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As I mentioned in yesterday's blog post, I'm taking a head-to-toe approach in getting ready for this year's Jump Back Ball.
That means getting the most difficult part — what the heck I'm going to do with my hair — out of the way before moving on to fun things like the dress and accessories.
I'm not very hair-savvy. Being a wash-and-go kind of gal, I keep my hair at shoulder-length because it's easy to manage. Subsequently, it takes a lot of effort each year to plan how I'm going to style my Jump Back Ball do.
This year for Mrs. Peacock, I'm taking my cues from a few different sources. The good thing about a Clue theme is that there are so many versions.
While she usually sports a tightly coiffed short cut or an up-do like a bun, my favorite is Eileen Brennan's Mrs. Peacock in the Clue movie – a loose, french-twist-like style.
I put together the below Pinterest board where I'm collecting a few hairstyles I like for my outfit.
I'm currently leaning towards the pin from Patricia Makeup Artistry, inspired by a style Taylor Swift wore (bottom row, center).
I've found that when you're used to a low-maintenance hairstyle, you need to turn to the experts for help with something more.
Fortunately for this hair-amateur, a recent event at the newest Dino Palmieri salon gave me some inspiration and know-how.
This past November, Dino Palmieri Salon and Spa opened up their latest location at Eton Chagrin Boulevard where they partnered with Solon, Ohio-based ONE Styling to showcase the first Dino Palmieri Blow Dry Bar.
Talk about getting pampered!
First stop at the Blow Dry Bar was a shampoo. Unwinding while someone washes my hair is my favorite part of visiting any salon.
But Dino Palmieri's Eton location has raised the bar even higher. Their inverted massage chairs put me instantly at ease. The sink was also adjustable – no neck cramps here!
After my stylist tore me away from the shampoo station, it was time to order from the Blow Dry Bar's menu.
Although the Eton location is a full-service salon perfect for Jump Back Ball, weddings and other special occasions, their unique Blow Dry Bar also offers quick styling for women in a hurry.
$40 gets you a wash and blow dry. Choose from a variety of hairstyles – curly, wavy, straight and sleek. They have blow outs for all hair types.
I went with a loose curl and my stylist did an excellent job, resulting in a fun, bouncy look for a post-salon dinner at Pacific East.
Much of this indulgent experience can be credited to Angela Presti, manager of the Eton salon, who handpicked the best stylists for her location (you can read more in this recent Patch feature).
Part of it also has to do with the ONE Styling tools the salon uses. After my stylist showed me a few blow drying tips with her ONE Styling dryer, they gave away ONE's LEGACY Lite to try at home.
After trying the LEGACY Lite Dryer the next morning, I was impressed by how much power it packed for being as light-weight and quiet as it is.
Though my hair is short, it's thick and takes forever to dry. The ease of use and time I save on drying my hair makes the LEGACY Lite worth the investment. Plus, it leaves my hair much sleeker than other dryers I've owned.
Here's a demonstration of the hairdryer from Celebrity Stylist David Lopez:
ONE Styling's Verge Bubble Wand is another product I've heard only fantastic reviews about – giving curls that hold really well. I'm looking forward to picking one up to test drive a few Jump Back Ball ideas.
You can get your own ONE Styling tools at Dino Palmieri's 8 locations (but call beforehand to see what they have in stock).
BONUS: They're running a 20% off promotion January through February on ONE Styling tools and dryers (dinopalmierisalon.com/promotions).
This is part 2 in my Jump Back Two Spaces series. Check out my previous posts:


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Mam Mataar Secka, the 2nd and Co-accused person in the ongoing trial involving ex-IGP Ensa Badjie and Kuluteh Manneh yesterday opened his defence before the Special Criminal Court in Banjul, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Nkea.
The accused person, Ensa Badjie Mam Mataar Secka and Kuluteh Manneh are standing trial on multiple charges ranging from conspiracy to do an act with seditious intention, sedition, abuse of office, obtaining money by false pretense, and official corruption amongst others. It would be recalled that the prosecution called 16 witnesses to testify before the court in support of its case against the accused persons.
Whilst the 1st accused person, Ensa Badjie concluded his defence on Wednesday, 2nd May, 2012 before the said special criminal court in Banjul, the 2nd accused person, Mam Mataar Secka in his testimony yesterday 3rd May 2012, informed the court that he was discharged from the Gambia Armed Forces after attaining the position of Lt Colonel. He said that he enlisted into the Gambia Police Force in 1982 and thereafter joined the first batch of the Gambia Gendarmerie and rose through the ranks in the Gambia Armed Forces until 2008, when he was promoted to Lt Colonel until he was discharged.
The 2nd defence witness disclosed that he first met Sillaba Samateh's family at the Yundum Infantry Barracks when a complaint was lodged against the said family by one Lt Colonel A. Gomez. The 2nd defence witness further disclosed that he was first informed by the 1st accused Ensa Badjie, whilst he was the IGP on telephone that a particular man called Sillaba Samateh had been arrested and has mentioned their names.
Mam Mataar Secka said he later went to Kotu Police Station and upon arrival he met a lot of people including the present IGP, Yankuba Sonko, the DG of the NIA and other senior security officials. Mam Mataar Secka further said that it was later he saw the man called Sillaba Samateh, Pa Mbye and one Nigerian called Endriss Massade. (who testified before the court).
He asserted that at the Kotu Police Station he found them playing a CD player and people were listening, then he realised that Sillaba had accused them of going around and telling people that the president has given them drugs to sell. Mam Mataar Secka however informed the court that as the said CD player was played, he denied the said allegation and Sillaba Samateh also denied ever making such allegation.
The 2nd defendant, Mam Mataar Secka stated that instruction was given for Sillaba Samateh and some people to be detained, adding that he later gave a statement at Kotu Police Station. The 2nd defendant further stated that after the confrontation, he was detained till late hours, when the 1st accused, Ensa Badjie the IGP at the time, decided that the matter be referred to the Police Headquarters in Banjul.
Mam Mataar Secka revealed that the following day at about 9.00am, he was called to report at the Serious Crime Unit at the Police Headquarters in Banjul. He said that upon arrival, he met Sillaba Samateh, Nema Ceesay, Ya Awa, Edriss Massade and the 1st accused, Ensa Badjie. He told the court that he was asked by one Ceesay, a police officer to write a statement. Mam Mataar Secka said he was alleged to be a pilot, which he denied and he explained that he had never had any training in connection to flying Aviation.
The 2nd accused said Ceesay further alleged that he has been the piloting the helicopter in the transportation of drugs in and out of the country. The 2nd accused told the court that the allegation come as a big surprise to him adding that there are no documents or diplomas in his file that he has been trained as a pilot. The 2nd accused adduced that the matter was later reported to the Defence Headquarters, where he met the then deputy chief of Defence Staff, Major General Yankuba Drammeh whom he narrated his ordeal at Kotu Police Station to.
The 2nd accused person further adduced that after his meeting with the then deputy CDS Yankuba Drammeh, he went back to his base at Yundum Military barracks. Mam Mataar Secka told the court that sometime in March 2010, he was called by the CDS, General Mansanneh Kinteh who informed him to report at the NIA headquarters. According to him, at the NIA he was received by one Louis Gomez who told him that they have received an order that he should be detained.
Prior to his detention, the accused told the court that he was asked whether he was armed, which he replied in the negative. The 2nd accused, Mam Mataar Secka told the court that he later learnt that Pa Mbye, Edriss Massade, Nema Ceesay and others were arraigned before the court. Meanwhile, Mam Mataar Secka disclosed that he was never aware of any investigation with regards to the allegations that he was a pilot, adding that the investigation could have given the authorities a tangible evidence before the said court.
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Join us each month for our new interactive and FREE Aquatots preschool programs. Specially designed for children age 3-5 years old with an adult, the Aquatots program invites preschoolers on a voyage of discovery as they explore the wonders of the sea.
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It's a week of guest posts on the blog. But fear not, next week is already loaded with great, slightly controversial and certainly fun content. Today, another guest post from my long-time friend Bob Goff. I asked Bob months ago if, before his book Love Does comes out, I could feature some of the content. So, you're reading it here first. You'll love the book. When he sent me the final chapter last year, it cost me a day. I say it cost me a day because I couldn't work anymore. I was that devastated. Love Does is a collection of simple (read "hits you from the side") essays about faith, love, forgiveness, frustrations and ultimately God. Bob paints a hopeful picture of a life of faith, but it's the kind of faith that takes action (great characters do things.) Anyway, another excerpt from Love Does:
I was in college and thought I wanted to be a forest ranger and later, a surfer. Then I got my first "dear Bob" letter from someone I really cared for who didn't want to date a forest ranger or a surfer any more.
I've learned that God sometimes allows us to find ourselves in a place where we want something so bad that we can't see past it. Sometimes we can't even see God because of it. When we want something that bad, it's easy to mistake what we truly need for the thing we really want. When this sort of thing happens, and it seems to happen to everyone, I've found it's because what God has for us is obscured from view, just around another bend in the road.
In the Bible, the people following God had the same problem I did. They swapped the real thing for an image of the real thing. We target the wrong thing and our misdirected life's goal ends up looking like a girl or a wide-brimmed hat or a golden calf. All along, what God really wants for us is something much different, something more tailored to us.
It's in my nature, maybe all of our natures, to try to engineer things. So I skew the answers to get what I thought I wanted. But when I do that, I also get what I don't want, too, like a cot and a room full of guys. The first time I wanted someone to care for me as much as I cared for her, she picked someone else and I tried to talk her out of it. If I had been successful, I wouldn't have experienced love in the unique way that I have. I wouldn't have found who and what God tailor-made for me.
I'm kind of glad I didn't end up being a forest ranger or a surfer. I'm even glad things turned out the way they did after I drove away from UCLA. While painful at the time, I can see now, many years later when I look in the rearview mirror of my life, evidence of God's tremendous love and unfolding adventure for me. I've received many letters since then in my life that started out "Dear Bob." Some were letters so thick they had to be folded several times to fit in the envelope. They left me feeling as folded when I read their words with shattering disappointment. Still, whatever follows our "Dear Bobs" is often another reminder that God's grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
And when each of us looks back at all the turns and folds God has allowed in our lives, I don't think it looks like a series of folded-over mistakes and do-overs that have shaped our lives. Instead, I think we'll conclude in the end that maybe we're all a little like human origami and the more creases we have, the better.
* You can pre order Love Does today. It'll be out officially on May 1 but rumor has it they've already shipped tons of them, so you may get it much sooner.


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University Excellence and Richard S. Howe award winners announced
(April 12, 2010)--The University Excellence and Richard S. Howe Excellence in Service to Undergraduate Students Awards ceremony is 2 p.m., Tuesday, April 13 in the University Center Ballroom (1.104) on the Main Campus. At the ceremony, UTSA employees who have reached milestones in their length of service with the university through 2009 will be recognized. Additionally, 2009 retirees will be recognized.
The University Excellence Awards honor outstanding UTSA staff across the Tri-campuses who demonstrate excellent work performance. An award of $1,000 accompanies each of the five awards. The winners of the Team Spirit Award divide the award money.
This year's award winners are:
Rising Star Award: Naomi Craven, academic adviser, College of Sciences Undergraduate Advising Center
The Rising Star Award recipient must be a new employee with less than three years of continuous service with UTSA and who has made significant contributions throughout the year to his or her area or to the university community. This individual has innovative ideas and has made significant contributions. He or she has a demonstrated record of improvement, has progressed through cooperation, initiative and is a self-starter with a take-charge attitude. This talented employee has volunteered to assist when and where needed.
Leadership Award: Paul Goodman, director of engineering and project management, Office of Facilities
The Leadership Award recipient must be currently functioning in a supervisory capacity, has promoted departmental and university mission and goals through actions and job performance, demonstrated exceptional leadership ability, fostered a positive and motivating work environment, maintained open communication lines within the department and throughout UTSA, encouraged professional development, demonstrated fairness and equity in resolving employee and work-related issues, and remained receptive to receiving constructive feedback concerning his or her job performance.
Team Spirit Award: Service Worker and Groundskeeper Team, Downtown Campus
- Edwardo Maldonado, service worker
- Michael Tillman, service worker
- David Zepeda, groundskeeper
- Mario Morales, groundskeeper
The Team Spirit Award is awarded to a group of staff employees that has demonstrated exceptional ability to foster collaboration, communication and cooperation among colleagues internal or external to their department. The team's action has significantly improved customer service or increased customer satisfaction for specific UTSA customers, has significantly improved a work process or system, or has significantly increased the productivity and efficiency of an operation or work unit.
Extra Mile Award: Anne Englert, assistant director of student relations, Office of Alumni Programs
The Extra Mile Award recognizes an individual with three years or more of continuous service with UTSA and who has taken the initiative to contribute to the success of UTSA through his or her outstanding contributions at work including extra efforts demonstrated in their accomplishments, timeliness and follow-through, and willingness to help fellow employees and provide good customer service with creativity, dedication, cooperation and reliability. He or she has performed at a level above and beyond normal job requirements that have resulted in furthering the department's and UTSA's goals and mission.
Order of the Roadrunner Award: Leonard Flaum Jr., senior equal opportunity investigator, Office of Equal Opportunity Services
The Order of the Roadrunner Award is given to an individual who demonstrates exemplary service and commitment to UTSA and the achievement of its goals through his or her actions throughout the year. This individual has enhanced the quality of work-life in ways that significantly increase productivity and efficiency for colleagues or customers to include developing creative solutions, and provided outstanding and ongoing excellence in services to faculty, staff, students and/or other UTSA customers. This is the highest honor that a UTSA staff member can receive for his or her dedication to the UTSA community.
Richard S. Howe Excellence in Service to Undergraduate Students Awards:
The Howe award is presented to faculty and staff members who have shown exemplary commitment to UTSA undergraduates, such as demonstrating a strong commitment to teaching or service to undergraduate students, serving as an advocate for undergraduate education, and engaging in activities to promote student access and success. Each Howe award winner receives $2,000.
The 2010 winners are:
- Anne Jimenez, assistant dean of students and director of student judicial affairs, Office of Student Judicial Affairs
- John Kaulfus, associate dean of students, Office of Student Life


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Palm Beach Pediatric Urology, P.A. filed as a Domestic for Profit Corporation in the State of Florida on Monday, April 17, 2000 and is approximately fifteen years old, as recorded in documents filed with Florida Department of State. The filing is currently active as of the last data refresh which occured on Sunday, June 7, 2015.
Charles Flack serves as the Director and has interests in other corporate entities including Flack Holdings Ocean Ridge, LLC, Flack Holdings, LLC .
Charles E. Flack is also the registered agent for the company. Also known as a statutory or resident agent, the registered agent is responsible for receiving legal notifications regarding court summons, lawsuits, and other legal actions involving the corporate entity.
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MCCLELLANVILLE This tiny town has rallied to help its Hurricane Sandy-ravaged big brother, Toms River, N.J.
Nearly two dozen residents showed up earlier this week at a Town Council meeting that doesnt usually draw much of a crowd. They wanted to take part in the relief effort for the New Jersey town that sent 38 trucks and tradespeople to help them after Hurricane Hugo in 1989.
Council formed a committee to contact Toms River and recommend where to put the much smaller help the town can offer, said Mayor Rutledge Leland.
As an example, he said, the town might focus on one family who helped McClellanville. McClellanville is a town of 500 people. Toms River is 20 times larger.
The Town of McClellanville Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund has been set up at Wells Fargo to accept donations, Leland said.
Were not (accepting) anything but cash, he said. Were not set up to take goods.
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CH2M HILL Projects & Programs Receive Environmental Excellence Awards
DENVER – CH2M HILL (www.ch2mhill.com), a global full-service consulting, design, construction, and operations firm, has received recognition for seven of the company's environmentally progressive projects and programs in the annual Business Achievement Awards program sponsored by the Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) and Climate Change Business Journal (CCBJ).
These awards recognize exceptional business performance in the environmental industry in such categories as establishing new areas of practice, international expansion, outstanding projects, new technology development and contributions to industry and society at large.
CH2M HILL projects and programs receiving award recognitions include:
- Design of the Brightwater Treatment Plant in King County, Washington, the largest membrane bioreactor installation in North America at 39 million gallons per day.
- Growth in the company's Threat Reduction Practice related to reducing biological threats from extensive biological warfare programs, which offers threat reduction, chemical-biological defense and program management on a worldwide basis.
- WaterMatch, a grassroots, goodwill initiative that harnesses the power of social networking to promote the beneficial reuse of municipal effluent for industrial and agricultural use.
- CH2M HILL's partnership in CLIMsystems, which develops industry-leading technology for understanding and translating climate science risk into decisions and action for climate resilience.
- CH2M HILL's development of new technology tools to support the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar America Communities program to accelerate the adoption of solar energy in 25 U.S. cities.
- CH2M HILL's development of progressive concepts for sustainable technology parks integrating conventional and renewable energy facilities such as Colorado's Niobrara Energy Park and Nevada's Star Peak Energy Center.
The 2011 EBJ and CCBJ Business Achievement Awards will be presented in a March 14 banquet in San Diego, California, during the Environmental Industry Summit, an annual three-day event hosted by the EBJ and CCBJ.
Recipients of EBJ and CCBJ Business Achievement Awards were determined by a committee of EBJ staff and EBJ editorial advisory board members. Founded in 1988, Environmental Business International Inc. (EBI, San Diego, Calif.) is a research, publishing and consulting company that specializes in defining emerging markets and generating strategic market intelligence for companies, investors and policymakers. EBI publishes Environmental Business Journal®, the leading provider of strategic information for the environmental industry, and Climate Change Business Journal®, which covers nine segments of the Climate Change Industry. EBI also performs contract research for the government and private sector and founded the Environmental Industry Summit, an annual three-day event for executives in the environmental industry.
Headquartered near Denver, Colorado, USA, employee-owned CH2M HILL is a global leader in consulting, design, design-build, operations, and program management for government, civil, industrial and energy clients. The firm's work is concentrated in the areas of water, transportation, environmental, energy, facilities and resources. With US$6.3 billion in revenue and 30,000 employees, CH2M HILL is an industry-leading program management, construction management and design firm, as ranked by Engineering News-Record and named a leader in sustainable engineering by Verdantix. The firm has been named a FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For five times. Visit us at www.ch2mhill.com, twitter.com/ch2mhill and facebook.com/ch2mhill.


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Don't believe the US presidential opinion polls. Barring a political earthquake, Barack Obama will be re-elected at a canter
FROM tabloids and broadsheets to left-leaning blogs and conservative talk shows, the US media has been united on one point in recent months: the presidential election is too tight to call. The difference between the candidates is "razor thin", The New York Post said recently. The "race remains close", agreed The Washington Post. According to The New York Times it is "widely expected to rest on a final blitz of advertising and furious campaigning".
But it takes just a few clicks to go from that last article to one that tells a very different story - one much more in keeping with what science tells us about the election. The New York Times hosts FiveThirtyEight, a blog by statistician Nate Silver dedicated to crunching electoral numbers. It gives the Republican challenger Mitt Romney a 1-in-4 chance of victory. Over at PredictWise, another source of political forecasts, Romney's odds are only a shade better. The race isn't close or razor-thin or dependent on advertising. It is President Obama's to lose - something that readers are rarely told.
Why the discrepancy? To answer that question, think about what polls actually are. They are often taken as an indication of who will win the election. But polls only provide a snapshot, often with a large margin of error, of who would win if the election took place today. That's very different from what we really care about, which is the candidate most likely to win the real thing in November. That's a forecast. It's what FiveThirtyEight and PredictWise provide, and it's a more complex beast than a poll.
The PredictWise forecast, the work of Microsoft researcher David Rothschild, depends on three types of data and the impact that each is known to have.
One is economic indicators, and the link here is simple: the better the economy is doing, the greater the incumbent's chances of winning. The US economy remains unhealthy but, crucially, it's on the mend. We know from previous elections that the direction of the economy has a bigger influence than its absolute state, so this information narrowly favours Obama.
The next ingredient is the wisdom of the crowd. It is well known that groups can make more accurate predictions than individuals when opinions are aggregated into a collective forecast. In this case, the aggregation takes place at websites like the Iowa Electronic Markets, where investors buy and sell futures in the two candidates. The return on these contracts is based on who wins and by how much, so prices reflect the traders' collective confidence in each candidate. Obama's shares have recently been trading at two to three times the price of Romney's.
The final input takes us back to opinion polls. With a little number crunching, polls can be transformed into forecasts. The process depends on the trends in polling numbers seen during previous elections.
It's known, for instance, that support for the incumbent tends to pick up two to three months before election day. This is probably due to the challenger's honeymoon period coming to an end. It is easier for voters to idealise a challenger, who may not previously have had a high national profile, than it is the incumbent, who has been headline news for almost four years. As voters learn more about a challenger they inevitably discover things they do not like, prompting some to decide to stick with what they know. This may be one reason why Obama has edged ahead in the polls in recent weeks.
There are different recipes for combining these ingredients, and not every forecaster uses them in the same way. Some, including Rothschild, increase the accuracy by considering data on individual states rather than at a national level. But almost every model is predicting an Obama victory. Most have been making this prediction for a year or so. And election forecasting is hardly a newcomer: one model run by Allan Lichtman of the American University in Washington DC has correctly called the popular vote in the past seven elections. "I don't see how Obama can lose," Lichtman told US News & World Report.
If the models are robust, and their predictions strongly in favour of Obama, why are we being told that the race is a dead heat? I think it is partly a cultural issue. Earlier this year I wrote a story about election forecasting for a British publication. The science editor liked it, but a colleague on the politics desk vetoed the piece, in part because he simply didn't believe the forecasts. I can see why. The hurly-burly of day-to-day politics is filled with dramatic events, like the recent leaked video of Romney talking in unvarnished terms about voters he cannot hope to win over. These events make the race feel like a roller-coaster ride.
The truth, as revealed by the science, is much more prosaic. Obama is way ahead and has been for ages. The meat and drink of daily political reporting - party conventions, gaffes, attack ads - have a limited and often passing impact. That's not to say that an unforeseen event couldn't put Romney in the White House. But it would have to be something huge, because studies of previous elections show outcomes depend far more on fundamental factors such as employment rates.
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Stupid People
By Tony Hicks
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 at 3:13 pm in Uncategorized.
I always hesitate to label people as "stupid," as I once knew someone who had a bumper sticker claiming they "hate stupid people."
He, of course, was one of the stupidest people I've ever known.
But that's just me – he probably thinks I'm stupid too (but I don't dress as poorly as him; and that's saying something). So we're even.
But wow, are we up to our armpits in stupidity this week. beginning in that noted haven of stupidity, Washington D.C., where elected officials are tripping over themselves to look stupid, either by sucking up (Dan Burton) to the worst liar on the planet (Roger Clemens), or spending far too much money and time (the entire "steroids" committee) chasing their tails for cameras on an issue that can't possibly be resolved (I said, you said, he said, he mispoke, he misremembered, he mistupid, ). I'd swear there's something else happening somewhere requiring the attention of these wise leaders of ours.
As for Clemens, I'd like to personally thank him for adding new words to the roll of pop culture identifiers. "Misheard," was great, but "Misremembers," was gold. Thanks Rog. By the way, listening to Clemens continue to deny he ate steroids in the face of all that contradictory testimony from his pals makes me realize his rear end wasn't the only body part that was injected with steroids.
Yes, I mean his groin area. Move on please.
But it gets better, speaking of leaders, because if I lived in Berkeley I might be packing up right now. I love Berkeley. I used to cover the city, so I've had some experience with some of these folks involved in the "hey, let's kick recruiters out of our town" controversy. And even some of the town's most notorious left-wingers are shaking their heads at this. Because a city can't call itself a haven for free speech and open-minded exchange when its government condemns one group, then goes a step further by encouraging its residents to stand in front of its shop with bullhorns and disrupt it as much as possible.
Quick question: Did the recruiting station just SHOW UP one day? Because I'm pretty sure even the Federal government has to get some sort of license to operate inside a city. I'm thinking the military didn't use eminent domain, or rifles with bayonets, to just take over that space. The city said yes, then went back on its word … then essentially told people to take to the streets to cover its mistake.
On the other hand, there's plenty of stupidity to go around. For example, who asked pro-military people from TEXAS to show up? I heard one guy screaming at another on the radio "What do you know about the military" over and over to an anti-military protester. My first response was "What the hell do YOU know about Berkeley, pal? Berkeley isn't Texas; it's not even Albany or Oakland. Where's the line allowing a city to determine what kind of business it wants inside its borders?
This would be an entirely different issue if the city was trying to stop a recruitment office from coming to town BEFORE it showed up. Or even if this whole thing was about the military being a discriminatory organization by not allowing openly-homosexual people to join. Or if it was about the military's shady recruiting practices.
Otherwise, this is just the kind of pointless grandstanding that gives Berkeley its reputation for nuttiness. Turning on the military recruiters as an anti-Iraq War statement is missing the point. I can sympathize, because this war was wrong from the get-go, and people are dying every day because of a few arrogant people in Washington who never went to war themselves. But no one in their right mind would argue that we don't need a strong military, and the soldiers only go where their duly-elected leaders send them. Perhaps these city politicians should instead run for Congress, where their anti-war opinions can do some real good.
Wow, that was pretty serious of me. I think I need to go towel off …
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Tht! village electricity department reported .wme outage.-!, mostly from tree brancJies falling on Individual .service lines. A few wlre.s were blown down. notably one a t Grand and Harrison avenue.s where firemen helped repairmen by training a floodlight on the scene, Ataast all sprvlce w.-.s re.stored before Mid-night by the hard-working linemen.' A dtizen or.so a.1- d it ion? I eor-siimers r?nort.ert lack of electricity j'eilerday fol- Parked Car Damaged By Hit-Run Driver A hit-run driver early Fiid.iy nt 1:15 A.M. damaged a sedan parked on the west Klrie of C!nn-ch .street. h;'ajled soutli. about 100 feet north of Sunfisc lilghway. The .sednn';-^ owner- James L, Neweuaib of 31 Peconie iivemie, Hiverhead - reported that d.imaue to the left trotit end of his c.il' indicated tlie lul - ran ault) wu.s appiireiitly goini' ^oulll on Churcij .street. Preejmi'i jjiiliee ail' ineestigiillng. 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Permits Not Recognized By County Policemen IiK-eii.seri by the ai-liou ol tha Marine Bureau oJ the Na.sx.m Coutny Polire Department In banning the rutboard lurtor moat races in Freeporl River off Meisler Bench Sunday afternoon w.llimil prevloua luniee, otlieer.^ cl tlie Lttui.s Club 1)1 Freeporl. tbe s|«mfi»r. announeeti liil.s w<"ek llwy would in.slilnte action rg.iiiL'.t County aiiil Town uf HenipstciHl atiliMirliie.s to riicov?-]- • money .s;ieni In mertiiit; l!i<> eosl uf t h e evi'lil. Vtrtor IL Loll. ch,i:rn>«n of ih« Itieet < oiiuiiiH:-!-, .s,ial iie Has .slan.l- IIIIL; on tlic biillihead lU i:ii' beiu-h al l'2:-iil o'eliick diieidnu the prepara-tjon. s for the meet w!ien the pollc"i • pall 111 b.-..it ptdled up. Though from olhei .simree.s It W...S leunied the po- ' lice acted because no permit had 'i been grantefl by the Town of iHenM>»t«a'ai lot; ,^thu^ races, Mr. .l«tf I offieer.s abo.ti-d the ernft. He (ijis-ei-ts Lieut. Notley and Seriit . 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NEW BERN - United States Attorney George E.B. Holding announced that in federal court today BARRY ALEXANDER JONES, 43, of Burgaw, North Carolina, entered his guilty plea before Chief United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan.
A Federal Grand Jury returned a Criminal Indictment on April 23, 2008. JONES pled to one count of conspiring to distribute and possessing with the intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine and more than five grams of cocaine base (crack), in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846, which carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison, a $2,000,000 fine, and four years supervised release, and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c)(1)(A), which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment consecutive to any other term of imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, and five years supervised release.
Between June 9, 2006 and June 20, 2006, several controlled buys were arranged in which varying amounts of crack cocaine were purchased from JONES. On June 20, 2006, a controlled buy was arranged that included the purchase of crack cocaine along with a New England Model R92, .22 caliber revolver and ammunition for the firearm.
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Restaurant review: For a refreshing find, try Crispers in St. Lucie West
Many of the items are unusual or variations on standard themes. You study the long menu, order at a counter, find yourself a seat at a table or in a booth and your food is quickly delivered. The appearance of each of your items is as neat, colorful and attractive as the restaurant.
Here are examples of your choices: Twelve soups, chowder, and gumbos are offered each day ($2.99-$3.99/cup, $3.49-$4.89/bowl, $5.99-$9.49/quart). Six wraps ($6.25-$7), including low-carb, are prepared. Seventeen meal-sized salads ($3.85-$8.25) are served, with 10 house-made dressings, two light versions and three fat-free. More than 20 sandwiches are concocted ($3.95-$7.45). Some are classic compositions; others are Asian, European and regional American versions.
The daily double ($6.79-$7.79) consists of a cup of any soup, half a classic sandwich and a small garden or Caesar salad. You also can order a sandwich or wrap platter ($36.95-$37.95) to serve from seven to 12 people. Side dishes ($.60-$2) feature focaccia and batard rolls, spinach-artichoke spread, fruit and other extras.
You also can choose cookie and brownie platters ($5.75-$10.95), salad platters to feed six to 10 people ($25.95-$36.95), specialty and classic sandwich platters for seven to 10 people ($32.95-$37.95).
To top off your meal you can select from cold beverages ($1.29-$1.99), milk shakes ($2.99-$3.49), smoothies ($3.49), frozen drinks ($4.49) and coffees and teas ($1.19-$3.29). And, at least seven desserts ($3.79 each) tempt customers to savor one final treat.
My husband, Fran, started off with a bowl of "kickin crab chowder" ($3.99) that was spicy and good. He then chose an Asiago beef sandwich ($6.95), an assembly of roast beef with jack cheese, tomatoes, leaf lettuce and sweet red pepper pesto on focaccia bread. It was delicious and huge.
I ordered a Greek salad ($6.25) with a focaccia roll ($.75) on the side. The salad was a glorious array of crisp romaine and iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet peppers, sweet onions, kalamata olives, pepperoncini, radishes and feta dressed with Greek vinaigrette and topped with potato salad. It was very good and we had enough for lunch the next day.
With our lunches, we drank sodas. And, for dessert, we sampled two cookies ($.99 each); white chocolate, which was excellent, and peanut butter, which was as stale as last week's news.
For our meals, we spent $25.19, plus $4 tip.
Crispers is a rewarding find. The food is fresh and well-prepared, and the prices are certainly not unreasonable. The employees are helpful. The dining area is large and pleasant. And, even when the restaurant is crowded, it is not noisy. We definitely will return for another meal we'd like to try a couple of hot entrees.
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Released on August 20, The Condition of College & Career Readiness examines the college readiness of the high school class of 2014 using ACT test scores and College Readiness Benchmarks. Approximately 1.85 million students, or 57 percent of all American graduates, took the ACT in 2014—an astounding 18 percent increase since 2010. Ohio students posted an average composite score of 22—relatively unchanged from previous years and one point above the national average. More interesting are the College Readiness Benchmarks, which indicate the chance of a student earning a B or higher in a college course in English composition, Algebra, biology, or social science. The overall report provides this data for the nation, but individual state level data is also available (Ohio's data). It's not a pretty picture. Of the 72 percent of Ohio's 2014 graduating seniors who took the ACT, only one in three (32 percent) scored high enough to be deemed college ready in all four academic areas. Because not every student took the ACT, only around one in four (23 percent) of Ohio seniors can be considered college ready. If, as expected, PARCC sets its cut scores at the college and career ready threshold, Ohioans will to...
It's nearly school report card time in Ohio. One thing to watch for when examining school performance is whether there are conflicting ratings. For the 2013-14 school year, schools will receive ratings along up to ten dimensions of performance, though no overall letter grade. For example, one might observe a school that receives an "F" on the state's performance index but at the same time, also receives an "A" on the state's value-added rating. Or vice-versa. How in the world can this happen?
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Michelle G: Hello. This is your host Michelle Gininger of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute here at the Education Gadfly Show and online at EdExcellence.net. Now please join me in welcoming my co-host the Seth Meyers of education reform, Robert Pondiscio.
Robert P: I'm not even sure what that means and hello Michelle.
Michelle G: Hello. I guess you unlike everyone else in America with not watching the Emmy's.
Robert P: No, no, I have a 16 year old daughter so of course my daughter.
Michelle G: You know more about this than anyone.
Robert P: I describe this as the cultural equivalent of secondhand smoke, you're close it. You absorb some of it unintentionally but does that mean I'm focusing on it, no. Were you happy with who won?
Michelle G: I've heard some of these reviews. I thought it was funny. I thought Seth Meyers did a pretty good job. There are some jokes that I laughed. I felt ...
Robert P: Okay. He's a funny guy.
Michelle G: I felt like a real American. Usually I don't want all the award shows are doing any of that but I thought I was participating in what America does. Maybe I'll watch a football game this season.
Robert P: All I know is what I heard in the background blah, blah, blah, Game of Thrones, blah, blah, blah, Game of Thrones, blah, blah, blah, Game of Thrones.
Michelle G: Isn't that all you need to know about TV?
Robert P: Pretty much.
Michelle G: All right, with that we're going to play part in the Gadfly with our Com. Dev. intern Ellen. Ellen, take it away.
Ellen Alpaugh: Last week Secretary of Education Arne Duncan declared that states with NCLB waivers could wait until the 2015 - 2016 school year to tie test scores to teacher evaluations. Is this just one year delay and nothing more or does this say something bigger about the testing over the long run?
Michelle G: Both. Robert, you want to elaborate.
Robert P: Lordy, this is such a complicated question and no I don't think it goes away. I think it ... This delays it but I think a hard rain is going to fall on this. There was some polling data out last week that we talked about. A PDK poll on education next poll and you should never I suppose paint with two broader brush based on any particular finding. Look, let's be honest, testing is not popular. I was a teacher for several years and you can't blind yourself to the deleterious impact that testing is having on our classrooms.
Curriculum narrowing, anxiety, lots of push back against testing. What's interesting when you look at the polling numbers is that testing itself is not necessarily unpopular. Something that jumped out to me ... At me in the ed next poll is that things like SAT testing, AP testing are really popular or as popular as a test is going to be. It's when you start looking at these accountability test in grade three through eight under whether there's no child left behind or common core.
The people have lost track of why we do this. You have this kind of conundrum which is the ed reform movement is still largely popular. People like things like charter schools and choice and even vouchers but testing is really unpopular right now. Testing you could or it has created the momentum for these things at the same time it's almost threatening to turn on itself. Arne Duncan thanks for giving us a year off, buy us some time for common core and all these other good things but at some point we're going to have to decide what is exactly the role of testing in K-12 education and in ed reform.
Michelle G: I completely agree. Yes, testing is no fun, it's awful, it's an imperfect measure, all of those things but if you look at what we support in education or what the public supports in education. A lot of it is because we have evidence that it work and we have evidence that it works because of test. Voucher programs even some school choice supporters don't like the independent evaluations that we've had on the DCPS program and the program in Milwaukee. Yet, those same folks are using those testing results to show that school choice work. You can see this across the issues. Why do we like charter schools? Probably because we're seeing some data that they are educating students better.
Robert P: When you say data, you mean?
Michelle G: Results from test.
Robert P: There you go.
Michelle G: It's sort of like dieting. It's not fun, no one likes eating rice cakes and celery and exercising but if you want to stay slim and fit you got to these things.
Robert P: Sure.
Michelle G: It's just the way it is. It's not fun thing but guess what, it's life.
Robert P: Yeah, and I wrote a piece about this early this week and I describe this using Jefferson's quote from 1820's about slavery. Our relationship with testing is like holding a tiger or a wolf by the ears, you don't much like it but you can't let go.
Michelle G: A lot of people on Twitter were liking your analogy there, bravo on that.
Robert P: Bravo Mr. Jefferson.
Michelle G: All right, Ellen.
Robert P: A steal from the best.
Michelle G: Question number two.
Ellen Alpaugh: On Thursday a North Carolina trial court judge held unconstitutional a state voucher law that allowed public money to pay tuition at private and religious school. How big of blow is this for voucher proponents and how should they respond?
Michelle G: All right, I'll say that this is a moderate blow to voucher proponents but a big blow to families in North Carolina.
Robert P: Especially when they're starting school and they got to write a tuition check.
Michelle G: Yes, just over ... Almost 2,000 scholarships have been issued for this program and private schools started this week for a lot of student in North Carolina. That just puts a lot of upheaval in many families lives. That's what the first issue but the second is this is a program that was means tested. Families qualified if they were at or below 133% of the poverty level and according to the Alliance for School Choice which I worked for, full disclosure there.
They hit seven of the eight accountability measures for voucher programs. It's very, very, very high on the accountability spectrum. In all intent and purposes this was a great program. Why it was ruled unconstitutional? I'm not a lawyer. The North Carolina does not have a blind amendment but this is a blow to families. I think they'll go back at it and they'll try to pass the program in the slightly different way. Perhaps changing the funding mechanism or whatever is needed but it's just a longer wait time.
Robert P: Sure. I'm reading for the decision here and it says that, "General assembly fails that children of North Carolina when they're sent with public tax payer money to private schools that have no legal obligation to teach them anything. I guess you could argue that but I'm not sure that's a credible argument. Look as Brandon Wright our colleague in Legal Expert says, "If that's the test, well then you just need to go back to the drawing board. Pass a law that says that private schools will give out the accountability measures, the test, etcetera and then problem solved.
Michelle G: Yeah, and I think that proponent should have seen this coming. I looked back there's a great study that the Institute of Justice put out many years ago that I still go back to which looks at the ... State Constitutions in all 50 states and says whether school choice programs, whether vouchers or scholarship, text credit programs would be constitutional and it says yes, no depending on the program. For North Carolina it did say vouchers and scholarship text credit programs were constitutional but it did say that if a bill was to be ... Law was to be passed it should not draw from the public school funding stream which is basically what they did. No surprise in the long run.
Robert P: Of course there'll be an appeal.
Michelle G: It's America, there you go. Ellen, question number three.
Ellen Alpaugh: New York City's United Federation of Teachers supported a Saturday march against police brutality. Pitting one city union against another and angering many teacher union members. Teachers in NYC can choose not to be a member and avoid dues but all teachers still have to pay agency fees. What does such union activity say about these mandatory contributions?
Michelle G: Mr. New Yorker?
Robert P: Man, the contributions is not withstanding. This is such a good old fashion New York City style food fights. Some of the stuff that's coming out with the police just the outrage from that the UFT would take this on and that Michael Mulgrew would participate in this protest is just amazing. I heard one teacher say, "Would we want cops protesting in our schools over low test scores?" The head of the PBA said something, I got it right here in front of me, "How would Mulgrew like it if police officers with the activist who oppose his efforts to shield bad teachers and undermine effective charter schools?" This is quite ... The fur is flying here.
Michelle G: Only in New York it seems.
Robert P: Sure but you have to wonder what was Mulgrew thinking. This is ... Look, you can't make light with this, this is serious incident somebody died but if you're deciding where to spend your political capital and your members capital capital. I'm not sure this was the wisest decision.
Michelle G: I think this is what happens when you work outside of your very narrow issue. On one hand you're building a strong coalition on the other hand when you go outside of your one issue for us education or for the unions education you're going to get people who's ... Your own members here are going to say, "I don't quite agree with that," and that just what happens. I think it's a decision that you have to make and in this case it looks like it was a messy one.
Robert P: Yeah, and Mulgrew ... Push back by saying, "Look, we have a history as a union of getting involved in these kinds of issues. You invoked union, activism around the freedom riders many, many years ago. Sure you can understand the process that got him from A to B but still the police are institution in New York City and as many police officers have been saying, "Look, you know, our sons and daughters and wives and husbands are teachers." It just feels this was a little bit of a third rail that did not need to be touched.
Michelle G: Couldn't agree more. That's all the time we have for Pardon the Gadfly and now it's time for Amber's Research Minute. Welcome to the show Amber.
Amber Northern: Thank you, Michelle.
Michelle G: You were on Fox and Friends this weekend weighing in on this very issue [UFT police brutality protest]. What do you have to say about?
Amber Northern: I was. I start out with it's outrageous. It's outrageous and teachers know ... Teachers always know, "Well, some of our donations, some of our fees go to politics," but wow this was right in their face. I loved it. I was like, "You know what, they finally get it." They finally get it because this was ... The zebra was showing it stripes, we just went off on Fox. They call me the next day and said, "You want to do it again tomorrow." My families called me like, "You are riled up," I'm like, "I know, like it just got me," and I dug into the contributions.
Because Doug and I write a report about teacher union strength what seem hasn't been that long but it's ... I think it was two years ago. Anyway, and then when Doug back in the contributions and year after year after year they we giving donations to Al Sharpton's National Action Network along with plan parenthood and a host of other liberal leaning causes. Teachers need to dial like, "Hey, this is where some of our money goes to, like it or not."
Robert P: My money, $35 a paycheck for five years. Never joined the union but they got my money.
Amber Northern: I think they knew this intuitively but then it was just out there blatant. I thought it was good that it happened. I didn't know how it works, you don't get a lot of time to go into the new ones. I didn't even get to talk about ...
Michelle G: You don't get ... I can go in TV to go into new ones, I'm shocked.
Amber Northern: I was, "I didn't get to take the agency fees," and all that stuff but anyway it was fun.
Michelle G: You got riled up and you got your pay across.
Amber Northern: I got riled up and I then I have a friend of mine taped it because I hadn't watched. My whole face was contorting. I was mad, I was, "Wow. It was really ugly doing that segment," but that what happens when you're riled up but anyway ...
Robert P: She's riled up again right now.
Amber Northern: Riled up about our new study this week. It is a new study out in psychological science that's called peer effects in early childhood education, kind of a boring title but this is interesting study. It examines the performance of preschoolers both those without and with disabilities and how they are impacted by their peers when they're in a mainstream classroom. This is actually according to the authors and I think they're right. This is the first study of peer effects an inclusive classroom that serves preschoolers with disability.
We've got a lot of peer effect research but never on the preschool level and never with kids in the mainstream classrooms. Anyway, they study the language skills of 670 preschoolers average age of four in multiple school districts in a single mid western over the course of a year about half of the kids had high EP's. Three key findings, number one there was indeed evidence of peer effects in the classroom have shown by the strong relationship between kids spring language scores and the language skills of their peers. Definitely a strong relationship between the two.
Number two, the impact of peer effects varied based on whether the child had a disability. Specifically peer effects were stronger for kids with disabilities than those without. Preschoolers in classroom of kids with high language skills tended to have better language scores than preschoolers in classes of kids with lower skills. The lowest skilled kids, if you got that, made the greatest gains. This is what we've seen in other studies.
Robert P: Yeah, no surprise there.
Amber Northern: Kids at the bottom make the greater gains. Kids with disabilities are more influenced by their classrooms language skills than children without. Last bottom line, children with the highest skills were not adversely impacted by the lower performing kids whether they had disabilities or not which is what everybody is always searching for, right? Like, "What about the kids on the other end of the spectrum.?" The study was correlational, it's not causal.
It was one year, it's not a trend study and they also ... The instrument they use which I was kind of dug in. It was a teacher report instrument ... It's a dibble or something.
Robert P: It's squishy.
Amber Northern: Which you typically have to do with young kids you have to deal one on one measure but it wasn't really standardized in a way. A little bit of clumsy there but I think it was encouraging because it showed us once again that peer effects matter and they matter greatly when we mainstream these kids. Which it's not an argument for against mainstreaming but it's interesting stuff.
Robert P: Persuasive because the kids at the high end so to speak no adverse effect.
Amber Northern: They were harmed, right. Why do I want help? They weren't harmed either. They still scored at the end of the year higher than ... Their post test was still higher than a pretest. It wasn't a bad thing.
Michelle G: Is your recommendation more research?
Amber Northern: Wow. In my case I won't do it. Anyway, it was a needed area to do research. I think it's a neat idea because they're really striving for balance. On this half the kids with IP's. It's not like you've go 90% of the kids with Ip's you know what I mean. They're really striving to get what set up optimal affect and impact on kids. Half and half seems to be interesting, seems to be a positive outcome. I don't know if they change the percentages whether we would have see the same thing.
Michelle G: Exciting stuff.
Robert P: Is it my imagination or we seeing a lot more pure effects research lately?
Michelle G: I feel I've been reading more. It's also one of my sort of ... What do we call that, sew boxes if that's the word again. I tend to pay more intention to it just because he's interested in it. He wrote a lot about it in his book. Yeah, I don't know saying more as maybe just we just cover it more.
Robert P: You're paying attention. Fair enough.
Michelle G: Either way both a good thing I think. All right. Thank you, Amber. That's all the time we have for the Education Gadfly Show till next week.
Robert P: I'm Robert Pondiscio.
Michelle G: I'm Michelle Gininger for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute signing off.
Hearings on House Bill 597, the latest attempt to repeal Ohio's New Learning Standards (which include the Common Core in math and English language arts), started August 18 and will continue this week. We've already discussed how similar HB 597 is to the Common Core. This should be a major issue for Common Core opponents—who should be mortified to find the fingerprints of Common Core all over their championed bill—but also for everyone else. HB 597 doesn't specifically demand much of Ohio's to be developed standards, but what it does demand is already in the Common Core. That should leave most of us wondering why we're even holding these hearings if what proponents want is already in place. Unfortunately, this isn't the only problem with HB 597. Let's take a look at some others.
The most troublesome aspect of the bill appears right at the beginning of the changes: It could all but end state oversight of public schools. The bill text reads: "no state funds shall be withheld from a school district or school for failure to adopt or use the state academic content standards or the state assessments." Basically this means that even if the proponents...
Marc Tucker is the author of an important new report: Fixing Our National Accountability System. You can find the executive summary here.
Although Marc and I disagree on the promise of Relinquishment (most specifically on charter schools), I agree with much of this thinking.
But, in this report, Marc makes a strategic mistake in dismissing choice-based reforms.
To put it another way: if there is a grand bargain to be made that significantly increases student achievement in the United States, it could look like this:
Why could this bargain work? Because both Democrats and Republicans might actually support all three strategies.
Why might Marc's vision not be realized without a charter strategy? Because, without charters, his reforms reduce testing accountability and increase spending, without increasing any elements of choice, competition, or entrepreneurship.
This is likely a nonstarter for many Americans, especially centrist and conservative policy makers.
Seventy percent of the public supports charter schools. Urban charter schools outperform traditional schools. And countries such as South Korea have shown that...
I have a complicated relationship with testing. I refuse to pretend that it's caused no mischief in our schools—narrowing curriculum, encouraging large amounts of ill-conceived test prep, and making school a joyless grind for too many teachers and students alike—but neither can any fair-minded analyst deny that there have been real if modest gains in our present era of test-driven accountability, especially for low-income black and Hispanic children, particularly in the early grades.
What to make, then, of Secretary Duncan's widely heralded concession that testing is "sucking the oxygen out of the room in a lot of schools" and his offer to states of a year-long delay in making test scores part of their evaluation systems?
"There's wide recognition that annual assessments—those required by federal law—have done much to shine a light on the places and groups of students most in need of help. Yet in too many places, it's clear that the yardstick has become the focus," Duncan wrote in a lengthy blog post Thursday.
We at Fordham have been among those pleading for some reasonable flexibility in this area, particularly as new standards and assessments kick in, so the secretary's message is welcome. Some...
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Nearly all American K–12 students are exposed to it every day. It decides, in large part, what students will learn in school and how they will learn it. It is never evaluated for quality in any serious way, but when it is rigorously evaluated, its impact on student achievement is significant.
No, this isn't another blog about teachers. I'm talking textbooks. We need good textbooks in front of kids just as badly as we need good teachers. However, from a research and policy perspective, improving textbook quality is a lot easier.
A little-noticed report last week in Education Week described a new initiative intended to be the Consumer Reports of textbooks. A new nonprofit called EdReports plans to post "free online reviews of major textbooks and curricula that purport to be aligned to the Common Core State Standards." If they're careful, credible, and diligent, this initiative could turn the lights up on a largely ignored factor in student outcomes that is ripe for
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Results from the annual Education Next poll are out this week, and the news is not good for us proponents of the Common Core. Support among the public dropped from 65 percent to 53 percent in just one year (from June 2013 to June 2014); Republicans are now almost evenly split on the issue, with 43 percent in support, and 37 percent opposed. What's more, the new PDK/Gallup poll (out today) corroborates these trends and offers even worse news, finding that a majority of the public, and three-fourths of Republicans, now oppose the Common Core. Finally, Education Next found that support from teachers plummeted from 76 to 46 percent in just twelve months.
Nobody who has been following the public debate should be particularly surprised, at least when it comes to the overall numbers or those for Republicans. (The results for teachers are another matter; more on that in a bit.) After two punishing years of legislative assaults, Tea Party attacks, implementation controversies, and negative stories in conservative...
Hearings began this week for House Bill 597 (HB 597), the latest attempt to repeal Ohio's New Learning Standards (which includes the Common Core in math and English language arts). The first of several days of proponent testimony began Monday. Sitting in on the hearings has offered me a chance to develop a better understanding of the opposition to the standards, and if it wasn't clear to me before then it is now: These folks don't want anything that even resembles the Common Core to be used in Ohio schools.
They could be in for a surprise then, because the language of HB 597 borrows, in some significant ways, from the Common Core. During testimony on the August 18 hearing, Rep. Andy Thompson explained that he wanted to avoid the "sleight of hand" he saw in Indiana, which infamously repealed Common Core only to replace it with standards that were remarkably similar. Judge for yourselves if Ohio's lawmakers are proposing to break new ground in HB 597 or simply recycling.


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* Since BETAs require me to submit the email address you use for the marketplace to Microsoft I can only provide a full version for testing if you PM me. More than happy to provide it to anyone interested in providing some feedback.
I know this application is specific to Philadelphia at the moment, but I'm considering expanding it to other cities so I'm happy to hear anything you would like to see an app such as this have, not have, or a call for your city to be supported.
Also, comments on the UI would be welcomed. I have attempted to make this application very Metro, but I'm not sure I'm quite there yet so if you see anything that doesn't feel "Metro" chime in (though you can chime in if you think it does feel authentic and Metro )!
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