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NAACP Enters Heated Battle Over Charter Schools - NY1.com

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NAACP Enters Heated Battle Over Charter Schools - NY1.comNAACP Enters Heated Battle Over Charter SchoolsBy: Lindsey ChristThe controversy over charter schools continues to divide communities, but n...

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Douglas Massey on Diane Ravitch and Jonathan Alter's attack

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - The observations below are from Douglas Massey, professor at Princeton and president of the American Academy of Political & Social Sciences (photo at left). On Thursday night, the Academy present...

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Duncan and BBC Go After Ravitch

schoolsmatter.info - There's an old quote that comes out the early labor movement: "First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." F...

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An Urban Teacher's Education: Dear Jonathan Alter (Again)

anurbanteacherseducation.com - Dear Jonathan Alter, I wrote you last November with concerns I had about a piece you wrote for Newsweek: "A Case of Senioritis." You responded and, to be fair, seemed initially open to having a rea...

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The Answer Sheet - Ravitch answers Gates

voices.washingtonpost.com - In a paean to Bill Gates, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter calls Diane Ravitch the Microsoft founder's "chief adversary."It's the world's richest (or second richest) man vs. an education historian and New...

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SOS for All Teachers! Urgent! Please forward!

campaign.r20.constantcontact.com - In 1963, over 200,000 concerned citizens marched on Washington to participate in a momentous event that forever shifted the national dialogue on race and justice. Consequently, policy changed. Law...

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From Twittergate to Altergate

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - June 5, 2011 (GBN News): In the second such incident in the space of a week, a compromising picture was sent out today to the Twitter followers of a public figure. This time, it involved Bloomberg ...

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Here's to the Parents! SOS March and National Call to Action

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - learn more at http://www.saveourschoolsmarch.org/ This is the third in our series trumpeting the values teachers, students and parents want to see reflected in the nation's education policy. We wil...

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Powerful Dem backs N.J. T-Party gov's school voucher program

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - In an interview after the ceremony, Norcross said his interest in school choice was borne of moral obligation and old-fashioned capitalism. -- Star LedgerHigh-powered Dem, George E. Norcross II...

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School Tech Connect: Getting Back To Basics

schooltechconnect.com - I'm awash in self-criticism for failing to write about technology for so long, an odd phenomenon given the name of this blog. So, here and now, with you as my witness, I re-commit to writing about ...

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Christian Infowar Militia Attacked Congressman Weiner

dailykos.com - This is what a clumsy infowar cell looks like after Anonymiss finishes up crawling all over them. This is a redacted version – there is some stuff that was found that they don’t want to show just y...

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Teaching Our Polish Partners in Torture: State Secrets

emptywheel.firedoglake.com - I had been predicting for weeks before Obama went to Poland that the Poles would move to quash their investigation into the black site at which KSM and others were tortured. And sure enough, that a...

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Schools Matter: The invention of lying and educational policy

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: The invention of lying and educational policyThe invention of lying and educational policyby skrashenPosted as a comment on "The invention of lying" – an interview with Naomi Oreske...

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Schools Matter: The invention of lying and educational policy

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: The invention of lying and educational policyThe invention of lying and educational policyby skrashenPosted as a comment on "The invention of lying" – an interview with Naomi Oreske...

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Here's to the Parents! SOS March and National Call to Action

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - learn more at http://www.saveourschoolsmarch.org/ This is the third in our series trumpeting the values teachers, students and parents want to see reflected in the nation's education policy. We wil...

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School Tech Connect: Getting Back To Basics

schooltechconnect.com - I'm awash in self-criticism for failing to write about technology for so long, an odd phenomenon given the name of this blog. So, here and now, with you as my witness, I re-commit to writing about ...

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