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Do you care about public education?

December 3, 2008 By keepin-it-cool

Please sign a petition asking President-elect Barack Obama to appoint Linda Darling-Hammond as Secretary of Education. Here's the link to the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/...   We in the US are always giving lip service to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: national, petition, public-education, schools

All we are saying is give paste a chance.

February 23, 2008 By shack

Yesterday, on the last weekday of the February break, I was in my classroom reading a 25-page standardized, multiple-choice test on poetry.  All 8th graders at my school will spend two hours taking this test on Tuesday.  Its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bosley, education, mcas, schools

Once Again, Mass Schools & Students Do Best In The Nation

September 25, 2007 By mannygoldstein

We were alone at the top on three of the four tests, and tied for first on the fourth.  That's amazing.  In 2005, the last time the test was given, Mass students also were number one on all four tests, so this isn't a fluke.Our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: gloating, naep, nclb, schools

Creative, New Ways to Fund Quincy’s Schools

August 8, 2007 By nick-puleo

Under my proposal, the school district would be able to create the fund using revenue generated from federal reimbursements. Quincy's schools already earn well over $1 million a year in federal Medicaid reimbursements for services provided … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: campaign, quincy, school-committee, schools

251 school districts aid increased.

April 5, 2007 By massparent

But the legislature could have kept aid to every district at the higher of the governor's numbers or last year's downpayment formula's numbers, at a cost of just $15 million above the governor's budget.  This means the cuts for 101 … [Read more...]

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Towns receiving less Chapter 70 aid than in FY 2003

March 21, 2007 By massparent

ARLINGTON  189,351BARNSTABLE  552,173BELMONT  5,971BOYLSTON   20,044BROOKLINE  62,443BURLINGTON  153,157CAMBRIDGE  414,483CANTON  13,641CARLISLE   695CHELMSFORD  523,363CHESTERFIELD  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aid, chapter-70, massachusetts, schools

“Give a Man a fish” and the work of Abraham Maslow – why taxation is evidence of a healthy society

February 18, 2007 By AmberPaw

I hope Deval Patrick studied the ground-breaking work of psychologist Abraham Maslow at some point, whether at Milton Academy or Harvard.Abraham Maslow studied a culture that involved both fishing and farming.  He noted greater … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abraham-maslow, bridges, damns, deval-patrick, fish, infrastructure, no-taxes, schools, taxes

What this Masshole thinks is wrong with our schools

February 11, 2007 By jk

In the Globe piece today, we learn that superintendents are getting even higher salaries then previously thought.[For superintendents] the average total compensation is $147,500, according to a Globe analysis of contracts for 162 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: public-sector-salaries, school-administrators, schools

Effective Metaphor for public schools?

December 28, 2006 By shack

Joseph Featherstone, a social historian, speaks about schools as society's 'theater,' the large stage on which our major cultural sagas are enacted and opportunities and casualties of social change are most visible and vivid.  We look … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: education, schools

2 Studies: Pub Schools Outperform, 3/4 Mass schools likely to fail “No Child” in 2014

March 31, 2006 By bruce-wilson

[ click here for PDF of full report ]: [ NCSPE study summary ] Findings reveal that demographic differences between students in public and private schools account for the relatively high raw scores of private schools on the NAEP. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: berliner, dobson, mcas, mohler, mta, schools

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