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Preparing for State Tests, to a Hip-Hop Beat
nytimes.com - The team of six high school girls new to America sat frozen waiting for the next missing lyric, whiteboard and marker at the ready. They glanced toward their classmates, who sat nearby, in two comp...
DianeRavitchThe Real Score on the 2011 Test Scores « EdVox
edvox.org - By Zakiyah Ansari Next, Wednesday, August 17th is the next Panel for Education Policy (PEP) meeting at Murry Bergtraum High School, and on the agenda are contracts and the budget. Does anyone bes...
DianeRavitchAccountability for what?
allthingsedu.blogspot.com - I will soon put up a guest post in response to Virginia Heffernan's recent New York Times op-ed about "archaic" learning tools and products such as research papers. Thinking about this, as well as ...
DianeRavitchFor Some, Budget Pain Doesn’t Hurt
nytimes.com - Summer is draining from the calendar, and across the city, school principals are swallowing hard and sending out notes to their staff. They go something like this: No yearbook. No dance team. No dr...
DianeRavitchExpense records show who has had Arlene Ackerman's ear
articles.philly.com - For months, the Maven website also has highlighted Ackerman's praise for Shaw's business services in a blurb above a list of Maven's clients.Questioned about that, Ackerman's spokeswoman, Shana Kem...
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Charles Dameron: Rick Perry's Crony Capitalism Problem
online.wsj.com - Gov. Rick Perry's presidential pitch goes something like this: During one of the worst recessions in American history, he's kept his state "open for business." In the last two years, Texas created ...
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Ohio seems to be home to the most charter school scammers
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Brennan"The market works in supplying a quality product in the delivery of services because failure is not tolerated by the market. If you fail, you go out of business." -- David Brennan To get a...
DianeRavitchStudy finds Philly is segregated in schools, housing
thenotebook.org - Two studies from Brown University look at segregation in housing and schools, and find that Philadelphia is one of the most unequal regions in the country. Daniel Denvir wrote about the study for t...
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VIDEO: Sarah Palin Tells ThinkProgress ‘Mitt Romney Was Right’ That Corporations Are People
thinkprogress.org - ThinkProgress filed this report from the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, IA. Yesterday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) made a major gaffe on the campaign trail when he told a crowd of Iow...
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For all you need to know about Rupert Murdoch, look at his lawyers | John Dean | Comment is free
guardian.co.uk - Rupert Murdoch speaks briefly to the media as he arrives at the Sun Valley Conference in Idaho. Photograph: Anthony Bolante/Reuters Americans are extremely interested in Rupert Murdoch's unfolding ...
leoniehaimsonBritish Police Reject Politicians’ Criticism of Response to Riots
nytimes.com - As the death toll increased from four nights of rioting and arson this week, a senior British police officer openly criticized political leaders on Friday for finding fault with the police handling...
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School Tech Connect: Nose, Grindstone
schooltechconnect.com - The permanent pension attack is gearing back up. We're outspent, but we're not outnumbered, and as long as it's one-person*, one-vote in this country we have a chance to defend ourselves. Here's to...
tbfurmanFinal Friday. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Today is the final Friday of my last summer break. Next Friday my final teaching year begins with one of those Institute Days: A morning motivational speaker and an afternoon of meetings, with fold...
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Texas Lets The Poor Burn To Keep The Rich Cool
addictinginfo.org - Texas has, like much of the country, experienced a brutal heat wave this year. Triple digit temperatures are a mortal threat to the elderly. children and other vulnerable citizens and Texas has a s...
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Jennifer Hudson, Ozzie Guillen and more to urge CPS kids to go to school - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - By Rosalind Rossi Education Reporter August 12, 2011 10:50AM She’s won an Academy Award, snagged a Grammy and sung at the Superbowl. And starting next week, Chicago-born sensation Jennifer Hudson w...
coopmike48Ex-Fla. education commissioners still on payroll - Florida Wires
miamiherald.com - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida doesn't have one, or even two education commissioners earning a paycheck right now. Try three.Newly-hired Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson this month started his ...
coopmike48Twitter timeline of The Game's 'telephone flash mob'
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials are continuing their investigation into the rapper The Game and the tweets that sparked a "telephone flash mob" Friday night that jammed emergency phone lines...
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Obama appoints GE's Immelt to competitiveness council
ctpost.com - SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- President Barack Obama, aiming to reinforce the message that the second half of his first term will be all about jobs, named Jeffrey Immelt, president and chief executive offic...
mikeklonskyCompany Takes on Earthquake Predictions
baycitizen.org - A Silicon Valley company is assembling a sprawling network of electrical contraptions across California that its investors hope will prove many seismologists wrong and become a valuable public-safe...
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1 ¾ cents well spent
camajorityreport.com - by Kaitilin Gaffney, Pacific Program Director, Ocean ConservancyNo one likes to return from vacation to a pile of work. But that is precisely the situation the Senate Appropriations Committee will ...
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Over 160 children reported among drone deaths: TBIJ
thebureauinvestigates.com - Six-year-old Sameeda Gul was injured in a drone strike in Pakistan on October 21 2009. The Bureau has identified credible reports of 168 children killed in seven years of CIA drone strikes in Paki...
mikeklonskyBART explains cell phone disruption; ACLU pans action
contracostatimes.com - BART on Friday released a statement explaining its actions after cellphone reception in four downtown San Francisco stations was interrupted Thursday in a move to disrupt a planned demonstration, a...
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Los otros periodistas en el país de @MashiRafael
miltonramirez.org - Por si no conocen quien es ‘mashi‘ Rafael en Twitter, él es el presidente de los ecuatorianos el Econ. Rafael Correa. Como existe una gran discusión en torno a la libertad de prensa en el país suda...
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For all you need to know about Rupert Murdoch, look at his lawyers | John Dean | Comment is free
guardian.co.uk - Rupert Murdoch speaks briefly to the media as he arrives at the Sun Valley Conference in Idaho. Photograph: Anthony Bolante/Reuters Americans are extremely interested in Rupert Murdoch's unfolding ...
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For all you need to know about Rupert Murdoch, look at his lawyers | John Dean | Comment is free
guardian.co.uk - Rupert Murdoch speaks briefly to the media as he arrives at the Sun Valley Conference in Idaho. Photograph: Anthony Bolante/Reuters Americans are extremely interested in Rupert Murdoch's unfolding ...
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