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nytimes.com - Drawing protests from teachers and parents, a Westchester County school district has offered its top job to a superintendent from the Milwaukee suburbs who endorsed the Wisconsin governor’s efforts...
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huffingtonpost.com - "Last month, Mr. Duncan predicted that by the end of this year, 82 percent of schools will miss their goal. At this rate, it is highly likely that in a few years, every single public school in the ...
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latimes.com - New Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy has assembled an executive team that he says will assert a laserlike focus on instruction, but some have assailed the cost as well as ties to outside groups...
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nashuatelegraph.com - Wednesday, April 20, 2011 As this was written, lawmakers in Harrisburg late last week continued to wring their hands over the passage of Senate Bill 1, which if approved, would establish a school v...
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freep.com - Gov. Rick Snyder will propose Wednesday financial rewards to individual schools that show exceptional academic progress.The money could be divided among the teachers or used in other ways they choo...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 5 Things To Remember For Teachers Prepping Their Students for The Big Exam | The Jose Vilson5 Things To Remember For Teachers Prepping Their Students for The Big Examby JoseI have exactly 5 days to...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Vermont Moves Toward Single-Payer Healthcare - E.D. Kain - American Times - ForbesVermont Moves Toward Single-Payer HealthcareApr. 26 2011 - 7:01 pm | 0 views | 0 recommendations | 0 commentsOne mo...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - How school reform damages poor children — Kohn - The Answer Sheet - The Washington PostHow school reform damages poor children — Kohn *This was written by Alfie Kohn, the author of 12 books about e...
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dailybreeze.com - Less than two weeks after taking the helm of Los Angeles Unified, Superintendent John Deasy is adding six-figure positions to his reorganized management team - a move he says will help the district...
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delvalleformayor.com - Dear friends, There is a buzz in Chicago among people striving for a city that works together. Inspired by Wisconsin and our immigrant youth, Chicagoans are reaching new levels of organizing to mak...
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baltimoresun.com - Barbara Gaskins says she took her 15-year-old son to his bus stop every morning at 7:30, well in time for his 9 a.m. homeroom bell at Patterson Park High School. She obtained as many medical excuse...
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cbsnews.com - (AP) WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of up to $25 million in surplus government goods to support Libyan opposition groups and protect civilians threatened by Libyan...
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baycitizen.org - As cyber attacks continue to pummel the San Francisco website Change.org, pressure is mounting for the U.S. government to intervene in the virtual hostilities, which the company contends originated...
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 | firedoglake.com - pic via shawnzrossi at flickr.comChalk up another irony when Republicans wave the Stars and Stripes and wish it contained a couple bars: In North Carolina GOP voters are almost evenly divided on th... coopmike48 |
 | nytimes.com - Olga Zanella, a Mexican-born college student in Texas, should have started months ago trying to figure out how she could make a life in Mexico, since American immigration authorities were working r... mikeklonsky |
| nytimes.com - Olga Zanella, a Mexican-born college student in Texas, should have started months ago trying to figure out how she could make a life in Mexico, since American immigration authorities were working r... coopmike48 |
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Yes, and we must prepare, all of us prepare, to make the sacrifices that the emergency -- almost as serious as war itself -- demands. Whatever stands in the way of speed and efficiency in defense, ...
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 | blogs.forbes.com - Wall StreetApr. 26 2011 - 1:52 pm | 1 views | 0 recommendations |By BRUCE UPBIN Manhattan Beach, Calif. Image via WikipediaWhere will your housing dollar go the furthest in getting your kids a grea... mikeklonsky |
news.firedoglake.com - Tomorrow, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will give an unprecedented press conference after the Federal Open Market Committee releases a statement from their April meeting. Whether Bernanke i...
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 | my.firedoglake.com - hawk by kfwk_lobo, on Flick After seeing yesterday’s opinion piece at CNN from David Frum (See this blog post), I wasn’t quite as surprised to see another opinion piece today on the lack of jobs. O... coopmike48 |
bloomberg.com - A handout photograph shows disaster relief workers holding a meeting at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on April 1, 2011. Source: T...
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 | womensenews.org - On the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in northern Ukraine, a former liquidator offers sobering warnings about radiation exposure, with particular cautions for women ... coopmike48 |
huffingtonpost.com - WASHINGTON -- Climate change is likely to diminish already scarce water supplies in the Western United States, exacerbating problems for millions of water users in the West, according to a new gove...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A Funny Thing Happened At Work Today | Mr. Teachbad's Blog of Teacher DisgruntlementA Funny Thing Happened At Work Todayby mrteachbadI liked my job.This was highly unlikely because it was the first...
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bluecheddar.wordpress.com - by bluecheddar (Credit to Blogging Blue for posting this) Have you voted for the Blue Man Group? The Wu Tang Clan? …No? Those aren’t included in any subset of our grand total of two viable politica...
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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - Dickensian is too kind a word to use for the current crop of authoritarian Republican sociopaths, especially those empowered in the state of Michigan. The following is so unimaginable, especially ...
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schooltechconnect.com - Karen Lewis tells it like it is--- there are the reasons for the way teachers are compensated, and all of the little faddish fixes that are trumpeted by the corporate reform crowd aren't going to ...
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schooltechconnect.com - Pauline Lipman, professor of educational policy at UIC, offers some advice to the incoming superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, and it sounds like Rahm is doubling down on his choice. Lipman m...
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schooltechconnect.com - "We have scapegoating, scapegoating, and scapegoating." There was a long discussion about what makes a good teacher, and of course the TFA guy had a very data-driven answer-- TFA invented formative...
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