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The Annotated Frank Rich - The Real Transgressions of the Murdoch Empire -

nymag.com - Illustration by Eddie Guy When I was offered a job as a film critic for the New York Post in 1975, it had just been labeled “a terrible newspaper” by Nora Ephron in her media column for Esquire. ...

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Restrictive and Inappropriate: How High-stakes Testing & NCLB Abuse Sped Students Hey Accountability Hawks, Put Down Your Pitchforks! Petrilli on Educating Poor Kids is Problematic Most education reformers are barking up the wrong tree. Matt Yglesias

allthingsedu.blogspot.com - Friends of the the SOS March & National Call to Action blogged all this month about why they were marching in DC July 30th. And, today, we marched! I never wrote a post of my own, but this guest po...

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Review Aims to Avert Cheating on State Tests

nytimes.com - New York State education officials announced Monday that they had begun to review the way they detect and prevent cheating on standardized tests, taking a step to avoid the cheating scandals that h...

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Emily Sirota: No More Education Excuses

huffingtonpost.com - Right now, America is engaged in a major debate over the future of education -- a debate that has been marked by a lot of overheated rhetoric and divisiveness about politics, but not enough substan...

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Charter schools score big on maintenance funding - South Florida Sun

sun-sentinel.com - Gov. Rick Scott and the state Legislature do an outstanding job of talking a good game about improving education in Florida. Too bad the lofty talk isn't backed up by action.The latest slap toward ...

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Our Experience Proves Tenure Is Not Obsolete

gothamschools.org - Mayor Bloomberg’s comments on his Friday radio show that tenure “may have been necessary in the McCarthy era” but is now a relic of the past highlight how out of touch he is with the current realit...

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Home again. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - Graphic credit: Chicago Reader, Johnny Sampson I’m back home in Chicago after 12 days on a road trip through Wyoming. My wife, her sister, my brother-in-law and I had a glorious time touring throu...

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America’s Premiere Teachers: Demoralized, Infantilized, and Fearful? | LFA: Join The Conversation

learningfirst.org - Last week I had the chance to attend the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) annual conference. For those who don’t know, National Board Certification is an advanced teaching ...

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The Last Word - Jason Bourne loves teachers

thelastword.msnbc.msn.com - YouTube/Gotham SchoolsMatt Damon speaks before the Save Our Schools March in Washington this past Saturday, July 30.Because the debt ceiling debate almost created a black hole that would have destr...

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The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education || Information Age Publishing

infoagepub.com - A volume in the series: Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society. Series Editor: Curry Stephenson Malott, West Chester University Published 2011Who should read this book? Anyone who...

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Bronx Catholic school principal Frank Borzellieri fired over ties to white supremacist group

nydailynews.com - Andrew Theodorakis/News Frank Borzellieri was named principal at a mostly black and Latino school two years ago and had pushed in the past to ban a biography of martyred civil rights leader Dr. Mar...

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Kim Simac, Tea Party Candidate For Jim Holperin Recall, Compares Public Schools To Nazi Regime

huffingtonpost.com - Wisconsin tea party organizer and children's book author Kim Simac has admitted to comparing American public schools to the Nazi regime.Simac, also Republican candidate for the Aug. 9 recall electi...

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Dems furious, see deal as GOP win

thehill.com - House Democrats on Monday expressed outrage at the White House for how it handled the debt-ceiling negotiations, claiming the administration caved to the GOP and left them in the dark.The irate law...

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New Arrest in British Hacking Scandal

nytimes.com - LONDON — The uproar enveloping Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper subsidiary in Britain took a new turn on Tuesday with another arrest, the 11th in recent months, in the police inquiry into alleged phone h...

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Matt Damon Rallies with Teachers on White House March - OK! Magazine - The First for Celebrity News

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Matt Damon Rallies with Teachers on White House March - OK! Magazine - The First for Celebrity NewsMatt Damon Rallies with Teachers on White House MarchAugust 1st, 2011 8:05 am / Author: Vicki Sale...

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Home - Inside Higher Ed

insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...

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Another Special Edition Of “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t”

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Aug 02 2011 Larry Ferlazzo(NOTE: I usually publish this kind of post once-a-week. However, even more links than usual accumulated during this last week of school”) I have a huge backlog of resource...

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Central Falls Bankruptcy Driven by Pensions Casts Shadow Over Rhode Island

bloomberg.com - Central Falls, Rhode Island, whose motto is “a city with a bright future,” cast a shadow across the rest of the state yesterday by entering bankruptcy. Rhode Island’s poorest city sought court prot...

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Apple has more cash right now than the US Treasury – Boing Boing

boingboing.net - Matt Hartley at the Financial Post was the first to point this one out: As Republicans and Democrats continue to work towards a compromise to the country’s debt ceiling crisis, the U.S. Treasury De...

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Americans cut spending for first time in 20 months

northjersey.com - WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans cut back on their spending in June for the first time in nearly two years and their incomes grew by the smallest amount in nine months, a troubling sign for an economy t...

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Putting an Antebellum Myth to Rest

nytimes.com - Princeton, N.J. WAS slavery an idyllic world of stable families headed by married parents? The recent controversy over “The Marriage Vow,” a document endorsed by the Republican presid...

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U.N. Agencies Duck Taking Stand on Safe Abortion

womensenews.org - A woman's right to safe abortion is increasingly recognized as both a human right and a means to reduce maternal mortality. U.N. agencies--including UN Women in its new strategic plan--are sidestep...

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Racial Wealth Gap Largest on Record as General Inequality Grows

dailycensored.com - The median wealth of white households is 20 times larger than that of Black households, and 18 times larger than that of Latino families, a report published by the Pew Research Center shows. This i...

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News Corporation

newscorp.com - 24 May 2011 - Maurice, thank you for that gracious introduction. Thank you as well for the invitation to speak today. We are living through a time when many of our leading economies are not perform...

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