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Texas refineries may get back $135M
galvestondailynews.com - By Ramit Plushnick-MastiAssociated PressPublished September 26, 2011 PASADENA, Texas — Three commissioners appointed by Gov. Rick Perry may grant some of the nation's largest refineries a tax refun...
mikeklonskyCircular Reasoning at the Gates: Education Nation off to a Confusing Start - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - Last September NBC brought us the first Education Nation, developed in coordination with the release of the pro-charter documentary, Waiting For Superman. The network ran into a few bumps in the ro...
DianeRavitchTimothy D. Slekar: Can Teachers Opt Out?
huffingtonpost.com - But if we don't all opt out, then teachers become complicit in their own demise and that of their students and communities-don't think for a moment that if you as a teacher or school "play by their...
DianeRavitch2011 - News & Events
soe.unc.edu - From the dean In reforming schools, let's rely on evidence, not ideology By Bill McDiarmid Recently, a somewhat chastened Bill Gates admitted in an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Ri...
DianeRavitchStandardized tests for everyone? In the Internet age, that’s the wrong answer.
washingtonpost.com - When Frederick J. Kelly invented the multiple-choice test in 1914, he was addressing a national crisis. The ranks of students attending secondary school had swollen from 200,000 in 1890 to more tha...
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Obama’s NCLB waivers: Do flaws outweigh benefits? - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by Monty Neill, executive director of FairTest, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, a Boston-based non-profit dedicated to ending the misuse of tests. He is writing about...
mikeklonskyThe selling of school choice
wisconsinwatch.org - Walmart family heirs and others are changing the face of education in WisconsinHeirs to the Walmart fortune, including Alice and Jim Walton, have given thousands to Wisconsin political candidates s...
DianeRavitchDear Governor Brown, Please Sign AB250 For High Quality Education Into Law!
k12newsnetwork.com - by cynthia on September 24, 2011 Your urgent action is needed by October 6, 2011! An important education bill that shifts the state toward high-quality education for all and Common Core Standards i...
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Privatizing Public Education, Higher Ed Policy, and Teachers
alecexposed.org - Undermining Protections for Students With Disabilities The ALEC Special Needs Scholarship Act has been introduced in Wisconsin as AB 110 by Rep. Michelle Litjens, and co-sponsored in the Senate by ...
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Videos Show Police Using Pepper Spray at Protest on the Financial System
nytimes.com - For a few moments on Saturday, the confrontations between the police and the protesters just south of Union Square in Manhattan seemed fairly typical. People pushed, the police shoved and arrests w...
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Go To Church Or Go To Jail: Alabama Rejects The Constitution
addictinginfo.org - This court is now in session for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Repent or be jailed.In a breathtaking assault on the First Amendment, The town of Bay Minette, Alabama has decided to give non-vi...
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Report from the Field: Race to the Bottom How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other NYC Educator: A Fine Day for a Sellout Is Tenure a Strike Issue?Moskowitz Aims Charters at Wealthy- So Much for Closing the Achievement
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NYC Educator: There Are Times...
nyceducator.com - ...when a man has to make the supreme sacrifice and go to work. For me, that day is today. Now I don't expect much sympathy, because it's likely the same for you. On the upside, I have the best job...
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Guitar Lesson 3
ideasandthoughts.org - I'm not sure why I'm calling these lessons, since they really aren't anything more than me reflecting and updating my progress. I don't think it shows much on the video but I feel decent about m...
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Council Plans to Investigate Digital Effort by the Mayor
nytimes.com - The City Council said Monday that it would investigate cost overruns and delays in the Bloomberg administration’s project of modernizing the personnel system for the municipal work force. ...
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A Campaign Finance Ruling Turned to Labor’s Advantage
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Labor unions are seizing on last year’s landmark Supreme Court campaign finance ruling to change how they engage in politics, developing ambitious plans to influence nonunion household...
fklonskyProfessor Obama Returns to Bay Area
baycitizen.org - The Barack Obama who rolled up his shirt sleeves and proclaimed himself a "warrior" for the working class while barnstorming the country during the past two weeks did not appear on Monday when the ...
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100 years later, Channel Island wetlands to be restored
latimesblogs.latimes.com - A major restoration project could bring back a long-degraded wetland to one of the remote islands off the Southern California coast. Workers have broken ground on a $1-million project that will cu...
coopmike48Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog: Sleep Well Daughter of Africa, Wangari Maathai
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog: Sleep Well Daughter of Africa, Wangari Maathai:Sleep Well Daughter of Africa, Wangari Maathaiby L. JablonskiLet us join the people of Kenya in mourning the death and cel...
coopmike48Schools of the Future Report
cde.ca.gov - SAN MATEO—California should retool its school construction process to foster 21st century learning, streamline school-building regulations to help create jobs, and change state law to encourage cam...
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Del Monte Cash for Teachers $25 Coupon Fruit & Veg Giveaway
k12newsnetwork.com - Win $25 in gift certificates for Del Monte fresh fruit!K12NN is participating in Del Monte’s free giveaway of fresh fruit! Thanks to Del Monte, I’ll be giving away 3 sets of $25 gift certificates t...
K12NNIt Takes People to Make a Change, Not a Government (Guest post by student Diego Negrón Reichard) « Cooperative Catalyst
coopcatalyst.wordpress.com - ( in Spanish and English) Vivo en Puerto Rico. Un paÃs de decir, pero no hacer, de ver, pero no creer, de querer algo, pero no lo suficiente como para tomarlo en nuestras manos, de esperar, pero s...
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Billboard Attacking Cheese Installed Near Green Bay |
bluecheddar.net - A Washington DC-based organization called Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has installed a billboard near Green Bay, Wisconsin. [They're called "PCRM" for short] There is so much wrong...
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Rocking the House at Education Nation: JA-MIE FID-LER, JA-MIE FID-LER, JA-MIE FID-LER How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other NYC Educator: A Fine Day for a Sellout Is Tenure a Strike Issue?Moskowitz Aims Charters at W
ednotesonline.blogspot.com - Last Updated: Monday, Sept. 26, 8AM [See my live tweets below the fold] A new star rose in the firmament tonight last night at Education Nation as PS 261K teacher Jamie Fidler, one of the stars of ...
DianeRavitchNBC Education Nation: How To Participate Online
edudemic.com - We’re back at Education Nation and ready for the morning panelists. To keep up with some of the events of today, you can follow the participants on Twitter! There are a number of discussion panels ...
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Charter Reforms Coming to the New Jersey Senate #educationnation #TeachersEdNat
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Charter Reforms Coming to the New Jersey Senate:CHARTER REFORMS COMING TO THE NJ SENATE! PLEASE TAKE 3 MINUTES TO ENSURE THEIR PASSAGEThanks to your efforts, New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sw...
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Dear Governor Brown, Please Sign AB250 For High Quality Education Into Law!
k12newsnetwork.com - by cynthia on September 24, 2011 Your urgent action is needed by October 6, 2011! An important education bill that shifts the state toward high-quality education for all and Common Core Standards i...
K12NNSAVE THE DATE! California School Funding 101: How the State... - Eventbrite
caschoolfund101.eventbrite.com - presents SAVE THE DATE! California School Funding 101: How the State Funds Your School -- Saturday, October 15, 2011 -- Fullerton, United States
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