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Entire East Coast Should Prepare
blog.fema.gov - Posted by: Public Affairs Hurricane Irene is currently making a turn along the East Coast, and forecasts from the National Hurricane Center project the storm could affect an area from Florida to Ma...
arneduncanOne size fits most
educationgadfly.net - If you step back from day to day vitriol that characterizes the current education-policy “debate,” and glimpse the larger picture, two worldviews on education reform emerge. One, articulated by the...
DianeRavitchRichard D. Kahlenberg Reviews Terry Moe's "Special Interest"
tnr.com - TERRY MOE MADE his name in the early 1990s when, with John Chubb, he co-authored a much-discussed book arguing for a system of publicly-funded private school vouchers. The central thesis of Politic...
DianeRavitchAppellate Court Gets It Wrong on NYC Teacher Data - Rick Hess Straight Up
blogs.edweek.org - Here's something you won't read too often in RHSU: "UFT president Michael Mulgrew is right." But he is. Just today, a New York state appellate court ruled that New York City must release reports th...
DianeRavitchIf only the unions were the problem
blogs.reuters.com - By Deborah MeierThe opinions expressed are her own. As I read Brill’s opening paragraphs I was cheering. Aha, he’s going to apologize for his New Yorker attack on the teacher unions! He’s going to ...
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Steve Brill's Destructive Morality Play
huffingtonpost.com - Steve Brill's Class Warfare is a morality play. In Act I, Brill asks us to ignore social science and believe that improved classroom instruction in neighborhood schools can close the achievement ga...
DianeRavitchThe Progressive Impulse - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National
theatlantic.com - I'm sure Sara Mosle's review of Steven Brill's new book on school reform will get a lot of attention. There's a lot of good stuff in there, but I thought her points about the book, toward the end, ...
mikeklonskyBlue Jersey:: The ACLU-NJ on transparency in Newark Schools: your questions answered
bluejersey.com - Although it has the ability to impact more people than a private entity could, public institutions come with a social contract. Because these schools are a part of the government, parents need to k...
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Commentary: Did Molly Ivins say that about Rick Perry?
kansascity.com - Molly IvinsCompiled by the Sacramento BeeEditor's note: Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced last Saturday that he is running for the Republican presidential nomination. Here are excerpts of columns fro...
DianeRavitchA long, tumultuous final act
thenotebook.org - The School Reform Commission and Superintendent Arlene Ackerman had “mutually” agreed in principle almost two months ago that she would leave the District, according to Mayor Michael Nutter. Nutter...
DianeRavitchWorkers March For Bump In Minimum Wage
progressillinois.com - Frustrated low-wage workers and their supporters will take to Michigan Ave. this morning to call for an increase to the minimum wage. The march is sponsored by Raise Illinois, an organization compo...
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Rick Perry Sought State Profits From Teacher Life Insurance Scheme
huffingtonpost.com - WASHINGTON -- Two weeks before Thanksgiving in 2003, top officials from Texas Governor Rick Perry's office pitched an unusual offer to the state's retired teachers: Let's get into the death busines...
mikeklonskyEditor Said to Receive Pay After He Took Tory Post
nytimes.com - LONDON — The former News of the World editor Andy Coulson received hundreds of thousands of dollars in severance pay from his former employer after joining now-Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conser...
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WI jobless protest at all 4 of Ryan's offices
teamsternation.blogspot.com - Ryan's Mobile Constituent Office (the RV) in Lake GenevaPremium wine enthusiast Paul Ryan's unemployed constituents have taken their protest from Kenosha and Racine to Janesville and Lake Geneva. W...
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A Short-Lived Test, Even With Coaching
nytimes.com - The first question on the screening test for an online class I signed up for was not a hard one, but my most recent exposure to math had been in high school decades before, and I didn’t remember ho...
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Google has taken down our Flat Classroom forms and Julie's blog
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - Have we been hacked? What has happened? Right now, Julie Lindsay in China and I communicate through Google. Our forms, etc. are through Google. She is in China and has to use a firewall to use Goog...
coopmike48Kids are Heroes - Kids are making a difference in this world
kidsareheroes.org - Kids are indeed heroes and each one has the power tochange the world.
coopmike48EnvironmentSee all
Hurricane Irene: Current Status and Forecast
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 9:55 am, August 25, 2011 Photo Credits: Hurricane Irene Hurricane Irene, a large, powerful Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, continues to plow through th...
coopmike48Green Scissors Coalition Identifies Hundreds of Billions in Wasteful Subsidies
news.firedoglake.com - The next couple months will be consumed with discussion about the Catfood Commission II, and their efforts to reach a $1.5 trillion or higher deficit package. This will frustrate any attempt to piv...
coopmike48Earthquake Near Virginia Nuclear Reactors Is a Reminder of the Risks in California
californiaprogressreport.com - Printer-friendly versionSend to friendBy Emily RuschCALPIRG Tuesday’s earthquake in Virginia, which shut down two nuclear reactors less than 10 miles away, is a jolting reminder of exactly the type...
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BBC News - Clashes in Chile as workers stage 48
bbc.co.uk - 25 August 2011 Last updated at 04:24 ET Chile is set for the second day of a 48-hour national strike called by the main trade unions who are demanding a raft of reforms. Wednesday's stoppage began ...
mikeklonsky3.4-magnitude quake recorded in northern NY - Utica, NY - The Observer
uticaod.com - The U.S. Geological Survey says a 3.4-magnitude earthquake has been recorded on the northern edge of New York's Adirondack Park, near the Canadian border. The USGS says the quake occurred at 1:14 p...
coopmike48Rebels claim to have Muammar Gaddafi surrounded
democraticunderground.com - Source: NewsCore and AFP A GROUP of Libyan rebels claimed today that they have surrounded Muammar Gaddafi in a cluster of apartment buildings in Tripoli, Reuters news agency reported.The report sai...
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Join ED’s John White for #EDRuralChat
ed.gov - The U.S. Department of Education’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Rural Outreach, John White, will host the agency’s first Twitter Rural Forum at #EDRuralChat on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 3-3:30 p.m. EDT...
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