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You bet California's college students are angry — tuition increase after tuitio…

March 12, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

You bet California's college students are angry — tuition increase after tuition increase, little relief in sight. As usual, it's a handful of GOP legislators who are holding up what everyone else wants: to close a $1 billion corprate loopho…

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Via IDEA: The Institute for Democratic Education in America: "The Dear Mr. Presi…

March 12, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Via IDEA: The Institute for Democratic Education in America: "The Dear Mr. President national day of civic action is happening this Thursday, March 15! Students are encouraged to write President Obama about an issue that matters to them and share …

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Exercising math visualization and reasoning muscles through play — way differen…

March 12, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Exercising math visualization and reasoning muscles through play — way different than a worksheet, huh? Wish math was taught creatively and deeply this way everywhere!Playing with Mathcoopcatalyst.wordpress.comThis post was first posted on my personal…

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Socmedia researcher Danah Boyd finds that most bullying is still f2f as opposed…

March 12, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Socmedia researcher Danah Boyd finds that most bullying is still f2f as opposed to online. Currently parents respond by teaching their kids to fear social media, but is that actually addressing problems that emerge there but have offline roots? And how…

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Corporate interests ready to siphon taxpayer money spent to educate kids benefit…

March 12, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Corporate interests ready to siphon taxpayer money spent to educate kids benefit happily from mean-spirited sides of human nature that resent and envy teacher job security, as evident in attacks from "no taxes ever" groups and public snipes a…

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High costs and a correlation between SES-high standardized test scores combine t…

March 12, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

High costs and a correlation between SES-high standardized test scores combine to make elite colleges affordable for all but a few. Excellent public universities are also becoming increasingly unaffordable. This is a situation that reinforces, rather t…

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Follow up on the story of 17 Chicago Public School closures & the lawsuit filed…

March 12, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Follow up on the story of 17 Chicago Public School closures & the lawsuit filed to halt them. Local School Council sites can attempt a second suit if they refocus civil rights violations claims.Judge throws out suit seeking to stop school closings …

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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 […]

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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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