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Democurmudgeon: Per Student Funding and Teacher Jobs Cuts Stall the Economy.
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Democurmudgeon: Per Student Funding and Teacher Jobs Cuts Stall the Economy.: Per Student Funding and Teacher Jobs Cuts Stall the Economy.by DemocurmudgeonAs I hear it, we should all be happy Gov. ...
In Honor of Teachers
nytimes.com - Since it’s back-to-school season across the country, I wanted to celebrate a group that is often maligned: teachers. Like so many others, it was a teacher who changed the direction of my life, and ...
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...
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...
The reformers’ obsession with ‘young’ teaching talent - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by educator Anthony Cody, who taught science for 18 years in inner-city Oakland and now works with a team of science teacher-coaches that supports novice teachers. He is a National...
Obama Pulls Back Proposal to Tighten Clean Air Rules
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is abandoning its plan to immediately tighten air-quality rules nationwide to reduce emissions of smog-causing chemicals after an intense lobbying campaign by ...
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A school by day, adult club by night? - Schools
miamiherald.com - By day, the Balare Language Academy is an A-rated charter school, home to children in kindergarten through middle school.But when the kids are tucked into bed, Balare apparently becomes a playgroun...
What I Learned In Kindergarten, And What Education Leaders Missed
accountabletalk.com - I've always been a pretty big fan of Robert Fulghum. If you remember, he wrote one of the first essays to go viral on the internet, way back when people emailed such things to each other rather tha...
If I Was The Chancellor It Will Really Be "Children First" Not "Tweed First, Children Last" As It Is Now.
chaz11.blogspot.com - It is September and the beginning of a new school year but unfortunately, we have the same old failed system run by those non-educators at Tweed along with a puppet Chancellor, the Mayor's poodle, ...
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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...
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...
California officials say jobs riding on transportation bill
latimesblogs.latimes.com - State and local leaders this week used the approaching Labor Day holiday as a platform to call for federal investment in transportation projects, warning that failure to do so would further damage ...
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The Party Line - September 2, 2011: Earthquakes, Hurricane Highlight Serious Flaws with Nuclear Power and its Regulation
my.firedoglake.com - On Friday, August 26, as Hurricane Irene began its slow journey up the US central Atlantic coast, power companies operating 20 nuclear rectors in nine states made plans to deal with the storm and i...
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....
The Week in Review - Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont)
sanders.senate.gov - September 2, 2011 Tropical Storm Irene caused catastrophic flooding throughout Vermont. The state experienced the brunt of a storm that began as a powerful hurricane before blowing into New England...
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Photo: Daniel Pearl High faculty goes purple and black to celebrate API score of 800
dailynews.com - Daniel Pearl Magnet High School Principal Janet Kiddoo, left, laughs on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011, while looking at Diane Seiger, who had her white hair turned to turquoise as Lior Ibgui paints Kiddo...
Middlebury Students Ensure A Garden Flourishes In The Bronx
huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- When the Bronx Academy of Letters opened in 2006, its aging building was part school and part machine shop."We're a school that wasn't even supposed to be here," said Principal Anna Hal...
All Along The Watchtower
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - This video is dedicated to my dad who is a real hendrix fan and who now teaches me playing the guitar... wish I had hendrix' talent! I saw no one else uploaded this version and now I hope you enjoy...
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2 directors leave News Corp. board over hacking scandal
chicagotribune.com - Venture capitalist Thomas Perkins quit News Corp.'s board just weeks after publicly backing Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch, who is dealing with a UK phone hacking scandal that has rocked his media ...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 02, 2011 WASHINGTON- Katherine Abraham, Member of the Council of Economic Advisors, issued the following statement toda...
FHFA Readies Lawsuits Against Top Banks in Mortgage Bond Scandal
news.firedoglake.com - People probably picked up their morning New York Times with their coffee and spat it out (the coffee, not the paper) when they read the headline U.S. Is Set to Sue a Dozen Big Banks Over Mortgages ...
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Featured Speakers
annualconference.nsba.org - General Session SpeakerMonday, April 23Geoffrey Canada2:30 â 4:00 PMIn his 20-plus years with Harlem Childrenâs Zone, Inc., Geoffrey Canada has become a nationally-recognized and passionate adv...
Beyond Bravery Women Of 9/11 | Soledad O'Brien | Video
mediaite.com - Video Media outlets across the spectrum are gearing up for the tenth anniversary of 9/11 with a variety of specials, retrospectives and in-depth interviews. CNN, however, is offering something mark...
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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Michigan Bill To Privatize Public School Teaching Sparks Concerns
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Michigan Bill To Privatize Public School Teaching Sparks Concerns: Joy ResmovitsJoy.resmovits@huffingtonpost.comBecome a fan of this reporterGET UPDATES FROM JOYLike498Michigan Bill To Privatize Pu...
Ohio board: No pardon in school fake-address case - Boston.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Ohio board: No pardon in school fake-address case - Boston.com: Ohio board: No pardon in school fake-address caseBy Andrew Welsh-HugginsAP Legal Affairs Writer / September 2, 2011E-mail|Print|Comme...
“Number One Teacher” – A Poem for THAT Teacher! « Diary of a Public School Teacher!
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - “Number One Teacher” – A Poem for THAT Teacher! « Diary of a Public School Teacher!: “Number One Teacher” – A Poem for THAT Teacher!I found this in my piles of ‘teacher stuff”, I think one of my st...
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Top 5 Hashtags for Arne Duncan [And Why I Won't #AskArne Anything]
thejosevilson.com - Arne DuncanThe last time I had a chance to interact with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan happened not too long ago over an Elluminate session where some of the best and brightest educators inter...
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