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BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan's coastguard detained a Chinese fishing boat within Japanese waters on Sunday evening, China's Xinhua news agency said, citing the Chinese consulate general in Fukuoka, a city in southwestern Japan.
The captain of the boat, registered in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian, and two crew members have been brought to the southern Japanese city of Kagoshima for questioning, Xinhua said.
It said the captain had admitted he was in Japanese waters.
The incident comes just months after anti-Japanese protests erupted in many Chinese cities over disputed islands near Taiwan, known as the Diaoyu in Chinese and Senkaku in Japanese. Those tensions have cooled but could flare up if stoked by nationalists on either side.
A spokesperson for the Japanese embassy in Beijing could not be reached for comment late on Sunday evening.
The Chinese fishing fleet tends to range far into the waters east of China to offset depleted stocks closer to shore.
(Reporting by Lucy Hornby; Editing by Alison Williams)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-fishing-boat-detained-japan-xinhua-013232863.html
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Product Manager ? Innovations at KickStart International in Nairobi ? Kenya Jobs, Careers and Vacancies
PRODUCT MANAGER ? INNOVATIONS
KickStart International (www.kickstart.org) is an award-winning, non-profit social enterprise whose mission is to provide smallholder farmers with access to income-generating products and services that will empower them to lift themselves out of poverty. KickStart?s best-selling products are low-cost, human-powered ?MoneyMaker? irrigation pumps that enable famers to move from subsistence to commercial irrigated farming. KickStart has sold over 200,000 pumps across sub-Saharan Africa, through retailers, distributors, and NGOs. However, KickStart recognizes that in order to create successful, sustainable farming businesses, smallholder farmers also need access to other important resources, such as other types of irrigation technologies/accessories, farmer-friendly financing, agronomy information/training, and market linkages. Offering a more holistic value proposition to farmers is an integral component of KickStart?s strategic plan to scale impact through innovative products and services, innovative sales & marketing tactics, and strategic partnerships. The Job Opportunity KickStart is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Product Manager to lead and manage the enhancement of KickStart?s Value Proposition through expansion of its product and services portfolio. The Product Manager ? Innovations will work with members of cross-functional teams (Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Product Intelligence and Development (PID), Finance, Impact Monitoring, Business Improvement and Information Services) to bring these new projects to fruition. The position will report to the Head of Marketing & Innovation and will be based in Nairobi with travel within Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia.
Specifically, the job responsibilities will include:
Product Development Roadmap/Product Portfolio Management
Product Management of Irrigation Technologies that enable smallholder farmers to increase income by cultivating dry season crops.
Product Management of Financial Services that are designed to enhance and accelerate the impact created by our Irrigation Technologies
Qualifications:
How to apply:
To be considered for this position, kindly email your one page Application Letter, together with your CV (maximum of 2 pages), with the position in the subject line of your email to hr@kickstart.org by December 31, 2012.
Source: http://www.kenyajoblink.com/job/22990/product-manager-innovations-at-kickstart-international/
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[ B&W pictures, courtesy Chandan Gomes. Colour pictures and cell phone video footage, courtesy, Bonojit Husain, New Socialist Initiative ]
Dear young women and men of Delhi,
I am writing to you again because I have been listening to you. This is a strange time, when everybody is talking, and everybody is listening, and the unknown citizen, who could have been any one of you, has transformed us all.
I was with you last night, from five thirty in the evening to around nine at night, while we walked together from the Vishwavidyalaya (University) Metro Station to Vijay Nagar, Kamla Nagar and the North Campus of Delhi University. There were around twelve hundred of you. Several of you held candles. You made yourselves into a moving blur of light. As the shopkeepers of Vijay Nagar, as the rent collecting aunties of paying guest accommodations, as the men and boys and girls and women on the streets and in the verandahs looked at you in wonder, you looked back at them, many of you smiled and waved. I could see some people in the crowd lip-synch with your Hallabols.
[ video of the night march near Delhi University ]
You were angry and happy and sad and determined at the same time. Several times in our walk together, punctuating the steady, rising chant of ?Hum Kya Chahtey, Azaadi? you also said ?Inquilabo, Inquilabo, Iquilabo, Zindabad?. I have heard The words Inquilab and Zindabad said separately, and together, many times in my life. But rarely with the passion and the affection, even the love and longing with which you hyphenated them together last night. And when you said ?Inquilabo? rounding off the end of the word with that vowel sound, as if revolution were the affectionate nick-name of a young woman, like Gulabo is for Gulab (like Rosie is for Rosa) I could not help thinking that here was a young woman called Inquilab/Revolution and her sisters, or friends, or lovers were calling her out to play.
[ Lokesh, Stree Mukti Sangathan, speaking at University Metro Station before the beginning of the March ]
Like the other occasions when i have encountered you in the last few days, you were peaceful, determined, angry and very vocal. I listened to you as I walked with you. Listening to the conversations and the slogans and songs in different clusters amongst you. There were very few faces amongst the twelve hundred of you that I could recognise, but I felt at home with you, as you did with each other. I felt that i knew you, that you knew me, even though we did not know each other?s names, just like we still do not know the name of that woman, that friend of ours, whom they spirited out to Singapore, whom they cremated in the shroud, not of privacy, but of secrecy. Many of you were there as part of different organisations, mainly with the Independent Left, with radical feminist groups and other women?s organisations. But many of you, perhaps the majority of you, were, like me unaffiliated. But we all belonged to the moment. And belonging to a time, and making a time belong to us, is sometimes just as important as, and occasionally more improtant than, belonging to a party or a front or an organisation. This night, this day, these hours are now ours. Just as you have said, ?this body, this city, this street, is ours?.
I am not writing to tell you what I think today. I am writing to you because I am a chronicler of your desires. A witness to your witnessing. I am writing to you because I listened to you, because I want everyone to hear what you said to me, to anyone who cared to listen, to the city and be world. And so, I will simply reproduce below what I heard. I will retrieve from my memory of this ordinary and extraordinary evening fragments of slogans, snatches of conversation and song.
There was of course the ubiquitous refrain of the question that was also an answer ? Hum Kya Chahtey, Azaadi. Which you would then immediately respond to by saying, to yourselves and the world ? the following
Raat mein bhi Azaadi. Din mein bhi Azaadi.
Daftar mein bhi Azaadi. College mein bhi Azaadi.
Hostel mein bhi Azaadi. Schoolon mein bhi Azaadi.
Karkhanon mein bhi Azaadi. Khalihanon mein bhi Azaadi.
Sadak pe bhi Azaadi. Gharon mein bhi Azaadi.
Shadi karne ki Azaadi aur Na Karne ki Azaadi.
Pyaar ki bhi Azaadi aur Dosti ki Azaadi.
Bethan mangey Azaadi. Bitiya mangey Azaadi. Ma bhi mangey Azaadi.
Mang rahi hai Aadhi Aabadi. Azaadi. Azaadi.
Kashmir mein bhi Azaadi. Manipur mein bhi Azaadi.
Chhattisgarh mein Azaadi aur Dilli mein bhi Azaadi.
Jangal mein bhi Azaadi. Shahron mein bhi Azaadi.
Gaon mein bhi Azaadi aur Kasbon mein bhi Azaadi.
Punjivad se Azaadi. Manuvad se Azaadi.
Mohalley mein bhi Azaadi. Pure desh mein Azaadi aur Duniya mein bhi Azaadi.
Bap se bhi Azaadi aur Khap se bhi Azaadi.
Dharam se bhi Azaadi aur Sanskriti se bhi Azaadi.
Samaj se bhi Azaadi. Sarkar se bhi Azaadi.
Kapre pehen ne ki Azaadi. Kuch bhi pehen ne ki Azaadi.
Denting-Painting ki Azaadi. Pub mein bhi Azaadi.
Bus-Metro mein Azaadi aur Disco mein bhi Azaadi.
Mandir mein bhi Azaadi aur Masjid mein bhi Azaadi.
You embraced the Azaadi slogan, took it from where it came, turned it, played with it, made it dance and now you return it, enriched and enlarged. Now, when your peers chant it in Kashmir, they will echo you, just as you have echoed them, even as you both speak of and to different and similar kinds of desires for freedom. Different and similar sources of pain. This is how, with echoes and resonances, with rhymes and reasons, new solidarity are born and nurtured.
You spoke against Pitrisatta, Manuvad, Pedarshahi, Patriarchy.
You spoke against female foeticide, sexual harassment in the work place, about the exploitation of women workers, about violence within the home, within marriage.
You said the obvious and still the necessary thing to say ? Nari Mukti, Sabki Mukti.
You said Hallabol to the State, the Army, the Police, UPA and NDA.
You said Hallabol to Sonia Gandhi, Sheila Dikshit and Sushma Swaraj.
You said Jo Na Boleyn, Us Pe Bol, Hallabol, Hallabol.
You spoke against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act.
I saw a hand written sign remembering Nilofar and Aasiya Jaan.
I saw hand written signs against marital rape and custodial violence.
I even saw a hand written sign against how publishing companies have locked up the photocopiers on campus.
I heard the names of Bhagat Singh and Rosa Luxemburg hurled into the air in one strange keening cry. I heard another voice say ?Kaun, Who? and I heard another voice say ?Abey, Rosa, Rosa? as if you were talking about a classmate. And then, it was ? ?Inquilabo, Inquilabo, Inquilabo Zindabad again?.
Then you talked about Hostel Deadlines. 8 Pm Curfews. About library hours.
You talked about hostel accommodation and transport and why there are so few women?s toilets.
I heard the words of a beautiful song, the sharpest song that I have ever heard about the sanctum sanctorum of Lutyens? Delhi, where they think they can decide your fate. And I hope I am getting the words right. A fragment of the song went something like this, I think. forgive me if I misremember the details of the lyrics.
Chaurasi hain banglein. Banglon mein Bageecha
Har kyari ke neechey, ek marghat hai Rama
Police-Military talwaar kheenchey khari hui hai
I heard voices getting tired. I heard one voice pick up the thread of a slogan where another trailed. I heard one cluster of voices answer another cluster of voices.
Then I heard another song, which in a delightful purbaiya accent, said something like this -
Hamarey Bolney se Jab koi Naraaz Hoga Hai
Tab Halka Halka Lathi Cha?raj Hota Hai.
Then you can back to where you started. Two and a half hours later, to the mouth of the University Metro Station. Several amongst you spoke. Simply, clearly, briefly. An older friend spoke an uncannily beautiful set of poems. He said the first woman to be burnt was his mother and the last woman to be assaulted will be his daughter. You listened, and then you spoke again. You went beyond demands and spoke about desires. One of you used that beautiful word that gets abused so easily ? Vasana. Someone spoke about reclaiming today?s New Year?s Eve celebrations.
Venues and times for the reclaiming of public space for women through celebration were declared.
Two of clock in the afternoon at Central Park in Connaught Place.
Ten at night ? Night Walk from JNU outwards into the neighbourhoods, to Munirks
Ten thirty at night to one in the morning of the first day of the new year ? street party at Anupam PVR complex.
Then some of you brought out guitars and sang. Old songs, new songs, songs still being written.
Someone laughed and said, a demonstration (like this one) where no one brings a tricolour flag, where there are no screams for the death penalty, is a gathering where no woman fears being molested.
We dispersed. Then the night dissolved into conversations, sleep, dreams, intimacy, laughter, silence and islands of insomnia.
But before I end writing to you tonight I want to thank you for enlarging the circle of this moment. For making it wider than Rajpath, wider than Jantar Mantar, for taking your desires, my desires, our desires into the capillaries of the lanes and bylanes of our city. Into neighbourhoods and colonies. Leave no neighbourhood, no street untouched. Reach every classroom and bus-stop.
And consider your universities. Consider how they are run and how they need to be run. If the university authorities do not immediately commit to building at least as many girls hostels as there are boys hostels they are contributing to an environment that is based on the insecurity of women students. If they do not commit to withdrawing the draconian and misogynist tyranny of 8 pm deadlines by which women students have to return to hostels they are contributing to an unequal and hierarchical culture on campus. If they do not keep libraries and laboratories open and safe for women students at night they are depriving women students of their right to education. If they do not immediately commit to round the clock safe bus and public transport facilities within campus and to and from the immediate neighbourhoods where many students stay in private paying guest accommodations because they are not enough hostels they are fostering the conditions that give rise to rep and harassment. If they do not build many more womens? toilets and cr?ches for women faculty they are consolidating patriarchy on campus by making it inconvenient for women to study and work in the university. These demands are neither new, nor trivial, not difficult to respond to with concrete measures. The universities are not under-resourced. And if the authorities say they are then you have to ask them what they are doing to change that. Many of you have made these demands before. Now is the time to make them again. And if they do not respond to you with the respect and consideration that you deserve, then, dear young women and men of Delhi, you can simply choose to make the universities unworkable. Because if they are spaces where women feel unsafe and uncared for, they are not working anyway.
Good night, good morning and a happy New Year?s Eve and a great new year to all of you.
I remain, with you, in friendship and solidarity.
To see YouTube videos of the nights march see uploads by the New Socialist Initiative at
http://www.facebook.com/l/eAQF7aJDS/www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUhei6TZvcw&feature=share
To see the Facebook album of Chandan Gomes following the protests see
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1581608941560.77568.1275803399&type=1
Source: http://kafila.org/2012/12/31/notes-from-a-night-walk-in-delhi-university/
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Union leaders who represent American Airlines pilots approved a tentative agreement Saturday for how the airline could merge with US Airways.
The board of the Allied Pilots Association (APA) said it voted 11-5 to approve a so-called memorandum of understanding that, with approval of other parties, "would serve as a framework for an agreement" if the airlines merge.
The union declined to provide details of the agreement, citing a non-disclosure agreement it sign as a party to the merger talks.
American, which is restructuring in bankruptcy court, is in talks to merge with US Airways. American could merge as part of the structuring process or exit bankruptcy and then decide whether to merge. A merger could be announced as soon as January 9, when AMR's board is due to meet.
A framework for the unions' labor agreements are a crucial part of the merger discussions. The APA said it is in talks with officials from American's parent, AMR Corp, US Airways and the US Airline Pilots Association, which represents US Airways pilots. Also included in the talks is the Unsecured Creditors Committee, which represents creditors of American.
(Reporting by Scott Alwyn; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Confused about the federal budget struggle? So are doctors, hospital administrators and other medical professionals who serve the 100 million Americans covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
Rarely has the government sent so many conflicting signals in so short a time about the bottom line for the health care industry.
Cuts are coming, says Washington, and some could be really big. Yet more government spending is also being promised as President Barack Obama's health care overhaul advances and millions of uninsured people move closer to getting government-subsidized coverage.
"Imagine a person being told they are going to get a raise, but their taxes are also going to go up and they are going to be paying more for gas," said Thornton Kirby, president of the South Carolina Hospital Association. "They don't know if they are going to be taking home more or less. That's the uncertainty when there are so many variables in play."
Real money is at stake for big hospitals and small medical practices alike. Government at all levels pays nearly half the nation's health care tab, with federal funds accounting for most of that.
It's widely assumed that a budget deal will mean cuts for Medicare service providers. But which ones? How much? And will Medicaid and subsidies to help people get coverage under the health care law also be cut?
As House Speaker John Boehner famously said: "God only knows." The Ohio Republican was referring to the overall chances of getting a budget deal, but the same can be said of how health care ? one-sixth of the economy ? will fare.
"There is no political consensus to do anything significant," said Dan Mendelson, president of Avalere Health, a market analysis firm. "There is a collective walking away from things that matter. All the stuff on the lists of options becomes impossible, because there is no give-and-take."
As if things weren't complicated enough, doctors keep facing their own recurring fiscal cliff, separate from the bigger budget battle but embroiled in it nonetheless.
Come Jan. 1, doctors and certain other medical professionals face a 26.5 percent cut in their Medicare payments, the consequence of a 1990s deficit-reduction law gone awry. Lawmakers failed to repeal or replace that law even after it became obvious that it wasn't working. Instead, Congress usually passes a "doc fix" each year to waive the cuts.
This year, the fix got hung up in larger budget politics. Although a reprieve is expected sooner or later, doctors don't like being told to sit in the congressional waiting room.
"It seems like there is a presumption that physicians and patients can basically tolerate this kind of uncertainty while the Congress goes through whatever political machinations they are going through," said Dr. Jeremy Lazarus, president of the American Medical Association. "Our concern is that physician uncertainty and anxiety about being able to pay the bills will have an impact on taking care of patients."
A recent government survey indicates that Medicare beneficiaries are having more problems when trying to find a new primary care doctor, and Lazarus said that will only get worse.
Adding to their unease, doctors also face an additional reduction if automatic spending cuts go through. Those would be triggered if Obama and congressional leaders are unable to bridge partisan differences and strike a deal. They are part of the combination of tax increases and spending cuts dubbed the "fiscal cliff."
Medicare service providers would get hit with a 2 percent across-the-board cut, but Medicaid and subsidies for the uninsured under Obama's health care overhaul would be spared. The Medicare cut adds up to about $120 billion over ten years, with 40 percent falling on hospitals, according to Avalare's analysis. Nursing homes, Medicare Advantage plans and home health agencies also get hit.
The American Hospital Association says that would lead to the loss of hundreds of thousands of hospital jobs in a labor intensive industry that also generates employment for other businesses in local communities.
"It's very difficult to believe hospitals can absorb the kinds of numbers they are talking about without reducing service or workforce," said Kirby, the hospital association head. "You may decide that a service a hospital provides is not affordable ? for example, obstetrics in a rural community ? if you're making a little bit of money or losing a little bit of money by continuing to deliver babies in a rural community."
Independent analysts like Mendelson doubt that a 2 percent Medicare cut to hospitals would be catastrophic, but say it will cost jobs somewhere.
Even if there is a budget deal, the squeeze will be on.
The administration has proposed $400 billion in health care cuts so far in the budget talks, coming mainly from Medicare spending. That's only a starting point as far as Republicans are concerned. They also want to pare back Medicaid and Obama's health care law, and have also sought an increase in the eligibility age for Medicare.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/budget-struggle-raising-anxiety-health-care-102635702--politics.html
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In reflecting on all the people who passed away this year, I am thinking of Nora Ephron and how this witty, wise and loving woman taught us not only how to live but also how to die.
I last saw Nora Ephron earlier this year at the memorial for best-selling author Charla Krupp, who shocked her circle of loyal devoted friends by never divulging her terminal illness. While Nora was behind me as we signed our names on the guest book, a few friends, with tear rimmed eyes, came up to us questioning how anyone could keep a terminal illness secret or would want to make that choice. "We live in the age of the Internet where everyone tells everyone everything," cried one friend.
"The credit should go to a good marriage," I said, referring to Charla's partnership to Time magazine's theater critic Richard Zoglin. "How lucky was she that her husband's love was enough that she didn't need anyone else."
I then turned to Nora and for some inexplicable reason said, "Don't you agree?" In owl-like black sunglasses, the celebrated writer of romantic comedies like Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally nodded her head and whispered, "That is so true." Only now I realize she most likely was thinking of her own husband, writer Nick Pileggi, whose quiet unwavering support gave her the protective cocoon to keep her secret intact -- even from her children.
As Frank Rich wrote in his New York Magazine piece about Ephron, people have legitimate reasons to want to keep pending death a secret. He said his friend may have not wanted "her illness to change the weather in any room she entered. She did not want to spend every day fending off an onslaught of concerned questions. She didn't want to be thought of as a lesser person. She did not want friends to see her falling apart."
Rich went on to share how at Ephron's memorial in New York City, her son Max Bernstein reflected on his mother's unexpected gift for not divulging the seriousness of her illness.
"I think that she just kept quiet so the rest of us could keep enjoying being with her as much as possible," Max said at the memorial. "All of those moments would have been bittersweet or sanctimonious, flanked by an asterisk, leading to a footnote that says, "There aren't many of these left." Then he added, "I am so glad they weren't that way."
But it couldn't have been that way for Max or his brother Jacob without Nora's husband Nick Pileggi by her side. Yes, this man who she married in 1987 was a good fella in the best of ways.
As a culture, we often focus on the lust and laughs of new marriages. But want to see passion at its sexiest? For me, it is witnessing the long-term marriages of couples whose passion for loyalty and the respect for their history together endures so that each spouse can feel safe and not judged during times of weakness. Long term marriages are the real love stories of our time. Just wish there were more of them.
Lucky Nora had Nick to discuss the challenges of squeezing joy from life with rationed time. She had him to give her the chicken soup when treatments made her sick and cranky. She had him to cry with at night when the fear of the unknown choked her with anxiety. Nora had Nick to soothe her apprehensions so her public face could still be smiling. So she could still be working. So she could still be living the life she wanted. So she could be, as she often said, "the heroine of your life, not the victim."
Friends of course lamented not being able to say farewell. But as Bruce Feiler wrote in the New York Times, farewell conversations are usually awkward and forced. What do you say after goodbye? Sorry this happened and it sucks? As I've witnessed, the dying often feel obligated to make their friends feel better about their condition. It becomes stressful for them. They only feel safe with a trusted few.
Oddly enough, Nora Ephron, the woman who eagerly doled out delicious recipes for Thanksgiving dinners, never did share the one recipe many covet: The recipe for a loving devoted marriage. With the divorce rate hovering towards 50 percent, few will have built a reservoir of good times to not need anyone else when the end of life comes.
In fact one of Nora Ephron's greatest successes ends up proving not only that in divorce, wife can go on, but that she can marry well too.
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Achieves its sunny disposition by pulling punches.
A funny, tender and mostly unsentimentalized movie about physical and emotional triumph.
Forced to do all his acting with his face, Hawkes displays the kind of camera-arresting capability that has earned others Oscar nominations.
This is a crowd-pleaser of the finest sort.
Using only his tilted head, his eyes, nose, and mouth and that quizzical voice, Hawkes brings O'Brien to life.
This is one of the best, and certainly one of the best-acted, films of the year. I can't think of another film that mixed compassion and carnality in such an eloquent way.
The laughs are always gentle, which is descriptive of the film as a whole, as it strives to reconnect cinematic sex with shared humanity.
Vera is something of a missed opportunity here.
A movie about sex that shows a whole lot of sex, but isn't sex-obsessed. The Sessions grabs you in the heart rather than the loins.
An inspiring tale that celebrates the human spirit, underscores the value of connections, and laughs at the beautifully embarrassing urges that make us what we are.
Deeply moving. The Oscar-worthy (John) Hawkes invests his character with a sense of grace and humor that nullifies any potential pity. This is a great movie for adults and even for older adolescents.
It is rare to watch a movie where sex is treated with maturity, religion is treated with respect and characters are so heart-warmingly written and portrayed.
Raw, unrestrained and sympathetic without giving in to melodrama, 'The Sessions' is about a man facing a physical challenge who decides he wants to become intimate with a woman.
An intelligent, funny, insightful film that offers a frank examination of sex. It's not prurient or titillating, just truthful.
A remarkable actor, John Hawkes, gives a remarkable performance as a remarkable character.
Surprisingly funny and touching.
Presents the sensitive O'Brien as a brave, funny, unselfish and unlikely romantic-fantasy dream hero for disappointed, weary or jaded older female moviegoers.
The uplifting struggle for living a life of dignity for paralyzed from the neck down polio victim Mark O'Brien.
The sex scenes are frank and explicit, but never cheap and exploitative. (Yes, they get naked. Grow up.) The nudity isn't airbrushed pin-up perfection, but raw and real - and all the more lovely and moving because of it.
Taking the good with the bad, this isn't a terrible movie, though it is being rather overhyped. I found myself laughing a lot and enjoying the transformations the actors go through, but an unengaging story only serves to drag it down.
A film, inspired by the life of the late poet-journalist Mark O'Brien, that celebrates the relationship between physical and emotional intimacy.
Not just another weepy drama of overcoming odds, a My Left Foot with a different appendage. The Sessions is often brazenly funny, not from shocking dialogue but characters reacting the way people do, especially with such a flustering subject as sex.
an unusually frank and frequently humorous meditation on the transformative power of connection
Take away the nudity and the frank sex talk and you'd pretty much be left with a high-minded TV movie -- with unusually good actors.
Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_sessions/
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An inmate in Gloucester Township, New Jersey, managed to shoot three officers at a police station early this morning, according to the Philadelphia affiliate of ABC News. All three officers survived, while the inmate was killed by police. Details are still unclear ? the township's police has yet to describe the inmate, or how he was able to procure and use a firearm while in custody ? but the incident has already steered the ongoing gun conversation on Twitter today:
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ? Connecticut has given men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie a new contract that runs through the end of the 2017-18 season.
The deal, signed Saturday, is worth just under $7 million and begins Jan. 1. When Ollie was hired in September, he was signed for just one season.
"As I said in my first press conference, I want to be here a lifetime and this is a step, hopefully a great step, in the program moving forward," Ollie said.
Ollie, who turned 40 on Thursday, was hired after Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun retired. His original deal had a pro-rated value of just over $465,000, the school said.
Ollie has led UConn to a 10-2 record, including a win Saturday against Washington, despite losing five underclassmen from last year's team after it was announced that the Huskies were academically ineligible for the upcoming postseason.
"He's shown that he can coach, that he can lead this team on the court, and academically," athletic director Warde Manuel said. "He's the epitome of an UConn Husky."
Ollie was greeted with a standing ovation as he walked on the court Saturday night and the student section chanted his name.
"We got excited for him, and we wanted to give him his first career win as UConn's new long-term head coach," said guard Shabazz Napier, who scored 13 points and grabbed eight rebounds in Saturday's 61-53 win.
Ollie, who played point guard for Calhoun from 1991-95, was his former coach's hand-picked successor. He became an assistant at UConn in 2010, after 13 years as an NBA journeyman.
But, he had never been a head coach on any level. Manuel said that's why he waited before tendering a multi-year offer, even though he knew it could have a negative impact on recruiting.
"I'm sure it didn't help, the short-term nature of the deal," Manuel said. "But I wanted the opportunity to see Kevin and get a sense of who he was for the long term."
Ollie has quickly established himself with his upbeat and energetic style, running practices that focus on conditioning and accountability.
"Kevin moved gracefully and seamlessly into this position of immense responsibility over the course of the fall," school President Susan Herbst said. "He demonstrated to us that he is a genuine leader of extraordinary talents."
The contract also includes some stiff penalties should UConn in the future again fail to meet the minimum standards for the NCAA Academic Progress Rate.
Ollie would forfeit two weeks' salary and all postseason payments. Two consecutive years of substandard APR scores would be grounds for termination.
"I agreed to it because I have a belief system in my student athletes," Ollie said. "We're students first and we're going to get it done."
Those sanctions would be eliminated from the contract once UConn's four-year APR climbs above 930, Manuel said.
Ollie will receive $1.2 million in 2013. His base salary will be $400,000 and rest will be for speaking and media appearances. The payments increase annually to $1.34 million by 2017.
Calhoun, who is vacationing in Florida, issued a statement saying the hiring makes him feel "very good about the future of UConn basketball."
UConn women's coach Geno Auriemma, who is making $1.8 million this year and is in negotiations for an extension, said Ollie remains in a tough position, but will have the support of the entire athletic department.
"He's going to do the right thing. He's already proven that," Auriemma said. "And now he's going to get an opportunity to recruit and he's going to get an opportunity to coach."
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AP Sports Writer Janie McCauley in Stanford, Calif., contributed to this report.
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Christmas day this year saw record numbers of devices coming online ? over 17 million of them, according to app analytics company Flurry. And that's not counting the ones that stayed offline.
Flurry identifies new devices as "activated" when?one of thousands of tracked apps is launched, and the company claims that this amounts to about 90 percent of all devices ? note that this is different from "activating" your new phone on a wireless carrier.
With so many tablets and smartphones on the market right now, perhaps it's not surprising that numbers should be so high. The iPad Mini, Nexus 10?and Kindle Fire all combine the latest hardware with a gift-friendly price.
By Flurry's measure, 17.4 million iOS and Android devices were activated Christmas day worldwide ? more than any other day in history by a good margin.?December saw about 4 million devices activated every day, which is about twice what December 2011 had, and Christmas day last year had only 6.8 million activations.
Flurry didn't provide a breakdown of how many of those millions were Android and how many were iOS ? and with competition fiercer than ever, it's difficult to speculate (although based on recent reports, it's likely that iOS has a solid?lead).
A second study by Mixpanel found that more than half of Internet traffic on Christmas was from mobile devices (much more than the week before), so clearly those millions of gifted tablets and phones were being put to use. Mixpanel put the traffic breakdown as 44 percent Android and 54 percent iOS, but that's of all the devices Mixpanel?saw, not just the ones opened on Christmas.
More complete numbers (including best-selling devices) will likely be released by retailers and manufacturers in the next few weeks ? perhaps at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBCNews Digital. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.
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?I always like visiting better after Christmas,? said friend Marsha. ? After thinking about it, I do agree. ?The pressure is gone, and one can relax and enjoy being with ones you love. That is when Marsha invited me over for coffee, and I was beyond excited. ?I jumped at the invitation, and offered to bring some Hungarian Butterhorns. ?It is always a joy and a pleasure to visit Marsha. ?I call her my cheerleader. ?She encourages me, writes better comments than I do blogs, and promotes Lanabird. ?Words can not express how thankful I am to her.
Not only is she a totally wonderful person, she has a beyond wonderful home. ?I took pictures so you can visit also.
Be still my heart! ?For years I have admired English chimney pots, and look what greeted me at the front door. ?Filled with oversized ornaments, it is festive and fantastic.
The painted wardrobe from Germany is breathtaking. ?I like it. I love it. ?I do believe it is the prettiest one I have ever seen.
Beyond fantastic are the three wise men on her mantle. ?Marsha said she got them years ago at The Market at North Park. ?I love it that the camels are wearing the crowns.
Looking from her dining room into the den, you can get a sense of how beautiful her home is. ?Isn?t that the most gorgeous antique chandelier?
Be still my heart! ? ?The antique turkey platter takes my breath away. ?It was from Bob?s (Marsha?s husband) family. ? ?Most of the antiques in her home are family heirlooms.
Mercury glass, a mirrored tray, and glittery silver trees are beautiful on the sofa table.
Next to the sofa table is a darling little chair holding a lit tree. ?How cute is that!
I love, love, love, this blue and ?white platter filled with candy canes and red and white glass balls.
Gorgeous ? just gorgeous. ?Marsha had a beautiful antique bowl filled with large pine cones and silver stars.
Marsha and Bob added on a large room on the back of their home. ?It is perfect for entertaining. ?Love the leaded glass side windows (I know they have a name, but I do not know the name.)
Guarding the back door is the most adorable snowman in an antique cart. ?He was handmade by a lady in McKinney.
In several places in her home, Marsha used architectural pieces above mirrors, pictures, and doors. ?The details in her home are amazing.
In the living room there was another small lit tree. ?What a wonderful look.
Sweet Mother of Pearl. ?On the side table, is the happiest Holy Family I have ever seen. ?The smile on Mary and Baby Jesus make me smile. ?I know Joseph is smiling under his beard. ?This reminds me of Marsha. ?She is always happy and smiling. ?Marshachristmas is how she is known on the comment page, and I must say she is a gift to all who know her.
Honestly it was hard for me to leave because I kept seeing more and more unusual things. ?The little tree on the right with the fruit was Bob?s mothers ? probably from the 1940?s. ?I love it, and I love that they still have it.
Amazing! ?Marsha even has a Crawford biscuit tin.
Marsha and Bob are one of the most loved and respected couples I have ever known. ?Thank you for letting me share your home. ?I had such a good time visiting with you, and eating your delicious pimento cheese sandwiches. ?I know I missed many things. ?Your home is truly wonderful.
Blessings to you and yours,
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Source: http://www.lanabird.com/2012/12/29/a-home-tour-at-marshas/
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Dennis Sparks has written a powerful post about the narrative of failure and decline that is now being cynically employed to privatize public education. Many of those now telling this story stand to benefit by taking over schools, firing teachers, and replacing them with computers, or selling the computers and software that replace the teachers. [...]
This is a message for corporate reformers from Katie Osgood. I hope it will be read carefully by the folks at Democrats for Education Reform, Stand for Children, ALEC, Teach for America, Education Reform Now, StudentsFirst, the Gates Foundation, the Walton Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the Dell Foundation, Bellweather Partners, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, [...]
David Kirp is one of our most perceptive thinkers and writers about education. You will enjoy his new book about a wonderful public school in New Jersey. It is called ?Improbable Scholars.? In this article, he says that the massacre of little children in Newtown represents a frightening turning point in our society. What happened [...]
Arthur Goldstein, who teaches ESL and English in a Queens, New York, high school, writes a consistently excellent blog (nyceducator.com). In this post, he raises an intriguing question: Why is that reformers can criticize teachers nonstop and say ridiculous things about them but get twisted into paroxysms of outrage if anyone dares to defend teachers [...]
Matthew Di Carlo at the Shanker Institute has a good post about the importance of test security in an era of high-stakes testing. As long as we have high-stakes testing?which I oppose?we need to guard against cheating. He points out that the scandal in Atlanta was thoroughly reviewed by independent and well-trained investigators. They got [...]
If you are a fan of mystery writing and novels, this will interest you. If you love non-fiction, it will also interest you. This is a true-life drama from Baton Rouge about a school that was taken over by the state in 2008 and has seen no improvement. The story involves money, politics, power, hidden [...]
A little known group called Educators for Shared Accountability designed a rubric for evaluating Secretaries of Education. It incorporates multiple measures. By its metric, Richard Riley was our best national leader. Check out Secretary Duncan?s value added rating.
The Louisiana Department of Education is bringing to fruition the acme of corporate reform salary schedules for teachers. It may have been jointly designed by ALEC and TFA. Neither experience nor degrees count. The only thing that matters is value-added test scores. The LDOE recommends big bonuses?merit pay?of $10,000 or more for the teachers whose [...]
I am in search of information and I can?t find it by googling. So I am turning to you to help me answer these questions. 1. In your state, are special education students required to take the same grade-level tests as regular students? Are there exceptions based on IEPs? 2. Are charters in your state [...]
Drop whatever you are doing, and read this. EduShyster serves up a delightful portrait of an award-winning school in Minneapolis that embodies every new reform strategy. And here is the best part: It hasn?t opened yet! It won?t open until next September and it is already a great success!
A post about the Common Core standards ?No One Opposes Reading Non-Fiction?) was followed by a lively discussion among readers. Among many excellent comments, this one stood out. Written by Robert D. Shepherd, it raises important issues about how publishers will interpret the standards. And even more important, why do we want to read? Back [...]
Diana Senechal has written a thoughtful reflection on the tendency of policymakers to foist big ideas on education. Fads come and go. The ones we live with today, say I, seem especially pernicious because they are backed by the power of the state in alliance with the profit motive. Yet I remain confident that truly [...]
A few weeks ago, I spoke at the annual conference of the New York State School Music Association in Rochester. As I was going through the lobby of the conference center, I saw many teenagers carrying their musical instruments, preparing to practice and play together. There was a spirit of happy anticipation in the air?at [...]
This should be of interest to readers. The Chicago Teachers Union has filed a federal lawsuit against the Chicago Public Schools, claiming that African American teachers have been disproportionately harmed by school closings. Over the past decade, their numbers have dropped dramatically in the school system. Chicago Teachers File Federal Lawsuit Charging CPS with Racial [...]
Jersey Jazzman connects the dots about school closings. Do they close in white neighborhoods? No. Do they close in affluent neighborhoods? No. Guess where they close? In high-poverty neighborhoods. My guess: the white and affluent neighborhoods are next.
Eclectablog is one of my favorites. I don?t know the writer, but he or she is super smart and witty, which is a great combination. Here is a post explaining that an armed guard in every school (132,000 schools of all kinds) would cost something north of $10 billion. That?s lot of moola-boola on new [...]
A reader posted a comment yesterday wondering why so many who read this blog are opposed to reading non-fiction, or in the jargon of the day, ?informational text.? This is a reference to the debate about the Common Core standards, which mandate a 50-50 split between literary/informational text in lower grades, and a 70-30 split [...]
This elementary school teacher wants to be armed with smaller classes. She also wants to be armed with after school clubs and resources for her special education students. Read more about how she wants to be armed. This education dean also wants to arm teachers. He wants to arm them with passion, purpose, knowledge, understanding, [...]
This was sent by a reader of the blog. Todd Farley wrote a terrific book about the testing industry called ?Making the Grades,? based on his many years on the inside of that industry. He knows the tricks of the trade. If you haven?t read his book, you should. Interview with Todd Farley by Rebecca [...]
One of the unsettled questions about the Common Core standards is whether they will widen or narrow the achievement gaps between children of different races and different income levels. In their first trial in Kentucky, the gap grew larger, and scores fell across the board. Some see this effect as a temporary adjustment to higher [...]
This article, published in The Times Educational Supplement (London), is an in-depth explanation of how the Global Educational Reform Movement (GERM) took shape and became powerful. Here you will meet Sir Michael Barber, who coined the idea of ?deliverology,? and learn about his rapid ascent from trade union activist to Tony Blair advisor to McKinsey [...]
Carole Marshall, a former journalist, published the following in the Providence (R.I.) Journal on December 14, 2012: TESTING MANIA LEAVES URBAN STUDENTS BEHIND As a person who left a teaching position at Hope High School, in Providence, last June after almost two decades, I?d like to add my perspective to the discussion of high-stakes testing. [...]
Stephen Krashen is a professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, where he taught linguistics. He comments here in response to an earlier post about the Common Core standards: What this excessive detail also does is (1) dictate the order of presentation of aspects of literacy (2) encourage a direct teaching, skill-building approach to [...]
Paul Thomas of Furman University in South Carolina says it is time for Southerners to recognize that testing is a way of reinforcing inequity. Tests reflect socioeconomic conditions. The haves dominate the top half of the bell curve, the have-nots dominate the bottom half. And the tests legitimate their status. Tests measure inequality of opportunity. [...]
A teacher wrote this comment in response to the ongoing debate about the value of the Common Core standards: ?I was one of those who was very leary of the push for non-fiction in high school, but through nearly three years of working with the Common Core in St. Paul, Minnesota, I have come to [...]
To be exact, why does TFA need $907 million? That is the amount that TFA raised from 2006-2010. EduShyster has done the numbers and explains it all here. During that time, TFA groomed some 28,000 teachers. But more important, it groomed leaders like Kevin Huffman, state commissioner of education in Tennessee, now planning for vouchers; [...]
Mark Naison, professor of African-American Studies at Fordham University, asks whether Teach for America leaders are the Robert McNamaras of this generation?
The best group now organizing and mobilizing to strengthen public education is Parents Across America. You don?t have to be a public school parent to join. PAA welcomes educators and everyone who supports public schools. If you care about improving your public schools and fighting off corporate control and privatization, join Parents Across America. PAA [...]
In response to an earlier post about the escalating cost of teacher evaluation programs, a reader submitted this comment. I wish that our elected officials in Washington and in the state legislatures and departments of education would read it. This voyage is beginning in Connecticut. Every hour that teachers and administrators focus on the new [...]
Wonderful news from Charlotte-Mecklenbug, North Carolina! The superintendent of schools has spoken out forcefully against the flood of testing. Because of this great news, I happily add Heath Morrison to the honor roll as a champion of American public education. Morrison is superintendent of schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina. He is also highly respected among [...]
Mark Naison, professor of African-American Studies at Fordham University, sends holiday greetings to education activists across the nation. Activism today on behalf of public education, he finds, is akin to the activism for civil rights in the 1960s. It requires courage and dedication. You do it because you have to or you won?t be able [...]
When I visited Los Angeles in 2010, a group of young teachers surrounded me at UCLA and implored me to intervene with the schools? chancellor and get him to reverse his decision about the closing of Fremont High School. I tried but I was not successful. The teachers scattered, some stayed in teaching, some did [...]
Ken Previti has written a meditation on Dickens? Christmas Carol and how it was bowdlerized to remove its true meaning. It is time to reclaim the true meaning of Dickens for our own time.
Fred Smith worked for many years for the New York City Board of Education as a testing expert. Now he is a watchdog to guard against the misuse of tests. He writes opinion pieces and advises parent groups about the excesses of the testing industry. For non-New York City folk, Tisch is Merryl Tisch, the [...]
A reader suggests that we change our views of the proper goals of education: ?As important as core curriculum standards are they should not be the primary mission of public education. We would do well to adopt the four ancient civic virtues of Wisdom, Courage, Justice and Temperance as guidelines for student learning, K-12. Elegant [...]
This article is a Christmas gift from me to you. Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic has written one of the most eloquent explanations of why we need teachers, schools, and universities. At a time when we hear hosannas to online learning, home-schooling, inexperienced teachers, the business model of schooling, for-profit schools, and the commodification [...]
This is a wonderful gift catalogue that will give you laughs and solace on this special day. EduShyster has created some priceless selections for the discerning shopper of edu-shlock.
Dear Readers, I can?t bring myself to say ?Merry Christmas,? because this Christmas season has been blighted by the tragedy in Newtown. We are still in mourning for the twenty babies who were lost there, the precious children who were so cruelly taken from their families. We are still in mourning for our brave colleagues, [...]
Earlier today I posted about four teachers in Louisiana who started a recall campaign against Governor Bobby Jindal and the Speaker of the Louisiana House. The odds against them were overwhelming. They had no organization, no money, and no political experience. They didn?t collect enough signatures to get on the ballot. They confronted a powerful [...]
Joshua Starr is superintendent of the Montgomery County public schools. He has stepped forward as an outspoken critic of standardized testing. He is emerging as a national voice against the national obsession with testing, ranking and rating students, teachers and schools. He has a different agenda: education. He recently was criticized for failing to follow [...]
Eduardo Andere is one of Mexico?s leading education researchers. Here, he comments on a post by Stephen Krashen about the PISA results. Well, maybe Mr. Krashen is right! The analysis below may help to buttress many people?s view why American education isn?t so bad after all: The education of Nobel Prize winners By Eduardo Andere [...]
If you want to know why Finnish schools are so admired, consider the following: Finnish schools do not have standardized testing until college entry. Admission to teacher education is highly selective. Teaching is a prestigious career. Child poverty is very low. Finnish schools emphasize the arts, physical activity, and a broad curriculum. If you can?t [...]
Last spring, four teachers in Calcasieu Parish in Louisiana decided ?enough is enough? when Governor Bobby Jindal rushed through his legislation targeting teachers and attacking public education. They decided they would launch a campaign to recall Jindal and House Speaker Chuck Kleckley. None had ever been politically active before. You have to understand that Bobby [...]
A post on the NYC Parents Blog tells the sad story of a middle-school student who was not allowed to graduate with her class because she had supposedly failed the ELA exam. She was an honor student, and it made no sense, but the NYC Department of Education was adamant. The tests don?t lie, do [...]
When Marc Epstein, who was a history teacher at Jamaica High School in New York City (now closed to make way for small schools), read Carol Burris?s post opposing differentiated diplomas and tracking, he wrote to express his disagreement. I invited him to write a post, and he said he had already written it. It [...]
A reader who is a veteran teacher suggests incorporating the Mayan calendar into VAM evaluations. It could be one of the multiple measures that everyone talks about and would very likely improve the overall accuracy of the VAM ratings.
Katie Osgood teaches children in a psychiatric hospital in Chicago. She is one of our most eloquent bloggers, whose understanding of the damage done to children in today?s society is unparalleled. This post of hers sums up the meaning of what I called the Twitter kerfuffle. Last week, I wrote a post about ?The Hero [...]
Education Week reports that there was no significant difference between the performance of eighth grade students in Finland and the US in mathematics on the TIMSS. Four American states had higher scores in eighth grade mathematics on TIMSS than Finland: Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Indiana. This is not what you hear in the media, [...]
A teacher sent me this link and urged me to post it. This is a story about Lauren Rousseau, a substitute teacher who lost her life during the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School on one of the days that she was hired to teach. Teaching was what she most wanted to do, but Newtown [...]
Carol Burris is the principal of an outstanding high school on Long Island in New York. She is a leader of the principals? group opposing the new state evaluation system. This post includes her recent letter to the Regents in opposition to a new diploma program that she fears will encourage tracking. Her own high [...]
A stunning editorial in the Statesman, a Louisiana publication, raises an important question about Governor Jindal?s voucher program: Why do conservatives remind everyone about the importance of adhering faithfully to the literal meaning of the state constitution except when they choose not to? The Jindal voucher plan is funded by the Minimum Foundation Funding dedicated [...]
A reader comments on the National Rifle Association?s ideas for school security: ?Let?s pretend. 100,000 schools would need 100,000 guards, preferably active police officers, who would by a conservative estimate cost at least $100,000 per year apiece in salary and benefits. That?s $10,000,000,000 to start, plus who knows how much more for the added costs [...]
Ron Isaac is a retired teacher of English in New York City. He writes: What a shame that language is such a pliable substance! It?s putty in the hands of folks who control public policy debates, especially about education. And it can be deadly to progress when it?s off the tongues of people who exercise authority unjustly, either [...]
The school district in Manchester, New Hampshire, is considering online classes?not blended learning?as Acosta-saving device. The idea is to put kids online and lay off teachers. Anyone who deals with children and adolescents knows that face-to-face contact, human-to-human relationships are very important. Something?s, like reading a book our practicing an instrument, may best be done [...]
A reader explains why armed guards will not end the violence: As my own experience with troubled children, and as pointed out in the PBS ?After Newtown? program of 12/21/2012 pointed out: (1) the shooters tend to be young males who largely fantasize about the shooting long before they act, (2) they strongly tend to [...]
In Louisiana, this mother reports, her 17-year-old autistic son will be required to take the ACT and EOC (end-of-course exams). As she writes, ?These children are also being forced to take the EOC. or ?end of course? tests for high school courses that they have never taken. Allow me to reiterate. They are forced to [...]
The Daily Howler is all over the media for its sour reporting about the latest international test (TIMSS). He finds that they reverted to their ?doom and gloom? scenario without bothering to dig into the data. He dug into the data and found lots to cheer about. In this post, Bob Somerby parses the data [...]
The National Rifle Association wants an armed guard at every one of the nation?s 100,000 schools. Some legislators want teachers and principals to carry weapons. Why should policy be reactive? Better to limit all weaponry to officers of the law, except for single-shot rifles for hunters. Guns should be available only to those authorized to [...]
Helen Ladd and her husband Edward Fiske are distinguished observers of American Education. Ladd is a Professor of Economics at Duke University. Fiske was education editor of the anew York Times. Together they describe a fork in the road for our nation?s public school system. Will we continue towards free-market privatization or will we revitalize [...]
Bob Somerby, taught for many years in the Baltimore public schools. His blog The Daily Howler offers a fearless critique of media coverage of critical events. His post on the latest international assessments (TIMSS) and the media?s decision tiresome putdown of American students is a classic. He points out that on the math portions of [...]
Privatization is in high gear in many cities?Chicago, DC, Memphis, Detroit, and elsewhere. The corporate reformers say they want to save money but the closings don?t save money. They say they want to improve education, but that hasn?t happened either. Here is Helen Gym?s account of the Philadelphia story.
Here is someone you should follow. In a recent post, this teacher writes: In order to forestall state-takeover, our district is scrambling to find ways to make ?substantial improvement.? By improvement, of course we mean in our MCAS scores. One way we are responding is to get a private company called ?Achievement Net? or ?A-Net? [...]
I previously named Joshua Starr, superintendent of Montgomery County public schools in Maryland, to the honor roll for his courage and wisdom. He rejected Race to the Top Funding because his schools have a nationally acclaimed peer review evaluation system. He called for a three-year moratorium on standardized testing. For daring to be different, he [...]
The Chicago Tribune obtained a copy of a secret document describing the plan of Chicago Public Schools to close 95 schools, mostly in minority neighborhoods. The plan was dated September 10. This represents a dramatic elimination of public schools in Chicago. The city says it will slow down charter growth, at least this year, but [...]
So many news media have thoughtlessly or knowingly jumped on the bandwagon of corporate reform that it comes as a shock to encounter one saying simple truths. Te Baltimore Sun wrote, in response to the massacre of innocent children and educators in Newtown, that it?s time to stop the vilification of our nation?s teachers and [...]
Kaya Henderson, chancellor of the DC public schools, intends to close another 20 public schools. DC is now the second largest urban district with the greatest proportion of its students in privately managed charter, after New Orleans. Unlike New Orleans, DC did not suffer a natural disaster. Instead, its leaders don?t know how to improve [...]
Karen Lewis spoke up on my behalf when a TFA officer denounced my post ?The Hero Teachers of Newtown?) as ?reprehensible. Lewis then became the object of attacks from outraged bloggers and tweeters saying that she literally accused TFA of murder. Lewis said no such thing. This was a fine example of the dark art [...]
Corporate-style reformers believe that children will learn more and get higher test scores if they spend hours more in school preparing for the tests. They probably think that retail clerks will sell more if they have a 9-hour shift. But a newcomer to EduShyster?s burgeoning staff explains what happens when the extra time is added. [...]
Bruce Baker has written an illuminating and disturbing post about how New York is underfunding its highest-need schools. Governor Cuomo likes to complain that the state spends far too much on education but sees little improvement. Baker demonstrates that the formula hurts the neediest students. The governor goes on to say that he will take [...]
Sarah Darer Littman has a good idea. She thinks that journalists in Connecticut should do investigative journalism and not just write what they find in the press release. Case in point: the recent gift of $5 million from the Gates foundation to Hartford schools. Littman calls the grant a Trojan horse because it commits the [...]
Source: http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2012/12/listen-to-diane-ravitch-all-week-long_29.html
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