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'Kids run wild, teachers are scared' at many public schools
nydailynews.com - Anthony DelMundo for News The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance at 125 Stuyvesant Avenue in Brooklyn is considered the most dangerous school in New York City. A Brooklyn high school co-founded by ...
DianeRavitchObama Administration Proceeds with Reform of No Child Left Behind Following Congressional Inaction
ed.gov - August 8, 2011With the new school year fast approaching and still no bill to reform the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, the Obama administration will provide a process for stat...
arneduncanWEEKEND QUOTABLES
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Charles Blow"We risk the creation of an engorged generational underclass born of a culture that has less income equality and fewer prospects for mobility than the previous generation." -- The Decad...
mikeklonskyRupert Murdoch paid Van Schoales’ salary
defensedenver.com - The Grand Poo-Bah of Corporate Irresponsibility, Rupert Murdoch No, we’re not joking. The New York Times reported on July 23, 2011, that: Mr. Murdoch began to put his own money behind Mr. Klein’s e...
DianeRavitchThe trembling at News Corp has only begun Fortune Management
management.fortune.cnn.com - By Geoff Colvin, senior editor at large FORTUNE -- Some people aren't at all surprised by the unending scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. They are the investors, insurers, lawyers, and others w...
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Segregation: New studies show Philly has nation’s most separate and unequal schools, neighborhoods. Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Detroit close behind. | Philadelphia City Paper
citypaper.net - Two new studies show that the Philadelphia region is one of the most separate and unequal when it comes to neighborhoods and schools for blacks, whites, Hispanics and Asians. You can download them ...
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School Cred: How Much Time Have Ed. Reformers Actually Spent in the Classroom?
takepart.com - Melanie Smollin | 1 hour ago | Comments (0) |Flag thisIs a former substitute teacher qualified to reform our classrooms? (Photo: sidewalkflying/Creative Commons)They are among the most influential ...
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President Obama Rewrites the No Child Left Behind Act - Up Front Blog
brookings.edu - August 08, 2011 — The White House has announced its plan to grant waivers of the provisions of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) to states that agree to put in place the education reforms favored by the ...
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TSA Accused of Racially Profiling Hispanics at Newark Airport
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 3:35 pm, August 8, 2011 Photo Credits: TSA Accused of Racially Profiling Hispanics at Newark Airport According an internal report from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA),...
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Police Shooting Leads to Massive Riots, Looting in London
forbes.com - London is ablaze after the police shooting of Mark Duggan sparked riots that have quickly spread across the city. Last Thursday police in London shot and killed Mark Duggan, a north London drug dea...
coopmike48Appeals Court: Rumsfeld can be held liable for torture of U.S. civilians in Iraq
democraticunderground.com - Source: Raw StoryThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday refused to dismiss a lawsuit against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for creating policies that caused Ameri...
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Rupert Murdoch's American Scandals | Rolling Stone Politics
rollingstone.com - By Tim Dickinson August 3, 2011 9:05 AM ET Illustration by Robert Grossman Rupert Murdoch would like you to believe that the voicemail-hacking scandal at the News of the World "went against everyth...
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Credibility, Chutzpah And Debt
nytimes.com - To understand the furor over the decision by Standard & Poor’s, the rating agency, to downgrade U.S. government debt, you have to hold in your mind two seemingly (but not actually) contradictory id...
DianeRavitchUnion Leader: Emanuel ‘Not Telling the Truth’
chicagonewscoop.org - Union representatives for city traffic aides who are facing imminent layoffs filed a labor grievance Tuesday against Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration. In the grievance letter, officials for Serv...
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Mayor mustn’t forget city’s ‘invisible’ poor - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - By Susan Klonsky August 4, 2011 9:44PM Updated: August 5, 2011 10:26AM Living close to two expressway overpasses, I often notice carefully stashed bundles, shopping carts, sleeping bags and cardboa...
tbfurmanI Am More Than a Test Score
huffingtonpost.com - Dear Mom and Dad,It's almost back to school time. I've been thinking about the coming year. I know I'm not an expert, but after seven years of going to school, something seems wrong. Don't misunder...
leoniehaimsonality Check | Gary Rubinstein's TFA Blog
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - First watch the two minutes from 20:30 to 22:50 (up until the moderator asks Rhee if she is a ‘Tiger Mom’) of this excerpt from an interview Michelle Rhee did recently.Now, the video really speaks ...
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Pay of Hedge Fund Managers Roared Back Last Year
nytimes.com - The Lazarus-like recovery of the nation’s big banks did not benefit just the bankers — it also created huge paydays for hedge fund managers, including a record $4 billion gain in 2009 for one bold ...
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Investors Await News Corp. Meeting
online.wsj.com - News Corp. executives will try to use an important board meeting and full-year earnings this week to steer attention away from the scandal at the media giant's U.K. newspapers unit and refocus inve...
leoniehaimsonJersey Jazzman: Made Men
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Made MenMade Menby DukeAs George Carlin said: "It's a big club, and you ain't in it!" As it turns out, a News Corporation division has twice come under significant civil and crimina...
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Judge: Memphis school merger with county legal
boston.com - MEMPHIS, Tenn.—A federal judge has ruled that the merger between Memphis City Schools and its surrounding county school district is legal.It paves the way to create a school system with 150,000 stu...
coopmike48Video shows white teens driving over, killing black man, says DA
democraticunderground.com - Source: CNNJackson, Mississippi (CNN) -- On a recent Sunday morning just before dawn, two carloads of white teenagers drove to Jackson, Mississippi, on what the county district attorney says was a ...
coopmike48All Education Matters: OP-Ed: Freedom of Speech Under Attack - Rockstar05's Attorney Files Motion to Quash Thomas M Cooley Law School's Subpoena
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - All Education Matters: OP-Ed: Freedom of Speech Under Attack - Rockstar05's Attorney Files Motion to Quash Thomas M Cooley Law School's SubpoenaOP-Ed: Freedom of Speech Under Attack - Rockstar05's ...
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