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nypost.com - A test-run of a new teacher evaluation system set to be phased in this fall rated a whopping 18 percent of participating teachers as "ineffective" -- a designation that can get even tenured teacher...
leoniehaimsonTom Olson, another former Stand for Children member, speaks out « Parents Across America
parentsacrossamerica.org - Jul 22, 2011 leoniehaimson As an educator and strategic planning facilitator over the past four decades, Tom Olson has advised 13 different states on their education reform efforts, and has consult...
leoniehaimsonPower To The People Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The March[Translate]*Click here for a list of speakers and performers!*Please join people from all across America as they gather to participate in the Save Our Schools March on Saturday, July 30 in...
coopmike48Gotham shorts « JD2718
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Gotham shorts « JD2718Gotham shortsby jd2718I’ve been more or less off-line for a month, and haven’t looked closely at Gotham Schools in even longer. A hot day is a good time for A/C and a return.1...
coopmike48Say it Ain't So, Hakeem! Jeffries flip-flops on charters and school closings
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Below is a press release from Mona Davids of the NYC Parents Union. Just a few months ago, Assemblymember Hakeem Jeffries from Brooklyn sponsored legislation in Albany that would require a one yea...
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Diary of a Social Art-tivist Mommy: Why Miriam Cutelis is marching at the Save Our Schools march Next week
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Diary of a Social Art-tivist Mommy: Why Miriam Cutelis is marching at the Save Our Schools march Next weekWhy Miriam Cutelis is marching at the Save Our Schools march Next weekby ART-tivist MommyI ...
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City plans to test, evaluate students in the arts, despite looming budget cuts and criticism
nydailynews.com - Timothy A. Clary/Getty The education department will test students in dance, among other art forms. The City Department of Education wants to judge how well students can cut a rug, paint a picture ...
coopmike48Florida votes to save Central, Edison high schools - Education
miamiherald.com - TAMPA – The two Miami-Dade high schools threatened with closing will stay open for at least another year. On Tuesday, the state Board of Education voted to give Miami Edison and Miami Central senio...
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Join Marc Sternberg and Tweedies in Happy Hour celebrating their court victory tonight over the thousands of NYC parents, teachers and students who begged them not to close their schools and/or squeeze their students out through damaging charter-co-locati
ednotesonline.blogspot.com - UPDATE: 8pm - Did they notice the guy with one arm and a video camera up his nose? Alas, twas not me.David Best - at his Worst This item pulled me out of my funk over my operation on Tuesday for my...
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Hyatt Apologizes for Turning Heat Lamps on Strikers: Chicagoist
chicagoist.com - In our Heat wave news roundup yesterday we linked to a WBEZ story about employees at the Park Hyatt who had heat lamps turned on over them as they were picketing during a one-day strike. Hyatt apol...
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ucls.uchicago.edu - John W. Rogers, Jr., ’76, Chair Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ariel Investments, LLC Peri Altan Strategy Consultant NAVTEQ Bill Brown Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor of Ame...
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Sen. Coburn: Gang Of Six Budget Cuts Will Only Hurt Those ‘Sucking Off’ Programs
thinkprogress.org - This week, the so-called Gang of Six — composed of Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Mark Warner (D-VA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Mike Crapo (R-ID), and Kent Conrad (D-ND) — released the ...
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REPORT: Number Of Tea Party Events Down More Than 50 Percent In 2011
thinkprogress.org - Last September, Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin answered critics who predicted that the movement would soon peter out: “The Tea Party movement is here to stay.” Seven months later, ...
mikeklonskyThe Koch Brothers Are the New Brothers Grimm
kochwatch.org - -Blogged by Jillian Barclay on Winning ProgressiveIn the 1800s, the Brothers Grimm wrote a series of fairy tales, such as Hansel and Gretel and Snow White, that were far more gruesome, creepy, and ...
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Rahm Reacts to Questions About Choice of School for Children: Chicagoist
chicagoist.com - We're all in agreement that where Mayor Emanuel decides to send his kids to school is his decision, regardless of what we think of it. Since the news broke that Emanuel and wife Amy would send thei...
fklonskyHow Do You Solve A Problem Like Jonah?
schooltechconnect.com - How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand? So, I went for a long ride through the Loop tonight, after posting that last Edelman subclip, and I guess I need help resolving some questions. Here's what ...
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Hyatt -- 'It was the manager's fault'
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Some guy named Farley says, "Hyatt is sorry."CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hyatt hotels apologized Friday for an incident in which heat lamps were turned on above workers on strike at a Chicago hotel, when...
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chicagotribune.com - July 15, 2011 Kirkland & Ellis is bullish on real estate — not actual property, but rather deals and dealmakers. July 1, 2011 Every two weeks, a group of out-of-work lawyers meets in downtown Chica...
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Troubles That Money Can’t Dispel
nytimes.com - “Bury your mistakes,” Rupert Murdoch is fond of saying. But some mistakes don’t stay buried, no matter how much money you throw at them. Time and again in the United States and elsewher...
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robertreich.org - The very idea that Social Security might be on the chopping block in order to pay the ransom Republicans are demanding reveals both the cravenness of their demands and the callowness of the opposit...
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Hyatt apologizes for turning heatlamps on strikers
news.yahoo.com - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hyatt hotels apologized Friday for an incident in which heat lamps were turned on above workers on strike at a Chicago hotel, when the heat index was already 90 degrees. "Hyatt ...
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