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The New York Times - Schools For Tomorrow

nytschoolsfortomorrow.com - come back on september 22 to watch a live stream of the conference. Ellie AvishaiDirector, I-Think Initiative, Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking, Rotman School of Management, University of ...

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The Duncan Precedent, 2013 Edition - Rick Hess Straight Up

blogs.edweek.org - The Obama administration steadfastly refuses to acknowledge the problems with ED's "backdoor blueprint" waiver strategy or the ugly precedent that it's trying to set. But those with even a glimmer ...

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Value Added — Scrutinizing The Most Widely Cited Study

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - It was the best of teachers. It was the worst of teachers. But how much better are the best teachers than the worst teachers? Well THAT’S a tough one, but one that is very important to answer. T...

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Michele Bachmann is worried about the Renaissance

latimesblogs.latimes.com - It's the Renaissance, stupid. The economy is not what ails us today. No, what ails Americans is what Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and their artistic spawn have wrought in the culture, starting 5...

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Transparency For Thee, Not For Me

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - Whitney Tilson is sick - sick, I tell ya! - of these paid union shills who won't tell us where they get their money!I’m going to be writing a lot about the book in future emails, but I want to star...

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Short Bus Tour Day #4: Canton, OH

kimbleforcongress.blogspot.com - It had been my fondest wish to take my daughter to see the Hoover Vacuum Cleaner Museum in Canton, OH and possibly visit the McKinley Memorial. Unfortunately, media types had learned that I was on...

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Nice Computer Tutorials In English And Spanish

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Aug 11 2011 Larry FerlazzoThe Los Angeles Times writes about a new program that includes a mobile computer lab and center designed to help Latinos gain more access, and become more familiar with, t...

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Anarchy in the UK « Larry Miller's Blog

millermps.wordpress.com - London Maria Margaronis August 9, 2011 from the Notion, a blog of the Nation magazine Perhaps the whole point of a riot is to defy explanation: it’s an eruption of the irrational, a shattering of g...

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Firm accused of defrauding 5 Wis. school districts

edweek.org - WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators are accusing brokerage firm Stifel Nicolaus & Co. of civil fraud in its sales of risky complex investments to five Wisconsin school districts that lost all of t...

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Kids Are Heroes - Lily's Heroes

kidsareheroes.org - Jordan Brown is a WWII buff and has embarked upon a campaign to ensure that the WWII vets who served on D-Day are memorialized. In May 2010, he learned of an effort to honor Jordan’s hero, Major D...

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Lessons Learned in Downtown Los Angeles

diverseeducation.com - Sam Fulwood III is a senior fellow at Center for American Progress. As I walked [two weeks ago] along South Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles, my mind was fractured by a million disparate tho...

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Rupert Murdoch Endorses News Corp COO

mogulite.com - 10:12 am, August 11th | by Amy Tennery Rupert Murdoch may have just made his shrewdest decision in, well, a long time. Late last night reports emerged that Murdoch’s son, James, was no longer the d...

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Short Bus Tour Day #4: Canton, OH

kimbleforcongress.blogspot.com - It had been my fondest wish to take my daughter to see the Hoover Vacuum Cleaner Museum in Canton, OH and possibly visit the McKinley Memorial. Unfortunately, media types had learned that I was on...

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