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American Schools in Crisis | Saturday Evening Post

saturdayeveningpost.com - (Photo courtesy Radius Images/Corbis)If you read the news magazines or watch TV, you might get the impression that American education is deep in a crisis of historic proportions. The media tell you...

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Schools | Covington: Teachers need new mindset

detnews.com - Last Updated: September 01. 2011 1:02PM Jennifer Chambers/ The Detroit News Detroit — The incoming chancellor of Michigan's new statewide system for failing schools vowed Wednesday to make teacher ...

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Unions and school reform. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - Anthony Cody, an Oakland educator and organizer of the SOS March on Washington, has a regular column in EdWeek. This week he hands it over to John Thompson who argues for teacher unions to be “focu...

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Just up the lake shore from Chicago...

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - New Trier High School Rahm Emanuel continues to turn the longer school day/year issue into a bloody war, battled out with the union in the media. But a few miles up the lake shore, in Rahm's home t...

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Barb Shelly: State lawmakers outsourcing duties to ALEC

kansas.com - By Barb ShellyMake no mistake, legislators in Missouri, Kansas and elsewhere are perfectly capable of coming up with loopy ideas on their own. But some of the more radical ideas emerging from state...

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Rahm's Kids

nbcchicago.com - Is Mayor Rahm Emanuel getting enough sleep? Word is, he checks his e-mail throughout the night, then gets out of bed at 5 a.m. to swim. I’m wondering whether he’s exhausted because in his interview...

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What the Left Doesn’t Understand About Obama

nytimes.com - This has been the summer that liberal discontent with Obama has finally crystallized. The frustration has been simmering for a while — through centrist appointments, bank bailouts and the defeat of...

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Sacramento man arrested for allegedly biting snake

northjersey.com - SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A snake bite in a north Sacramento neighborhood left the victim seriously hurt, but the injured party isn't whom you'd expect. Police say a python underwent emergency surgery a...

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A Look at Just How Bad Texas's Drought Has Been - National

theatlanticwire.com - Anyone who needs further proof of the severity of the drought in Texas this summer--and Texans certainly don't; they just can go outside--need not look further than today's Chart of the Day, below....

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Protect Yourself From Cybercrime « Tangerine, Florida

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Protect Yourself From Cybercrime « Tangerine, Florida: Protect Yourself From Cybercrimeby 5redherringsUse Several Methods of Security, Don’t Rely On Just One!Use anti-virus software:Your anti-virus...

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Protect Yourself From Cybercrime « Tangerine, Florida

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Protect Yourself From Cybercrime « Tangerine, Florida: Protect Yourself From Cybercrimeby 5redherringsUse Several Methods of Security, Don’t Rely On Just One!Use anti-virus software:Your anti-virus...

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