Wednesday, Feb. 02, 2011
Big Education Ape: Ed News Now
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nydailynews.com - Exclusive Lombard for News Brandeis High School's campus just went through a pricey upgrade, but the Education Department plans to spend another $3 million on renovations for charter schools in the...
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quickanded.com - With state finances in disarray, we need to have honest conversations to ensure that budget cuts do the least harm possible. But that’s not possible unless we can even broach a conversation about c...
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nydailynews.com - Exclusive Galasso/North Jersey Media Group Almost a year after the state found that thousands of city students were not getting the language help mandated by law, the city still does not have a pla...
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mathequality.wordpress.com - Following President Obama’s recent declaration that by the year 2020 the U.S. will have the largest proportion of college graduates in the world, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) launched a we...
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mayoraltutorial.com - The six candidates for Mayor did not spring fully formed like Athena from the heads of their television commercials and financial supporters. (If you don’t know who Athena is or whose head she fell...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A petition for a charter school system aimed at improving the academic achievement of African American students in Sacramento County drew hundreds of supporters and opponents to a lengthy meeting T...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - VOLUME 25, ISSUE 2 — WINTER 2010As a special introduction to our website, the text of the entire winter issue of Rethinking Schools is accessible here, free of charge. If you aren’t already a membe...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - In 1990, Seymour Sarason published The Predictable Failure of Educational Reform. A decade later, Diane Ravitch’s Left Back:A Century of Failed School Reforms hit booksellers. Now, not a week goes ...
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 | gothamschools.org - A few weeks ago I sat in the library at Christopher Columbus High School and listened to a Department of Education official explain to our confused and upset parents that closing our school would a... DianeRavitch |
 | gothamschools.org - Attendees lined up outside Brooklyn Tech for tonight's Panel for Educational Policy meeting. We’re stationed right now at Brooklyn Technical High School, where the Panel for Educational policy is m... leoniehaimson |
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Over at EdWeek, Stephen Sawchuk recently wrote an article about teacher evaluation and assessment, titledWanted: Ways to Assess the Majority of Teachers. The article provides an informative look at...
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huffingtonpost.com - How about some tougher questions for Rahm?Some day we may learn the real story of how deep-pockets Rahm Emanuel and his powerful political patrons were able to swing that unanimous state Supreme Co...
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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - This week, the Republican-backed Hispanic Leadership Network is hosting a conference in South Florida to “provide a unique opportunity for center-right leaders to speak with—and more importantly li...
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toped.svefoundation.org - By Not knowing what will happen in four months, most school districts are building two budgets for next year: the good one, if voters in June agree to extend $11 billion in temporary taxes, and the...
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huffingtonpost.com - An African-American convicted of a low-level drug crime in Cook County is eight times more likely than his white counterpart to face prison time for it, according to a new report released yesterday...
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suntimes.com - Study: Racial disparity in drug sentences By Stephen Di Benedetto Staff Reporter Feb 1, 2011 02:36AM SPRINGFIELD — African Americans in Illinois convicted of low-level, drug-possession charges face...
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latimesblogs.latimes.com - Teen pregnancies in California have reached a record low, according to a new state report, and experts attribute the reduction to sex education, the poor economy and possibly even reality televisio... coopmike48 |
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 | beinglatino.wordpress.com - by Adriana Villavicencio Young Latinos have the highest rate of interracial relationships, more than double the percentage of African Americans and almost three times more than whites. This makes s... coopmike48 |
preaprez.wordpress.com - Snow Day By Billy Collins Today we woke up to a revolution of snow,Its white flag flying over everything,the landscape vanished,not a single mouse to punctuate the blankness,and beyond these window...
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 | beinglatino.wordpress.com - by AJ Rodriguez Santería: A syncretic religion of West African and Caribbean origin, also known as Regla de Ocha, La Regla Lucumi, or Lukumi. Its liturgical language, a dialect of Yoruba, is also k... coopmike48 |
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Put your ear to the ground and you can almost hear the bulls stampeding. The Dow closed above 12,000 Tuesday for the first time since June 2008. The Dow is up 4 percent this year after increasing 1...
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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Administration and Private Sector Campaigns will promote entrepreneurship and innovationIn his State of the Union Address, President Obama laid out a plan for winning the future by out-innovating, ...
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democraticunderground.com - Toyota offers buyouts to California (629 managers) employees Edited on Tue Feb-01-11 09:11 PM by Omaha Steve Source: Reuters(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Co (7203.T) said on Tuesday that it had offered ...
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