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Inside LA’s ‘teacher jail’: Educators are ‘broken, depressed, suicidal’ 4 n2doc Aug 2014 Aug 2014 13 2768
Give a read to this post in GD about many reasons tenured NY teachers can be fired... 1 madfloridian Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 1974
What's wrong with "school reform"? 3 ellenrr Aug 2014 Aug 2014 8 2463
Education Secretary Allows Reprieve on Test-Based Teacher Ratings. 3 elleng Aug 2014 Aug 2014 5 2320
Fox Dem strategist Kirsten Powers at it again. Says teachers making "sexist" attacks.... 0 madfloridian Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 2061
I'm contemplating asking Skinner to start a "College Parents" group 8 Algernon Moncrieff Aug 2014 Aug 2014 3 3518
Union Trouble: NYC Teachers Clash w. Cops Over Planned Brutality March 0 Smarmie Doofus Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 1910
Why Do Americans Stink at Math? 10 eridani Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 4032
SF teachers union still counting strike authorization votes 0 RandySF Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 1946
Rand Paul gets schooled: Libertarian fantasies don’t help kids learn — teachers do 7 n2doc Aug 2014 Aug 2014 9 3247
Test scores, rating plunged at top elementary after Dallas ISD determined teachers had been cheating 1 n2doc Aug 2014 Aug 2014 6 2289
Michelle Rhee drops out of school group 7 Starry Messenger Aug 2014 Aug 2014 5 3041
Charles P Pierce- Who the fck is Campbell Brown? 17 n2doc Aug 2014 Aug 2014 61 6738
Lunch lady rises to teachers union leader and takes on all comers, bluntly 2 n2doc Aug 2014 Aug 2014 20 2565
UFT's Mulgrew Ridicules Common Core Critics; Threatens to "Punch You in the Face..." 8 Smarmie Doofus Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 3874
My Own Story. Why Teachers So Desperately Need Tenure 7 SoBronxSchool Aug 2014 Aug 2014 21 3433
Keoni Wright, plaintiff in Campbell Brown's lawsuit, is a member of Michelle Rhee's Students First. 4 madfloridian Aug 2014 Aug 2014 7 2470
Toon: Back to testing 1 n2doc Aug 2014 Aug 2014 11 2233
Whoopi Goldberg taking up fight against teachers. Post in GD 1 madfloridian Aug 2014 Aug 2014 5 2331
Classic Math vs. Common Core 4 elleng Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 3226
Go Public: A day in the life of an american school district 3 HiPointDem Jul 2013 Aug 2014 7 3113
‘Education reform’ now a pejorative term to many progressive Democrats 6 n2doc Jul 2014 Aug 2014 10 3028
City Council Committee Puts the Brakes on Charter School Expansion 1 NJCher Jul 2014 Jul 2014 5 2166
Why Do Americans Stink at Math? 5 elleng Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 3130
Lively ( and funny) thread re. Campbell Brown in NY Forum 1 Smarmie Doofus Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 2196
How The Koch Brothers Are Buying Their Way Into The Minds Of Public School Students 3 n2doc Jul 2014 Jul 2014 6 2714
Two of Jeb's Chiefs for Change have anti-teachers-union op ed in WP. 3 madfloridian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 12 2723
Spotlights and Solutions for College Rape 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1891
Her son has been suspended five times. He’s 3. 2 n2doc Jul 2014 Jul 2014 11 2692
I posted more about Campbell Brown and Dan Senor and their attacks on teachers. 1 madfloridian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 14 2603

Education Continued...

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Here's why they REALLY want to end teacher tenure. 8 Smarmie Doofus Jul 2014 Jul 2014 12 3453
The principal who wrestles an F school to a C in one year gets demotion and pay cut 6 teach1st Jul 2014 Jul 2014 9 3415
Ravitch's very apt description of Arne Duncan. 10 madfloridian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 31 4404
White House Adds New Disability Adviser 4 Jefferson23 Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 2616
Gravy train charter schools and the EB-5 visa. 0 madfloridian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 7 2296
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BLAMES TEACHERS FOR A FAILED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM 13 newblewtoo Jul 2014 Jul 2014 6 4214
MICHAEL GOVE IS OUT AS BRITISH EDUCATION SECRETARY!!! 9 LeftishBrit Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 3563
Great video compares charter school scandals to sub prime mortgages. Many similarities. 0 madfloridian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 11 2192
New pro-public-school group. Democrats for Public Education. 1 madfloridian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 9 2725
AFT joins NEA with conditions, asks Arne to resign. 13 madfloridian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 19 5532
Unreal! NYDOE gave principals 24 hour notice to clean, clear space for Success Charter Academies. 5 madfloridian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 11 2664
Can the teachers' unions come back? 5 TexasTowelie Jul 2014 Jul 2014 5 2794
Study: Kids Bullied in Gym, Sports Avoid Future Activity 12 radicalliberal Jul 2014 Jul 2014 8 5091
Cuomo's GOP Foe Hopes to Unite Left and Right Vs. Common Core 7 Smarmie Doofus Jul 2014 Jul 2014 5 3076
School superintendent banned in NJ finds work in FL, brings banned colleagues with him. 2 madfloridian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 6 2506
New Orleans-area school district agrees to rules protecting Hispanics 0 Eugene Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1877
Centinela school board votes to fire high-paid superintendent 2 n2doc Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 2376
Another Teachers’ Union Could Call For Obama’s Education Secretary To Resign 10 Starry Messenger Jul 2014 Jul 2014 10 4225
Is the Charter Movement Imploding? 11 Starry Messenger Jul 2014 Jul 2014 18 4041
Good to see an administrator speak out at AJC about Arne's policies. 12 madfloridian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 15 3678
Ronald Reagan stuck it to millennials: A college debt history lesson no one tells 6 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 39 4750
NEA Calls for Secretary Duncan's Resignation 47 Starry Messenger Jul 2014 Jul 2014 70 13362
Gotta love this Florida mom. Supports teachers, slams TPTB for testing extremism. 6 madfloridian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 11 3207
Good Riddance to Common Core Testing 2 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 16 2447
For-profit college to sell most campuses 4 n2doc Jul 2014 Jul 2014 8 2570
this is not my rant. this is the rant from a psyche worker in chicago public schools. karen lewis. 17 mopinko Jun 2014 Jul 2014 1 5440
Great post at Muckety on widespread influence of Campbell Brown, hubby Dan Senor. 13 madfloridian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 9 5607
I still post in GD in spite of posts dropping. Can't cross post here... 9 madfloridian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 12 3302
CALIFORNIA EDUCATORS CALL FOR DUNCAN RESIGNATION 13 Starry Messenger Jul 2014 Jul 2014 55 4175
Gates' Excuse for Poor Results of Educational Technology: "Unmotivated Students" 9 tinymontgomery Jul 2014 Jul 2014 8 3512

Education Continued...

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Will Anyone Stop Charter School Corruption? 1 eridani Jul 2014 Jul 2014 10 2246
Ravitch: Do Public School Teachers Have Any Friends in the Obama Administration? 2 eridani Jul 2014 Jul 2014 11 2173
The big money and profits behind the push for charter schools 3 Starry Messenger Jul 2014 Jul 2014 13 2430
ASU English Professor Assaulted by Campus Police 1 NJCher Jul 2014 Jul 2014 4 2379
Just now saw this on Twitter. Makes me kind of proud. 14 madfloridian Jun 2014 Jun 2014 35 4463
OK, Ed "Reformers"; You're ON! 7 Smarmie Doofus Jun 2014 Jun 2014 4 4393
St. Paul schools looking to ease concerns about discipline, disorder 2 kickysnana Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 3475
Rush-hour protest by teachers to target the Gates Foundation 4 ellenrr Jun 2014 Jun 2014 12 2639
Montclair NJ rejects corporate deformers! 2 ellenrr Jun 2014 Jun 2014 6 2486
Daily Kos Labor digest: Teachers face firing for speaking out for their students 4 eridani Jun 2014 Jun 2014 7 2546
My economic life has become a sinking ship.... 30 citizen blues Jun 2014 Jun 2014 62 7976
Unbelievable use of surveillance tactics in Belleview NJ. 1 madfloridian Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 1986
New Evidence of Mental Benefits From Music Training 5 antigop Jun 2014 Jun 2014 11 2818
Obama alums join anti teachers union case 2 QED Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 2299
Detroit News: DPS plans bigger classes, but won't close schools amid $49M loss in revenue 1 theaocp Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 2232
Why education become important in developing country? 0 petson Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 2866
Teaching creationism as science now banned in all UK public schools. 4 elleng Jun 2014 Jun 2014 21 2677
Linda Darling-Hammond on the common core standards 4 elleng Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 2398
California judge rules teacher tenure unconstitutional 0 Starry Messenger Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 1993
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