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Vito Perrone Sr., Who Fought Standardized Tests, Dies at 78
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Harvard Public Affairs & Communications OfficeVito Perrone Sr., in 1997 with students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he taught. He advocated for flexible teaching methods that...
mikeklonskyMaking a Digital Promise to our Students
whitehouse.gov - Posted by Arne Duncan on September 16, 2011 at 09:07 AM EDT Over the past two decades, technology has dramatically transformed the way we live and work. Yet despite this progress, technology has ye...
arneduncanShort school day is time-honored Chicago tradition
articles.chicagotribune.com - Contrary to what many believe, school days in Chicago were actually shorter… (Chicago Tribune archive photo)September 13, 2011|By Monica Eng, Tribune reporterFor Chicago Public School kids of my vi...
mikeklonskyNewark Is Betting on a Wave of New Principals
nytimes.com - NEWARK — There is Sonn Sam, a Rhode Island transplant who could be mistaken for one of the students at his alternative high school, with his shaven head, sneakers and tattooed left arm. ...
mikeklonskyGOP Senators Introduce Own ESEA Renewal Bills
edweek.org - WashingtonA group of key U.S. Senate Republicans—led by Sen. Lamar Alexander, of Tennessee, a former U.S. secretary of education—are going their own way on reauthorization of the No Child Left Behi...
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For or Against Children
rethinkingschools.org - Fall 2011 By Ken Libby & Adam Sanchez Last October, a friend called with a question: “What do you know about Stand for Children?” The advocacy organization, based in our hometown of Portland, Ore.,...
mikeklonskySchool: It's way more boring than when you were there - Education
salon.com - Sarah, the daughter of Ghanese immigrants, got every word right and hit every note with church-choir perfection. And from Rikkie, the highly intelligent, perhaps brilliant, boy, whose father is ser...
leoniehaimsonChicago Voices Educators Toolkit | Voices of a People’s History of the US
peopleshistory.us - What's in it and how do I get one? September 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012WHAT'S IN THE CHICAGO VOICES EDUCATORS TOOLKIT? The Chicago Voices Educators Toolkit includes a DVD, several books, and a pre-loa...
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Free to Die
nytimes.com - Back in 1980, just as America was making its political turn to the right, Milton Friedman lent his voice to the change with the famous TV series “Free to Choose.” In episode after episode, the geni...
fklonskyAlarmism: You’re Doing It Wrong
firedoglake.com - No no no, Mayor Bloomberg! It’s the national debt that will destroy America, not unemployment! You’re supposed to be trying to terrify Congress and the White House into cutting spending, not creat...
coopmike48'Governor's Council' on Kids' Fitness May Not Have Brown's Support - The Bay Citizen
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 'Governor's Council' on Kids' Fitness May Not Have Brown's Support - The Bay Citizen:'Governor's Council' on Kids' Fitness May Not Have Brown's Supportby Katharine MieszkowskiOn Wednesday, Gov. Jer...
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Perry Repeats Socialist Charge Against Obama Policies
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - September 15, 2011, 7:20 pm By SARAH WHEATONIn an interview with Time magazine, Gov. Rick Perry showed that he had no intention of softening the cactus-thorned rhetoric he developed during his deca...
mikeklonskyRobert Reich (The Election of 2012: Why the Most Important Issues May Be Off the Table (But Should Be On It))
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Robert Reich (The Election of 2012: Why the Most Important Issues May Be Off the Table (But Should Be On It)):The Election of 2012: Why the Most Important Issues May Be Off the Table (But Should Be...
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Hillary Clinton at APEC: Women the key to economic growth
northjersey.com - SAN FRANCISCO — Women are the great untapped resource that can help the global economy recover and expand, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday as the U.S. and 20 other nations ple...
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Soaring Poverty Casts Spotlight on ‘Lost Decade’
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Another 2.6 million people slipped into poverty in the United States last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, and the number of Americans living below the official poverty line, ...
mikeklonskyComcast offers discount Internet access for low-income youth
democraticunderground.com - Source: Detroit NewsLast Updated: September 16. 2011 4:52PMComcast offers discount Internet access for low-income youthJosh Katzenstein/ The Detroit NewsDetroit— Hoping to bridge the technological ...
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California Legislature Passes Bill to Study State-Owned Bank
coto2.wordpress.com - By Ellen BrownYes! Magazine AB 750, California’s bill to study the feasibility of establishing a state-owned bank that would receive deposits of state funds, has passed both houses of the legislatu...
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Texas: U.S. Supreme Court Halts Execution
nytimes.com - The United States Supreme Court Thursday halted the execution of a black man convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago after his lawyers contended his sentence was unfair because of a ques...
fklonskyGirls allegedly threaten violence at Mass. school
boston.com - PLYMOUTH, Mass.—Four girls at a Plymouth high school are being investigated for allegedly referencing the Columbine killings in online threats.A student and a parent brought the alleged Facebook th...
coopmike48Supreme Court Stops Texas Execution
news.firedoglake.com - The Supreme Court made the rare decision to step in and order a stay of execution for Duane Edward Buck in Texas, hours before he was to die, because the jury sentencing him to death was told that ...
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Racial Bias Seen in Study of Lead Dust and Children
nytimes.com - A class-action lawsuit was filed Thursday against a prominent Baltimore medical institute, accusing it of knowingly exposing black children as young as a year old to lead poisoning in the 1990s as ...
fklonskyEducation Research Report: Preschoolers' grasp of numbers predicts math performance in school years Preschoolers' grasp of numbers predicts math performance in school years
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Education Research Report: Preschoolers' grasp of numbers predicts math performance in school years:Preschoolers' grasp of numbers predicts math performance in school yearsΩStudy reveals link betwe...
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'Governor's Council' on Kids' Fitness May Not Have Brown's Support - The Bay Citizen
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 'Governor's Council' on Kids' Fitness May Not Have Brown's Support - The Bay Citizen:'Governor's Council' on Kids' Fitness May Not Have Brown's Supportby Katharine MieszkowskiOn Wednesday, Gov. Jer...
coopmike48Modern School: Go Tacoma Go! Teachers Defy Judge’s Injunction
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: Go Tacoma Go! Teachers Defy Judge’s Injunction:Go Tacoma Go! Teachers Defy Judge’s Injunctionby Michael DunnTacoma teachers have defied a judge’s order to return to work, forcing the...
coopmike48Robert Reich (The Election of 2012: Why the Most Important Issues May Be Off the Table (But Should Be On It))
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Robert Reich (The Election of 2012: Why the Most Important Issues May Be Off the Table (But Should Be On It)):The Election of 2012: Why the Most Important Issues May Be Off the Table (But Should Be...
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