Monday, August 8, 2011

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Big Education Ape: Ed News Now
Big Education Ape: Ed News Now
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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...

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Rupert 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...

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The 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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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...

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Union 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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I 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...

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ality 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...

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Jersey Jazzman: Made Men

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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...

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