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Sickness and student loans | USA TODAY College

usatodayeducate.com - Severe car accidents can be devastating. When such an event includes a passenger who owes private student loans, the financial trauma makes it downright ruinous. Just ask Deborah Schutz. In Decembe...

DianeRavitch

Five things to know about today’s UFT-NAACP lawsuit hearing | GothamSchools

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Five things to know about today’s UFT-NAACP lawsuit hearing | GothamSchoolsFive things to know about today’s UFT-NAACP lawsuit hearingby Geoffrey DeckerA lot has happened since May 18, when the cit...

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CityTime husband and wife team flee country leaving 200 employees in the lurch

nydailynews.com - Reddy and Padma Allen fled to their native India after leaving 200 employees in the lurch after raking in $450 million from the CityTime project. Reddy Allen and his wife, Padma, once were rising s...

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Featured Alumni - The Broad Superintendents Academy

broadacademy.org - Superintendents Serving in Large Urban Districts Class of 2004 Superintendent Aurora Public Schools, Colo. Class of 2009 Superintendent Denver Public Schools Class of 2004 Superintendent Worcester ...

DianeRavitch

Detroit Education Reform: Few Details Emerge On Michigan College Promise

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Detroit Education Reform: Few Details Emerge On Michigan College PromiseDetroit Education Reform: Few Details Emerge On Michigan College PromiseFirst Posted: 06/21/11 06:25 PM ET Updated: 06/21/11 ...

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Our Schools Are Not Broken: The Problem is Poverty--by Stephen Krashenyellow tulips Our Schools Are Not Broken: The Problem is Poverty--by Stephen Krashen

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - yellow tulipsOur Schools Are Not Broken: The Problem is Poverty--by Stephen KrashenPresident Obama should replace Arne Duncan with Stephen Krashen as Secretary of Education; Krashen's analysis is a...

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Diane Ravitch: Take Action Now

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Diane Ravitch: Take Action NowA LETTER TO MY FRIENDS AND READERSMany people have asked what they can do to try to change the conditions and misguided policies that I describe in my book. Wherever I...

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School Tech Connect: We're Just So Thrilled!

schooltechconnect.com - Typically, when you're bargaining a contract, you walk away with a tentative agreement and then go to your membership and explain it and stand by it and get it ratified. Usually, you have this sick...

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Deal in Albany on Key Issues; Gay Marriage Still Unsettled

nytimes.com - ALBANY — Legislative leaders said Tuesday that they had reached a tentative deal with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on renewing New York’s rent laws, capping property taxes for homeowners and raising tuitio...

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Hillary Clinton adviser compares internet to Che Guevara | Media

guardian.co.uk - Arab spring ... not a Facebook revolution but accelerated by the internet, claims Alec Ross. Photograph: Stringer/Iraq/Reuters Hillary Clinton's senior adviser for innovation at the US state depart...

mikeklonsky

AZ Fires Caused by Aliens?

modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/06/az-fires-caused-by-aliens.html"; The ongoing “Wallow Fire” in Arizona is already the largest in state history. John McCain has claimed that the...

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Why I sail. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - Pulitizer Prize winning author, Alice Walker. This column appears on CNN and will appear on her blog. Why am I going on the Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza? I ask myself this, even though the answer i...

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N.L.R.B. Rules Would Streamline Unionizing

nytimes.com - In a move that will undoubtedly please labor unions, the National Labor Relations Board announced on Tuesday morning that it was proposing new rules to speed up unionization elections, largely by s...

fklonsky

Pride: Being a Gay Latino

beinglatino.wordpress.com - GAY PRIDE was defined during a time when homosexuality along with other struggles for social acceptance plagued media and the eyes of Americans as a whole. Even now, with the possibility of gay mar...

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Home - Inside Higher Ed

insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...

coopmike48

Photo Galleries Of The Week

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Jun 22 2011 Larry Ferlazzo Obviously, photos can be great educational tools with English Language Learners and with any students (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons). I post about many phot...

coopmike48

New Contest: Who was History’s Worst Dad?

mrdsneighborhood.com - Father’s Day is usually about the greatness of our fathers. Now the Neighborhood is asking your help in finding history’s most deplorable dads. Our second contest will feature the deadbeat dads, ab...

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StoriesSee all

How Teachers Can Use Twitter to Maximise Their Professional Learning

edupln.com - Have you looked at Twitter and wondered what all the fuss is about? Over the last few months I have been showing teachers how to use twitter to build their PLN (Professional Learning Network). Wh...

coopmike48

June « City School Stories

cityschoolstories.com - by Frank Murphy This book provides a first hand account of the life of an urban elementary school principal in the era of No Child Left Behind. On Monday and Wednesday, I post an installment of the...

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School Tech Connect: We're Just So Thrilled!

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: We're Just So Thrilled!We're Just So Thrilled!by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)Typically, when you're bargaining a contract, you walk away with a tentative agreement and then ...

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CrimeSee all

Two Executives Are Charged in Payroll Scandal

nytimes.com - Two top executives of a New Jersey technology company that played a central role in the city’s troubled automated payroll project have been indicted on federal fraud and kickback charges, and a key...

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Our Schools Are Not Broken: The Problem is Poverty--by Stephen Krashenyellow tulips Our Schools Are Not Broken: The Problem is Poverty--by Stephen Krashen

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Diane Ravitch: Take Action Now

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Data-Driven To Distraction (Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Data-Driven To Distraction (Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom PracticeData-Driven To Distraction (Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves)by larrycubanThis...

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