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scienceblogs.com - Last week, E.D. Kain took Megan McArdle to task for promoting the use of student testing as a means to evaluate teachers. This, to me, was the key point:....nobody is arguing against tests as a way...
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nytimes.com - There was a sense of relief at nine low-performing city high schools on Thursday as the city’s Department of Education announced they would not be closed next year. The decisions came after months ...
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blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,You ask: "Why don't they listen?"They, the "billionaire boys club," have a different agenda, and the issues we raise are truly not important to them. Or at least to most of those in the ...
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nola.com - Sue Bordelon's 17-year-old son C.J. faces many obstacles, some unavoidable, others man-made. He has autism and fragile health. He can't walk more than 20 paces without his wheelchair. In class, he ...
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preaprez.wordpress.com - It was back in late winter when I first heard about the SOS March and National Call to Action. I was impressed by their list of Guiding Principles and their list of education activists who are endo...
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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - It didn’t take long to remove even more worker rights, from firefighters and police, protected by union organizations that many conservatives consider unconstitutional. Ironically, the bill extendi...
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nytimes.com - Meredith Attwell Baker, one of two Republicans on the Federal Communications Commission, was not on Comcast’s payroll when she voted to approve its controversial acquisition of NBC Universal, the t...
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tomhayden.com - It is becoming almost certain that the U.S. succeed in forcing Iraq to “invite” thousands of American troops to stay indefinitely in the latest imperial outpost of the United States in the Arab wor...
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 | educationnews.org - Chester Finn, Jr. says that Florida's open records laws might be to blame for a lack of interest, but others think there's a lack of qualified professionals. Florida Governor Rick Scott With three ...  leoniehaimson |
progressillinois.com - The School Action and Accountability Master Plan Act, which would have required the Chicago Public Schools to follow new procedures before deciding on school closures, appears to be stalled in a Ho...
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online.wsj.com - New York state is weighing whether to prohibit high-school teachers from grading their own students' Regents exams. The Board of Regents, which sets education policy for the state, is set to vote n...
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emptywheel.firedoglake.com - Two and a half years after privatized auditors largely signed off on practices that contributed to the collapse of Wall Street, and a year after coziness between government inspectors and the oil i...
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huffingtonpost.com - Blogger, Google's online publishing platform, has been experiencing a service disruption since Thursday afternoon.Blogger Status informed users of maintenance issues at 3:30 p.m. ET and wrote that ...
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 | firedoglake.com - (photo: Laughing Squid) If you liked the bankster strategy of persuading weak states to reduce regulation, and blackmailing strong states into following suit, you’ll love the version currently bein... coopmike48 |
nytimes.com - Forget Prince William and Kate. This week’s topic in Modern Love 101 is clearly James Tate, the high school senior from Shelton, Conn., who has become the world’s most famous would-be...
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 | larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - May 12 2011 Larry Ferlazzo Last week, I read a lengthy and fascinating article in The New Yorker titled “Kuwait on the Prairie.” It’s about oil exploration in North Dakota through the scary (for th... coopmike48 |
 | hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 7:02 pm, May 12, 2011 Photo Credits: The Storm that Swept Mexico THE STORM THAT SWEPT MEXICO is a vibrant new two-hour PBS special that tells the epic story of the Mexican Revolution o... coopmike48 |
 | progressillinois.com - Illinois legislators and Gov. Pat Quinn seem to be at a stalemate when it comes to figuring out how to cover the state's underfunded employee pensions. Gov. Quinn wants to borrow money in order to ... fklonsky |
blogs.sfweekly.com - Wait, not all of your tax dollars are wasted in San Francisco. Your local bureaucrats make it part of their job to send a letter every February to state and federal politicians restating the city'...
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 | mediaite.com - video The White House isn’t releasing the death photos of Osama bin Laden but they have been allowing a select group of Congress members take a look. A number of politicians have already seen the p... coopmike48 |
insidehighered.com - By Joshua Kim May 12, 2011 9:30 pm EDT My gut reaction is that Microsoft's $8.5 billion purchase of Skype is a good thing for higher ed, and probably a smart move on Microsoft's part. I'm betting t...
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