nydailynews.com - Susana Bates for News The Tweed Courthouse at 52 Chambers St. in lower Manhattan where the Department of Education is headquartered. Another day, another outrageous consultant scandal at the Depart...
chicagotribune.com - The outgoing board of Chicago Public Schools approved the appointment of the city's newest schools chief for an initial annual salary of $250,000 on Wednesday at a meeting marked by farewells and h...
gatesfoundation.org - In a story published on May 22, 2011, the New York Times examined the foundation’s education advocacy grantmaking. This blog post helps provide context for that article. The reporting behind the st...
huffingtonpost.com - Please meet Ginger Claar.Ginger is a wife and loving mother of an 18-month-old son. Ginger played basketball professionally in Amsterdam and now coaches the girls' team at the local middle school. ...
nepc.colorado.edu - Review of: Passing Muster: Evaluating Teacher Evaluation Systems by Steven Glazerman, Dan Goldhaber, Susanna Loeb, Stephen Raudenbush, Douglas O. Staiger, and Grover J. Whitehurst Brookings Institu...
blogs.forbes.com - May. 25 2011 - 9:32 pm | 0 views | 0 recommendations | By E.D. KAIN Betsy DeVos with supporter (Image via Wikipedia)Zaid Jilani has a long piece up on the deep pockets influencing education reform....
thejosevilson.com - To Whom This May Concern: Anytime I get the opportunity to score the New York State Mathematics Exam, whether as scoring leader, table leader, or part of the scoring team, I try to ingest the super...
radioboston.wbur.org - (super.heavy/Flickr) On Monday, we talked about what makes a great teacher. Wednesday, the flip-side: bad teachers, what impact they have and the challenge of removing them. As part of WBUR’s Makin...
preaprez.wordpress.com - Early Wednesday word was circulating that Tom Cross and Mike Madigan didn’t have the votes to move the pension bill out of committee. All committee meetings listed on the House schedule had been ca...
huffingtonpost.com - Rush Limbaugh's ratings have fallen sharply in recent months, according to a new report by Arbitron.Limbaugh still has the top-rated radio talk show in the country, but his audience has dropped by ...
preaprez.wordpress.com - Last year they passed a two-tier pension plan in the Illinois legislature in 12 hours. No discussion. No debate. Teachers hired after January one of this year will need to work 44 years in order to...
chicagobreakingnews.com - Greenpeace activists climb the smokestack at the Fisk power plant in the Pilsen neighborhood Tuesday. (Heather Charles, Chicago Tribune / May 24, 2011) Staff report 11:55 a.m. CDT, May 24, 2011 Eig...
suntimes.com - SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE May 24, 2011 10:48AM Greenpeace activist Kelly Mitchell on the Fisk Generating Station, 1111 W. Cermak, smokestack Tuesday, May 24, 2011. | Greenpeace photo Eight Greenpeace ac...
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 12:23 am, May 26, 2011 Photo Credits: National Chavez Center as Historic Landmark The nine-member California Historic Resources Commission voted on May 19 to nominate the National Chav...
guardian.co.uk - Fielding doesn't fancy being an exam invigilator and having to see 'those tortured little faces'. Photograph: Antonio Olmos It's the dread exam season.Do I want to be an invigilator?To perk up the ...
history.nasa.gov - National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA History Office The Decision to Go to the Moon: President John F. Kennedy's May 25, 1961 Speech before a Joint Session of Congress On May 25, 1961,...
dailycensored.com - Believing is better than asking questions, or so says the ruling class and their lap dogs. Appealing to irrationality instead of rationality is an old sophist trick refined by Edward Bernays, the ...
suntimes.com - BY DAVID ROEDER Business Reporter/droeder@suntimes.com May 26, 2011 05:06AM Four investment banks are costing the Chicago Public Schools $35.9 million in annual interest payments tied to so-called ...
nytimes.com - The nation’s overall education spending grew at a slower pace in 2009 than at any other time in more than a decade, amid deepening state fiscal woes and flatter tax revenues, according to new censu...
sacramentopress.com - Hundreds of Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) residential and commercial customers will soon be able to take advantage of generous rebates to help pay for comprehensive energy efficiency...
politico.com - More active-duty soldiers and veterans have died from suicide than from combat wounds over the last two years — and Congress wants to know why the VA hasn’t done more to prevent it.The Senate Veter...
suntimes.com - By ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter/rrossi@suntimes.com May 25, 2011 07:56PM Chicago’s “Breakfast in the Classroom” program is serving “dessert” for breakfast, tempting kids who have already eaten...
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Estudio define a los cambios dietéticos, no a la pérdida de peso, como el factor clave.Perder peso podría no ser necesario para reducir el riesgo de diabetes, expone un estudio reciente.En cambio, ...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - This Week In Education: Funders: Zuckerberg Wants To Educate K-8 Kids--On FacebookFunders: Zuckerberg Wants To Educate K-8 Kids--On Facebookby Alexander RussoSeemingly little noted by most of the r...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - LAUSD - The Making of a Trojan Horse by Mark Hemphill (LAUSD - La realización de un caballo de Troya por Mark Hemphill) - Perdaily.comLAUSD - The Making of a Trojan Horse by Mark Hemphill (LAUSD - ...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Illinois Is Going Down A Very Bad RoadIllinois Is Going Down A Very Bad RoadI'd love to write about something else other than trouble, but we're now fighting for our lives here...
politico.com - More active-duty soldiers and veterans have died from suicide than from combat wounds over the last two years — and Congress wants to know why the VA hasn’t done more to prevent it.The Senate Veter...
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