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nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - May 4, 2011 (GBN News): After a firestorm of criticism over the lack of transparency in the coming elections for Community Education Councils (CEC’s), NY City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott has ...
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anurbanteacherseducation.com - In response to Arne Duncan's Open Letter to America's Teachers, Sabrina Stevens Shupe responded with what I would say amounted to a written backhand to the face, saying essentially that the US Secr...
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failingschools.wordpress.com - The wave of teachers who are openly questioning the hypocrisy evident in Education Secretary Duncan’s letter this week keeps growing, enough to generate a story of its own. Several teachers and com...
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texastribune.org - Michael Marder prefers pictures to words. A sentence can be constructed to support any position, but data cannot be so easily dismissed. Lately he's been looking at data about public education in T...
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huffingtonpost.com - Before I started teaching, I could explain, chapter and verse, why Diane Ravitch was wrong. Although Ravitch's scholarship was impeccable, she caused nothing but headaches for us true believers in ...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Inquiry sought into D.C. test scores - USATODAY.comInquiry sought into D.C. test scoresBy Marisol Bello and Jack Gillum, USA TODAYUpdated 4h 12m ago | 10 | 1ShareReprints & PermissionsWASHINGTON —...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - It’s Teacher Appreciation Week! – First Book BlogIt’s Teacher Appreciation Week!MAY0420111 COMMENTWRITTEN BY ROCHEE JEFFREYTeacher Appreciation Week provides us with the opportunity to celebrate gr...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: A Few of Wall Street's Columbia and Harvard WhoresA Few of Wall Street's Columbia and Harvard Whoresby Jim HornThe ivy walls of academe have been breached. No, it didn't take any h...
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 | nytimes.com - Fewer than half of American eighth graders knew the purpose of the Bill of Rights on the most recent national civics examination, and only one in 10 demonstrated acceptable knowledge of the checks ... DianeRavitch |
tuttlesvc.org - NYTimes:The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest philanthropy, and the foundation associated with Pearson, the giant textbook and school technology company, announced a partnership ...
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 | ethanwj.livejournal.com - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has selected Cami Anderson, a top New York City schools official, to lead the state-run Newark Public School system, according to several people with knowledge of the... DianeRavitch |
 | nydailynews.com - A top DOE official is under investigation for "potential corruption and conflict of interest" with an owner of a major computer contractor. A top Department of Education official who supervised a m... leoniehaimson |
 | tomhayden.com - This op-ed will appear in the Los Angeles Times on May 5, 2011. Camp Passab in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. ( Paula Bronstein / Getty Images / April 25, 2011) President Obama has now gained the ... coopmike48 |
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - Imagine that, for absolutely no logical reason, the government was about to mail you a check for $4 billion, but some people want to stop you from getting that check. How much would you be willing ...
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millermps.wordpress.com - State group slams proposal for Medicaid By Craig Gilbert of the Journal Sentinel May 4, 2011 Washington - A group of Wisconsinites with disabilities vowed Wednesday to keep protesting the Ryan budg...
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 | democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - Guns kill. Cars take me from one place to the next. There is a difference, but then you'd never know that from the dummies that continue to make that comparison because... aw hell, you don't need a... coopmike48 |
nj.com - The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit in New Jersey over the FBI's collection of racial and ethnic data in local communities.In the complaint filed today, the ACLU says it ...
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blog.aflcio.org - The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO communications team, Jim Deegan and Karen Gownley, sent us this report. Some 5,000 private- and public-sector union workers came together in Harrisburg, Pa., yesterday to r...
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 | gothamschools.org - New York City’s Department of Education already has contracts with Wireless Generation — a Brooklyn-based education technology company — but the timing of this latest one is bound to cause a stir, ... coopmike48 |
businessweek.com - May 04, 2011, 1:05 PM EDT By Henry Goldman (Adds date change for budget in first, second paragraphs.) May 4 (Bloomberg) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will present a $66 billion fiscal 2012 sp...
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schooltechconnect.com - I'm going to go ahead and pay the $105 for a designation of agent. Not that I plan to use material from the Denver or Las Vegas newspapers, but you never know when this bottom-feeding attorney beh...
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 | mediaite.com - Hey, remember when America killed Osama bin Laden and we were all happy for like 20 minutes? That was nice. Anyway, the latest in the long line of people who are totally over that whole Bin Laden d... coopmike48 |
 | bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: We Live In CrazyLandWe Live In CrazyLandby effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)I'm going to go ahead and pay the $105 for a designation of agent. Not that I plan to use material fr... coopmike48 |
theatlanticwire.com - For the first time since the earthquake on March 11th, workers have entered a damaged reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The Tokyo Electric Power Company has informed ...
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wepartypatriots.com - The following originally appeared on the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance website. USA Unites Union Community, State Fish & Wildlife Organizations In the last year—amidst nationwide debates over Unions a...
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camajorityreport.com - By Kaitlin Gaffney According to statewide polling, nine in 10 Californians say the quality of the beach and ocean is important to them personally as well as important for the overall quality of li...
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oregonlive.com - The Vernon School, a K-8 that lost all of its art and music programs due to budget cuts, is holding its first auction this Friday, May 6. Parent volunteers hope to raise enough to hire a part-time ...
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'Stuff the Bus' event collects more than 10,000 clothing, hygiene items for Tigard-Tualatin students
oregonlive.com - Six Tigard-Tualatin schools combined to donate more than 10,000 clothing and hygiene items to needy families during last week's "Stuff the Bus" event. Tigard-based Caring Closet, an organization th...
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