Education

Chicago Annenberg Challenge Explained

Education Week | Dakarai I. Aarons | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago

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The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, chaired from 1995 to 1999 by Barack Obama, is being portrayed by some critics of the Democratic presidential nominee ...

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Obama Campaign - PLEASE FORWARD

Michael Tonello | Posted 10.10.2008 | Living

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Michael Tonello

I got a form letter email from the Obama campaign yesterday. I get a lot of emails from the Obama campaign. This one caught my eye. I was supposed ...

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School Attendance Records Inflated

Posted 10.09.2008 | Chicago

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Chicago Public Schools officials claimed record-high attendance for the first day of the school year, even with the school funding boycott led by the ...

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Why does John McCain hate planetariums?

Phil Plait | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

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Phil Plait

Planetaria show us the beauty and grandeur of the Universe, and shouldn't be cynically relegated to being a political bludgeon used to score cheap points.

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What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us

Margee Ensign | Posted 10.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Environment, Education in America, Knowledge International, Russia, Arabic Speakers, Skills, Inability to Communite, International Issues, Globalization, Iraq, Current Generation, Csi, American Students, Global Issues, Culture, Education, Knowledge, Academic, Cnn, Sarah Palin, Foreign Language, Entertainment Tonight, Soft New, International Ignorance, Ale Castellanos, Living News
Margee Ensign

Unfortunately, Sarah Palin is not alone in her global ignorance. Our colleges and high schools are not doing what's necessary... the current generation isn't gaining understanding of other cultures.

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Extreme Disparities in School Funding are Promoting Inequality

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Mike Honda

The substantial differences in funding between schools prevents too many children in poor areas from realizing their potential, leading to ever more economic inequality in our society.

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Screwy Logic? You Betcha, Governor!

Patt Morrison | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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Patt Morrison

Maybe in Alaska, teachers get paid in moose stew. Here in the lower 48, public school teachers get paid with the public's tax dollars.

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Tired Teachers

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 10.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Health, Stress, Education, Insomnia, Teachers, Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Disorders, Sleep, Living News
Dr. Michael J. Breus

I've written a lot about sleep-deprived parents, kids, and students, but I don't think I've given teachers the nod lately, if ever.  According to...

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The Consequences of Short-Term Thinking

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

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Jeff Schweitzer

Our narrow perspective allows us to ignore climate change, disregard the loss of tropical forests and biological diversity, and dismiss the impacts of our health care crisis.

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"Bottom Up" vs. "Trickle Down"

Randi Weingarten | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

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Randi Weingarten

We tried it McCain's way. We cut taxes on rich people. We waited for it to "trickle down." We let the "market" decide. Guess what? The market failed.

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Candidates Agree On Education Goals, Differ On Path To Get There

Richard Riehl | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Public Schools, Department of Education, Education, Education Policy, No Child Left Behind, Homeschooling, Head Start, Election 2008, Accountability, Barack Obama, John McCain, Parental Involvement, Home News
Richard Riehl

Obama goes into great detail about how to improve schools. McCain's message is much simpler. Public schools should be just one option of many, including home schooling.

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Media Miss Crucial Election Speech On Global Poverty

Steve Miller | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Child Mortality, HIV/AIDS, Education, Economic Crisis, Malaria, Henry Paulson, News Cycle, Election 2008, Global Poverty, Media, Development, Wall Street, Barack Obama, John McCain, Home News
Steve Miller

The media act incapable of covering more than one subject at a time. What was ignored yesterday was an Obama speech in which he laid out a clear and concise plan to deal with Global Warming, AIDS, Malaria and, yes, the economic crisis.

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Higher Education Key To Improving Economy, Yet McCain Lacks Specifics On Help

Gregory S. Evans | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Higher Education, Barack Obama, Economy, Middle Class, Economic Crisis, Community College, Financial Aid, u.s. Census Bureau, Student Loans, Fafsa, Federal Loans, Cost, Ambrose Bierce, Education, College Education, Private Loans, Home News
Gregory S. Evans

In a shrinking economy with a middle-class burdened by the extraordinarily high costs of college tuition in the United States, the best investment we can make for our long-term fiscal health is in increased access to higher education.

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On Education Policy, Obama and McCain Clash Over Vouchers, Teaching 'Merits' and Funding

Susan Kelley-Stamerra | Posted 09.23.2008 | Home

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Susan Kelley-Stamerra

With Friday's first presidential debate just around the corner, it's time to examine some real policy differences before we get snookered by all the f...

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The Inspiration of Barack: Back to Message -- "Vote"

Qasim Basir | Posted 09.23.2008 | Entertainment

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Qasim Basir

I came to realize that I wrote these very scripts for the purpose of inspiring people to do their part and getting them back to the message.

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Time To Pick The Smart One

Rick Siegel | Posted 09.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Education, Mccain, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Obama, Smart, Executive Experience, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Home News
Rick Siegel

Right now our country needs to put a priority on smart. We have huge dilemmas facing our next administration, arguably by people who did not make the smartest or most informed choices. We have an economic crisis, military crises; a crisis of trust regarding our government from citizens both domestically and around the world.

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Conservatives' College Strategy Aims To Combat Perceived Liberalism On American Campuses

NY Times | PATRICIA COHEN | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home

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COLORADO SPRINGS -- Acknowledging that 20 years and millions of dollars spent loudly and bitterly attacking the liberal leanings of American campuses ...

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How Many Latinos on Your Campus?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 09.21.2008 | Living

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Daniel Cubias

The larger question is why does a group that makes up 15 percent of America constitute only three percent of the students at a top university?

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Don't Believe School Funding is a Problem? Read This.

Lorraine Forte | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Education, Economy, Chicago School Funding, Cheryle Jackson, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago School Funding Gap, Illinois School Funding, James Meeks, Chicago School Achievement Gap, Civil Rights, Cps, Chicago News
Lorraine Forte

The data is shocking: If the students who enrolled in kindergarten in Chicago Public Schools in 1994 had, instead, enrolled in top-spending Lake Forest-Libertyville schools, they would have reaped the benefit of an extra $36 billion-worth of education by the time they graduated.

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The Stigma of Education

Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics

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Marty Kaplan

You have to go back to Spiro Agnew and his bullyboy ventriloquists, Pat Buchanan and William Safire, to find the current kind of sneering contempt for educated people.

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The Education of a Cipher

Bill Parent | Posted 09.17.2008 | Home

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Bill Parent

Real learning of complicated stuff takes time. Governor Sarah Palin has enrolled in a crash course called John McCain's Domestic and Foreign Policies. You cannot skip steps.

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Our Union: Fostering Reform To Improve Schools

Randi Weingarten | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics

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Randi Weingarten

Good teachers usually have good ideas about what it takes to better their schools, help other teachers, or improve education across their communities. But turning those good ideas into reality isn't easy.

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Smithsonian Goes Online: Video Game, Web Experts To Digitize 137-Million-Piece Collection

AP | Posted 09.16.2008 | Home

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Smithsonian Institution will work to digitize its collections to make science, history and cultural artifacts accessible online...

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China and the Long Road Ahead

Steven Hill | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics

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Steven Hill

Now that its coming-out party is over, it's time for China to demonstrate that it embraces the goal of improving the plight of its countryside.

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Obama Campaign Target: Blue-Collar Women Face Worst Gender Gap

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gender Gap, Women, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Blue Collar, Education, Discrimination, Politics News
Philip N. Cohen

Except among the highest earners, women with only a high school degrees face the highest gender gaps compared with men at their own education level.

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