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Call Your Senators STOP !! HR 2218 Bill to expand charter school moves on to U.S. Senate | SeacoastOnline.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Bill to expand charter school moves on to U.S. Senate | SeacoastOnline.com:Bill to expand charter school moves on to U.S. SenateTODAY'S MOST VIEWED ARTICLESIn pursuit of a killer: Suspect has elude...
coopmike48California public school students decline in SAT scores
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Among the interesting details in the latest SAT results from the College Board: California's public school students scored much lower on the high-stakes test than other members of the state's 2011...
mikeklonskyTeach for America Displays Taken Down in Portland and Seattle « Parents Across America
parentsacrossamerica.org - Sep 18, 2011 DoraTaylor According to a previous post on the Seattle Education blog, Parents Across America, Seattle: Part of Protest at Apple Store: Steve Jobs with Apple has gotten on the ed refor...
leoniehaimsonSusan Ochshorn: Charter Ed for the Early Childhood Workforce: A Recipe for Disaster
huffingtonpost.com - Last month, amid a flurry of natural disasters, the Brookings Institution and Rockefeller Foundation dumped a dangerous proposal on the overworked, underpaid, unrespected early childhood workforce....
DianeRavitchThe Case Of Harmony Middle Schools « A "Fuller" Look at Education Issues
fullerlook.wordpress.com - This short post is a teaser about a charter school study I am currently working on that examines student disappearance rates, ability levels of students entering charter schools, and the ability le...
DianeRavitchCharter school offers flexibility to aspiring artists, athletes
statesman.com - By Christina RosalesAMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFFSeventeen-year-old Kevin Fish has won international mountain bike races, has ridden alongside Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and hopes to become a...
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Getting teacher evaluation right - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - Here is an edited version of a briefing on the right way to evaluate teachers that Stanford University Professor Linda Darling-Hammond and other leading education research experts gave this week on...
DianeRavitchDeion Sanders, former Redskin, to open Texas charter school - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - Only in Texas. R enowned athlete Deion Sanders has persuaded the Texas State board of Education to allow him to open a charter school — even though some members expressed concerns about just how ac...
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Budget Woes, Calls for Efficiency Imperil Physics — Higher Education
texastribune.org - Carlos Handy, Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics at Texas Southern University, teach a Physics 2 class in Houston Wednesday, September 14, 2011.Physicist Carlos Handy moved from Georg...
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House passes HB 4929 | Michigan Education Association
mea.org - On a close 55-53 vote today, the House passed HB 4929 which prohibits the deduction of union dues by public school employers. The bill was fast-tracked through the House after being introduced Tues...
fklonskyThe Land of (Unequal) Opportunity « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org The weather changed literally overnight. Yesterday it was shorts and sunglasses. Today...
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New Republican Bill, by Rep Bill Flores, to Speed Up Deportations
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 5:01 pm, September 18, 2011 Photo Credits: Rep Bill Flores of TX co-author bill to expedite deportations This week twenty-one House Republicans introduced house bill H.R. 2952 which ai...
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How Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers and Tim Geithner 'Hijacked' the Obama Presidency
gawker.com - There is a new book out about the Obama presidency—Confidence Men, by Pulitzer-winning former Wall Street Journal writer Ron Suskind—and you know what that means! Hot gossip. Hot political gossip. ...
fklonskyRyan: 'Buffett Rule' class warfare - POLITICO Live
politico.com - September 18, 2011 House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is ripping President Barack Obama's plan to raise taxes on the rich, calling it "class warfare." "Class warfare might make for good poli...
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Chicago’s Mayor Challenges Teachers Union
nytimes.com - CHICAGO — One by one, teachers at public elementary schools here have been voting to buck their own union and take Mayor Rahm Emanuel up on an unusual offer: to accept bonus pay in exchange for wai...
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Kids are Heroes - Kids are making a difference in this world
kidsareheroes.org - Kids are indeed heroes and each one has the power tochange the world.
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The Paradox of Wealth - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Paradox of Wealth - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.:The Paradox of Wealth"But what is overlooked in all the shouting is that paradoxically, the people who have the most to gain fr...
coopmike48Live Blog for #OccupyWallStreet: Day Two
dissenter.firedoglake.com - Yesterday was the first day of Occupy Wall Street, an action inspired by occupations that have taken place in Egypt, Greece, Spain and other countries over the past months. FDL’s The Dissenter has ...
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Recess Is Making a Comeback in Schools
nytimes.com - As more Chicago public schools cash in on Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s longer-day financial incentives by adding 90 minutes to their school day, the previous votes by a dozen schools to add about a half ...
mikeklonskySpeech Therapy 3-2-2011 | Special Needs in Education
edusped.com - Here I am practicing reading words in speech therapy. —————————- OnNovember 25, 2009, I had a stroke. An aneurysm burst in my brain, I began to slur my words and then (apparently) I collapsed on th...
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Marketing of Menopause Creates its Own Misery
womensenews.org - There's no one size fits all for menopause, says Dr. Wulf Utian in his new book "Change Your Menopause," released this month during National Menopause Awareness Month. In this excerpt he says confu...
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Michael Moore On His Penchant For 'Trouble' : NPR
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Michael Moore On His Penchant For 'Trouble' : NPR: Michael Moore On His Penchant For 'Trouble'Michael Moore didn't plan on becoming a filmmaker. As a teenager growing up in the Midwest, he consider...
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Jon Stewart Ailes | Jon Stewart Esquire | Esquire Daily Show
mediaite.com - In the latest issue of Esquire, writer Tom Junod analyzes the serious side of The Daily Show and compares comedian Jon Stewart to Fox News president Roger Ailes. Junod devotes most of the article t...
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Live Blog for #OccupyWallStreet: Day Two
dissenter.firedoglake.com - Yesterday was the first day of Occupy Wall Street, an action inspired by occupations that have taken place in Egypt, Greece, Spain and other countries over the past months. FDL’s The Dissenter has ...
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Liberatos Pizza & Parmigiana - New York City - Order food online Seamless.com
seamless.com - [ close ] You place your order Simply order whatever you or your coworkers are hungry for at Seamless.com or using the Seamless smartphone app. We send it to the restaurant We immediately beam your...
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Kids are Heroes - Kids are making a difference in this world
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