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10 tips to promote global citizenship in the classroom

Source: Guardian Unlimited, Nov 9 2012, 5:41am CST

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off President Obama in your classroom: Use the news to engage students in key issues around global citizenship. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images For example, talk abou ...

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New York's about to fail ultimate test

Source: Albany Times-Union  |   May 24 2013, 4:22pm CDT

The Board of Regents, which oversees education in New York, has authorized tests to be given to elementary school students based on what's known as the "Core Curriculum." The Core has been adopted nationwide, by 45 of the 50 states, plus the ...

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Woman who never intended to teach now praised as California Teacher of the Year

Source: Oakland Local  |   May 24 2013, 12:50am CDT

California’s Teacher of the Year never considered a career in teaching, not as a child, not in high school and not in college – not even when she was accepted intoTeach For America after graduating from Occidental College in 1999. “To be perfe ...

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Is Testing Students Like Weighing Cattle? Oregon Schools Move To 'The Common Core'

Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting  |   May 23 2013, 4:53am CDT

Oregon schools wrapped up statewide testing Wednesday. For students who thought those tests were tough, here’s a reality check: tougher tests are coming. The State Board of Education has approved Reading and Math tests tied d ...

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Iowa View: Broken schools or a broken system?

Source: Des Moines Register  |   May 23 2013, 4:13am CDT

So now it appears that Iowa may finally be pushed to enter the school reform race, due to public exposure of failing public schools and falling achievement scores that are a threat to our national reputat ...

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Common Core: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 22 2013, 1:42pm CDT

"From our highest-performing districts to our most challenged, the Common Core lights the way along that path; the Common Core standards will help us to ensure that each of our students - regardless of zip code or family in ...

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Teachers credited with saving students' lives during Oklahomas tornado

Source: Denver Post  |   May 22 2013, 12:27am CDT

bloodied and bruised, utterly terrified. said. First-grade teacher Sheri Bittle on Tuesday checks her phone as she stands in the rubble of her classroom at Briarwood Elementary School in Moore, Okla. The school was destroyed b ...

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City Will Speed Cleanup of PCB-Filled Lights in Schools

Source: The New York Times  |   May 21 2013, 8:28pm CDT

With smoke and tar from faulty light fixtures leaking into New York City public school classrooms at alarming rates, the Bloomberg administration said on Tuesday that it would cut in half the time it needed to replace them. The ...

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Why I Opted Out of A.P.P.R.

Source: The Nation  |   May 21 2013, 5:12pm CDT

In February 2012, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, after a lengthy feud with the state teachers' union, came to an agreement over a comprehensive teacher evaluation system for the state. The arrangement was made so that New York State would be eligible ...

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Backpacks, Human Shields, Above and Beyond: The Oklahoma Teacher Heroes

Source: The Atlantic  |   May 21 2013, 4:12pm CDT

Roughly 1,500 miles separate the elementary schools in Moore, Oklahoma, and Newtown, Connecticut. Six months separate their tragedies. And while there are marked differences between the devastating violence in these two towns broug ...

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Not everyone can be a world citizen

Source: openDemocracy  |   May 21 2013, 6:26am CDT

The Global Poverty Project asks us to proclaim ‘I am a global citizen’ as a declaration against poverty and to ‘change the world’. In a similar spirit, Oxfam UK has learning packs for teachers to guide their teaching on g ...

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