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educationnext.org - Evidence from the New York City schools | Print | NO PDF | Share Spring 2011 / Vol. 11, No. 2 An unabridged version of this article is available here. Merit pay proponents argue that monetary incen...

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preaprez.wordpress.com - I asked our Board President John Heyde if I could post this. He told me he would be honored. Feb.11, 2011 Philip Bender, superintendentPark Ridge-Niles School District 64164 S. Prospect Ave.Park Ri...

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schoolsmatter.info - During the 2007-2008 school year, California’s Office of Child and Protective Services notified Fresno Unified School District, the charter authorizer for KIPP Fresno, that a student at KIPP Fresno...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - picture of Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, darling of the ruling classes of the western worldGov. Scott Walker of Milwaukee, Wisconsin says he is confident state workers will continue to show up ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 0 user(s) rated this pageRick Scott’s budget proposal• During his campaign and his first month in office, Governor Scott promised education funding would not be cut, but his budget cuts education b...

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coopmike48 NJ Governor Christie: Obama's High-Speed Internet Proposal Is 'Candy' - Yahoo! News - http://goo.gl/wdvCV6 minutes ago · reply

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coopmike48 Race to the Top: Illinois lost federal contest, but state still trying to spur reforms - chicagotribune.comhttp://bit.ly/hwJ008 #Eduabout 1 minute ago · reply

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Picture of current ‘president’ of DFT, Keith JohnsonThe Detroit Federation of Teachers membership meeting voted 84 – 49 to hold a new DFT Officers election, at its meeting last night. This is huge ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The state's new "parent trigger" law must be fixed so that the actual process for empowering parents as set out in the law is as worthy as the goal.Using the new "trigger" provision of the law, par...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Our guest author today is Heba F. El-Shazli, regional program director for the Middle East and North Africa at the AFL-CIO’s American Center for International Labor Solidarity. She is currently on ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - WASHINGTON - February 08, 2011 - With more than half of the teaching force nearing retirement, teachers and administrators in Helena, Mont., have joined forces to address staffing issues and ensure...

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nypost.com - A Brooklyn charter school administrator who gave up his old gig in California amid charges that he had been physically and emotionally abusive to students is at it again, fed-up parents told The Po...

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mlive.com - Published: Friday, March 26, 2010, 9:00 PM Updated: Friday, March 26, 2010, 10:38 PMThe Education Action Group’s Kyle Olson is used to firing sharp criticism at teachers unions, but he was lamb...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The protests in Egypt have been exciting, inspiring and even potentially revolutionary, (emphasis on potentially). It is stirring to see so many people protesting throughout a region plagued by bru...

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huffingtonpost.com - President Barack Obama had no shortage of praise to lavish on his outgoing Chief of Staff when Rahm Emanuel decided to leave that post and run for Chicago mayor. Obama described him as "an incompar...

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substancenews.net - George N. Schmidt - February 10, 2011For the second time in 30 years, the monthly newspaper Substance has endorsed a candidate for Mayor of Chicago. In an editorial in the February 2011 print editi...

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dailycensored.com - Picture of current ‘president’ of DFT, Keith JohnsonThe Detroit Federation of Teachers membership meeting voted 84 – 49 to hold a new DFT Officers election, at its meeting last night. This is huge...

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democracynow.org - Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat reports about 5,000 people filled with "a mixture of rage and sadness" marched from Tahrir Square to the Egyptian state television building after Pres. Hos...

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huffingtonpost.com - Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will take a pass on a dinner in his honor at his alma mater high school.New Trier High School, a prestigious public high school in Chicago's affluent north ...

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northjersey.com - Fury turned into elation for many North Jersey Egyptian-Americans on Friday as news broke that Egypt’s embattled president, Hosni Mubarak, had chosen to bow to the demands of hundreds of thousands ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Posted: 02/11/2011 01:17:46 PM MSTSANTA FE — The Rev. Al Sharpton today said low expectations in schools are the racism of the 21st century.Speaking before the state Legislature on African-American...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release February 11, 2011 Grand Foyer 3:06 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. There are very few moments in our liv...

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stephenlazar.com - By Stephen Lazar, on February 11th, 2011 Today was a great day to be a social studies teacher. Too often, we are teachers of the past; today we were able to be teachers of the present. Now I can’t ...

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connectedprincipals.com - Have you really ever tried to listen? Not just attend to. Not just look at, nod the head and verbalize an affirmative to someone. To really listen you have to consider what is being said, try to un...

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connectedprincipals.com - In honor of Alexander Graham Bell’s 164 birthday, here is a little tale about the telephone. My first year as a principal I had a problem common among new principals: I was overwhelmed with the vol...

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boston.com - SAN FRANCISCO—By the time today's teenagers were old enough to read, new drugs were available that meant HIV was no longer a death sentence.But with infections among youth and young adults in the U...

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beinglatino.wordpress.com - by Adriana Villavicencio Last Sunday, I laid in bed, head throbbing, lips parched, throat dry and a foreboding sense about last night’s dinner. The night before, I had celebrated the closing of Gon...

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boston.com - HARTFORD, Conn.—A group of Connecticut lawmakers wants to make it a crime for people to pretend to have specialized training to treat children with autism spectrum disorders.Sen. Martin Looney of N...

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depolitics1011.com - (Photo by Maham Khan) By Maham Khan Rahm Emanuel’s absence was conspicuous at the recent Pan Asian mayoral candidate forum, organized by the Pan Asian Voter Empowerment (PAVE) group of the Asian Am...

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chicagonow.com - AGE: 59 RESIDENCE: Belmont Cragin He bills himself as a "true Chicagoan."Miguel del Valle prides himself on his Chicago roots. The city clerk since 2006 now has his sights set on Chicago's top of...

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