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proteacher.net - Interesting Article if You Have Time to Read... 05-06-2011, 08:24 AM Moore: Cornering the education market By Michael Moore Created 2011-05-04 22:13 It’s testing time around Georgia, despite widesp...

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joannejacobs.com - Last year, the New York State Legislature passed a measure that allowed 20 percent of a teacher’s evaluation to be based on students’ scores on standardized state tests. Now it has gone up to 40 pe...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Weblogg-ed » “There are Some People Who Don’t Wait”“There are Some People Who Don’t Wait”by Will RichardsonThis quote from Robert Krulwich of NPR caught my eye yesterday:But there are some people, ...

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dailykos.com - But the problem with education policy and reform debate is much deeper than that. As I have been documenting in a series labeled "Legends of the Fall," public discourse about education as it is dri...

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lightbox.time.com - The Catherine Ferguson Academy, part urban farm, part college prep, has horses grazing along the former running track, hay growing in empty lots and an apple orchard with hens running through it, a...

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Those who can, teach

Funny how the cretinous idiots that write "those that can't, teach" learned how to write from a teacher! — Robert D. Skeels

Those who can, teach. Those who cannot pass laws about teaching.
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Feelin' The Love At WhittierFeelin' The Love At Whittierby effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)Here was the (fotoflexed) view from inside Whittier Elementary on this drizzle-chilled...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - How is this possible? « MomsRising BlogHow is this possible?by Christy Turlington BurnsLike millions of women across the country, I love Mother’s Day. I appreciate all the love that comes my way o...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Maher’s “Real Time” Education Debate Failure Redux: Legend of the Fall, pt. VII | Dailycensored.comMaher’s “Real Time” Education Debate Failure Redux: Legend of the Fall, pt. VIIWritten by Paul Tho...

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huffingtonpost.com - SHELTON, Conn. -- A Connecticut high school headmaster has reversed her decision to ban a student from the prom after he broke school rules by hanging his prospective date's invitation at the schoo...

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defendwisconsin.org - Three months ago, on Feb. 14, I stood at the center of the Capitol rotunda, thoroughly unconvinced by the promises of a few TAA activists that “a significant crowd” was imminent. The sight of 1000 ...

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nytimes.com - ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by an Emirati intel...

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nypost.com - A top French politician who heads the International Monetary Fund was hauled off an Air France flight at Kennedy Airport yesterday on suspicion of sodomizing a Manhattan hotel maid, sources told Th...

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kochwatch.org - May 12, 2011- Last night the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City went through a process of identity correction.1,000 people gathered to launch Koch Brothers Exposed — a new pro...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Circus For Grown-Ups | Mr. Teachbad's Blog of Teacher DisgruntlementCircus For Grown-Upsby mrteachbadAre y’all about done with testing?I am.We just had two weeks of AP tests right on the heels of t...

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americasfutureinsidestory.blogspot.com - Have you ever felt so hungry you are ready to gnaw off your fingers? Your stomach is turning in on itself and making tortured bubbly growls. You feel light-headed, perhaps you have a nagging headac...

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preaprez.wordpress.com - Hey, Chicago. How did you enjoy your summer? It was 90 degrees on Tuesday. We had the AC on Thursday night. Now we have the heat back on and it’s 44 degrees. In the mean while, a happy birthday wis...

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preaprez.wordpress.com - State House Representative Robyn Gabel from Rogers Park and Evanston and every other Chicago Democrat in the House except for Monique Davis voted to take away Chicago teachers’ union rights. Note: ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - On Being an (Ex) Undocumented Immigrant Father,immigration news - Hispanically Speaking NewsOn Being an (Ex) Undocumented Immigrant Father0 CommentsMay 14, 2011 | by HS News StaffPhoto Credits: Imm...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Thoughts and Pics of the San Diego Teachers’ RallyThoughts and Pics of the San Diego Teachers’ Rallyby Frank GormlieSince Andy Cohen covered the meat and potatoes of the teachers' "State of Emergen...

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nytimes.com - Statement from the family of Sheikh Osama bin Laden I Omar Ossama Binladin and my brothers the lawful children and heirs of the Ossama Binladin (OBL) have noted wide coverage of the n...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 2:12 pm, May 14, 2011 Photo Credits: Private Prison System What’s really behind the recent wave of ugly anti-immigrant laws? Cuentame believes it is the private prison system…Immigran...

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huffingtonpost.com - The New York Times and The New York Post are currently reporting that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has been arrested.The New York Times tweeted ...

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womensenews.org - Bad news came this week for shareholders of India's largest microlender. That offers a chance to tout two writers who always said high interest rates--of 20 percent and higher--were never the best ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRankHide8.3NYC Educator: From Wall Street2011-May-13NYC Educator: From Wall StreetFrom Wall Streetby NYC EducatorI went to a rally yesterday with t...

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