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nytimes.com - (Page 2 of 2) ¶Chester E. Finn Jr. (Phillips Exeter) is the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, two of the country’s leading conservative res...

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blogs.edweek.org - In my recent exchange with the Department of Education regarding President Obama's remarks critical of our obsession with testing, it became clear that there is a vast expansion of testing on the h...

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evolvingenglishteacher.blogspot.com - The children assembled first, of course. School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before ...

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truthout.org - A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Engaging Parents In School…Check out: Engaging Parents In School…Surprise! Obama shows up at Sasha’s parent-teacher conference Behind the scenes Monday, presidential advisers focused on US policy...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: The case for librariesThe case for librariesby skrashenThe Case for LibrariesSent to the San Diego Union Tribune"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and c...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Many Pushing to Change Public Schools Attended Private Ones - NYTimes.comn Public School Efforts, a Common Background: Private EducationBy MICHAEL WINERIPPublished: April 17, 2011RECOMMENDTWITTERSI...

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washingtonpost.com - Prince George’s County school officials have has suspended overseas recruitment as it prepares to battle the U.S. Labor Department over $5.9 million in penalties and fees assessed for shortchanging...

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dailymail.co.uk - By Daniel Bates Last updated at 7:46 PM on 15th April 2011Under scrutiny: A new lawsuit accuses New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg of running a 'boy's club' at his media company Michael Bloomber...

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wnyc.org - The city is having trouble finding enough parents to run for seats on local Community Education Councils. As of Friday, only 341 applied for a total of 425 seats, according to the Department of Ed...

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latimesblogs.latimes.com - In the latest developments in Bahrain's ongoing crackdown on the country's political opposition and human-rights activists, more than two dozen uniformed and plainclothes security officers stormed ...

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defendwisconsin.org - Six months after voters sent Republicans in large numbers to Congress and many statehouses, it is possible to see the full landscape of destruction that their policies would cause — much of which h...

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blogs.ocweekly.com - ​Orange County might be a beautiful oceanfront locale, but it's also home to Holocaust deniers, vicious anti-gay bigots and freakish big-haired televangelists.Here, one of your Republican politicia...

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larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Apr 17 2011 Larry Ferlazzo I really am surprised to see so many ordinarily thoughtful national columnists — ones who I generally like — show such poor judgment when they write about schools. The on...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - “A Surprising Large Number Of Public School Reformers Attended Private Schools” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...Tweetmetrics Is Cool All you have to do to get a ton of data on your use of ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mud Wrestling with Marshall McLuhan | Lefty ParentMud Wrestling with Marshall McLuhanby Cooper ZaleWell… mud wrestling in a sort of metaphorical way. My latest attempt to embrace and wrestle to the...

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sacramentopress.com - Saturday marked UC Davis' annual Picnic Day, a free, family-friendly community event, celebrating the achievements UC Davis has in areas of research, teaching, service and campus life. This year’s ...

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dailycensored.com - It is important to note that CNN did not have anyone to present a counterargument to the topic of groping small children. If CNN doesn’t bring in anyone from the other side to show people’s concern...

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coopcatalyst.wordpress.com - Recently, a blogger friend commented on my personal blog: ”It is hard to imagine myself as a once great curious and academically thriving student!” When I read that I had hard time thinking of a me...

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huffingtonpost.com - From Brad Johnson, The Wonk Room:In a passionate keynote address, green jobs leader Van Jones exhorted the 10,000 youth climate activists at the Power Shift conference in Washington DC to “shift th...

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globalresearch.ca - On the first day of the Fukushima disaster, Tepco reported that reactors 1, 2 and 6 were operating at the time of the quake and tsunami, and that the other 3 reactors were empty of fuel rods for pe...

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abc.net.au - Posted April 17, 2011 18:22:00 TEPCO plans to cover the damaged reactor buildings at the Fukushima nuclear plant. (AFP: Air Photo Service) The operator of Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear plant aims to ...

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theuptake.org - Today The UpTake is launching a journalism project that we hope will improve the way our society finds solutions to the “big problems” facing Minnesota. The news media loves political conflict. It ...

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my.firedoglake.com - As we see more and more information about the Republican plans for for “austerity” and the budget cuts, we see more and more that all they are offering is the same one-trick pony that they have pro...

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denverpost.com - Tax form (very old) stock image (Handout | stock image)WASHINGTON — As millions of procrastinators scramble to meet today's tax-filing deadline, ponder this: The super rich pay a lot less taxes tha...

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hrw.org - (Manama) - More than two dozen uniformed and plainclothes security officers, most of whom were masked, raided the home of prominent defense lawyer Mohammed al-Tajer on the evening of April 15, 2011...

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