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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Governor's Revised Budget - Revised Budget SummaryRevised Budget SummaryThe Revised Budget Summary provides an update of revenues, expenditures, and reserve estimates based upon the latest economic...
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washingtonpost.com - How much control should donors to colleges and universities over who gets hired with their money? That’s the question at issue in a new controversy over an arrangement in which Florida State Univer...
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washingtonpost.com - Some things, as we sometimes find out after the fact, are not always what they originally seemed. That may be the case at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, where President Obama is deliv...
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epi.org - By Eva L. Baker, Paul E. Barton, Linda Darling-hammond, Edward Haertel, Helen F. Ladd, Robert L. Linn, Diane Ravitch, Richard Rothstein, Richard J. Shavelson, and Lorrie A. Shepard Briefing Paper #...
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westsidespirit.com - Posted by West Side Spirit on May 12, 2011 · View Comments In the Past Decade, the Minority Population at the City’s Top Two Specialized High Schools–Stuyvesant and Bronx Science—has dwindled. But...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Single Stupidest Sentence in the Psychology Today Piece on Black Women’s Attractiveness « Student ActivismThe Single Stupidest Sentence in the Psychology Today Piece on Black Women’s Attractive...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Corporate Gulf spill oil apologist criticizes teachers for their pensions. « Fred Klonsky's blogCorporate Gulf spill oil apologist criticizes teachers for their pensions.by Fred KlonskyIt was just ...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Governor: May Revision Would Boost School Funding « State of EmergencyGovernor: May Revision Would Boost School Fundingby Leonard FeldmanIn a move that could pave the way to increased funding for s...
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jaypgreene.com - (guest post by Ze’ev Wurman & Bill Evers) Some people who favor national standards have pointed to the variability among states as making comparisons difficult and have been quick to point to natio...
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epi.org - By Eva L. Baker, Paul E. Barton, Linda Darling-hammond, Edward Haertel, Helen F. Ladd, Robert L. Linn, Diane Ravitch, Richard Rothstein, Richard J. Shavelson, and Lorrie A. Shepard Briefing Paper #...
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 | schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - From The People's Business by Lee Drutman and Charlie Cray...corporations have also established a stronghold in both education and the media. Today, corporate ties to universities run deep, and the...  mikeklonsky |
preaprez.wordpress.com - It was just one year ago that David Sykuta, the PR flunky for the Illinois Petroleum Association, was interviewed on television justifying the disastrous BP Gulf oil spill. Now he’s back. And amazi...
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robertreich.org - Technically, the federal government has now reached the limit of its capacity to borrow money. Raising the debt ceiling used to be a technical adjustment, made almost automatically. Now it’s a poli...
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news.firedoglake.com - The Senate plans a floor vote on the Ryan budget at some undisclosed point. Initially the thought was it would come up this week, but now that has been pushed back to “sometime this month.” There a...
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youtube.com - "Freedom Riders" comes to AMERICAN EXPERIENCE in May of 2011In 1961, segregation seemed to have an overwhelming grip on American society. Many states violently enforced the policy, while the federa...
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 | preaprez.wordpress.com - Illinois GOP House leader Tom Cross is leading the attack on teacher pensions. The Springfield State Journal Register is reporting some numbers that will be in the Illinois House pension bill. A b... fklonsky |
 | michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Huckabee's new company -- Learn our History.com"Make no mistake, this isn't education; it's kiddie-propaganda. The favored narratives -- of a nation planted here by God and heroic leaders free fr... mikeklonsky |
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nytimes.com - Breakfast in the main dining room of the Loews Regency Hotel on Park Avenue at 61st Street is still the see-and-be-seen meal for New Yorkers with money and influence, but a younger generation of po...
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wbez.org - When poet Malcolm X. London spits that “the educated aren’t necessarily the educated,” he’s referring to the inequalities of the public school system. The18-year-old Lincoln Park High School senio...
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 | washingtonpost.com - Posted at 07:11 PM ET, 05/16/2011 By Marie Elizabeth Oliver and Mike McPhate 'It's Academic' host Mac McGarry, left, poses for a group photograph with the contestants during a break of the taping o... coopmike48 |
theatlanticwire.com - The financial crisis crime beat has picked up over the past few weeks. Last month's conviction of Lee Farkas, the mortgage swindler responsible for $2.9 billion worth of damage in the financial cri...
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 | citizensforethics.org - May 11, 2011 Lawsuits, Federal Agencies, Department of Education, FOIA, Press Releases, Anne Weismann, Robert Shireman, Senate Members, Richard Burr , Tom Coburn, DOE and Wall Street Today CREW sue... leoniehaimson |
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - It is another year for record profits for the health insurance industry. From the New York Times: The nation’s major health insurers are barreling into a third year of record profits, enriched in r...
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suntimes.com - BY ROSEMARY SOBOL Staff Reporter rsobol@suntimes.com May 14, 2011 10:10PM A Chicago Police officer was struck by a CTA bus while chasing a man who allegedly swore at Mayor Daley as he was leaving C...
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emptywheel.firedoglake.com - SCOTUS just declined to take the Jeppesen Dataplan suit. The high court rejected an appeal by five men who claimed that U.S. operatives—with support from Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., a Boeing unit—abduc...
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cnn.com - President Obama, right, speaks about education accompanied by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. STORY HIGHLIGHTS"I have a deep and genuine appreciation for the work you do," Arne Duncan writ...
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