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Michael Gove: This Year's Academy (cross-posted from the UK forum) 0 LeftishBrit Feb 2013 Feb 2013 1 1756
Support the Garfield teachers (Seattle) 0 HiPointDem Feb 2013 Feb 2013 6 1604
Ed deformers running stooge against Karen Lewis in next election? 0 HiPointDem Feb 2013 Feb 2013 2 1927
How charter schools choose desirable students 18 proud2BlibKansan Feb 2013 Feb 2013 12 4215
California School District Sued Over Yoga Program. 7 elleng Feb 2013 Feb 2013 3 3226
Teachers' evaluations on steroids. 15 no_hypocrisy Feb 2013 Feb 2013 3 3399
An MBA: The founder’s recipe for failure 2 Renew Deal Feb 2013 Feb 2013 3 2498
Farm Theme Boosts Enrollment in Rural Kansas School. 8 elleng Feb 2013 Feb 2013 4 2928
Has anyone here gone to EdCamp before? 0 knitter4democracy Feb 2013 Feb 2013 0 1685
Obama Goes With Science On Education and School Violence 3 toddmiller Feb 2013 Feb 2013 0 2301
Michelle Rhee: My Break With the Democrats 33 n2doc Feb 2013 Feb 2013 7 6681
The emotional violence of the accountability regime 2 HiPointDem Feb 2013 Feb 2013 9 2281
Let’s measure love (just like we measure teachers) 1 proud2BlibKansan Feb 2013 Feb 2013 4 1850
The disease is spreading to Canada ... 6 eppur_se_muova Feb 2013 Feb 2013 4 2636
The Loveliest Child 3 HiPointDem Feb 2013 Feb 2013 16 2297
Simple spectrometer (cross-posted from Science) 1 caraher Feb 2013 Feb 2013 2 1934
OECD: Reading performance inequality is high in the USA, but decreasing 2 muriel_volestrangler Feb 2013 Feb 2013 0 2013
The back of the class kid 8 HiPointDem Feb 2013 Feb 2013 4 2552
An Open Letter to Bill Gates: Why Not Measure This? 8 Coyotl Feb 2013 Feb 2013 14 2771
Pearson testing: no comment 2 HiPointDem Feb 2013 Feb 2013 6 1844
Chicago heating up again 0 HiPointDem Feb 2013 Feb 2013 9 1785
NY will share your child's private info with private companies w/o your permission. 7 madfloridian Jan 2013 Feb 2013 11 3477
Portelos: Value-Added for *Everyone* ! 3 Smarmie Doofus Feb 2013 Feb 2013 5 2198
Story Time’s Over Kindergartners—Time To Write Expository Essays! 10 Modern School Feb 2013 Feb 2013 4 4418
Corruption at CTC Placed Kids at Risk, Denied Teachers Credentials 1 Modern School Feb 2013 Feb 2013 8 4188
Who’s Hurting NY’s Kids? Cuomo's Attack on Collective Bargaining 3 Modern School Feb 2013 Feb 2013 6 3136
Skyrocketing Executive Pay and the Educational Salary Gap 2 Modern School Feb 2013 Feb 2013 7 2898
Deasy Sued in Miramonte Molestation Scandal 1 Modern School Feb 2013 Feb 2013 4 2813
Misguided Moralism From Both Sides of the Gun Debate 0 Modern School Feb 2013 Feb 2013 0 2643
California Flunks Rhee’s Reform Ratings—Badge of Honor? 8 Modern School Jan 2013 Feb 2013 7 4312

Education Continued...

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Another Domino Falls--UTLA Rolls Over and Accepts Student Test Data to Evaluate Teachers 0 Modern School Feb 2013 Feb 2013 3 2308
To teach 2 ashling Feb 2013 Feb 2013 13 2105
Deb Gist threatens sanctions for Rhode Island districts using seniority as a factor in layoffs 3 HiPointDem Feb 2013 Feb 2013 7 2775
xpost: books on math for grade school children 5 phantom power Jan 2013 Feb 2013 1 2340
In a Memphis Cheating Ring, the Teachers Are the Accused 18 alp227 Feb 2013 Feb 2013 4 5402
I think we just found out what "value added" means: 7 Smarmie Doofus Feb 2013 Feb 2013 11 2626
ATTENTION NYC TEACHERS: YOU HAVE BEEN HAD BY YOUR UNION 3 HiPointDem Jan 2013 Feb 2013 16 2292
Sequestration and Head Start 6 Sadiedog Oct 2012 Jan 2013 1 3082
Question about financing college for a kid who's now in kindergarten. 6 Nay Jan 2013 Jan 2013 0 2900
Powerful video in video section shows Chicago lawyer/parent in brilliant speech. 0 madfloridian Jan 2013 Jan 2013 4 1779
Anger at UFT Building (Significant because NYC's UFT is the linchpin of control for AFT) 6 HiPointDem Jan 2013 Jan 2013 4 3025
Video from Democracy Now on Seattle teachers and MAP 0 madfloridian Jan 2013 Jan 2013 3 1819
So you're visiting a college campus. What would you ask? 31 OmahaBlueDog Jan 2013 Jan 2013 3 13003
Garfield (Seattle) Testing Boycott continued... 15 HiPointDem Jan 2013 Jan 2013 7 3499
"I was the perfect double threat: ignorant and arrogant." (A reformer reformed) {xpost} 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 2013 Jan 2013 6 2561
Test Your Public Ed Savvy 3 proud2BlibKansan Jan 2013 Jan 2013 8 2177
CA Education. MY Governor on... 9 YvonneCa Jan 2013 Jan 2013 4 2854
Re-Calculated Results in Pennsylvania Show Charter Schools Fail Their Own Hype 1 xchrom Jan 2013 Jan 2013 11 2161
Website ban lifted Tuesday (+TSTA EMAIL) Teacher union site blocked, unblocked by district 5 mbperrin May 2012 Jan 2013 4 3868
Lean Production: Inside the war on public education [View all] 86 HiPointDem Jan 2013 Jan 2013 33 25109
Well ... what world DOES Bloomberg inhabit? 5 Smarmie Doofus Jan 2013 Jan 2013 2 2533
"Weingarten ready to launch 1 of the most controversial crusades of her career: gun control" 9 HiPointDem Jan 2013 Jan 2013 6 3290
Some charter schools admit sending students back to public schools. How they "counsel out" kids. 9 madfloridian Jan 2013 Jan 2013 13 4209
Alabama's two-year college chancellor wants to make college courses free for high school students 11 Redfairen Jan 2013 Jan 2013 1 2995
Students love Khan Academy? 8 HiPointDem Jan 2013 Jan 2013 3 6973
Teacher Fired For Being Poor Role Model 8 Modern School Jan 2013 Jan 2013 7 4067
Fighting Education Shock Therapy 3 xchrom Jan 2013 Jan 2013 6 2222
Teachers' Lack of Rights at Work AND Home 7 Modern School Jan 2013 Jan 2013 7 3166
LA state senator shows his ignorance asking for 'proof' of evolution 0 LongTomH Jan 2013 Jan 2013 1 2066
My Anti-Bullying Project (needs you) 0 knixphan Jan 2013 Jan 2013 1 1722

Education Continued...

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the latest on the school closings in chicago..... 3 madrchsod Jan 2013 Jan 2013 5 3056
Online courses need human element to educate 3 Starry Messenger Jan 2013 Jan 2013 6 2252
Why Khan Academy Is The Wrong Answer 18 proud2BlibKansan Nov 2012 Jan 2013 10 4954
Will longer school year help or hurt US students? (AP/Yahoo!) 42 OmahaBlueDog Jan 2013 Jan 2013 1 7929
Pop Quiz on Standardized Testing 0 xchrom Jan 2013 Jan 2013 8 1813
movement to end high-stakes testing steps up in seattle 1 xchrom Jan 2013 Jan 2013 5 1836
Josh Edelman ID'd in test cheating cover-up 4 HiPointDem Jan 2013 Jan 2013 7 5118
College Enrollment decreasing because of High Tuition 5 AProgressiveThinker Jan 2013 Jan 2013 0 2842
You are the leaders 0 HiPointDem Jan 2013 Jan 2013 7 1594
Karen Lewis: Social Justice Unionism IS Trade Unionism 8 HiPointDem Jan 2013 Jan 2013 13 2841
At edX, Distance Learning Moves to an Open-Source Honors Track 26 Renew Deal Dec 2012 Jan 2013 0 6124
Milken is ready to milk us in WA State 7 HiPointDem Nov 2012 Jan 2013 7 2382
HISD teachers walk out of contracts in high numbers, union says 7 AnneD Jan 2013 Jan 2013 5 3218
‘Frontline’ raises questions about test-score tampering under Rhee 9 proud2BlibKansan Jan 2013 Jan 2013 13 2647
Karen lewis talks guillotines; limbaugh attacks 5 HiPointDem Jan 2013 Jan 2013 5 2659
Pedagogy of the Depressed: experiences as a special ed student in the 1990s. 5 n2doc Jan 2013 Jan 2013 5 3101
Why public education should be scrapped 44 Left Turn Only Dec 2012 Jan 2013 1 9928
“Elections shouldn’t exist”: The new war on school boards 1 proud2BlibKansan Jan 2013 Jan 2013 11 2286
The Great Montessori Schism 4 xchrom Dec 2012 Jan 2013 0 3938
Ailing Philadelphia District Plans to Close 37 Schools 3 alp227 Dec 2012 Jan 2013 4 2244
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