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Friday, August 26, 2011

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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...

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It’s time for teachers unions to lead

blogs.reuters.com - By Jennifer JenningsThe opinions expressed are her own. Reuters invited leading educators to reply to Steven Brill’s op-ed on the school reform deniers. We will be publishing the responses here. Be...

DianeRavitch

Class Warfare: Fact Checking Pages 351 to 400

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - Page 351: A school administrator said about Weingarten’s criticism of TFA “she’d be glad to get as many of its recruits as she could.” I have a friend who is a TFA alum and a principal and over t...

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State Seeks Data on Pay of Leaders at Nonprofits

nytimes.com - A New York State task force on Thursday began sending letters to hundreds of nonprofit organizations that receive state money demanding details about how much they pay their executives and board me...

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Dr. King Weeps From His Grave

nytimes.com - Princeton, N.J. THE Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was to be dedicated on the National Mall on Sunday — exactly 56 years after the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi and 48 years aft...

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Online Public Schools | K12

k12.com - Why "online" with K¹² is totally on the mark for so many families.Kindergarten through 12th grade students in most states are enrolled in online public schools or "virtual schools" that partner wit...

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One 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...

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Workers 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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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...

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A 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...

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PoliticsSee all

Jerry Brown unveils his job creation plan

sfgate.com - (08-25) 14:07 PDT Sacramento -- Gov. Jerry Brown wants to spur job creation in California by giving tax breaks to businesses that buy new manufacturing equipment and to small firms that hire new em...

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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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StoriesSee all

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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Oops! I Forgot To Include Link To My Ed Week Teacher Blog

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Aug 25 2011 Larry FerlazzoA little while ago I published a post inviting readers to contribute an answer to my Ed Week Teacher blog’s question of the week. However, I forgot to include a link to th...

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Gulf of Mexico Bubbling Oil Again at Deepwater Disaster

democraticunderground.com - Source: RSOE EDIS"Oil is again bubbling to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico near the epicenter of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Reporters from Mobile, Alabama’s Press-Register loaded into a...

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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...

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'No regrets' about waterboarding suspects

google.com - Cheney: 'No regrets' about waterboarding suspects (AP) – 14 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney says he has "no regrets" about the harsh interrogation policies the Bush ad...

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Pa. school district backs off on skinny jeans ban

denverpost.com - CATASAUQUA, Pa.—Students in a Pennsylvania school district have gotten approval to remain fashion forward. The Morning Call of Allentown reports that Catasauqua (cat-uh-SOCK'-wuh) Area School Distr...

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