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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 ...
arneduncanIn 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 ...
fklonskyDaily Kos: In Honor of Teachers
dailykos.com - I am now in my 17th year of public school teaching, a profession to which I came as I approached 50. I have been fortunate to work for principals and in schools were teachers and teaching were hon...
DianeRavitchParents Say South Florida Charter School Morphs Into Raunchy Adult Club At Night
foxnews.com - MIAMI – A southern Florida charter school has been sent a letter of complaint after evidence mounted that the facility was being used as a venue for raunchy late-night parties, The Miami Herald re...
DianeRavitchThe 40% solution? NYT editors parrot the Billionaire Boys Club and ignore the research
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Today, in an editorial, the NY Times inveighs against the recent court decision that held that the new teacher evaluation system should be based 20 percent rather than 40 percent on state test scor...
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FWCS signs make the grade | The Journal Gazette
journalgazette.net - FORT WAYNE – Fort Wayne Community Schools received an A from the state this year, and supporters of the district are happy to brag about it. In recent weeks, drivers may have noticed four billboard...
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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 ...
DianeRavitchEnvironmentalists Join Educators in Protesting Obama Policies - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - The New York Times today reported that many environmentalists are expressing frustration at recent policy decisions by the Obama administration. The story carries some strong echoes of the way educ...
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Who Says Education Reform Is the ‘Civil Rights Issue of Our Time’?
editbarry.wordpress.com - Little Rock, August 20, 1959. Rally at state capitol, protesting the integration of Central High School. (Image via Oxford African American Studies Center, courtesy of the Library of Congress) “The...
mikeklonskyOn Race, the Silence Is Bipartisan
nytimes.com - THE economic crisis in the United States is also a racial crisis. White Americans are hurting, but nonwhite Americans are hurting even more. Yet leaders in both political parties — for different re...
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The Greatest Liberals In American History And What They Did For Our Country
addictinginfo.org - Republicans have villainized liberals for three decades now. They have made efforts over that period of time to tear apart the policies that liberals instituted since the founding of America. Many ...
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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...
mikeklonskyOzone decision: The final green straw? - Darren Goode
politico.com - For green groups, President Barack Obama’s retreat on ozone standards is yet another reason to question how aggressively they want to support his reelection in 2012.Even more bruising: The realizat...
leoniehaimsonJulio Casas, Cuban defense minister and longtime revolutionary, dies of heart failure
democraticunderground.com - Source: Associated PressJulio Casas, Cuban defense minister and longtime revolutionary, dies of heart failureBy Associated Press, Updated: Saturday, September 3, 2:41 PHAVANA — Gen. Julio Casas Reg...
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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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Obama Administration Abandons Stricter Air-Quality Rules
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — President Obama abandoned a contentious new air pollution rule on Friday, buoying business interests that had lobbied heavily against it, angering environmentalists who called the move...
leoniehaimsonCapitulation on Ozone Much Worse When You Learn the Context
news.firedoglake.com - I think this delay of ozone regulations is an even bigger deal if you consider the context. Brad Plumer has that story. Basically, what happened is that the Bush Administration dragged its feet on ...
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Featured Speakers
annualconference.nsba.org - General Session SpeakerMonday, April 23Geoffrey Canada2:30 – 4:00 PMIn his 20-plus years with Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc., Geoffrey Canada has become a nationally-recognized and passionate adv...
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A Dance With Dragons
quickanded.com - If I were a better man I would have spent the summer reading Proust, but with a 16-month-old baby at home it’s hard enough to stay awake during the day, so I read all five Song of Ice and Fire book...
coopmike48Sagging-pants Green Day singer kicked off plane
sfgate.com - Nam Y. Huh / AP Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day (09-02) 16:42 PDT OAKLAND -- Southwest Airlines to Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong: You dress like an American idiot. According to a messag...
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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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School Tech Connect: Value Not Added
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Value Not Added: Value Not Addedby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)I would just like to point out that there's always excellent writing going on over at School Finance 101, but this r...
coopmike48Modern School: Privatizing Education As Quickly As Possible
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: Privatizing Education As Quickly As Possible: Privatizing Education As Quickly As Possible Thanks to Chris Guerrieri, from Education Matters, for picking up the following: Huck/Konop...
coopmike48Your Hub - Program brings teacher from China to Mountain Range High School
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Your Hub - Program brings teacher from China to Mountain Range High School: Program brings teacher from China to Mountain Range High SchoolZhou Ying is one of 25 teachers from China and Egypt selec...
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Save Our Schools March NEWS #NOLAED #SOSMARCH
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Save Our Schools March NEWS: Friday, Sep. 02, 2011ArchivesSave Our Schools March NEWSPublished by Coopmike48 – 13 news spotters todayNext update in about 12 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONS...
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Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRank #EDREFORM #EDCHAT #WIUnion #sosmarch #p2 #pfla #1u
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRankHide7.9Blue Jersey:: Ed Reform 101: Teachers Unions2011-Sep-2Blue Jersey:: Ed Reform 101: Teachers Unions: Ed Reform 101: Teachers Unionsby Jer...
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