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Big Education Ape: 6-25-11 AM Fred Said Rahm’s DNA everywhere Edition
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Big Education Ape: Ed News NowBig Education Ape: Ed News NowPublished by Coopmike48 – 6 contributors todayNext update in about 10 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONPOLITICSART & ENTERTAINMENTL...
coopmike48Leaked internal documents shows what Rhee really thinks of some Michigan legislators
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Leaked internal documents shows what Rhee really thinks of some Michigan legislatorsLeaked internal documents shows what Rhee really thinks of some Michigan legislators Here’s what Michelle Rhee re...
coopmike48Timothy D. Slekar: Deforming the Graduate Degree
huffingtonpost.com - "I actually don't want qualified teachers [ones with graduate degrees] in the classroom. I want highly effective teachers [test score manipulators] in the classroom." -- John Deasy, LAUSD Superinte...
DianeRavitchMyth of Korean super teacher
koreatimes.co.kr - By Paul Karrer Recently, teachers at my elementary school were subjected to a poke in the eye with ``data” confirming that we were among the lowest 5 percent of performing schools in California. A ...
DianeRavitch"Overpaid Teachers"
jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - Great article deconstructing this myth:U.S. census data shows that annual pay for teachers has fallen drastically over the past 60 years when compared to the annual pay of other workers with colleg...
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How Did We Get To The Point of Attacking Teachers? by Paul Karrer
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Parent Advocates - ParentAdvocates.orgHow Did We Get To The Point of Attacking Teachers? by Paul KarrerThe public has gone from venerating teachers to vilifying them .How did things get to this sta...
coopmike48How to Keep Your Head Comfortable While in the Guillotine
nyceducator.com - I recently had the dubious pleasure of meeting an individual whose job it is to go to closing schools and advise the teachers how to better do their jobs. One teacher I spoke to told me he comes in...
leoniehaimsonWhy U.S. Teachers Work the Most But U.S. Students Stay Average - Business
theatlanticwire.com - Among 27 member nations tracked by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, U.S. teachers work the longest hours, the Wall Street Journal reports. This seems particularly impressi...
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A sample of 311 acknowledgements of parents' calls on the budget cuts
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Before the city budget cut deal was announced yesterday, I asked parents to call 311 to oppose the Mayor's proposed cuts that would eliminate 6100 teaching positions, and to send me the record of t...
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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blogSaturday coffee.by Fred KlonskyWhat a beautiful morning! Kind temperature. Blue sky.We had coffee outside. Back at Letizia’s on Division Street in West Town. O...
coopmike48Bullshit freedom or freedom bullshit? « Cooperative Catalyst
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Bullshit freedom or freedom bullshit? « Cooperative CatalystBullshit freedom or freedom bullshit?by kimaImagine this scene: — You walk into a bank with your 7 year old daughter (or son) and ask to ...
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Wis. Justice Prosser: No Comment On Report That I Grabbed Female Justice By The Neck
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, a member of the court's 4-3 conservative majority who was just re-elected to a ten-year term in a heated race that involved a recount and vote-tabulat...
mikeklonskyIf You Want to Understand What’s Really Going on in the World, Stop Thinking Like a Middle Class American
dissidentvoice.org - I was having a conversation with a professional colleague the other day who had spent some time working in Egypt and was reassigned back home shortly before the protests erupted that resulted in th...
coopmike48Today's Teamster News 06.25.11
teamsternation.blogspot.com - Can the Union Bill Be Rolled Back? Milwaukee Express ...State Rep. Mark Pocan and state Sen. Fred Risser—both Democrats—have announced that they're drafting legislation that would roll back the ...
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Daily Kos: Too Big to Fail versus too small to matter
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: Too Big to Fail versus too small to matterToo Big to Fail versus too small to matterby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)I was watching "Too Big To Fail" and an exchange caught my attention.C...
coopmike48Cook County, Illinois Is $108 Billion In The Red ,cook county news
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas oversees 553 local government bodies. They include school districts, municipalities and all the other line- item entries on property tax bills. Two years ago Papp...
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ObamaCare vs. RyanCare: Scarecrow Gets Confused With "Serious" Strawmen
my.firedoglake.com - Ever since Jon Walker and I pointed out the real and superficial similarities between Paul Ryan’s proposed RyanCare for future seniors and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) structure for non-seniors, n...
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We Party Patriots » Blog Archive » More People Die on the Job than Die in the War
wepartypatriots.com - Jun 2011 25 If we lost 12 soldiers every day in Iraq or Afghanistan, this country would be outraged! PhilaPOSH is the Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health and is made up of u...
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Nato admits civilians died in Tripoli bombing raid
telegraph.co.uk - Defence sources said a number of factors could be responsible for a missed target. The bomb could have been laser-guided, and the laser malfunctioned; it could have been a GPS bomb with the wrong g...
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How Did We Get To The Point of Attacking Teachers? by Paul Karrer
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Parent Advocates - ParentAdvocates.orgHow Did We Get To The Point of Attacking Teachers? by Paul KarrerThe public has gone from venerating teachers to vilifying them .How did things get to this sta...
coopmike48No layoffs: Union agrees to concessions in budget deal | GothamSchools
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - No layoffs: Union agrees to concessions in budget deal | GothamSchoolsNo layoffs: Union agrees to concessions in budget deal *[Updated: 10:06]* Plans to lay off 4,100 teachers were averted late Fri...
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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blogSaturday coffee.by Fred KlonskyWhat a beautiful morning! Kind temperature. Blue sky.We had coffee outside. Back at Letizia’s on Division Street in West Town. O...
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