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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - State of Emergency State of Emergency Plan of Action Leaders Guide Member Flyer Regional Action Ideas Logo California is in “A State of Emergency” over the drastic cuts that are hurting ou...

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thewashingtonteacher.blogspot.com - by Candi Peterson, WTU General Vice PresidentLet’s take a trip down memory lane. Remember back in 2008, OSSE (Office of the State Superintendent of Education in DC) requested that McGraw Hill Testi...

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propublica.org - Excerpt from Hope Academy Broadway Campus's lawsuit against White Hat Management. Inset: Screenshot from a White Hat Management promotional video.Contrary to the idea of charters as small, locally ...

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prospect.org - On exam day in Sabina Trombetta's Colorado Springs first-grade art class, the 6-year-olds were shown a slide of Picasso's "Weeping Woman," a 1937 cubist portrait of the artist's lover, Dora Maar, w...

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nytimes.com - In a city where so many public schools are segregated by race and wealth, Public School 9 in Brooklyn is an exception. It has a substantial number of poor children, with about 75 perc...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Rita M. Solnet: The F Word in Education ReformRita M. SolnetFounding Member, Parents Across AmericaGET UPDATES FROM RITA M. SOLNETLikeThe F Word in Education ReformPosted: 04/11/11 07:18 PM ETReact...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - My life is not timely enough for the Tribune. « Fred Klonsky's blogMy life is not timely enough for the Tribune.by Fred KlonskyHi, Mr. Klonsky:This is John Keilman, a reporter with the Chicago Trib...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Notes on My New Feature: "The Test Generation" - Dana GoldsteinNotes on My New Feature: "The Test Generation"by Dana GoldsteinIn Harrison Distict 2--a low-income, predominantly Latino school distri...

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online.wsj.com - Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — A new superintendent for the Recovery School District, which oversees schools taken over by the state for poor performance, will begin his job May 1, after the s...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Los Angeles Teacher Database Pre-Release Comment - Los Angeles TimesTeacher LookupThis database includes most LAUSD teachers who have taught during the 2003-04 to 2009-10 school years. If you are i...

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educationgadfly.net - I just wanted to give a quick shout-out from the Education Writers Association meeting in New Orleans. It’s an annual gathering (ends tomorrow) of education reporters and folks from various educati...

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nypost.com - Michael Goodwin "It's water over the dam, under the bridge," Mayor Bloomberg said in ducking a question about Cathie Black. But for that to be true, Bloomberg must turn the end of her tenure into a...

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mdn.mainichi.jp - In this March 13, 2011 file photo, Masataka Shimizu, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. speaks during the press conference in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo ...

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fdlaction.firedoglake.com - At the end of the health care debate, when Obama was desperate to get the final bill passed in the House, he agreed to make a deal with Bart Stupak (D-MI) on the issue of abortion, by offering an e...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Geography of School | Mr. Teachbad's Blog of Teacher DisgruntlementGeography of Schoolby mrteachbadThere is something that has been pissing me off all year…and I thought I knew what it was. It was ...

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saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - From KUOW's The Conversation producer, David Hyde:We’re doing a show tomorrow that’s tentatively titled, “what are you doing to get your kid into K-12 school? (public or private).” I’m looking fo...

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larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Apr 09 2011 Larry Ferlazzo Eye On Education, the publisher of my book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers To Classroom Challenges, has now placed the entire first chapter on “H...

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gothamschools.org - by Philissa Cramer Dennis Walcott says he’s “not interested” in the “absurd” idea that he might run for mayor. (Politicker NY) Colorado plans to evaluate all teachers, in all subjects, by their stu...

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uppitywis.org - Another blast from the past:County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said some returns from the City of Waukesha inexplicably had data recorded in the wrong column, which momentarily skewed results. Nickolau...

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scholasticadministrator.typepad.com - April 11, 2011 | Posted At: 06:57 PM | Author: Alexander Russo | Category: Best of the Blogs & Pundits Stop Waiting for a Savior NYT (Hacsi): Until the headlines and our attention focus on what th...

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nytimes.com - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan plans to extend the evacuation zone around its crippled nuclear plant because of high radiation levels, local media reported Monday, with engineers no closer to regaining co...

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openchannel.msnbc.msn.com - By Bill DedmanInvestigative Reporter, msnbc.com The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Monday afternoon that it was investigating the "unplanned radiation exposures" of three workers on A...

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online.wsj.com - BY DAVID J. BRENNER As the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant drags on, how worried should people living near the plant, further away in Japan, or here in America be about the radiat...

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democraticunderground.com - Source: Yahoo JapanInformation in JapaneseRead more: http://emergency.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/2011... Just a few minutes ago, there was a Magnitude 6.3 earthquake off the coast of Chiba P...

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democraticunderground.com - By Associated Press, Monday, April 11SENDAI, Japan — A magnitude-7.1 aftershock has rattled Japan on the one-month anniversary of a massive earthquake that spawned a deadly tsunami.A warning has be...

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