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nydailynews.com - Santos for News Cathie Black's abrupt departure is just the latest black eye for city school leadership. Five years ago, momentum to expand public school choice, hold educators more accountable for...
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nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - April 7, 2011 (GBN News): In another surprise announcement, Dennis Walcott resigned today, just hours after being named NY City Schools Chancellor. After a ten second nationwide search, Mayor Bloom...
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guardian.co.uk - Former Hearst executive Cathleen Black who has just resigned from her post as New York City schools chancellor after a controversy-filled three months in the role. Photograph: Felix Clay for Media ...
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washingtonpost.com - Cathleen Black blamed “outside forces” for her inability to adequately lead the New York City public school district and her abrupt resignation as chancellor Thursday after a little more than three...
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huffingtonpost.com - South Korean students get high marks on the international competitions like the PISAs. In his State of the Union speech, President Obama said we should emulate its educational system.Arne Duncan ha...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - BREAKING NEWS: Cathie Black out as schools chancellor | GothamSchoolsBREAKING NEWS: Cathie Black out as schools chancellorby Philissa CramerAfter a rocky 100 days as chancellor, Cathie Black is lea...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Whodunit!Whodunit!by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)Police Sketch of BurglarSchool TechConnect is closing. Just for a couple days--- we were burglarized here and I've got to ge...
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 | bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NYC Public School Parents: Chancellor Resigns Yet AgainChancellor Resigns Yet Againby Gary BabadApril 7, 2011 (GBN News): In another surprise announcement, Dennis Walcott resigned today, just hours... coopmike48 |
gothamschools.org - Reporter Kim Gittleson is inside City Hall for Mayor Bloomberg’s press conference to announce the surprise departure of Schools Chancellor Cathie Black. 12:05 p.m. Dozens of press releases flew int...
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latimes.com - Reporting from New York— Cathie Black, the high-profile magazine executive hand-picked by New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to run the nation's largest school system, resigned Thursday after thre...
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 | democracynow.org - On the same day President Barack Obama formally launched his re-election campaign, his attorney general, Eric Holder, announced that key suspects in the 9/11 attacks would be tried not in federal c... leoniehaimson |
jsonline.com - April 7, 2011 11:42 a.m. | Madison - The time-consuming and sometimes messy business of counting ballots and preparing for a likely statewide recount in the Supreme Court race was under way Thursda...
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 | nytimes.com - Describing education and education equality as the “civil rights issue of our time,” President Obama called Wednesday for a renewed effort to eliminate the achievement gap between African-American ... mikeklonsky |
theuptake.org - A panel discussion tonight at the University of Minnesota will address Latino & Immigrant Voices on Repression & Solidarity. Speakers will include Anh Pham, Francisco Segovia, Veronica Mendez and M...
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my.firedoglake.com - Earlier this week in a 5-4 decision the High Court refused to overturn an Arizona law that allows taxpayers to receive a dollar-for-dollar state tax credit for their contributions to school scholar...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 07, 2011 NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK, 2011BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAA PROCLAMATIONAmerica's story has bee...
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baycitizen.org - For younger hip-hop fans whose frame of reference isn’t Kool Herc’s block parties or Yo! MTV Raps videos, but My Spaces mixtapes and YouTube videos, the Paid Dues Festival is a rite of passage, an ...
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gothamschools.org - by Philissa Cramer The brief tenure of Cathie Black is a self-inflicted blow to the ed reform movement. (New Republic) It’s also one of the movement’s rare setbacks, according to an observer in Eng...
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 | uppitywis.org - In an interesting and disturbing development, Waukesha County's county clerk has apparently found 7582 Prosser votes that were never reported, at least not to the AP. There is a news story on this... coopmike48 |
 | accountabletalk.com - You know, sometimes I scare myself when I don my swami hat to make predictions, and not just because it lowers my apparent IQ by forty points. It seems I am right an uncanny number of times (Mrs. T... leoniehaimson |
coopcatalyst.wordpress.com - Leyanna Savann contributes this #blog4nwp post about her NWP-trained teacher, Mary Cushman. Writing hasn’t always been a strong suit of mine. The thought of having to research, write, cite and turn...
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 | bluecheddar.wordpress.com - by bluecheddar Apparently Waukesha County Clerk Ms. Nicklaus is a stubborn lone wolf type, who has tussled with the Dept of Administration head and other county officials who were “raising a red fl... coopmike48 |
groundswellfilms.org - By Jeff SpitzPublished: April 6, 2011Dear Friends of Groundswell, As Japan struggles to contain a radioactive catastrophe, Groundswell’s Return of Navajo Boy project reminds us of the legacy of rad...
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democraticunderground.com - Source: Online JournalHillary Clinton to Visit JapanApr 7, 2011, 10:13 by Victor RyanHillary Clinton will visit Japan later this month to reassure the earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged island nation ...
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theatlanticwire.com - It's the stuff of science fiction: scientists splicing foreign genes into plants to make them better or easier for us to produce on a mass scale. By now, you've heard the stories: fish genes in str...
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ascd.typepad.com - The National Writing Project (NWP) trains teachers from all walks of life to champion authentic writing instruction in their schools and communities. Teachers who attend NWP institutes at sites acr...
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