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LAUSD fighting for zero-tolerance on teacher cheating

Kbuck sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 42, Clicks: 5)
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The school district says a decision by a state panel — determining there was test-score cheating but the teacher shouldn't be fired — sends the wrong message.

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Just How 'Wink-Wink' Was a Deal on N.Y. Teacher Evaluations?

Newman sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 25, Clicks: 4)
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Andrew Ujifusa -- The New York State Education Department is upset because it believes at least one district subverted state law by reaching a sotto voce, improper agreement with its teachers' union that new evaluations wouldn't lead to teachers getting fired.

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Mexican president signs education reform

PiGuy sumitted ago via http://www.houstonchronicle.com (Views: 25, Clicks: 6)
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President Enrique Pena Nieto signed Mexico's most sweeping education reform in seven decades into law Monday, seeking to change a system in which teaching positions could be sold or inherited, and no official census of schools, teachers and students was ever carried out.

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Mexico breaks up teachers' blockade of highway

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.ksl.com (Views: 46, Clicks: 5)
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Hundreds of federal police forced protesting teachers off the main highway between Mexico City and Acapulco Friday after the demonstrators blocked the roadway for hours, causing a huge traffic backup. Teachers throughout the region are protesting an educational reform that will submit them to evaluation and loosen union control over hiring and firing. Protesters had blocked the four-lane highway at least twice for before, starting in March.

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Thousands of teachers protest in Mexico against reforms

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.presstv.ir (Views: 61, Clicks: 6)
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Tens of thousands of teachers in two major Mexican states have staged protests to oppose the new educational reforms imposed by President Enrique Pena Nieto’s government.

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Los Angeles teachers' evaluation victory bucks a trend

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 62, Clicks: 4)
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Los Angeles teacher appraisals won't be based on 'value added,' increasingly being used across the country. Now a key question is how test scores will figure in.

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What we reformers learned about school reform in 2012

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.charlotteobserver.com (Views: 47, Clicks: 4)
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Michael J. Petrilli -- Teachers unions remain the Goliath to the school reformers’ David. That was the lesson from votes in Idaho and Indiana, where unions successfully took on or took out Republican school superintendents.

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How do You Defeat an Army of Determined Educators? You Don't!

nitajo sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 49, Clicks: 4)
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Anthony Cody -- The election of 2012 was a tough one for some who consider themselves "reformers" of education. Michael Petrilli, of the Hoover and Fordham Institutes wrote yesterday, in an op-ed that appeared in the Charlotte Observer, that "Teachers unions remain the Goliath to the school reformers' David."

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Twenty-one California school districts apply for controversial federal grant

nitajo sumitted ago via http://latimesblogs.latimes.com (Views: 125, Clicks: 20)
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Twenty-one California school districts and educational consortiums have applied for a $400 million federal grant program that has been strongly opposed by many teachers unions. The U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday that it received 371 applications -- representing more than 1,100 school districts -- for the national Race to the Top competition.

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Sen. wants “parent trigger” law for Okla. schools

nitajo sumitted ago via http://kfor.com (Views: 86, Clicks: 5)
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Parents in control of their child’s school. An Oklahoma State Senator is proposing a so-called “Parent Trigger” law.

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Movie review: 'Won't Back Down' doesn't let up on unions

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 134, Clicks: 5)
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What adult moviegoer hasn't hoped Hollywood could rouse itself at least every once in awhile to pay attention to the issues of the day. But while the hot button-hugging "Won't Back Down" would seem to do just that, it also serves to warn us to be careful what we wish for. This poor film is so shamelessly manipulative and hopelessly bogus it will make you bite your tongue in regret and despair.

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Texas: Focusing on Education, With an Eye on the Voters

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 103, Clicks: 4)
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In the wake of deep cuts in Texas’ public education budget, some Republicans are talking about getting more money into classrooms by raising teachers’ pay.

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Romney makes his case on education

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 101, Clicks: 4)
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Targeting an issue popular with women, a key voter group, Mitt Romney assailed President Obama's leadership on education Wednesday and blamed teachers unions for problems facing American schools.

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Students Matter Sponsors Groundbreaking Lawsuit to Overturn CA Laws That Harm Students

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.sacbee.com (Views: 106, Clicks: 4)
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Yesterday afternoon, the nonprofit group Students Matter sponsored a groundbreaking lawsuit against the state of California and the California Department of Education to strike down outdated state laws that prevent the recruitment, support and retention of effective teachers.

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