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Doctors 'Disgruntled' And Frustrated By Looming Medicare Cuts : Shots - Health Blog : NPR on 2012-02-17
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a couple of times they actually waited until after the deadline
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s more than just an inconvenience.
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the public hasn't had a lot of sympathy for the plight of America's doctors and their Medicare woes.
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mostly hasn't let the scheduled cuts take effect, it also hasn't given doctors a raise, either.
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"Our organizations are committed to helping Congress develop better ways to pay physicians and deliver care to patients,
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'The eagle couldn't have picked a better person' | StarTribune.com on 2011-07-26
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School Zone blog: Snyder urges educators to 're-invent' education without mentioning budget cuts | MLive.com on 2011-04-26
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lanagan said he's decided that he was wrong about the state's plan to take over low-performing schools. He said the legislature may force his department to still do that, but Flanagan said he thinks the best approach now is to have a minimum of state regulations and let local districts figure out the best way to address their issues.
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A lot of us are heartsick at the damage this state budget would do," Rice said at the April 15 meeting. "It would very, very severely affect our children."
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Among the proposals on the table: Pay to play for extracurricular activities; increasing class size; eliminating elementary counselors and elementary and middle-school reading specialists; outsourcing all custodial and secretarial services, and eliminating the gifted and talented program.
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Daily Kos: Today will help determine the future of public education in America on 2011-04-26
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Eric Prince has become widely known as founder of the private mercenary army formerly known as Blackwater. Prince's sister, Betsy DeVos, is leading an astroturfing war on public schools. Last Thursday, April 21, Indiana passed a DeVos astroturf entity-backed, sweeping voucher bill. Indiana was part of a national pattern. As early as tomorrow the Pennsylvania state legislature will vote on a similar, DeVos-backed astroturf voucher bill. At stake is the future of public education and even the American middle class itself.
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So, governor-led attacks on the public sector in Michigan, Wisconsin, and elsewhere are part of a larger pattern, a full-frontal assault on the public sector and unions. In the crosshairs are the middle class, secular society, and the redistributive function of government. The chief weapons in this war are money, deception, and money.
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DeVos’ goal is nothing short of a radical re-creation of education in the United States, with tax-supported religious and other private schools replacing the traditional public school system.
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s and her husband, Dick, who is best known as the former president of Amway, are pouring millions from their personal fortune into a nationwide voucher push.
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e Walton Family Foundation, an entity operated by the heirs of Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart.
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imed right at the heart of public education. It’s an alarming tale in which Betsy DeVos poses as a benign benefactor of poor children –
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Teachers Aren't the Enemy | The Nation on 2011-04-25
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t’s hard to think of another field in which experience is considered a liability and those who know the least about the nuts and bolts of an enterprise are embraced as experts.
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A disturbing bipartisan consensus is emerging that favors a market model for public schools that would abandon America’s historic commitment to providing education to all children as a civil right. This model would make opportunities available largely to those motivated and able to leave local schools; treat parents as consumers and children as disposable commodities that can
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None of the reforms on the table address the inequality and opportunity gaps that plague our schools. Raging debates over LIFO, seniority, teacher evaluation and test-based school closings do little to improve schools and much to distract from the real challenges. Moreover, because current reforms have been designed to promote school choice and weaken the unions, they have been exacerbating the challenges rather than fixing them.
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s, teachers and their unions are taking the lead rather than waiting for policy-makers to act. At Columbus High School in the Bronx, teachers are working with students and parents to resist the district’s efforts to close the school by addressing the causes of student failure. In the South Bronx, parents, labor, educators and community organizers, united as CC9, have designed a strategy to reverse teacher turnover by providing new teachers with support from veteran lead teachers.
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Obama and Duncan Are Wrong About Charters - Bridging Differences - Education Week on 2011-04-25
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In other countries where charter schools are prevalent, the public schools soon become depositories for the very poor and the disabled.
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Grading New York Teachers - When the Formulas Lie - NYTimes.com on 2011-04-24
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and that formula indicates that Ms. Isaacson is one of the city’s worst teachers.
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She may leave anyway. She is 33 and had a successful career in advertising and finance before taking the teaching job, at half the pay.
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Business education: The race to the bottom | The Economist on 2011-04-24
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Many people choose business studies precisely because they don't have a lot going on upstairs. And they prefer to spend their time networking and looking for jobs rather than, say, grappling with Schumpeter's ideas about business cycles.
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Whatever the explanation, the dismal state of business education is beginning to register in popular culture, and presumably reduce the job prospects of the people who study it.
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The Myth of Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books on 2011-04-24
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It bears mentioning that nations with high-performing school systems—whether Korea, Singapore, Finland, or Japan—have succeeded not by privatizing their schools or closing those with low scores, but by strengthening the education profession
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If we are serious about improving our schools, we will take steps to improve our teacher force, as Finland and other nations have done.
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There is a clash of ideas occurring in education right now between those who believe that public education is not only a fundamental right but a vital public service, akin to the public provision of police, fire protection, parks, and public libraries, and those who believe that the private sector is always superior to the public sector.
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Public education is one of the cornerstones of American democracy.
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he public schools must accept everyone who appears at their doors, no matter their race, language, economic status, or disability. Like the huddled masses who arrived from Europe in years gone by, immigrants from across the world today turn to the public schools to learn what they need to know to become part of this society. The schools should be far better than they are now, but privatizing them is no solution.
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The Myth of Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books on 2011-04-24
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American public education is a failed enterprise. The problem is not money. Public schools already spend too much. Test scores are low because there are so many bad teachers, whose jobs are protected by powerful unions. Students drop out because the schools fail them, but they could accomplish practically anything
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if they were saved from bad teachers.
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The annual Gallup poll about education shows that Americans are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the quality of the nation’s schools, but 77 percent of public school parents award their own child’s public school a grade of A or B, the highest level of approval since the question was first asked in 1985.
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No successful public school teacher or principal or superintendent appears in the film; indeed there is no mention of any successful public school, only the incessant drumbeat on the theme of public school failure.
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only one in five charter schools is able to get the “amazing results” that it celebrate
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when the filmmaker knows that there are twice as many failing charters as there are successful ones? Why not give an honest accounting?
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Why did he not report on the charter principals who have been indicted for embezzlement, or the charters that blur the line between church and state? Why did he not look into the charter schools whose leaders are paid $300,000–$400,000 a year to oversee small numbers of schools and students?
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Guggenheim seems to believe that teachers alone can overcome the effects of student poverty, even though there are countless studies that demonstrate the link between income and test scores.
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