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This page is a compendium of items of interest - news stories, scurrilous rumors, links, academic papers, damnable prevarications, rants and amusing anecdotes - about LAUSD and/or public education that didn't - or haven't yet - made it into the "real" 4LAKids blog and weekly e-newsletter at http://www.4LAKids.blogspot.com . 4LAKidsNews will be updated at arbitrary random intervals.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

AFT Teach 13: RANDI WEINGARTEN’S STEM-WINDER/BARN-BURNER/ROOF-RAISING SPEECH TO THE ASSEMBLED MULTITUDES

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Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education: Remarks of AFT President Randi Weingarten in Washington D.C. at the TEACH Conference on July...

REBOOTING ONLINE EDUCATION: San Jose State's experience shows that even well-intentioned programs shouldn't be rushed.

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Editorial by By The LA Times editorial board | http://lat.ms/1aGPBh3 <<Oakland Military Institute jun...

LAUSD, CORE DISTRICTS LEAVE D.C. WITHOUT NCLB WAIVER… but still confident one is coming

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By John Fensterwald EdSource Today | http://bit.ly/1bbDkoC Rick Miller, left, executive director of the California Office to Ref...

Monday, July 22, 2013

TURNING THE TABLES

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from United Teacher: MR. DEASY’S POST-STULL CONFERENCE MEMO by Warren Fletcher in the President’s Perspective column of United Teache...

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Giftedness: AMERICAN EDUCATION AND THE IQ TRAP + smf’s 2¢

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For students, one score doesn't tell all. A survey in 2011 found that the predominant method of measuring whether or not student...

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AFT Teach 13: SURVEY SHOWS PARENTS SUPPORT STRONG NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS

AFT Teach 13: COMMON CORE PANEL URGES THOUGHTFUL IMPLEMENTATION + smf’s 2¢

AFT Teach 13: RANDI WEINGARTEN’S STEM-WINDER/BARN-BURNER/ROOF-RAISING SPEECH TO THE ASSEMBLED MULTITUDES

REBOOTING ONLINE EDUCATION: San Jose State's experience shows that even well-intentioned programs shouldn't be rushed.

LAUSD, CORE DISTRICTS LEAVE D.C. WITHOUT NCLB WAIVER… but still confident one is coming

TURNING THE TABLES

Giftedness: AMERICAN EDUCATION AND THE IQ TRAP + smf’s 2¢