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  • Ranking And Disclosing Teacher Effectiveness

    August 22nd, 2010 by Jeremy

    Photo by Reed Saxon / AP - An English class at Edwin Markham Middle School in Watts.

    “According to Newsweek, the local teachers union is infuriated over the disclosure of teacher performance metrics. Quoting: ‘Do parents have the right to know which of their kids’ teachers are the most and least effective? That’s the controversy roaring in California this week with the publication of an investigative series by the Los Angeles Times’s Jason Song and Jason Felch, who used seven years of math and English test data to publicly identify the best and the worst third- to fifth-grade teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

    The newspaper’s announcement of its plans to release data later this month on all 6,000 of the city’s elementary-school teachers has prompted the local teachers’ union to rally members to organize a boycott of the newspaper.’ According to the linked Times article, United Teachers Los Angeles president A.J. Duffy said the database was ‘an irresponsible, offensive intrusion into your professional life that will do nothing to improve student learning.’”

    Source: Newsweek.com and Slashdot.com

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    Family At Sea 7 Years

    August 5th, 2010 by Jeremy

    I don’t understand the part where the mom says: “I realized that I really wanted to spend time knowing my children and raising them and not cleaning the bathroom”.

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    Old Spice Voicemail Generator

    August 4th, 2010 by Jeremy

    Does your man need a more manly voicemail greeting?  If so, the Old Spice Voicemail Generator is here to help.  Below is my test message.

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    New Porsche Spider

    July 31st, 2010 by Jeremy

    “Porsche’s Spyder will allow drivers to use several fueling modes including E-Drive, Hybrid, Sport Hybrid and Race Hybrid. E-Drive mode switches on the vehicle’s electric engine which can run for about 16 miles. Amazingly, the car’s top speed is 198 miles per hour. Of course all this eco-friendliness will come at a very wallet-unfriendly price–a whopping $630,000 a pop.”  > Source: http://dvice.com/

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    Hard Times

    July 28th, 2010 by Jeremy

    An interesting article about a man who collected/purchased signs from the homeless and has written about some of their stories.

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    Woot.com Acquired by Amazon.com

    July 1st, 2010 by Jeremy

    “Amazon has acquired popular deal-a-day website Woot. The announcement was made on the Woot Blog. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Woot will remain an independent, autonomous entity, much like Zappos when it was acquired last year by the online shopping giant.” – Source: http://mashable.com/

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    Death By Firing Squad

    June 19th, 2010 by Jeremy

    Christina was telling me about this yesterday and living in America something like this didn’t sound true but evidently it is.  He chose this method to die, possibly for the headlines but not sure I agree with the death penalty.  Thoughts?

    “Convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad early Friday, the Utah Department of Corrections said.  Gardner, 49, is only the third person to die by firing squad in the United States in 33 years.” – CNN

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