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Reforming the School Reformers - NYTimes.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Reforming the School Reformers - NYTimes.comNo, Seriously: No ExcusesPhoto Illustration by Ruud Van Empel/Stux GalleryBy PAUL TOUGHPublished: July 7, 2011RECOMMENDTWITTERCOMMENTS (7)E-MAILPRINTSING...
Rupert Murdoch backs Rebekah Brooks over phone-hacking allegations | Media
guardian.co.uk - Rupert Murdoch has issued an official public statement backing Rebekah Brooks. Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Reuters Rupert Murdoch, the News Corporation founder, on Wednesday took the highly unusual ste...
Daily Kos: Taxes and Billionaires and the rest of us
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: Taxes and Billionaires and the rest of usTaxes and Billionaires and the rest of usby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)The larger question is this: Do we try to balance budget deficits just b...
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Murdoch's new fixer, Joel Klein
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schooling in the Ownership Society: Murdoch's new fixer, Joel KleinMurdoch's new fixer, Joel Kleinby Mike KlonskyReforming the "reformers"MurdochKleinJohnny-come-lately school reform profiteer Rup...
Another question for the blogger. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - A teacher writes: Do you think that with so many NEA members complaining about the endorsement to the fact that some have threatened to “quit” the union it gives ammo to those that are currently do...
Atlanta superintendent and Michelle Rhee– ''cut from the same cloth''
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Atlanta superintendent and Michelle Rhee– ''cut from the same cloth''Atlanta superintendent and Michelle Rhee– ''cut from the same cloth''by adminWritten by Karoli for Crooks & Liars. Read the ent...
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Test-Based Accountability and International Comparisons: Lessons Ignored | Dailycensored.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Test-Based Accountability and International Comparisons: Lessons Ignored | Dailycensored.comTest-Based Accountability and International Comparisons: Lessons IgnoredWritten by Paul ThomasEducationJu...
Arts Academy charter school closes in Lorain « The Chronicle-Telegram
chronicle.northcoastnow.com - LORAIN — The closing of the Arts Academy has not created any teachable moments between the school’s founder and sponsor. The charter school, plagued by money mismanagement, alleged unethical conduc...
No, Seriously: No Excuses
nytimes.com - In the early days of the education-reform movement, a decade or so ago, you’d often hear from reformers a powerful rallying cry: “No excuses.” For too long, they said, poverty had been used as an e...
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Obama Puts Social Security and Medicare Cuts on the Table -- Daily Intel
nymag.com - Photo: Tim Sloan-Pool/Getty Images President Obama is an overachiever. Or ... something. He proposed a mere $2 trillion in cuts during previous budget negotiations, but the White House now says the...
Unions Launch New Legal Fight Against Wisconsin Anti-Union Bill
motherjones.com - A group of labor unions including the AFL-CIO filed a second lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday challenging Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker's anti-union budget bill that curbed collec...
Murdoch's new fixer, Joel Klein
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Reforming the "reformers"MurdochKleinJohnny-come-lately school reform profiteer Rupert Murdoch has to deal with yet another scandal. It seems his people have been doing some phone hacking, bribing...
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News Corp. Shuts News of the World Amid Hacking Furor - Jeff Bercovici - Mixed Media
blogs.forbes.com - MediaJul. 7 2011 - 12:10 pm | 0 views | 0 recommendations |By JEFF BERCOVICI Image via WikipediaRupert Murdoch‘s furious critics are getting a sacrificial offering, but not the one they’ve been dem...
It can only get bigger...
melaniephillips.com - Published in: Melanie's blog The astonishing News of the World scandal now has the capacity to engulf not just News International but the Cameron government, the Metropolitan Police and the British...
The Acheivement Gap - Jonathan Kozol
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Fewer People Migrating North as Mexico Sees All Around Improvement
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 5:15 pm, July 7, 2011 Photo Credits: Fewer People Migrating North as Mexico Sees All Around Improvement As immigration hysteria is still raging in parts of America, the number of immig...
Republicans Try to Oust Justice Abrahamson as Chief Justice, with Majority Vote to Lead Court.
democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - Some things are just a little too obvious. While some have blamed the Justice Prosser problem on citizen voters, arguing for an appointed court, others want to get even with Prosser’s more liberal ...
Latino Immigrants Competing With Refugees in Low-Income Job Market
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 3:32 pm, July 7, 2011 Photo Credits: Latino Immigrants Worry About Competing With Refugees in the Low-Income Job Market Just as Latino immigrants were thought to have the strongest hol...
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Nadine Burke’s Children’s Clinic in San Francisco : The New Yorker
newyorker.com - ABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LARGE about Nadine Burke and research on how childhood trauma affects adult health. Monisha Sullivan first visited the Bayview Child Health Center a few days before Christma...
How Votetocracy works | Votetocracy
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - How Votetocracy works | VotetocracyHow Votetocracy worksIntroductionMany Americans realize the impact bills in Congress have on your lives. So you make an attempt to get informed and get involved. ...
Wisconsin State Journal Editor Responds to Charge They Unethically Deleted Key Line From Story
uppitywis.cloudmin.cruiskeenconsulting.com - Last week, I criticized the Wisconsin State Journal for removing what I believe to be a key line from a story on raw milk from the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (WCIJ) that WSJ was ...
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Taxes and Billionaires
nytimes.com - The House speaker, John Boehner, suggests that the Republican threat of letting the United States default on its debts is driven by concern for jobs for ordinary Americans. “We cannot m...
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Test-Based Accountability and International Comparisons: Lessons Ignored | Dailycensored.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Test-Based Accountability and International Comparisons: Lessons Ignored | Dailycensored.comTest-Based Accountability and International Comparisons: Lessons IgnoredWritten by Paul ThomasEducationJu...
Intervening in the Education Wars - Dana Goldstein
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Intervening in the Education Wars - Dana GoldsteinIntervening in the Education Warsby Dana GoldsteinPaul Tough has written one of the most sensible pieces about education reform I've read in a long...
New Teacher Evaluation Systems are not Trustworthy Without Better Assessments « Outside the Cave
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - New Teacher Evaluation Systems are not Trustworthy Without Better Assessments « Outside the CaveNew Teacher Evaluation Systems are not Trustworthy Without Better Assessmentsby Stephen LazarIt seems...
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Wrapping up NEA's 2011 Convention - Teacher Beat
blogs.edweek.org - Well, readers, it was a wild ride: This year's National Education Association convention was full of twists and turns. We're happy that you were able to follow along with our coverage here at Educa...
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