laststand4children.blogspot.com - [The following is a transcript of Myron Miner's address to the Global Summit on Education and Technology in Paris on May 28, 2011]Thank you as well for the invitation to speak today. We are living...
plunderbund.com - We’ve already posted articles here and here about the Teacher Testing provision that is still hanging on in the budget bill. A brief update: the current version would require that ALL of the core ...
articles.philly.com - A short time later, Gov. Corbett - a leading voucher advocate - and Senate leaders reached a new compromise that critics say is designed to reduce the amount of vouchers in low-income districts lik...
dsc.discovery.com - Mike Rowe's Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and TransportationMay 11, 2011Chairman Rockefeller, Ranking Member Hutchison and members of this committee, my name is Mi...
nytimes.com - Durham, N.C. THE protesters who have toppled or endangered Arab dictators are demanding more freedoms, fair elections and a crackdown on corruption. But they have not promoted a distinc...
nypost.com - Michael Goodwin The e-mail box runneth over with bad tidings. Teachers are reporting that cheating is rampant in New York City schools -- and they claim principals are the culprits. The reports are...
modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/05/one-more-reason-to-hate-wall-street-and.html"; It is obvious how private charter schools can turn a profit by spending less on salaries, mainte...
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Darling-Hammond wins UFT's Dewey Award “Teacher unions are the only ones now standing up for public education funding and for real education that goes beyond data and test prep." -- Linda Darling-...
sfgate.com - As the bus departs Atlanta, Dennis Climpson is eager for conversation. He wants to discuss college football this Sunday morning, but first I have a question for him. "Have you," I ask, "ever heard ...
beinglatino.wordpress.com - by Alex Levine I think we all know that Anglo culture and Latino culture are very different from one another. You know when I am most strongly reminded of this? On the rainy days. Earlier this year...
firedoglake.com - Last Sunday was Harvey Milk’s birthday — he’d be 81, just imagine! — and efforts have begun to convince the United States Postal Service to issue a Harvey Milk stamp. Among the first openly gay ele...
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 5:11 am, May 30, 2011 Photo Credits: Memorial Day This Memorial Day, we honor our nation’s service members who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Today, we pause to re...
elections.firedoglake.com - The bad economy, Democrats’ terrible political handling of health care reform and an unusually high number of positions up for election allowed a wave of Republican governors to be swept into offic...
nj.com - TRENTON — New Jersey Senate Republicans have been asked to consider taking a unified position on public education that includes removing the Supreme Court from school funding decisions and granting...
npr.org - Enlarge Courtesy of America: Now and Here New York-based artist Andres Serrano's America (Jewel-Joy Stevens, America's Little Yankee Miss) is one of many works included in "America: Now and Here." ...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Love In Eights [Draft] | The Jose VilsonLove In Eights [Draft]by JoseTo understand how I got to this point isTo ask a man to uproot weedsclinging to the webs of his own feetTo see through the fog t...
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 4:37 pm, May 29, 2011 Photo Credits: Teacher in Mexico Calming Class with Bullets Outside A valiant teacher from the Colonia Nueva Estanzuela school in Monterrey is shown in this video...
democraticunderground.com - Source: Los Angeles TimesParent anger plays role in Japan's reversal of raised radiation limits at schoolsJapan's Education Ministry has pulled an about-face, returning exposure limits for schoolch...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Boomerangers come back to households in S.F.Boomerangers come back to households in S.F.Nellie Bowles, Chronicle Staff WriterSunday, May 29, 2011(page 1 of 2) SINGLE PAGEPrintE-mailShareComments (2...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Robert Reich (The Truth About the American Economy)The Truth About the American Economy8 people liked thisThe U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It’s growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is b...
contracostatimes.com - IF THERE'S any hope of resolving the California public-employee pension dilemma, it must start with honest discussion of the size of the problem. Unfortunately, federal rules for private-sector pen...
sfgate.com - calpers Anne Stausboll, CEO since 2009, is optimistic about CalPERS' future. (05-28) 14:37 PDT -- Things could hardly have been worse when Anne Stausboll took over the reins at the California Publi...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Robert Reich (The Truth About the American Economy)The Truth About the American Economy8 people liked thisThe U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It’s growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is b...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Love In Eights [Draft] | The Jose VilsonLove In Eights [Draft]by JoseTo understand how I got to this point isTo ask a man to uproot weedsclinging to the webs of his own feetTo see through the fog t...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: Remembering two born on May 29Remembering two born on May 29by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)1903 Leslie Townes Hope1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedyboth appropriate to remember on Memorial ...
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