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Pink, "girly" @Legos? New Moon Girls suggests that winners of the 2011 First Rob…

December 22, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Pink, “girly” @Legos? New Moon Girls suggests that winners of the 2011 First Robotics Lego League — all girls — design the next set.Lego: You Can Get With the Times | Parent Girlsblogs.newmoon.comAn idea: Make the girls from The 4th Motor team of WI …

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Digital Bootstraps for Analog Problems — A Reply to Forbes Columnist Gene Marks' "If I Were A Poor Black Kid"

December 22, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

“Digital bootstraps” don’t take the place of face-to-face mentorship and teaching — let’s recommit time and resources from real human beings to where real kids can be found, in local public schools.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: child poverty, poverty, Privatization, racial inequality

Quickie highlights of Diane Ravitch's critique of test-driven, NCLB-style ed ref…

December 22, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Quickie highlights of Diane Ravitch’s critique of test-driven, NCLB-style ed reform in an interview w/ @HNN.What’s Wrong with School Reform: Interview with Diane Ravitchhnn.usCraig Thurtell was a teacher at Ardsley High School in Ardsley, NY, and is a …

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Pearson's non-profit foundation greasing the skids for the for-profit arm w/junk…

December 22, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Pearson’s non-profit foundation greasing the skids for the for-profit arm w/junkets to education officials? NY’s AG investigates.New York Attorney General Is Investigating Pearson Educationwww.nytimes.comThe New York attorney general is investigating w…

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PTAs & other 501c3 groups are prohibited from supporting particular political ca…

December 22, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

PTAs & other 501c3 groups are prohibited from supporting particular political candidates (even school board candidates) as a condition of non-profit status. This is a terrible hindrance to the civic participation of parents & other community stakeholde…

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#TaketheTest Maybe Michelle Rhee could take one & we'd decide whether to hire or…

December 22, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

#TaketheTest Maybe Michelle Rhee could take one & we’d decide whether to hire or fire her based on the results? :OA Challenge to #Takethetest – SchoolBookwww.nytimes.comA Twitter trend, #takethetest, is a hashtag that some educators and others are us…

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Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

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 […]

Betsy DeVos, #NOTMYSDOE

Take the pledge to #resist and fight for public schools as a public good TODAY. DeVos had to have the assistance of Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaking vote in order to win her confirmation. Two GOP Senators voted against, all Democratic Senators voted against. Yet all the other GOP Senators who received campaign donations […]

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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