washingtoncitypaper.com - Photo by Darrow Montgomery In the month of April, Diane Ravitch, the 72-year-old preeminent historian of American education, sent 1,747 tweets, an average of about 58 messages per day, many between...
nytimes.com - In a sharp rebuke to the Obama administration, the Republican chairman of the House education committee on Thursday challenged plans by the education secretary to override provisions of the federal...
blog.mlive.com - We’ve badgered them, pink-slipped them, scolded them, shrunk their pay, cut their benefits and angrily blamed them for all of American society’s ills, with the possible exceptions of foot odor and ...
aapss.org - The 2011 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize was presented to Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education at New York University and former Assistant Secretary of Education, at a dinner ceremony at th...
blogs.the-american-interest.com - When it come to excellence in education, red states rule — at least according to a panel of experts assembled by Tina Brown’s Newsweek. Using a set of indicators ranging from graduation rate to co...
ny1.com - To view our videos, you need toenable JavaScript. Learn how.install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. As the city comes down to the wire on its budget...
nytimes.com - The leader of a group of municipal labor unions accused city officials on Thursday of shutting the door on negotiations over a financial rescue package that could avert thousands of teacher layoffs...
suntimes.com - BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com June 23, 2011 5:12PM Mayor Rahm Emanuel visits Officer Donald J. Marquez Charter School and participates in a town hall discussion with st...
usconstitution.net - Monday, September 17, 1787, was the last day of the Constitutional Convention. Pennsylvania delegate Benjamin Franklin, one of the few Americans of the time with international repute, wanted to giv...
blog.angryasianman.com - This New York Times article on New York City's surging Asian population has got a lot of people talking. New decade, new Census numbers. Think the West Coast has this Asian population thing on lock...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jerry Brown says Proposition 13 could be tested if budget talks fail - latimes.comJerry Brown says Proposition 13 could be tested if budget talks fail(0)(5)(27)June 23, 2011 | 4:04 pmGov. Jerry Br...
readersupportednews.org - Mike Elk writes: "Unions are looking to intensify their campaign against the Huffington Post. The National Writers has recently hired on a full-time staffer to focus specifically on the campaign ag...
uppitywis.org - I'm swiping a line from Firesign Theatre (originally, "Eveyrhing you know is wrong") to define Republicans by their now habitual manner of making up stuff when the facts clearly contradict their fa...
chalkboarddad.com - The first thing I become aware of is the feel of the rocks. I look down at my feet and note with some alarm that they are shoeless. I flex my toes and feel the pressure of several small stones that...
jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - Hey, the best and the brightest - have I got a deal for you! Become a teacher in New Jersey! Sure, you'll make less than you could in the private sector. Your wages won't keep pace with the average...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: The Questions You Never Get To AskThe Questions You Never Get To Askby effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)totally unrelated picture of ScoutI like Linda Lutton. She doesn't always ...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: Wall Street Bottomfeeders Circling NJ SchoolsWall Street Bottomfeeders Circling NJ Schoolsby Jim HornHT to Stan Karp:Braun: Parents push for laws allowing communities to vote on cha...
democraticunderground.com - Source: AP-NY TimesWASHINGTON (AP) — Airport screeners around the county have chosen the nation’s largest federal employee union to represent them in collective bargaining talks with the government...
preaprez.wordpress.com - The Chicago Reader just came out with their best of Chicago issue. Logan Square was voted the best Chicago neighborhood. I have lived in Logan Square for 37 years. I have always liked it here. I li...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: Wall Street Bottomfeeders Circling NJ SchoolsWall Street Bottomfeeders Circling NJ Schoolsby Jim HornHT to Stan Karp:Braun: Parents push for laws allowing communities to vote on cha...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jerry Brown says Proposition 13 could be tested if budget talks fail - latimes.comJerry Brown says Proposition 13 could be tested if budget talks fail(0)(5)(27)June 23, 2011 | 4:04 pmGov. Jerry Br...
motherjones.com - On a bright spring day in a wisteria-bedecked courtyard full of earnest, if half-drunk, conference attendees, we were commiserating with a fellow journalist about all the jobs we knew of that were ...
schooltechconnect.com - I like Linda Lutton. She doesn't always ask the questions I would ask, and although this interview with rags-to- riches-to-more-riches heiress-turned-subprime lending titan Penny Pritzker is full o...
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