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Prescribed Failure:Atlanta Schools Cheating | Dissident Voice

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Prescribed Failure | Dissident VoicePrescribed Failureby Jack RandomWelcome to Lake Wobegone where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average.– Ga...

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ASCD 2011 Fall Conference on Teaching & Learning #ASCD

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - FallConference2011MainRegisterTravel/HotelsSessionsPre-ConsHandoutsGeneral InfoEnhancing Teacher Effectiveness = Improving Student LearningOctober 28–30, 2011Rio All-Suite Hotel, Las Vegas, Nev.Vir...

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2009 report identified dozens of PA schools for possible cheating

thenotebook.org - by Benjamin Herold and Dale Mezzacappa Dozens of schools across the city and state were flagged in a study of 2009 state standardized test scores that sought to use statistical analysis to ferret o...

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ZombieX: Kelly Gallagher Says Stop Readicide Now (Part 1 of an Interview)

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - ZombieX: Kelly Gallagher Says Stop Readicide Now (Part 1 of an Interview)ZombieX: Kelly Gallagher Says Stop Readicide Now (Part 1 of an Interview)by Zombie XZombieX is a 12-year old public school 7...

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Krugman to Teachers' Union: You're Not to Blame for the Economic Crisis

danagoldstein.net - Paul Krugman just finished speaking to an annual American Federation of Teachers conference in Washington, D.C. Unlike many of his fellow Times columnists--most notably David Brooks and Thomas Frie...

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Reflecting on the Cuny cPAR Institute « Cooperative Catalyst

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Reflecting on the Cuny cPAR Institute « Cooperative CatalystReflecting on the Cuny cPAR Instituteby Kevin CrouseI had the opportunity to attend the critical Participatory Action Research (PAR) Inst...

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Braun: Advocates of privatized education want to end public schools

blog.nj.com - Do supporters of privatized schooling — including Gov. Chris Christie — really want to destroy public schools? Is even asking the question an exercise in political hyperventilating?It’s a charge fr...

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Studies highlight troubles low-wage workers face, the effects on their children

washingtonindependent.com - Education reformers who maintain poverty is often a major hurdle in teaching students received a much needed boost last Thursday. Paul Tough wrote in New York Times Magazine that school reformers r...

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The Triumph of Illusion and Spectacle: the Rise of Illiteracy in America

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Triumph of Illusion and Spectacle: the Rise of Illiteracy in AmericaThe Triumph of Illusion and Spectacle: the Rise of Illiteracy in Americaby SOURCE on JULY 11, 2011 · 0 COMMENTSin AMERICAN EM...

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Jonah story makes it to the Washington Post. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post dedicated her column to the Edelman story today.It’s not often that we hear education reformers bragging in public about how they got the better of a teacher’...

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A Tabloid Shame, Exposed by Earnest Rivals

nytimes.com - The phone-hacking scandal that is mushrooming in Britain, with arrests, skullduggery and influence peddling, would be a delicious story for The News of the World if it were not about the newspaper ...

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GOP Presidential Hopefuls In Spotlight For Slavery, Anti-Gay Remarks

progressillinois.com - Election season is still budding, but some presidential hopefuls from the GOP are already wilting under the political spotlight. Today, people are talking about Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum b...

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Video: Kerry Kennedy honored by NEA with Human and Civil Rights Award

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Video: Kerry Kennedy honored by National Education Association with Human and Civil Rights Award | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human RightsVIDEO: KERRY KENNEDY HONORED BY NATIONAL EDUCAT...

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The disappearing black middle class - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - BY JESSE WASHINGTON July 10, 2011 12:24AM Princeton Professor Cornel West (center) eagerly shakes the hand of President Barack Obama in June 2010. Today, West calls Obama “a black mascot of Wall St...

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Have Work/Life Fit Questions? Meet the Joans! « MomsRising Blog

momsrising.org - Two of our favorite Joans (work/life fit experts!) will be speaking in the Bay Area about how both employers and employees benefit when employers make it easier for worker’s to meet their responsib...

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Shadowboxing [To 50K and Beyond] | The Jose Vilson

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Shadowboxing [To 50K and Beyond] | The Jose VilsonShadowboxing [To 50K and Beyond]by JoseGolden Gloves Boxer, Shadow BoxingWriting these days has been an exercise in shadowboxing, fighting myself o...

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Cash receipts $350 million behind

blogs.sacbee.com - What You Should Know About Comments on Sacbee.comSacbee.com is happy to provide a forum for reader interaction, discussion, feedback and reaction to our stories. However, we reserve the right to de...

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News Corp. Shareholders in Class Action Over Hacking - Jeff Bercovici - Mixed Media

blogs.forbes.com - MediaJul. 11 2011 - 10:47 am | 2 views | 0 recommendations |By JEFF BERCOVICI Rupert Murdoch standing by embattled News International CEO Rebekah Brooks. Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylifeAs if...

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Mayor Emanuel cuts government credit cards from 500 to 30 - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - By Fran Spielman City Hall Reporter/fspielman@suntimes.com July 11, 2011 1:25AM Mayor Rahm Emanuel | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times Updated: July 11, 2011 1:42AM Mayor Rahm Emanuel is cutting from 500 to ...

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PERA had good year in 2010

ednewscolorado.org - The Public Employees’ Retirement Association had a good investing year in 2010 but still is feeling the hangover of the market drop in 2008. Meredith Williams, PERA executive director (center) make...

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Hypnotist principal faces questions after suicides - Florida Wires

miamiherald.com - NORTH PORT, Fla. -- High school principal George Kenney acknowledged using hypnosis to help people: students who needed to relax before tests, a basketball player having trouble making free throws ...

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BART protest causes major delays in service

democraticunderground.com - Source: SF ChronicleBART has temporarily stopped service at the Civic Center and 16th Street stations in San Francisco because of a civil disturbance that is causing major delays on the system in b...

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Highly Acculturated Latinas, Higher Risk for Cervical Cancer

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 12:29 pm, July 11, 2011 Photo Credits: Acculturated Latinas Higher Risk for Cervical Cancer Latina women in the United States have higher rates of cervical cancer than white women. A r...

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