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Douglas Massey on Diane Ravitch and Jonathan Alter's attack

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - The observations below are from Douglas Massey, professor at Princeton and president of the American Academy of Political & Social Sciences (photo at left). On Thursday night, the Academy present...

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Outside interests were working behind the scenes to reconstitute school board

ctpost.com - HARTFORD -- A consultant for a Greenwich billionaire interested in education reform was advocating behind the scenes for charter changes that would give the mayor control of the Bridgeport school b...

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Rick Santorum - Early Childhood Education - Socialist Indoctrination

mediaite.com - Former Republican Senator Rick Santorum has added another unconventional platform issue to his conservative campaign: opposing early childhood education. In a town hall in Iowa, the presidential ca...

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Reply to Matthew Ladner | National Education Policy Center

nepc.colorado.edu - Dr. Ladner has posted a reply to my earlier post. At the risk of going around in circles with Dr. Ladner, who promotes Jeb Bush's Florida policies as a full time job (that is, I know going in I'm ...

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Response to Mike Petrilli | National Education Policy Center

nepc.colorado.edu - Mike Petrilli appears to have guzzled a jug of the Kool-Aid being served up nationwide by Jeb Bush and Matthew Ladner. He has now sent out an email blast two days in a row promoting his blog post o...

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After school reform march, teachers question what's next

cnn.com - How teachers would reform schoolsSTORY HIGHLIGHTSAbout 5,000 people joined in the Save Our Schools MarchOne former teacher says she was told to cater to tests, not to students' needsThe U.S. Educat...

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Educating for Democracy: "Save Our Schools" Strategies

nepc.colorado.edu - The "Save Our Schools March" that took place last Saturday and the two-day conference that preceded it on July 28- 29 might not have been large in terms of participants: 300 at the conference and 5...

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Working Toward "Wow": A Vision for a New Teaching Profession

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Autocrat Bloomberg's Golden Rule: He who's got the gold makes the rules

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Rep. Charles Rangel: Investing in Our Youths

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Schooling Matt Damon - Michelle Malkin

nationalreview.com - Actor Matt Damon is a walking, talking public-service reminder to immunize your children early and often against La-La-Land disease.In Damon’s world, all public-school teachers are selfless angels....

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Murdoch-Owned Wireless Generation's $27M Contract Should Be Scratched, Teachers' Union Leaders Write

huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- New York should drop a $27 million contract with Wireless Generation, a Rupert Murdoch-owned student data tracking company, in light of News Corporation's alleged wrongdoings, teachers'...

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The Reinvention of Rahm Emanuel

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Mayor mustn’t forget city’s ‘invisible’ poor - Chicago Sun

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schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Leveraged with Duncan's Race To The Top $$$The Daily News reports: More than a dozen private firms wanted to work on a project like the one the state Education Department is set to award to a Ruper...

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napervillesun.suntimes.com - There were few places for money to hide Thursday as stock prices came hurtling down. The steepest drop since the meltdown era of 2008 spared no sector in the stock market. Commodities were no good ...

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