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niemanwatchdog.org - Miracle schools, vouchers and all that educational flim-flam ASK THIS | April 13, 2011 Former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch tells reporters to dig deep when states or school distri...
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9news.com - DENVER - For the past 13 months, teachers, community leaders, business professionals, and others worked together to come up with a plan for Colorado's first-ever statewide system designed to produc...
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nysun.com - The Bloomberg administration, having decided that the small school movement is the wave of the future, has opened nearly 100 small high schools and plans to open another 100 next year. Each of thes...
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federaleducationpolicy.wordpress.com - April 14, 2011 · 3:07 pm Politics is about many things—power, money, authority, values, ideas… It also is about language. In current school reform debates, the phrase “failing school” and its plur...
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blogs.edweek.org - NBC --the originator of the idea that education in America would be improved by a giant national hurricane, to sweep everything clean and let the reformers have at it--is sponsoring a Teachers Town...
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schooltechconnect.com - I got nuthin'.Traditional art teacher Fred has said it all here, and here, and here. It's a sad day in Illinois, but at least the Queen of Illinois Education, Robin Steans, is happy. Steans, who wa...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: CTA’s State of Emergency Misses the Mark, But Come Anyway, The Occupation Will Be FunCTA’s State of Emergency Misses the Mark, But Come Anyway, The Occupation Will Be Fun0diggEven af...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Detroit to send layoff notices to all its public teachers | ReutersDetroit to send layoff notices to all its public teachersA child colors a Chinese mask in Elementary School, April 11, 2011.Credit...
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house.state.tx.us - * The Texas House of Representatives has more than 40 committees and sub-committees that meet in public hearings. It is the goal of House Video/Audio Services to provide live broadcasts/web-casts o...
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 | modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/04/hey-liberals-democrats-are-evil-too.html"; The left press and blogosphere have been ranting about the crazy, evil, greedy and/or stupid Republi... coopmike48 |
democraticunderground.com - Source: Think ProgressKUCINICH: Let me ask you about some of the specific provisions in your proposals to strip collective bargaining rights. First, your proposal would require unions to hold annua...
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defendwisconsin.org - Electoral irregularities and promises of recounts have thrown into question the final outcome of the hotly contested race over a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. Yet, these complications notwithstandi...
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defendwisconsin.org - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will be among friends today when he testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Nearly half the Republican committee members receive funding...
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defendwisconsin.org - Gov. Scott Walker defended his school of union hobbling as a route to fiscal discipline to budget-weary Washington on Thursday, telling a House committee that protracted, nail-biting negotiations i...
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democraticunderground.com - Source: Colombia ReportsRiot police sent to National University in Bogota Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:27 Jim Glade Anti-riot police were dispatched Thursday to break up protests in a Bogota universi...
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slog.thestranger.com - The top federal prosecutors in Washington sent a stern warning to Washington State that a medical-marijuana law passed by the legislature this week, which would license dispensaries and growers, co...
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 | womensenews.org - A male labor shortage in Mexico has opened the door for more women to join the country's mining industry. Despite widespread superstitions deterring women from entering mining, one industry officia... coopmike48 |
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: The last day before Spring BreakThe last day before Spring Breakby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)and normally I would be looking forward to the end of the school day. I cannot.Yesterday ...
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 | mrsdbarron.blogspot.com - Refilling Your Pitchers & Recharging Your Batteries by Mrs. Dorothy Barron“It does not matter how large a problem one has; nature is much larger and has a way of allowing one to put t... coopmike48 |
sacbee.com - About 60 Sacramento State students are still holding a sit-in inside the lobby of the university's administration building, some of them having camped out overnight after yesterday's protest agains... coopmike48 |
 | bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Sacramento Press / Region's $9.6 billion education cluster threatened by 'all cuts' state budgetRegion's $9.6 billion education cluster threatened by 'all cuts' state budgetby Hal Silliman, publish... coopmike48 |
my.firedoglake.com - Today’s Initial Unemployment Claims report for last week is out and the intial claims have jumped back up over 400k. Via Reuters:A second report from the Labor Department showed initial claims for ...
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 | blogs.forbes.com - Apr. 14 2011 - 5:00 pm | 0 views | 0 recommendations | By E.D. KAIN Will Wilkinson writes: It’s rather less intuitive that fairness demands that the wealthy not only pay more in taxes, but pay a la... coopmike48 |
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - These pauses in speech alert toddlers to pay attention, researchers say.Parents who say “um” and “uh” when speaking to their toddlers aren’t setting a bad example; they’re actually helping the chil...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Paying Doctors on the Basis of Patient Outcomes | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom PracticePaying Doctors on the Basis of Patient Outcomesby larrycubanA doctor described to a colleague a ...
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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 1:12 pm, April 14, 2011 Photo Credits: Inactive overweight parents = inactive overweight children “Lead by example.” A new study is showing that Hispanic children are following in thei...
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