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Education: Arne and Bill's Misguided Adventure: An Open Letter
psychologytoday.com - Dear Arne and Bill, I really don't understand you two, the U.S. Secretary of Education and the world's second richest man and noted philanthropist. How can you possibly say that public education ca...
DianeRavitchS.&P. Downgrades U.S. Long-Term Debt
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Standard & Poor’s removed the United States government from its list of risk-free borrowers for the first time on Friday night, a downgrade that is freighted with symbolic significance...
mikeklonskyMaximum property tax hike sought for Chicago public schools - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - By Rosalind Rossi Education Reporter August 5, 2011 3:06PM Updated: August 5, 2011 3:13PM Property taxes for schools would be raised to the maximum allowed by law for the first time in four years —...
mikeklonskyDozens Killed as NATO Helicopter Shot Down in Afghanistan
nytimes.com - KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents shot down a NATO Chinook helicopter during an overnight operation in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 37 people on board, a coalition military official said on ...
mikeklonskyteachers unions urge Ed Dept. to nix $27 million project with News Corp. affiliate
nydailynews.com - AP Rupe won't dupe NY teachers! The News Corp. mogul, rocked by scandal, will have to watch his back as New York educators move to throw out a big money deal with one of his companies. The state an...
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Why Test-Driven Accountability Is Grasping at Straws
huffingtonpost.com - Bill Gates says that his $5 billion experiment in education has not failed. Gates also claims that he trusts in science. That prompted me to reread the National Academy of Sciences' analysis of the...
DianeRavitchIncentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education
nap.edu - Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine-read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole....
DianeRavitchHalliburton High - 'Cross the Pond
jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - I'd have to say that the most important investigative journalist working on American education today is Leonie Haimson. Where she finds this stuff from the UK, I don't know, but thank heaven she do...
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Hear the Echoes #24 - News & Announcements
lsba.com - Hear the Echoes No. 24 ALEC Unveiled Whose Voice is Being Heard? A group of executives who represent around 300 of America’s largest corporations has labored in the shadows since the early 19...
DianeRavitchNews that you should have read, but might have missed, last week. « ’NYC Unrated & Unfiltered
unratedunfiltered.com - Last week was quite a week! In the reproductive rights and health world: Jessica Valenti has a great piece on how the virginity movement is trying to re-brand itself.Megan at Jezebel has a piece up...
leoniehaimsonPinellas charter school reaches out to Scientology for help
tampabay.com - By Demorris A. Lee, Times Staff Writer In Print: Saturday, July 30, 2011 ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENTCLEARWATER — Looking for a savior, a North Pinellas charter school that has filed for Chapter 11 ...
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IEA Communications Director Charlie McBarron ends our Facebook friendship. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Sorry Charlie. For the past couple of years IEA Communications Director Charlie McBarron and I have been Facebook-friends. No more. Charlie ended it. Back story: A couple of days ago I notice that ...
fklonskyDeborah Meier Homepage
deborahmeier.com - July 2011 [to comment on this column click here to go to the blog site] It's only a week before the various events in Washington D.C. I'm hoping, mostly, to have fun and for a sufficient size to no...
DianeRavitchLast Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRank #WIUnion #sosmarch #p2 #pfla #1u Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRank
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRankA Student Voice: Emma « Cooperative CatalystDiane.Ravitch at the #SOSMarchSOS March 1 #SOSMarchJon Stewart #SOSMarchWhose Schools? - SOS March ...
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Murdoch presses on with academy plan despite hacking row Education News, Education
independent.co.uk - School sponsored by News International still on track after series of meetings between media tycoon and Michael Gove Rupert Murdoch's News International has plans to sponsor an academy, with a poss...
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S&P Downgrades U.S. Bra Size From D Cup to Tea Cup
wepartypatriots.com - Gravity. That’s the only word to describe yesterday’s news. This issue was bursting at the seams and in the end the S&P had no choice but to get it off their chest. The country had watched for week...
coopmike48AFL-CIO Opposes Iraq, Afghanistan Wars
tomhayden.com - In an important development for the peace and justice movement, the AFL-CIO executive council has declared, “There is no way to fund what we must do as a nation without bringing our troops home fro...
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USPS posts $3.1 billion loss in Q3, warns of default
democraticunderground.com - Source: ReutersUSPS posts $3.1 billion loss in Q3, warns of defaultWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.1 billion in its third quarter and warned again it would de...
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5 Easy to Understand Effects of a Credit Downgrade (VIDEO)
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 11:05 am, August 6, 2011 Photo Credits: Standard and Poors Standard and Poors have downgraded the US Credit Rating to AA+. What does this mean? Here are five effects of the action:1.)...
coopmike48China Tells US 'Good Old Days' of Borrowing Are Over
democraticunderground.com - Source: ReutersChina Tells US 'Good Old Days' of Borrowing Are OverBy REUTERSPublished: August 6, 2011 at 10:48 AM ETNEW YORK/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China bluntly criticised the United States Saturda...
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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - This was our first Saturday morning back in Chicago since our Wyoming road trip. Our plan was to enjoy our coffee outside on Division Street at Letizia’s. But a morning rain shower put the kabosh o...
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A Wall to Remember an Era’s First Exiles
nytimes.com - BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. — Frank Kitamoto was only 2 when he and his family — and more than 270 others of Japanese ancestry — were forcibly removed from this forested island and sent to an internme...
fklonskySaturday coffee.+ Old school. « Fred Klonsky's blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blogSaturday coffee.by Fred KlonskyThis was our first Saturday morning back in Chicago since our Wyoming road trip. Our plan was to enjoy our coffee outside on Div...
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All Education Matters: Quick Post: Book Recommendations - Getting a Grasp on Neoliberalism
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - All Education Matters: Quick Post: Book Recommendations - Getting a Grasp on NeoliberalismQuick Post: Book Recommendations - Getting a Grasp on Neoliberalismby C. Cryn JohannsenIf you want to get a...
coopmike48News from CDE on iTunes U (Facebook)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - News from CDE on iTunes U (36)News from CDE on iTunes Uby California Department of Education on Saturday, August 6, 2011 at 11:30amThe summer is in full swing and we have added some new content we ...
coopmike48Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Class Size (Again)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Class Size (Again)Class Size (Again)by Melissa WestbrookFrom reader Aggrivated, comes this Salon article about...sigh, class size. Really? Still? I'm going to...
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IPS starts Monday with 300+ fewer teachers
wishtv.com - INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Indianapolis Public Schools students are among those who go back to school Monday, but with more than 350 staff members cut since last school year, the remaining teachers are ...
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