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What Would Ronnie Say About Montco Republicans Now? - Philadelphia Magazine

phillymag.com - Before the Montgomery County officials started calling each other sick bastards and dicks and laughingstocks, before they whipped out words and phrases like complicit and secret cabal and farcical ...

DianeRavitch

U.S. Department of Education Announces 'Education and the Economy' Back-to-School Bus Tour with Stops Around the Great Lakes

ed.gov - U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and senior Department officials will visit states throughout the Midwest for “Education and the Economy,” the Department's second annual back-to-school bus t...

arneduncan

Let Us Not Abandon Listening in the Classroom

edweek.org - ByDiana SenechalA few years ago, as a teacher at a New York City middle school, in Brooklyn, I was administering the listening portion of a standardized test. “Listen,” I read aloud from the teache...

DianeRavitch

Education - Salon.com

salon.com - Considering that there's no daily Pledge of Allegiance in New York City public schools, and that American flags are almost as scarce, the class did quite well. "The dawn's early light" hadn't echoe...

DianeRavitch

Michele Bachmann's Radical Reading List

tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - Ryan Lizza's New Yorker piece on Michele Bachmann, which focuses on the Tea Party candidate's influences, is the current talk of the political world. The article delves deep into Bachmann's ideolog...

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John Covington could make $1.5M overseeing district for Michigan's troubled schools | Detroit Free Press

freep.com - The first chancellor of the new statewide special district for Michigan's lowest-performing schools could receive more than $1.5 million in salary and bonuses over his four-year contract, if he mee...

DianeRavitch

Whitehall emails reveal the hidden costs of promoting free schools | Education

guardian.co.uk - Michael Gove: his advisers lobbied hard so that legislation to enable free schools to be created was rushed through parliament. Photograph: Chris Ison/PA The controversial Tory initiative to set up...

DianeRavitch

How the Broad virus & Gates infection are hurting Kansas City kids « Parents Across America

parentsacrossamerica.org - Aug 20, 2011 leoniehaimson This was written by a Kansas City teacher who prefers to remain anonymous because she fears retaliation. There is no research, by the way, that indicates that paying tea...

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Philadelphia Archdiocese high school teachers could strike

timesherald.com - By LINDA STEINlstein@journalregister.com PHILADELPHIA — Archdiocese of Philadelphia officials and the representatives for the Association of Catholic Teachers, representing secondary school teacher...

mikeklonsky

Statistics, Beloved by Mayor, Show a Slump in City Services

nytimes.com - “In God we trust,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is fond of saying, before invariably adding a caveat: “Everyone else, bring data.” Mr. Bloomberg, after all, became a billionaire by foundi...

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Stetson Kennedy, Who Infiltrated and Exposed the Klan, Dies at 94

nytimes.com - Stetson Kennedy, a folklorist and social crusader who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s and wrote a lurid exposé of its activities, “I Rode With the Ku Klux Klan,” died on Saturday in St. A...

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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...

tbfurman

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...

fklonsky

Part I: An Earthquake, Hurricane Irene, and AEM's Successful Trip To D.C.

alleducationmatters.blogspot.com - As I mentioned in a previous piece, the trip to D.C. last week was tremendously productive. Most of you know that the trip made me feel good about the possibility of change for student debtors. Tha...

coopmike48

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Say Anything » Just A Reminder, FEMA Is Broke

sayanythingblog.com - North Dakota has faced flooding disaster after disaster. We went through another round of the annual Red River flood fight. Then the Missouri River started flowing over its banks impacting Bismarck...

mikeklonsky

NY Official Cites Hacking In Rejection Of News Corp. Education Contract paidContent

paidcontent.org - Losing a $27 million contract won’t hit the News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) bottom line but the New York state comptroller’s rejection of a contract with a small subsidiary is a blow to Rupert Murdoch’s nas...

leoniehaimson

Rick Perry says Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme" and a "monstrous lie" - Political Hotsheet

cbsnews.com - Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Aug. 15, 2011. (Credit: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry continued his attack...

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Welcome Back to School! Del Monte Fresh Fruit Brings You Teacher Monday & Cash for Classrooms at K12NN

k12newsnetwork.com - Win $25 in gift certificates for Dole fresh fruit!First, some good news to welcome you back: K12NN is participating in Del Monte’s free giveaway of fresh fruit! Thanks to Del Monte, I’ll be giving ...

K12NN

Healthy school lunch packing tips

ednewsparent.org - Q. Here we go, another school year and I’m already out of ideas when it comes time to pack a lunch for my son. Can you give me some tips so that the lunch I pack is varied and nutritional? I do wan...

coopmike48

Longest Living Indian Celebrates 121st Birthday, Eats Natural Food

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 10:37 am, August 30, 2011 Survival International has located a Brazilian Indian, believed to be the oldest living person in the world, as she prepares to celebrate her 121st birthday.M...

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