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Protections against institutional cheating in NYC schools

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Spurred by reports of widespread cheating on standardized tests in Atlanta; Washington, DC; Los Angeles; Pennsylvania; and elsewhere, New York State Education Commissioner John King announced las...

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The school reform deniers | The Great Debate

blogs.reuters.com - By Steven BrillAll opinions expressed are his own. Every year I tell students in a journalism seminar I teach about the junior reporter for The American Lawyer – the magazine I founded and edited –...

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Lessons from High-Performing Countries

ed.gov - I welcome this opportunity to reflect on what the United States can learn from the nations with the best-performing education systems. My thanks to Marc Tucker and the National Center on Education ...

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New rules make kindergarten count for more

palmbeachpost.com - By Allison RossPalm Beach Post Staff WriterUpdated: 11:53 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011 Posted: 10:58 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, 2011Kindergarten is getting tougher this year.Counting to 20 and dabbling ...

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Steve Brill's Imperviousness to the Facts

huffingtonpost.com - Steve Brill wrote a controversial and much criticized article in the NY Times Magazine in his ongoing effort to demonize the teachers union and promote the privatization of public education.The art...

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Ackerman is out, but $900k+ richer | Philly

philly.com - You know what they say about rumors and truth. In the case of the persistent rumors of a plan to buyout Supt. Arlene Ackerman, it turns out, those rumors were true. Ackerman will be paid more than ...

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A depressing start to the school year

chron.com - Monday marks the first day of school for more than 200,000 children in the Houston Independent School District. Although our children are enjoying a fresh start, recent state budget cuts and loomin...

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A Mirror of the American Character

dailykos.com - It is a dangerous and potentially failed thing to manipulate an audience by evoking our tendency to be compassionate for children. I have often used the documentary The Corridor of Shame, concernin...

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Koch responds to Buffett: "Take your shared sacrifice and ..."

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Charles Koch, head of the massive petrochemical, manufacturing, and commodity speculating Koch Industries corporation, has responded to Warren Buffett's call for shared sacrifice:“No Thanks.” In a ...

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Unions As Red Herrings | ThinkProgress

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Unions As Red Herrings | ThinkProgressUnions As Red HerringsBy Matthew Yglesias on Aug 21, 2011 at 10:30 amAn excellent point from Sara Mosle:Yet Brill wants us to believe that unions are the prima...

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Only 18 Percent of IIT Madras Students Are Indian Women

diverseeducation.com - CHENNAI, India — Chaitra, a 20-year-old third-year electrical engineering student, represents somewhat of a rarity at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras: She is a female and that group rep...

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Reclaiming my blog: Moving back from BigThink

dangerouslyirrelevant.org - Dangerously Irrelevant’s fifth birthday occurred quietly last week. After much soul-searching and a very helpful conversation with my CASTLE co-director, Justin Bathon, I decided to move the blog b...

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Urban Garden Under Attack in South Los Angeles

news.change.org - UPDATE 8/22/11: Change.org just got word that the hearing about Ron Finley's garden has been postponed until further notice. This is a great sign of progress, and we will update you with more infor...

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GE moving X-ray business to China

articles.boston.com - GE Healthcare, also the world’s biggest maker of magnetic resonance imaging and cardiac tomography scanners, got about $1.1 billion of its $16.9 billion in sales from China last year.The X-ray busi...

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Create a state bank as a public utility

sacramentopa.blogspot.com - Senator Darrell Steinberg, I encourage you to use your leadership position in the Senate to assist in passing AB 750, the bill to study the establishment of a California Trust (bank) as ...

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Diez consejos para adaptarse a una escuela nueva

vidayfamilia.univision.com - Cuando se acerca el primer día de la escuela, empieza hablar con tu niño sobre sus expectativas, esperanzas y preocupaciones para el año que viene. - Thinkstock LLC/Picture Quest VIDEO Cómo ser un ...

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Florida reverse-robocalls Rick Scott (video)

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Pink Slip Rick Scott has been annoying Floridians at dinner with robocalls telling them what a great job he's doing. It backfired, which is what usually happens when the Florida governor tries to ...

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