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Rise & Shine: Education colleges wary of effort to evaluate them

  • Education colleges are balking at joining a national program that aims to evaluate their quality. (WSJ)
  • A grant for a health clinic at a Bronx campus has gone unused without city matching funds. (Daily News)
  • A teacher at I.S. 339 has been removed after a student said she duct-taped him to his chair. (NBC NY)
  • City schools will get nearly $300 million more than last year from the state’s budget. (Daily News)
  • State lawmakers also okayed more than $1.5 million to restore Staten Island school bus service. (NY1)
  • Closure hearings at three schools proposed for turnaround took very different tones. (GothamSchools)
  • More on the city’s openness not to replace half of teachers at turnaround schools, as we reported. (NY1)
  • Jeremy Lin says he enjoyed Stuyvesant HS students’ graduation request but can’t come. (Daily News)
  • A watchdog group critiqued the city’s early budget, including on schools. (GothamSchools, SchoolBook)
  • One in 88 American children has been diagnosed with autism, reflecting an unexplained increase. (WSJ)
  • The long-term implications of the rise of e-books on students’ learning are not yet clear. (Times)
  • http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/ reality-based educator

    As we live our corporatized, standardized lives, eat our corporate-run factory farmed genetically modified food, breathe our poisoned air and drink our fracked water, and work in an ever-increasing corporatized pressure cooker that sees the average American spend just 45 minutes a week in a natural setting while spending 55 hours a week using electronic media – gee it’s difficult to figure out why autism is increasing. 

    Same goes for the sharp increase in learning disabilities.

    How could this be happening?

    You know what I bet will fix these problems?

    More Gates Foundation initiatives like forced vaccines, genetically engineered food in Africa, chemically engineering the weather to try and “fix” global warming and education reform that promotes electronic media in the classroom and computerized standardized tests every six weeks for the kiddies…

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    Dear education colleges, welcome to the club.

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