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Low poverty rates = high scores on int'l tests

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - An email from a colleague in California caused me to reflect once again on the results of the 2009 PISA exams. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide evaluation o...

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Global Effort to Recruit Teachers Expands

nytimes.com - Teach for All, an international network of educational nonprofit groups modeled on Teach for America, has grown rapidly since its founding four years ago and now has some 1,500 teachers heading cla...

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TODAYonline | Singapore | Taking the stress out of school

todayonline.com - Taking the stress out of school MOE will review practices to give kids 'holistic, balanced' education: Education Minister Heng by Tan Weizhen 12:54 PM Sep 22, 2011 SINGAPORE - In a move to steer sc...

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BP back from political exile, giving big in 2012 - Dave Levinthal

politico.com - BP has clawed its way back from political purgatory, finding itself right where it was before the Deepwater Horizon disaster: contributing significant cash to candidates happy to take it. The embat...

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Murdoch Keynote Speaker at October Education Summit - Digital Education

blogs.edweek.org - Even amid the phone-hacking scandal surrounding News Corp.-owned News of the World, it appears education remains a big priority for News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch.Murdoch, who launched News Cor...

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Separate but Unequal: Closing the Education Gap - Moderated by Charlayne Hunter-Gault

dubois.fas.harvard.edu - August 18, 2011 Separate but Unequal: Closing the Education Gap Old Whaling Church, 89 Main Street, Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University presents its annual...

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Oprah-Backed Charter School Denying Disabled Collides With Law

news.businessweek.com - (PHOTO: Lawrence Melrose, 16, and his great uncle, Shelton Joseph, in their New Orleans home. Photographer: John Hechinger.) Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- When talk-show host Oprah Winfrey handed a $1 mi...

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Review of Incomplete: How Middle Class Schools Aren't Making the Grade

nepc.colorado.edu - Review of: Incomplete: How Middle Class Schools Aren't Making the Grade by Tess Stovall and Deirdre Dolan Third Way September 12, 2011 Incomplete: How Middle Class Schools Aren’t Making the Grade i...

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Mixed Feelings about CMS’s Broad Prize « Parents Across America

parentsacrossamerica.org - Sep 21, 2011 pagrundy PAA co-founder Pamela Grundy has a son in fifth grade in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. So we finally won the Broad Prize. After two stints as a finalist, Charlotte-Mecklenbur...

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Fischer Interview on New Orleans Charter Schools - Video

bloomberg.com - Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Kelly Fischer, one of the plaintiffs in a special-education discrimination lawsuit against the state of Louisiana, says last year she was discouraged by a number of charter ...

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Santorum Google | Santorum Definition | What Is Santorum

mediaite.com - GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has, for a while now, had to contend with a rather unique PR problem: Dealing with columnist Dan Savage‘s overwhelmingly successful campaign to introduce a ne...

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Blog U.: Long Distance Mom: Not Even Past - Mama PhD

insidehighered.com - By Elizabeth Coffman September 21, 2011 7:18 pm EDT I’ve seen two films recently that reflect on the lives of women who work away from their children for jobs, opportunity and money. The Help, base...

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Spanish Teachers Strike to Protest Education Budget Cuts « VOA Breaking News

blogs.voanews.com - Posted Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 at 12:10 pm Thousands of public school teachers in Spain's central Madrid region went on strike Tuesday to protest education budget and staff cuts, as the count...

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Rupert Murdoch giving keynote at Jeb Bush’s ed reform summit

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - “We were motivated to invite Mr. Murdoch after reading his eloquent speech before G8 Summit on leveraging the power of technology to improve education.” -- Jaryn Emhof, communications director fo...

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‘Unfailing’ ignorance - NYPOST.com

nypost.com - On the scale of dumb and dumber, it is hard to top this one: a football player, his team losing by 50 points, scores a TD and spikes the ball in the end zone in macho triumph. Or this one: New York...

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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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New blog resource on Illinois pension fight. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - From Glen Brown: Dear Colleagues, Please forward this link to everyone! Please tell others to forward it to as many people as possible, especially Illinois teachers. Though this website will be a c...

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Is Twitter Blocking Troy Davis from Trending Topics? Nope. « Student Activism

studentactivism.net - Short answer? No. For starters, Twitter has denied that they’ve blocked “Troy Davis” (or #TroyDavis, or any other variant) from trending. Different topics relating to the story have been trending l...

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Bronx DA seek indictments for 17 cops

nydailynews.com - Getty "It's going to be the biggest scandal this department has seen in a long time," said one source said of the ticket-fixing investigation. Prosecutors will ask a grand jury Tuesday to indict 17...

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A Day of Shame for Georgia

readersupportednews.org - Bianca Jagger writes: "The execution of Troy Davis is nothing less than state-sanctioned murder. Today, the 20th of September 2011, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles refused clemency t...

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Troy Davis wants polygraph ahead of execution

reuters.com - ATLANTA | Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:59am EDT ATLANTA (Reuters) - A condemned man set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for killing a Georgia police officer in a high-profile case wants a pol...

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Hot News & Views | AlterNet

alternet.org - It's bedtime, children, so put on your jammies, scootch under the covers, and I'll tell you another "Perry Tale."Once again, the Texas-governor-who-wants-to-be-your-president is flitting hither, th...

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Jon Stewart on Just How Ridiculous 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Was - Entertainment

theatlanticwire.com - Last night, Jon Stewart managed to mark the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and tout his Emmy award win in same kick-off segment (before the extended interview with Confidence Men author Ron Suskind)....

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Home - Inside Higher Ed

insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...

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Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: Day Five, 99 Percenters Rise Up

dissenter.firedoglake.com - Support for Occupy Wall Street is growing by the hour. Solidarity actions in Chicago, Phoenix and Paris, France, are all getting off the ground. In Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Atlanta, actions are ...

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