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Working Together to Create World-Class Schools

whitehouse.gov - Posted by Arne Duncan on September 06, 2011 at 06:00 AM EDT Now that our nation’s children are back in school, I will be travelling through six states with this important message: our nation’s long...

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School ‘Reform’: A Failing Grade by Diane Ravitch

nybooks.com - Drawing by Edward LearIn Brill’s telling, anyone who opposes DFER’s definition of school reform is a defender of the status quo or a tool of the unions. He disparages the eminent scholar Linda Darl...

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The Pearson Graduate - The Texas Observer

texasobserver.org - It’s not hard to imagine Pearson’s vision of utopia.Pearson is a London-based mega-corporation that owns everything from the Financial Times to Penguin Books, and also dominates the business of edu...

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Troubled Schools Try Mimicking the Charters

nytimes.com - HOUSTON — Classrooms are festooned with college pennants. Hallway placards proclaim: “No Excuses!” Students win prizes for attendance. They start classes earlier and end later than their neighbors;...

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Race, Charter Schools, and Conscious Capitalism:

hepg.org - Symposium: Unraveling the Double Bind: Women of Color in STEM Editors of the Harvard Educational Review The Double Bind: The Next Generation Lindsey E. Malcom and Shirley M. Malcom Inside the Doubl...

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Working-age adults make up record share of US poor

northjersey.com - WASHINGTON — Working-age America is the new face of poverty. Counting adults 18-64 who were laid off in the recent recession as well as single twenty-somethings still looking for jobs, the new wor...

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Wausau, Madison, Milwaukee and More |

bluecheddar.net - (There might be a few more errors in this post than normal tonight and you and I will just have to accept the fact. I have to leave for the 150th Solidarity Sing Along tonight. Which is sort of a ...

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Technology Immersion | Connected Principals

connectedprincipals.com - This is a cross post from my blog. As one of the technology leaders at my school, I have had to immerse myself in technology. This post describes some of the tools that I use on a day to day basis...

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The billionaire boys (and girls) club

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Charles (left) and David Koch.Gavin Arensen at Mother Jones gives us a list of the biggest wing-nut billionaires who play with the Koch Bros. in their Vail, Colorado retreat. It includes:The DeVose...

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Apoya a tu hijo en el aprendizaje de inglés

vidayfamilia.univision.com - Los niños que leen mucho desarrollan facilidades para los idiomas. La lectura en cualquier idioma ayuda. Pueden leer juntos en español a veces y en inglés a veces. - Thinkstock LLC/Picture Quest VI...

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Finn-esse | Edwize

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Finn-esse | Edwize:Finn-esseby Ron IsaacChester Finn has more listings on his C.V. than there are plankton sucked into the megamouth of a feeding whale shark. Although he is an education policy adv...

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City Councilman Is Handcuffed at West Indian Day Parade

nytimes.com - A city councilman from Brooklyn was placed in handcuffs and briefly detained by the police on Monday afternoon during the West Indian Day Parade after an argument with officers over whether he was ...

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Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value

nytimes.com - CHANDLER, Ariz. — Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They’re studying Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” — but n...

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