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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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