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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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