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Charters: The Art Of Manipulating Oversight Boards
This Week In Education | 17 hours 39 minutes ago
"Without you saying anything to them, they will believe that they are responsible for making big decisions about budget matters, school policies, hiring of the principal and dozens of other matters." Imagine charter schools CEO Dennis Bakke in a recently revealed email about how to pick and manipulate charter boards. (Pick your board members carefully)
Blogs: Time To Get Out Of The School Reform Bubble
This Week In Education | 17 hours 39 minutes ago
Those inside the school reform bubble are pretty much solely focused on things like Race to the Top, mayoral control, and the like. But everybody else out there -- teachers, principals, parents -- is probably focusing on more mundane (immediate) issues like H1N1 and the gang rape of a teenage girl in Richmond, California. In Richmond Rape, One Teen Did The Right Thing Jezebel "I'm like 'We should call the cops because that's the right thing to do.' I didn't think about it twice." Richmond rap...
Duncan's Weekly Media Schedule: Let It Be Your Guide.
This Week In Education | 17 hours 39 minutes ago
Here's Duncan's media schedule for the week. Plan your days around it. Let it be your guide. It is the center of the education universe. There is nothing about it that is stale, empty, or without news value. What Duncan says and where he says it is vastly more important (and easier to cover) than anything going on in a real school, district, or statehouse. Ignore all other temptations. PUBLIC SCHEDULE OF U.S. EDUCATION SECRETARY ARNE DUNCAN THE WEEK AHEAD: Monday-Friday, Nov. 9-13, 2009 (All ...
Flu vaccinations within schools: still a possibility?
BoardBuzz blog | 18 hours 9 minutes ago
The H1N1 virus is spreading more and more each day, and the seasonal flu may show up at any moment; yet we re all facing the dilemma of not knowing where and how to go to get vaccinated since there is currently a shortage of both the H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines. Although the H1N1 virus has [...]
School Board News Today headlines
BoardBuzz blog | 18 hours 9 minutes ago
Bruised by the gubernatorial losses in New Jersey and Virginia, and embattled by the ongoing health care reform debate, President Obama turned his attentions to education reform this week. On Wednesday the POTUS highlighted reforms in 10 states most notably, moves to allow student data to be tied to teacher evaluations–that came about as a result [...]
School Board News Today headlines
BoardBuzz blog | 19 hours 22 minutes ago
Bruised by the gubernatorial losses in New Jersey and Virginia, and embattled by the ongoing health care reform debate, President Obama turned his attentions to education reform this week. On Wednesday the POTUS highlighted reforms in 10 states most notably, moves to allow student data to be tied to teacher evaluations–that came about as a result [...]
Guest Blogger: Steven Anderson on #140conf
Edutopia.org Blogs | 20 hours 59 minutes ago
I'm honored to introduce Steven Anderson -- technology educator, Twitter denizen, publisher of Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom, cocreator of #edchat, and today's guest blogger here at Edutopia.org. The conference shows how much value Twitter has for educators. 5 off No Off read more
Report cards go paperless
BoardBuzz blog | 21 hours 6 minutes ago
USA Today reports that Clarksville-Montgomery County school district in Tennessee decided to go mostly paperless with student report cards. The district now makes grades available to parents with secure online accounts. The same system, called Power School, is used by parents to access progress reports, attendance, and student lunch accounts. NSBA’s own Ann Flynn, Director of education technology, says [...]
Flu vaccinations within schools: still a possibility?
BoardBuzz blog | 21 hours 6 minutes ago
The H1N1 virus is spreading more and more each day, and the seasonal flu may show up at any moment; yet we re all facing the dilemma of not knowing where and how to go to get vaccinated since there is currently a shortage of both the H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines. Although the H1N1 virus has [...]
Report cards go paperless
BoardBuzz blog | 21 hours 12 minutes ago
USA Today reports that Clarksville-Montgomery County school district in Tennessee decided to go mostly paperless with student report cards. The district now makes grades available to parents with secure online accounts. The same system, called Power School, is used by parents to access progress reports, attendance, and student lunch accounts. NSBA’s own Ann Flynn, Director of education technology, says [...]
Guest Blogger: Steven Anderson on #140conf
Edutopia.org Blogs | 21 hours 59 minutes ago
I'm honored to introduce Steven Anderson — technology educator, Twitter denizen, publisher of web20classroom.blogspot.com, cocreator of #edchat, and today's guest blogger here at Edutopia.org. Steven attended the recent 140 Conference (#140conf), a real-world event held in Los Angeles, where attendees discussed how Twitter is changing everything from publishing to disaster preparedness. Here is his report. 5 off ...
Blogs: Time To Get Out Of The School Reform Bubble
This Week In Education | 22 hours 5 minutes ago
Those inside the school reform bubble are pretty much solely focused on things like Race to the Top, mayoral control, and the like. But everybody else out there -- teachers, principals, parents -- is probably focusing on more mundane (immediate) issues like H1N1 and the gang rape of a teenage girl in Richmond, California. In Richmond Rape, One Teen Did The Right Thing Jezebel "I'm like 'We should call the cops because that's the right thing to do.' I didn't think about it twice." Richmond rap...
Charters: The Art Of Manipulating Oversight Boards
This Week In Education | 22 hours 40 minutes ago
"Without you saying anything to them, they will believe that they are responsible for making big decisions about budget matters, school policies, hiring of the principal and dozens of other matters." Imagine charter schools CEO Dennis Bakke in a recently revealed email about how to pick and manipulate charter boards. (Pick your board members carefully)
Guest Blogger: Steven Anderson on #140conf
Edutopia.org Blogs | 22 hours 41 minutes ago
I'm honored to introduce Steven Anderson — technology educator, Twitter denizen, publisher of web20classroom.blogspot.com, cocreator of #edchat, and today's guest blogger here at Edutopia.org. Steven attended the recent 140 Conference (#140conf), a real-world event held in Los Angeles, where attendees discussed how Twitter is changing everything from publishing to disaster preparedness. Here is his report. 5 off ...
Duncan's Weekly Media Schedule: Let It Be Your Guide.
This Week In Education | 23 hours 1 minute ago
Here's Duncan's media schedule for the week. Plan your days around it. Let it be your guide. It is the center of the education universe. There is nothing about it that is stale, empty, or without news value. What Duncan says and where he says it is vastly more important (and easier to cover) than anything going on in a real school, district, or statehouse. Ignore all other temptations. PUBLIC SCHEDULE OF U.S. EDUCATION SECRETARY ARNE DUNCAN THE WEEK AHEAD: Monday-Friday, Nov. 9-13, 2009 (All ...
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Inservice, ASCD Blog
Inservice is the ASCD community blog-a place for educators to gather and share ideas.
Eduwonk.com
Eduwonk is a blog written by Andrew Rotherham, co-founder and co-director of Education Sector, an independent research and analysis organization.
PBS Teachers Learning.now
PBS Teachers - The Learning.now weblog devles into the way educators teach and students learn is influenced by new technology and Internet culture. Technologies covered include: wikis, blogs, vlogs, RSS, podcasts, social networking sites and the Internet.
BoardBuzz blog
The BoardBuzz is a National School Boards Association weblog focusing on American education, and more specifically on important issues to school board members and to other public education advocates.
Are we doing anything today?
Word Girl is a blog where teachers provide other teachers advice, insights and recommendations.
EdWeek.org Blogboard
Teacher Magazine's look at what's new and noteworthy in educator blogs.
This Week In Education
A Scholastic blog with blogger Alexander Russo covering education politics, policy and trends.