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News	California to use new type of nationwide school tests- L.A.Times.com With a federal award of $330 million, California and 43 other states joined Thursday to replace the much-maligned year-end English and math standardized tests with new nationwide tests that could better measure student learning and teacher performance. ...Read more 15 hours ago - Send Message


Julogy 9 - 12	Type the title of the article here The worst and the best of the teacher's in LA Unified listed in the LA Times!...Read more 1 days ago - Send Message


News	New York Asks Schools to Avoid Pupil Immigration Status - NYTimes.com The State Education Department has sent school districts a memorandum strongly recommending that they not ask for information that might reveal the immigration status of enrolling students, after a civil liberties group complained that scores of districts were requesting such information in possible violation of federal law....Read more 2 days ago - Send Message


News	Get Schooled More federal dollars we are happy to accept: $322 million for education jobs - bogs.ajc.com Just received this update from US DOE about the $322 million in education funding that could help save 5,700 education jobs in Georgia. We apparently wasted no time in getting our application into Washington to get the money flowing:...Read more 2 days ago - Send Message


News	Back to school 2010: Why we're all education experts today - CSMonitor.com On that dread day when we first set foot in school, hefting a satchel and worrying about whether we’ll fit in, we enter a world of grading, scoring, and judging. A gold star is better than a silver, we quickly learn. “Excellent” beats “improvement needed.” Score 100 on a math test and you’re an ace, but a D in history means you aren’t cutting it....Read more 2 days ago - Send Message


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News	Top Education Officials Spar Over Teacher Reform, Student Success - abcnewsgo.com With classrooms in crisis around the country, the Obama administration is attempting the most ambitious school reform in a generation. But the Obama agenda, backed by $100 billion in stimulus money, has sparked controversy with teachers' unions over accountability and merit-based pay. This morning in an exclusive "This Week" education debate, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, faced off on the controversy surrounding the use of student test scores to evaluate America's teachers. ...Read more 4 days ago - Send Message
	May1 Art California I totally agree with what was said in this video. "Every teacher wants to get better." I like the idea of merit pay, but it is a slippery slope when it comes to who gets to grade the merit and how is it graded? 4 days ago


News	OPINION: Education funds don’t leave much room for failure - Enterprisenews.com More money does not always equate to better schools, but once schools dip below a reasonable level of funding, it is inevitable that education will suffer. So the federal government pumping $250 million into Massachusetts schools as part of President Obama’s Race to the Top program is good for Brockton and all the towns in the area that will receive funds....Read more 4 days ago - Send Message


News	Get Schooled All-star roster of education researchers: Test scores unreliable, unfair and unhelpful in evaluating teach In the midst of a controversial LA Times series linking teacher performance in that district to test scores, a new briefing paper was released today by the Economic Policy Institute cautioning against the use of test scores, the Value Added Model, to judge teacher performance....Read more 4 days ago - Send Message


Video	L.A. Unified Value-Added Approach ...Read more 5 days ago - Send Message


News	Los Angeles Teacher Ratings- Los Angeles Times Third-, fourth- and fifth-grade teachers who taught at least 60 students from the 2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years were evaluated in the Times analysis. Most of Los Angeles Unified School District's elementary schools are included. Test scores for charter schools that do not report directly to the district were not available....Read more 5 days ago - Send Message


News	County superintendent of education steps down - LATimes.com The superintendent of the Los Angeles County Office of Education is stepping down after eight years amid controversy over her decision to cut education programs and allegations that she failed to enforce standards at schools for juvenile offenders....Read more 10 days ago - Send Message


Video	Obama's Speech on Education Part 2 ...Read more 9 days ago - Send Message


News	Judge universities on merit, not funding models - Washingtonpost.com President Obama noted this month that by the end of this decade, eight in 10 jobs will require higher education and that, alarmingly, the United States has slid from first to 12th in the world for percentage of adults with a college degree. Amid the continuing bad economic news, higher education is critical to our nation's strategy for economic recovery and growth. Clearly, we need to address America's deficit in higher education. ...Read more 10 days ago - Send Message


News	Education Department to announce Race to the Top winners - CNN.com Washington (CNN) -- The U. S. Education Department is set to announce Tuesday the winners in the second round of its Race to the Top competition, which grants a portion of $3.4 billion to states that have provided plans to put their education systems in line with the department's school reform goals....Read more 10 days ago - Send Message


Mike81 4 - 5	LAUSD Unveils $578 Million School I thought the School District was broke. That was the premise for laying off the teachers and impacting class size. What is REALLY going on with LAUSD??? ...Read more 10 days ago - Send Message


News	Testing the system - LATimes.com Last weekend, the Times launched its "Grading the Teachers" series, which presented the concept of a value-added approach to evaluating teachers. Individual test scores were scrutinized over several years as students moved from one teacher to another....Read more 11 days ago - Send Message


News	Public education has stake in success of religious schools - myCentralJersey.com Two years ago the last remaining Catholic schools in the city of New Brunswick merged into one, as the Diocese of Metuchen hoped to maintain a presence in the city. In June the one school closed its doors for good. Enrollment had been 247 in the 2007-08 school year. Only 60 had signed up for this school year....Read more 11 days ago - Send Message


News	With limited training, Teach for America recruits play expanding role in schools - WashingtonPost.com Four months ago, Jamila Best was still in college. Two months ago, she started training to become a teacher. Monday morning, the 21-year-old will walk into a D.C. classroom, take a deep breath and dive into one of the most difficult assignments in public education. ...Read more 11 days ago - Send Message


News	There's no excuse for poor education - TheSunNews.com I was already intrigued by the possibility of a public charter school called The Academy of Hope opening next July. ...Read more 12 days ago - Send Message

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