Monday, April 26, 2010

IN CELEBRATION OF A KID WHO NEVER QUITS

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'Ms. Cornelius' - An Okie teacher banished to the Midwest writes in A Shrewdness of Apes | http://bit.ly/dAZ57q Thursday, April 2...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

CHICKEN : EGG :: CRIME is : TEACHER CUTS

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From This is Indexed.com with an assist from Assorted Stuff.com   A simple illustration of why improving student learning cannot happen ...

"Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day": SCHOOLS URGE PARENTS NOT TO TAKE KIDS TO WORK

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By DON BABWIN | Associated Press April 22 -- CHICAGO (AP) — Many U.S. school districts are urging parents to keep their kids in class and ...

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD: AN EDUCATIONAL TRAN WRECK?

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Dr. Larry Dossey , Former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital; author of "The Power of Premonitions" in the Huffingto...

EDUCATION REFORMS GET A FAILING GRADE: Neither conservatives nor liberals have a cure for bad schools

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Steve Chapman | Editorial in the Chicago Tribune April 15, 2010 -- In 1990, in one of the most innovative developments in modern American ...

ADVOCATES PRESS FOR NEW DEFINITION OF ‘CAREER READINESS’

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  By Catherine Gewertz | EdWeek Vol. 29, Issue 29, Page 9 | http://bit.ly/bT23J5 April 21, 2010 - As educators push schools to produce ...

MUSIC LESSONS BUILD BRAINPOWER: School districts cutting arts programs should first consider that playing an instrument activates neuro-pathways to facilitate learning.

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By Steve Lopez  - LA Times columnist  | http://bit.ly/aaypD0 April 25, 2010 -- To those who suggest, as many do, that my brain doesn't...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

EL CAMINO REAL HIGH SCHOOL WINS 2010 U.S. ACADEMIC DECATHLON. LAUSD Wins its 11th National Title

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LAUSD News Release For Immediate Release: April 24, 2010 El Camino Real H.S. Nabs its Sixth U.S. Championship Los Angeles—Nine decathl...

EL CAMINO REAL HIGH SCHOOL IN WOODLAND HILLS WINS NATIONAL ACADEMIC DECATHLON

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Kate Linthicum | LA Times LA Now blog April 24, 2010 | 12:05 pm El Camino Real High School of Woodland Hills won the National Acad...

EL CAMINO HS WINS SIXTH ACADEMIC DECATHLON TITLE

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By Kevin Modesti, Staff Writer | LA Daily News Updated: 04/24/2010 11:27:50 AM PDT El Camino Real High School has won the U.S. Academic ...

LAUSD TEACHER IS FIRED

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smf: The above is a headline in today’s Times – a single teacher has been removed. Hopeful the District has been saved and universal stu...

CALEXICO SCHOOLS WILL REMAIL CLOSED FOR A THIRD WEEK

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Tony Perry in San Diego – from the LA Times April 4, 2010 -- Public schools in the Imperial Valley border town of Calexico will remain clo...

SMART, IN A EASYGOING WAY: The ‘varsity’ students on academic decathlon teams keep the others loose and sometimes earn top scores.

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Daniel de Haas, whose classroom grades are less than superlative, earned the highest score at last month’s California Academic Decathlo...
Friday, April 23, 2010

FOR CHARTER SCHOOL COMPANY, ISSUES OF MONEY AND CONTROL

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By STEPHANIE STROM | NY Times Amanda Lucidon for The New York Times  - Dennis and Eileen Bakke, the founders of Imagine Schools....

TEACHER UNIONS CRITICIZE GOOD TEACHER/BAD TEACHER LEGISLATION

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James Rufus Koren, Staff Writer | Redlands Daily Facts April 24, 2010 -- To Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and some education leaders, a bill...

CITY SECTION ABLE TO SAVE SPORTS WITH EMERGENCY FUNDING FROM DODGERS, VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS

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By Gerry Gittelson, Special to the LA Daily News 4/23/2010 -- It was such a big day in high school sports Thursday that everybody won. W...

from The Times: CAPISTRANO TEACHERS STRIKE, COLLEGE DEGREE IN 3 YEARS, UC+CSU SHOULD ADMIT MORE (Not Less) STUDENTS STUDY SAYS

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  Teachers strike in Capistrano school district By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times Hundreds of teachers walk picket lines in a ...

Report :: HIGHER EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA: New Goals for the Master Plan

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Hans Johnson for the Public Policy Institute of California April 2010-- California’s Master Plan for Higher Education defined a str...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

ESCALANTE’S SUCCESS LIVES ON: Glimmers of high achievement are still evident on the eastside campus long after the famed math instructor left the school.

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By Paul Aranda Jr., EGP Staff Writer | Eastside Sun / Northeast Sun / Mexican American Sun / Bell Gardens Sun / City Terrace Comet / Comme...

LAUSD SCHOOL IN JEOPARDY OF NOT BEING ACCREDITED

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By Connie Llanos, Staff Writer | LA Daily News April 22 -- Los Angeles Unified's most expensive campus, touted as the district's...