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Murdoch wants Gove to replace half of British teachers with computers
politicalscrapbook.net - Following up on a Political Scrapbook report from July, the new issue of Private Eye features an interesting angle on Michael Gove’s relationship with high level directors in Rupert Murdoch’s News ...
Latest CSAP results mostly flat – again
ednewscolorado.org - State test results released today show little change in the proficiency of Colorado students on annual exams in reading and science and only slight increases in math and writing. The number of pupi...
teachers 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...
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...
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 Americas largest corporations has labored in the shadows since the early 19...
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...
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The Decade of Lost Children
nytimes.com - One of the greatest casualties of the great recession may well be a decade of lost children. According to “The State of America’s Children 2011,” a report issued last month by the Child...
Halliburton 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...
More on the DOE's anti-Ravitch strategy
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Following up on yesterday's post re. the DOE's anti-Ravitch strategy, one need look no further than this disgusting piece ( "Double-Agent Diane") by willing anti-Ravitch think-tanker Jay Greene. Gr...
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News 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...
The New Operation Wetback: Immigration and Mass Incarceration - Hispanically Speaking News
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The New Operation Wetback: Immigration and Mass Incarceration - Hispanically Speaking NewsThe New Operation Wetback: Immigration and Mass Incarceration in the Obama Era0 CommentsPublished at 7:00 p...
Blog posts on this issue
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release August 06, 2011 My thoughts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones of the Americans who were lost earlier today in Afg...
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Murdoch's Education Ventures Go Forward With The Help Of Politicians On His Payroll
nyceducator.com - The Independent reports today that Rupert Murdoch is going ahead with his plans to create a News International-sponsored academy school near his newspaper headquarters in east London despite the ha...
Rupert Murdoch paid Van Schoales’ salary | DeFENSE
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Rupert Murdoch paid Van Schoales’ salary | DeFENSERupert Murdoch paid Van Schoales’ salaryby defensedenverThe Grand Poo-Bah of Corporate Irresponsibility, Rupert MurdochNo, we’re not joking.The New...
Navy Veteran Who Became an FBI Informant Discusses Why He’s Suing Rumsfeld for Torture (VIDEO)
dissenter.firedoglake.com - Keith Olbermann continued his coverage of US citizens, who are suing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for torture. On “Countdown” on Friday night, Donald Vance, a US navy veteran and forme...
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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 ...
Last 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 ...
IEA Communications Director Charlie McBarron ends our Facebook friendship. « Fred Klonsky's blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - IEA Communications Director Charlie McBarron ends our Facebook friendship. « Fred Klonsky's blogIEA Communications Director Charlie McBarron ends our Facebook friendship.by Fred KlonskySorry Charli...
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With Obama's Giordano Bruno-ization of Dr. Charles Monnett in Alaska, We See the Merging of the War on Science and the War on Whistleblowers
my.firedoglake.com - Giordano Bruno by Jastrow Two more organizations, neither from Alaska, have joined Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in search of more transparency in the Obama administration’s pur...
Solar Storms Could Debilitate Earth this Decade: NOAA
democraticunderground.com - Source: International Business TimesThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a federal agency that focuses on the condition of the oceans and atmosphere, said that a severe solar storm ...
Colonial Louisiana in the 21st Century
dissidentvoice.org - by T. Mayheart Dardar / August 6th, 2011 On April 30th 2012 there is going to be a party in Louisiana, a celebration marking the states bicentennial; two hundred years of American statehood. As the...
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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...
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...
Saturday 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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Save Our Schools March NEWS #sosmarch #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Save Our Schools March NEWSSaturday, Aug. 06, 2011ArchivesSave Our Schools March NEWSPublished by Coopmike48 – 50 news spotters todayNext update in about 12 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONS...
Last 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 ...
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Secret Ravitch Group at Duncan's DOE? #SOSMarch Secret Ravitch Group at Duncan's DOE?
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Secret Ravitch Group at Duncan's DOE?Secret Ravitch Group at Duncan's DOE? Bush media whore, Williams waspaid to defend NCLB. Suggestion for journalists, especially...
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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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