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Both sides still optimistic as Chicago teachers strike enters 5th day

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Tribune - By Ellen Jean Hirst, Bridget Doyle, Jennifer Delgado, Joel Hood - Sep. 14 (News Report) - The Chicago teachers strike enters its fifth day as "number crunching" apparently delayed a deal that both sides had hoped would be reached on Thursday.

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In Pennsylvania, Suspicious Erasing on State Exams at 89 Schools

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Winerip - Aug. 02 (News Analysis) - In April, Dale Mezzacappa attended a panel discussion on cheating sponsored by the Education Writers Association. At the time, she was one of three staff reporters for The Notebook, a community newspaper and Web site that covers the Philadelphia public schools.

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Teaching Beyond the Test, to Make Room Again for Current Events

Sun, 22 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Winerip - May. 22 (Special Report) - To Robert Barry, a senior at Farmington High School, it seems normal to have a war or two going on while you’re growing up. “Afghanistan started when we were in third grade,” he said. “We heard about it, but it’s in the background — we stopped noticing it.”

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When standardized test scores soared in D.C., were the gains real?

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Jack Gillum, Marisol Bello - Mar. 27 (News Report) - ..seventh-graders in one Noyes classroom averaged 12.7 wrong-to-right erasures...the average ..in all d.c. schools was less than 1. this is an abnormal pattern.

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President Obama discusses education budget plan at Baltimore-area school

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Jean Marbella, Liz Bowie - Feb. 14 (News) - President Barack Obama's motorcade arrived at 10:10 a.m. Monday at Parkville Middle School and Center of Technology in Baltimore County, passing about 100 spectators who lined the streets near the school. Among the friendlier throngs were a group of protesters who called for him to, as their signs said, "STOP Reckless Spending." The president was in town to announce educational priorities in his 2012 budget.

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New video surfaces of royal car attack

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Tazeen Ahmad - Dec. 11 (News) - Additional video has surfaced which shows protesters attacking a car containing Prince Charles and wife Camilla in the streets of London.

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STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Dallas Morning News - By Terrence Stutz - Sep. 25 (News) - The State Board of Education on Friday instructed textbook publishers to make sure their new world history texts are more favorable to Christianity and less positive toward Islam if they want to sell their books in Texas.

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Racial violence changes student — and school

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Jesse Washington - Sep. 05 (News) - Duong Nghe Ly can?t wait to begin his senior year at South Philadelphia High School. A day of violence there last year changed his life, and he wants to learn if his school has been transformed as well. ...

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How the Stimulus Is Changing America

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Michael Grunwald - Aug. 26 (Special Report) - The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — President Obama's $787 billion stimulus — has been marketed as a jobs bill, and that's how it's been judged. The White House says it has saved or created about 3 million jobs, helping avoid a depression and end a recession. Republicans mock it as a Big Government boondoggle that has failed to prevent rampant unemployment despite a massive expansion of the deficit. Liberals complain that it wasn't massive enough.

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Teach for America expands into Baltimore County

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Liz Bowie - Aug. 20 (News) - For the first time since it set up shop in the city 18 years ago, Teach for America is spreading into the suburbs, sending teachers into low-performing schools in Baltimore County that leaders say need as much help as those in the city.

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A Chosen Few Are Teaching for America

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Winerip - Jul. 11 (News) - This year, on its 20th anniversary, Teach for America hired more seniors than any other employer at numerous colleges, including Yale, Dartmouth, Duke, Georgetown and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Ride Along with Mitch

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Weekly Standard - By Andrew Ferguson - Jun. 10 (Special Report) - He treats waste in government as a moral offense. “Government isn’t a business, and it shouldn’t be run as a business,” he said. “But it can be more like business. It has a lot to learn from businessmen.” Government operates without the market pressures that produce efficiency and increase quality. The challenge for government leaders is to produce those pressures to economize internally, through an act of will. “Never take a dollar from a free citizen through the coercion of taxation without a very legitimate purpose,” he said in an interview last year. “We have a solemn duty to spend that dollar as carefully as possible, because when we took it we diminished that person’s freedom.” When you put it like that, overspending by government seems un-American. When Daniels took office, in 2004, the state faced a $200 million deficit and hadn’t balanced its budget in seven years. Four years later, all outstanding debts had been paid off; after four balanced budgets, the state was running a surplus of $1.3 billion, which has cushioned the blows from a steady decline in revenues caused by the recession. “That’s what saved us when the recession hit,” one official said. “If we didn’t have the cash reserves and the debts paid off, we would have been toast.” The state today is spending roughly the same amount that it was when Daniels took office, largely because he resisted the budget increases other states were indulging in the past decade.

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The Teachers’ Unions’ Last Stand

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Steven Brill - May. 18 (Investigative Report) - How Obama’s Race to the Top could revolutionize public education. Micahel Mulgrew is an affable former Brooklyn vocational-high-school teacher who took over last year as head of New York City’s United Federation of Teachers when his predecessor, Randi Weingarten, moved to Washington to run the national American Federation of Teachers. Over breakfast in March, we talked about a movement spreading across the country to hold public-school teachers accountable by compensating, promoting or even removing them according to the results they produce in class, as measured in part by student test scores. Mulgrew’s 165-page union contract takes the opposite approach. It not only specifies everything that teachers will do and will not do during a six-hour-57 ½-minute workday but also requires that teachers be paid based on how long they have been on the job. Once they’ve been teaching for three years and judged satisfactory in a process that invariably judges all but a few of them satisfactory, they are ensured lifetime tenure.

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Supreme Court to consider case against California law school

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Robert Barnes - Apr. 18 (News Report) - In a case that carries great implications for how public universities and schools must accommodate religious groups, the University of California's Hastings College of the Law is defending its anti-discrimination policy against charges that it denies religious freedom.

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Should Kids Be Bribed to Do Well in School?

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Amanda Ripley - Apr. 12 (Special Report) - What motivates kids to work hard in school? The exclusive story of a national experiment that delighted children, offended adults and provoked death threats against the scientist who conducted it.

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As Obama seeks to boost number of US college graduates, 1 man helps show the way

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Christine Armario - Apr. 10 (Special Report) - As educators and officials look to reconfigure higher education, they'll be looking to Miami Dade College and Padron, who has transformed the urban school into one of the largest colleges in the United States, graduating more black and Hispanic students than any other public institution.

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Race to the Top awards go to Delaware, Tennessee

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Nick Anderson, Bill Turque - Mar. 29 (News Report) - States beat out D.C., 13 other finalists to claim a share of Obama's $4B education reform fund.

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Huge student loan changes near

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Daniel de Vise - Mar. 22 (News Report) - The student aid initiative, overshadowed by the health-care debate, proposes to overhaul the student loan industry, eliminating a $60 billion program that supports private student loans with federal subsidies and replacing it with direct government

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Changes to No Child Left Behind would affect schools differently

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Nick Anderson - Mar. 16 (News Report) - For most public schools, the perceived heavy hand of the federal government would become a lighter touch under President Obama's plan to rewrite the No Child Left Behind law. But for others, the consequences of academic failure would stiffen considerably.

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Obama Proposes Sweeping Change in Education Law

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Sam Dillon - Mar. 14 (News Report) - While the proposals call for interventions in failing schools, they would also reward top performers and lessen federal interference in tens of thousands of reasonably well-run schools in the middle.

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Education funding priorities shift

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Nick Anderson - Mar. 13 (News Report) - In final push to pass student aid bill, funding for key elements in Obama's agenda is dwindling.

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Common set of school standards to be offered

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Nick Anderson - Mar. 10 (News Report) - Blueprint from nation's governors and state school chiefs is a crucial step in Obama's campaign to raise academic standards across the country.

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Building a Better Teacher

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Elizabeth Green - Mar. 07 (Special Report) - What makes a good teacher? There have been many quests for the one essential trait, and they have all come up empty-handed. Among the factors that do not predict whether a teacher will succeed: a graduate-school degree, a high score on the SAT, an extroverted personality, politeness, confidence, warmth, enthusiasm and having passed the teacher-certification exam on the first try. When Bill Gates announced recently that his foundation was investing millions in a project to improve teaching quality in the United States, he added a rueful caveat. “Unfortunately, it seems the field doesn’t have a clear view of what characterizes good teaching,” Gates said. “I’m personally very curious.”

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Head of the Class

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Doug Lemov - Mar. 07 (Special Report) - In these video clips from actual classrooms around the country, Doug Lemov, founder of the charter-school network Uncommon Schools, analyzes techniques that effective teachers use to get students to pay attention and follow instructions.

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Why We Must Fire Bad Teachers

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Evan Thomas, Pat Wingert - Mar. 06 (Special Report) - The relative decline of American education at the elementary- and high-school levels has long been a national embarrassment as well as a threat to the nation's future. Once upon a time, American students tested better than any other students in the world. Now, ranked against European schoolchildren, America does about as well as Lithuania, behind at least 10 other nations. Within the United States, the achievement gap between white students and poor and minority students stubbornly persists—and as the population of disadvantaged students grows, overall scores continue to sag.

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