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Most New York Students Are Not College-Ready
nytimes.com - New York State education officials released a new set of graduation statistics on Monday that show fewer than half of students in the state are leaving high school prepared for college and well-pay...
DianeRavitchRethinking Teacher Compensation: Ethics Equals Good Policy - Part I. Time Flows Only One Direction A Tale of Two Cities: Fear and Hope in Education Policy and Unions
educationworker.blogspot.com - Rethinking Teacher Compensation: Ethics Equals Good Policy is a three part series. I will be posting each day as follows: Monday: Part I. Time Flows Only One Direction Tuesday: Part II. A Brief Cr...
DianeRavitchWhat Works To Close The Education Gap : NPR
npr.org - Copyright © 2011 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. REBECCA ROBERTS, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Re...
mikeklonskyPoverty and Failure of Education System Weigh on Black Students - 8/23/11
mvgazette.com - By MIKE SECCOMBEProf. Henry Louis Gates: “What happened to our people?” Since 1968, the black middle class in America has quadrupled, Henry Louis (Skip) Gates told a packed house at the Edgartown W...
DianeRavitchClaims that city teachers and administrators cheating on standardized tests triple
nydailynews.com - Martin Shields/Getty As the Bloomberg Administration increases the stakes on standardized tests, reports that teachers and administrators are cheating on exams has tripled, according to city data. ...
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School Daze — The Icehouse Gang
icehousegang.com - As Hubert Humphrey might have said, the Ice House Gang is just pleased as punch to give a shout-out to a couple members whose writing dazzled in The New York Times this past Sunday. That is, our ow...
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The Real Cheating Scandal of Standardized Tests - Miller
miller-mccune.com - Opinion: The widening circle of cheating scandals on standardized tests should fuel the movement to reduce the stakes these exams have on public education in the U.S.As the list of states and citie...
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Dallas Value Added Study — More Analysis
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - A few weeks ago, I wrote about how I did my own analysis of the 1997 study which is always quoted by Rhee about how 3 effective teachers in a row vs. 3 ineffective teachers in a row is life changin...
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Mayor Bloomberg's Charity Pipeline - WSJ.com
online.wsj.com - As the clock ticks toward his exit from City Hall, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has begun to bulk up the payroll at his private charitable foundation by tapping at least one steady source of personnel: ...
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What Really Happened to the National Cathedral in the Quake - National
theatlanticwire.com - Not all of the buildings in D.C. got away unscathed following the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked the east coast Tuesday afternoon. Conflicting reports emerged over whether the Washington Monu...
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Tea Party Makes Me Feel Sorry For The Onion
firedoglake.com - Photo Credit: Chuck Coker The Onion: Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ...
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GOP Decries Class Warfare on the Tragically Rich
crooksandliars.com - Click here for larger image. Judging from the furious reaction of some of the gilded-class crowd and their Republican protectors, billionaire Warren Buffett struck a nerve with his plea to Congress...
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“Hey, Mr. K! How’s that pension thing going?” « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Speaker Michael Madigan, Chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party and teacher pension killer. Two weeks before Labor Day and I’m back at work. Friday was an in-service Institute Day. Yesterday the...
fklonskyU.S.-Backed Iraqi Leader Says Zionists Will Benefit from Arab Revolutions
tomhayden.com - The neo-cons and many others who thought America was fighting for Israeli interests in Iraq may be shocked to learn that our ally in Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, believes that “Zionists ...
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The Scramble for Access to Libya’s Oil Wealth Begins
nytimes.com - Even before Libyan rebels could take full control of Tripoli, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini of Italy said on state television Monday that the Italian oil company Eni “will have a No. 1 role in t...
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nypost.com - Department of Education officials are attempting to whitewash missteps that allowed students to stew inside a toxic Bronx school for months, parents charged yesterday.Despite finding levels of the ...
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Whirlwind in Sonoma and Marin
dailycensored.com - A few months ago, I was lying in bed enjoying the morning sunrise over the mountain range. The coastal fog had settled upon the open field next to the apple orchard. A gentle breeze was blowing in ...
coopmike48Art & EntertainmentSee all
Ryan Gosling Breaks up Street Fight in East Village
dnainfo.com - MANHATTAN— Actor Ryan Gosling played the role of real-life superhero while helping break up a street fight in Astor Place.The Academy Award-nominated star is purportedly seen in a video intervening...
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Two Fat Men Walk Into a Bar…And Meet Chris Matthews
addictinginfo.org - Two sides of the same coin: hot air.Update! Actually, I learned something from this exercise that shouldn’t have surprised me, but which sparked a memory: Rush Limbaugh, expostulating about M...
coopmike48An Animated Argument Against Copyright Law - Entertainment
theatlanticwire.com - J.K. Rowling will be making money off of the Harry Potter books until the 23rd-century thanks to the twisted history of intellectual property law in the United States. Unfamiliar with how and why c...
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Rethinking Teacher Compensation Part II: A Brief Critique of Neo-Liberal Compensation Reform
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