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Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson weds Michelle Rhee

news10.net - SACRAMENTO, CA - Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson tied the knot with fiancee Michelle Rhee in a Knoxville, Tenn. ceremony Saturday. The couple had originally scheduled their vows for September of las...

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Arne the Bus Driver Back To School Tour | ED.gov Blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Back To School Tour | ED.gov Blog: Education and the EconomyInvesting in Our FutureThe “Education and the Economy” Back-to-School Bus Tour takes Secretary Arne Duncan and senior ED staff to more th...

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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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New Yorkers Say Mayor Has Not Improved Schools

nytimes.com - New Yorkers are broadly dissatisfied with the quality of their public schools, and most say the city’s school system has stagnated or declined since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took control of it ni...

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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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School ‘Reform’: A Failing Grade by Diane Ravitch

nybooks.com - Eli Reed/Magnum Photos Children on the playground of Fairbanks Elementary School, Springfield, MissouriIt is a well-known fact that American education is in crisis. Black and Hispanic children have...

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School ‘Reform’: A Failing Grade by Diane Ravitch

nybooks.com - Eli Reed/Magnum Photos Children on the playground of Fairbanks Elementary School, Springfield, MissouriIt is a well-known fact that American education is in crisis. Black and Hispanic children have...

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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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Mayor Johnson, Michelle Rhee get married

blogs.sacbee.com - What You Should Know About Comments on Sacbee.comSacbee.com is happy to provide a forum for reader interaction, discussion, feedback and reaction to our stories. However, we reserve the right to de...

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The Day: Ragged Edges Are Showing at N.Y. City Hall

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - To the best of our knowledge, no senior aide to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was arrested overnight, though with this City Hall you never can tell. It may call itself a model of transparency, but tra...

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Ravitch Reads Brill | The G Bitch Spot

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Special Needs Families Face Income Loss

edusped.com - guidetomoreincome.com J Scott Seaman along with his wife has been an advocate for their special needs daughter for close to 30 years. He lives in the Boston area has been in professional sales for ...

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Chicago Shopping

chicagotribune.com - Congressman Joe Walsh fielded some tough questions this morning from a high school government class in Mundelein, with students asking why he plans to boycott a jobs speech by President Barack Obam...

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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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City Beat: Mayor Johnson, Michelle Rhee get married

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - City Beat: Mayor Johnson, Michelle Rhee get married:Mayor Johnson, Michelle Rhee get marriedMayor Kevin Johnson and his fiancée, education reformer Michelle Rhee, were married over the weekend.The ...

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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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Death warrant signed for Troy Anthony Davis

ajc.com - By Bill RankinThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA Chatham County judge on Tuesday signed a death warrant for Troy Anthony Davis, who was convicted of killing a Savannah police officer in 1989.AJC Fil...

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#edreform "Bad To The Bone"

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