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parentsacrossamerica.org - Apr 19, 2011 leoniehaimson THE BROAD FOUNDATION’S TRAINING PROGRAMS AND PREFERRED EDUCATION POLICIES: A GUIDE FOR PARENTS The question I ask is why should Eli Broad and Bill Gates have more of a sa...

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blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,What a pleasure to discover we were on the same plane to New Orleans for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. It gave me a chance to wish you a happy bi...

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catalyst-chicago.org - New schools CEO, education team: analysisPosted By The Staff of Catalyst On Monday, April 18, 2011 In CPS Administration In announcing his new education team, Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel emphasized th...

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techlearning.com - Dr. Jim Taylor I am not a fan of the Obama administration’s public education initiatives, including Race to the Top. The programs are, in my view, mislabeled, misdirected, and misguided. Here are m...

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keystonestateeducationcoalition.blogspot.com - Here's the skinny on vouchersBy Brad Bumsted, TRIBUNE-REVIEW, Sunday, April 17, 2011 HARRISBURGThe state Senate's first run at establishing a voucher system for school choice crashed and burned for...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - District: We can create “personalized” high schools with 1,000 students | Philadelphia Public School NotebookDistrict: We can create “personalized” high schools with 1,000 studentsby Benjamin Herol...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - “Never Take Parents For Granted” | Engaging Parents In School...Memo To Tennessee: I Don’t Think Requiring Students To Document Their Immigration Status Is Going To Enhance Parent EngagementTenness...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Detroit Emergency Manager Closes School for Pregnant Teens, Police Arrest Protesting Students - E.D. Kain - American Times - ForbesDetroit Emergency Manager Closes School for Pregnant Teens, Police...

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13wham.com - Rochester, N.Y. – Rochester City School District board member Van White says the departing superintendent should pay the cost of the search to find a new leader.Jean-Claude Brizard sent a text mess...

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newsblogs.chicagotribune.com - Posted by Kristen Mack at 11:02 a.m. Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel today named City Hall veteran Forrest Claypool to take over as president of the Chicago Transit Authority and announced another Daley A...

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bluejersey.com - Oh yeah, Wireless Generation was the company that Christie hired to help him sabotage the Race to the Top application in order to stick it to the NJEA. In exchange for a botched application Christi...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Andrew Breitbart threatens teachers. « Fred Klonsky's blogAndrew Breitbart threatens teachers.by Fred KlonskyMy stalker, Ben Velderman.People often ask me why Ben Velderman, who has the chief respo...

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preaprez.wordpress.com - My stalker, Ben Velderman. People often ask me why Ben Velderman, who has the chief responsibility of fetching his boss Kyle Olson some coffee, filed an Illinois FOIA request for my emails. Andrew ...

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truthout.org - Only 17 months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP deepwater oil platform also blew out.You've heard and seen much about the Gulf disaster ...

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salon.com - This is the first post in our new partnership with Imprint. To learn more, go here. Greetings, taxpayers! Here's a fine excuse to look up from your pained calculator-stabbing and blood-smeared Form...

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sacbee.com - Sacramento State students who held a three-day sit-in before being ousted by police early Saturday morning are protesting again today on the campus quad.They're holding a mock funeral to symbolize ...

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news.firedoglake.com - As a pure political tactic, getting started early with the message that Republicans voted to end Medicare sounds like a winner for Democrats. But I will veer slightly into a different kind of analy...

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marketfolly.com - Whitney Tilson of hedge fund T2 Partners recently appeared on CNBC and revealed he is now long BP (BP). This company of course has dominated headlines for the drastic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexic...

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green.blogs.nytimes.com - In a story in The Times on Sunday, our colleague Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote of growing displeasure in Britain over the use of the name “British Petroleum” by top federal officials in the United Stat...

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news.firedoglake.com - The Obama Administration moved forward on a free trade agreement with Panama today, satisfying the final condition put up by Republicans to allow Congressional action on stalled trade agreements wi...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Standardized Students, Silenced Teachers: The Un-American Education Agenda | Dailycensored.comStandardized Students, Silenced Teachers: The Un-American Education Agendaby Paul ThomasWriting about s...

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vidayfamilia.univision.com - Famosos con títulos de las mejores universidades La Universidad de Yale, situada en Connecticut honró al ex beatle Paul McCartney otorgándole el título de doctor honoris causa de Música. Basándose ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Brizard won praise from N.Y. colleagues, catcalls from unions - Chicago Sun-TimesBrizard won praise from N.Y. colleagues, catcalls from unionsBy KIM JANSSEN Staff Reporter/kjanssen@suntimes.com Apr...

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thenation.com - Thousands of young voters rallied at the White House this Tax Day to demand President Obama stand up to Big Polluters and make them pay their fair share. During the day of action, a flash mob, led ...

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uppitywis.org - News from the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW-Madison: Several archival video clips and a new short film have been added to a Web site that documents the history of Earth D...

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dailycensored.com - CENSORED IN 1978: SPACE POLLUTION HITS HOME Although it no longer makes headlines nor the six o’clock news, about twice a month somebody launches something into space.NASA’s current agenda alone c...

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