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Krueger to Be Chosen to Lead Economic Council

nytimes.com - Alan B. Krueger, a Princeton University professor who recently served as chief economist in the United States Treasury, is being tapped to head the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, a White...

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Class Warfare: Fact checking pages 1 through 100

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - When the new book ‘Class Warfare’ came out, the story of the current ed reform movement featuring TFA and KIPP, I refused to buy it, since I didn’t want anyone to profit from passing fiction and fa...

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All A-Twitter about Education : Education Next

educationnext.org - Improving our schools in 140 characters or less By Michael Petrilli | Print | NO PDF | Share Fall 2011 / Vol. 11, No. 4 Once upon a time, the education “war of ideas” was fought on the battleground...

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Empty Test Chair by Empty Test Chair

dailykos.com - Ryan’s was correct in identifying public policy and discrimination as factors, but he failed to include the negative impact of K -12 public school education policy that is beginning to and will cau...

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The Graduates | Education | Urbanite Baltimore Magazine

urbanitebaltimore.com - "The model determines the question, the question determines the answer, and the answer determines what the policy is going to be ... right?"Dayvon Love, 24, is given to punctuating his answers to i...

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The Education Gap | Seeing Red in China

seeingredinchina.com - At this conference we’ve been discussing some of the recent studies about the massive gap between rural and urban education. For example: Urban children are 6.3 times more likely to attend college ...

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Hurricane Irene was not caused by "spending."

act.credoaction.com - Tell Michele Bachmann that Hurricane Irene was not caused by "spending" -- and demand she apologize for this insensitive, outrageous statement. Just when you thought Michele Bachmann was driving th...

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Illinois Teachers Hit The Bricks For A Principle

schooltechconnect.com - I don't know where I've been on this one, but it's long past time for people to chime in here. Here in the Prairie State, literally out on the prairie, there's a local that's been out on strike for...

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Pension Call Tuesday, Spread The Word

schooltechconnect.com - Pension Call, Pension Call! All hands on deck! They're all important but this one is not to be missed. As Fred points out, Nekritz voted "yes" on SB 512*, the Fahner/Madigan Pension Destruction Ac...

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Illinois Teachers Hit The Bricks For A Principle

schooltechconnect.com - I don't know where I've been on this one, but it's long past time for people to chime in here. Here in the Prairie State, literally out on the prairie, there's a local that's been out on strike for...

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The Wonkster » Blog Archive » DiNapoli vs. Murdoch

gothamgazette.com - You might have missed this as you were taping your windows yesterday: The Daily News reports that State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has rejected the state Department of Education contracts with Wir...

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WLS 890AM

wlsam.com - Mayor Rahm Emanuel (Chuck Brueckmann/WLS) Posted 8/26/11 12:32 p.m.WLS Radio's Bill Cameron ReportsCHICAGO (WLS) - Mayor Rahm Emanuel sat down for a one-on-one interview with WLS Radio’s Bill Cam...

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President Obama, Look Out Your Window!

huffingtonpost.com - I run a mobile telephone company, and expect to be arrested in Washington today just outside your window representing my customers' view on global warming. Seriously!Your administration is soon to ...

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Top NASA climate scientist arrested at White House

democraticunderground.com - Source: Raw StoryOne of the nation's foremost experts on climate change was arrested outside the White House on Monday morning after he joined a protest against a planned Canadian tar sands pipelin...

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(NRC) Virginia quake may have exceeded nuclear plant design

democraticunderground.com - Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The historic earthquake thatshut Dominion Resources Inc's (D.N) North Anna nuclear plant inVirginia last week may have shaken the facility more than i...

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Chicago Shopping

chicagotribune.com - By Joel Hood Tribune reporter 6:46 p.m. CDT, August 29, 2011 The mother of a Chicago Public Schools elementary school student is accusing an on-campus security guard of handcuffing her son and deta...

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