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Via @latimes: an LAUSD high school teacher reviews the reviewers. Her Avg Growth…

January 29, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Via @latimes: an LAUSD high school teacher reviews the reviewers. Her Avg Growth Over Time report relied on scores from 9th grade repeaters of her 10th grade English class–her least motivated students. Does it give the full picture of her teaching? Ha…

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Teachers across the country demand Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's removal…

January 29, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Teachers across the country demand Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s removal in protest over RTTT and NCLB policies. cc MOMocratsTeachers Demand Arne Duncan’s Removal www.laprogressive.comMark Naison: We, the undersigned, a cross section of the nati…

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Bad enough that NCLB tied test scores to schools, now teacher "value" is tied to…

January 29, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Bad enough that NCLB tied test scores to schools, now teacher “value” is tied to student standardized test scores too. The right-wing, corporate-backed legislative lobby group ALEC crows about its successes in IN, where every policy most detrimental to…

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There are twenty-three candidates running to fill former Congressman Xavier Bacerra’s seat in Congressional District 34 in Southern California. (Bacerra is currently the state’s Attorney General, replacing Kamala Harris, who, after November 8, 2016, became our US Senator.) Election Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can find your polling […]

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Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

The next #DemDebate is scheduled for the important primary state of Iowa on November 14, 2015. It’ll be broadcast by CBS in partnership with the Des Moines Register. Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig is leading the call for the families of 50 million students K-12 across the nation and the communities they live in to have […]

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