless of how it is done, and they want it done quickly.

1 comments | Tags: valerie strauss james arnold pelham georgia race to the top u.s. education department | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

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California lawmakers keep school buses rolling

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 20, Clicks: 4)
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School buses are likely to keep rolling for now, as the Legislature on Thursday restored $248 million for home-to-school transportation that was particularly crucial for small and rural school districts that need to take students across long distances.

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State Dept. pulls visa sponsor's designation

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 18, Clicks: 4)
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A company will no longer be allowed to arrange special federal visas for foreign college students to work in the United States because the State Department -- acting on complaints about poor labor conditions -- has revoked the organization's certification.

1 comments | Tags: council for education travel usa j-1 summer work travel program national guestworker alliance foreign exchange students | Topic: Other BAD >_<

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Value-added teacher evaluation goes on trial — literally

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 19, Clicks: 4)
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This is part of a post that Cohen wrote on the group’s InterACT blog about value-added teacher evaluation in reaction to stories about a possible lawsuit in Los Angeles to force the Unified School District to use the value-added method of evaluating teachers. It uses student test scores to supposedly determine the “value” a teacher contributes to student achievement. Assessment experts say the method is highly unreliable, but that hasn’t deterred policymakers.

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The Gates Push on Education

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 24, Clicks: 4)
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided The Washington Post with this spreadsheet of its grants since January 2008 related to elementary and secondary education. Recipients include schools, state agencies, nonprofit organizations, advocacy groups and others with a stake in public education.

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Governors' speeches reflect states' cautious mood

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 23, Clicks: 4)
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Glimmers of economic optimism. Deep concerns about jobs and health care costs. These are among the recurring themes as governors across the nation deliver their annual State of the State addresses. And the speeches have this in common, too: a striking absence of grand and costly proposals.

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Colo. lawmakers consider trans-fat ban in schools

PiGuy sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 36, Clicks: 6)
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The nation's leanest state is taking aim at junk food in school cafeterias as it considers the nation's toughest school trans-fat ban.

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New D.C. school principal left Texas under cloud

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 33, Clicks: 4)
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Valerie Strauss -- A principal recently hired by D.C. Public Schools is the same principal put on leave late last year in Dallas after investigators accused her of ordering third-grade teachers to focus only on math and reading in order to maintain an “exemplary” rating based on standardized test scores.

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Bracing for $40,000 at City Private Schools

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 29, Clicks: 4)
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As the median price of first grade in private schools has gone up by 48 percent, parents at Horace Mann, Columbia Grammar and Trinity are braced to find out whether they will join families in the $40,000-a-year club.

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Norman elementary students add flair to donated books

nitajo sumitted ago via http://normantranscript.com (Views: 31, Clicks: 8)
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Norman Public Schools Executive Director of Elementary Education Celeste Scott and NPS World Languages Director Janet Gorton presented the Norman Sooner Rotary with 1,250 laminated bookmarks at the club’s meeting Monday morning.

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Australia: School staff in rort scandal

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 27, Clicks: 4)
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Parents and staff in Victorian schools have been caught taking kickbacks, stealing fund-raising money and pocketing tens of thousands of dollars that should have been spent on students.

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