Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Big Education Ape: 4-26-11 Recall Reform Edition

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Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - An article in the NY Times magazine two weeks ago, on April 10 , about Middle School 223 in the Bronx, written by Jonathan Mahler, contained the following passage describing student achievement gai...

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dailykos.com - "It's being marketed as a solution to save public schools, but the big donors are tied to right-wing think tanks that openly advocate, and strategize, the end of public education. How can vouchers...

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uppitywis.org - For about 15 years, I've tried to explain to my progressive friends how I could have been persuaded to support Milwaukee's school choice program. I've replied with the same argument then-Mayor John...

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theatlanticwire.com - Today's New York Times prominently features "The Guantanamo Files," a synthesis of "700 classified military documents" obtained by WikiLeaks, about the Cuba prison's current and former inmates. It'...

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thenotebook.org - Recent revelations about the role of School Reform Commission Chairman Robert Archie in the awarding of a school contract that could be worth up to $60 million demand a full investigation from stat...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Obama’s sister tells a ‘learning story’ about their mom - The Answer Sheet - The Washington PostObama’s sister tells a ‘learning story’ about their momby Valerie StraussMaya Soetoro-Ng, President O...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Districts consider even shorter school year | California WatchDistricts consider even shorter school yearby Louis FreedbergLouis FreedbergCEFutcher/istockphoto.comThe likelihood is growing that man...

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parentsacrossamerica.org - Apr 25, 2011 pureparents To every thing, turn, turn, turn… Catalyst Notebook reports that the Renaissance Schools Fund – which is about to “turnaround” its brand name and call itself “New Schools f...

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jsonline.com - April 23, 2011 | It was not easy for me to stand before the state Legislature's Joint Finance Committee and threaten to withdraw my support from the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, which I have ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Will Black and Latino Parents Support a Boycott of LAUSD? ( Los padres Negro y Latino Apoyar a un boicot del LAUSD?) - Perdaily.comWill Black and Latino Parents Support a Boycott of LAUSD? ( Los pa...

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huffingtonpost.com - An Al Jazeera journalist was held at Guantanamo Bay for six years partially so he could be interrogated about the network, according to one of the files on the prison released by WikiLeaks and news...

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nydailynews.com - Susan Walsh/AP Demonstrators will rally against Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Wall Street on May 12. Unions are hoping it'll be the shout heard around Wall Street - and City Hall. They'd also like it...

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blogs.forbes.com - Mar. 4 2011 - 2:46 pm | 23 views | 0 recommendations | In what may be the result of one of the great political miscalculations of our time, Scott Walker’s popularity in his home state is fast going...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Finding A Needle in A Stack of Needles: A Solution to the Racial Achievement Gap | The Jose VilsonFinding A Needle in A Stack of Needles: A Solution to the Racial Achievement Gapby JoseIn the categ...

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blog.angryasianman.com - Are you an Asian American whose fiction, nonfiction or poetry book published in 2010? The Asian American Writers' Workshop has announced that submission for the Fourteenth Annual Asian American Lit...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - “Grow Your Own PLN: From Information To Knowledge” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...“20 Interesting Images to use in the Classroom” Regular readers are familiar with Tom Barrett’s “Interest...

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blogs.forbes.com - Apr. 24 2011 - 12:15 pm | 1 views | 0 recommendations | It may be both the peak of paranoia and the ultimate insult to those who showed their mettle on the day of - and the days that followed – th...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - “We’ve Shown You Ours, Now Show Us Yours.”49-Member Agenda releases proposal for 16 House, 4 Senate districts at final House hearing, along with a call for transparency, inclusion in redistric...

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mediaite.com - In an interview in today’s Guardian, Rachel Maddow urged others in the cable news business who may be gay to come out, citing it as a “responsibility” to the gay community. The comments were widely...

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history.com - On this day in 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, begin at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. Children in the United States, Canada ...

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womensenews.org - A small study of maternal deaths in New York City rings loud warning bells for pregnant African American women. Experts offer ideas on lowering some of the deadliest risks for all women: hypertensi...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 7:10 pm, April 25, 2011 Photo Credits: Global Immunization Drive Some 180 countries and territories are for the first time carrying out simultaneous United Nations-backed immunization ...

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hispanicprblog.com - The following Job Alert was posted on behalf of SEIU on Tuesday, April 26. If you are a recruiter or employer that would like to use our Hispanic Market Jobs service to post multicultural public re...

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news.firedoglake.com - There’s a very good reason that the President and leading Democrats want to force disclosure on political spending through either an executive order or a lawsuit against the FEC. It’s because witho...

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