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Our own worst enemies. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - I don’t know the teachers at the three schools who voted to waive their Collective Bargaining Agreement rights and take the Mayor’s offer for 90 extra minutes a day and what is essentially 2% less ...

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The Persistence of Political Misperceptions

springerlink.com - Keywords Misperceptions - Misinformation - Ignorance - Knowledge - Correction - Backfire A previous version of this paper was presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Political Science...

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Obama Administration Announces $500 Million for Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge

ed.gov - U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced a new $500 million state-level grant competition, the Race to the Top-Early Le...

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Education Resources People's Choice Awards: Vote Now!

education-portal.com - Getting a degree is no easy task. That's why Education-Portal.com is honoring the Best Education Resources for Students. Learn about the nominees and vote for your favorite! Voting ends October 21s...

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Supersized Buyouts for School Chiefs Scrutinized

edweek.org - Published Online: September 7, 2011Arlene Ackerman’s $905,000 settlement with the Philadelphia district grabbed headlines, but she isn’t the only Pennsylvania superintendent who has been shown the ...

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On Tape, Perry Quipped Texans "Thinking About" Secession — 2012 Presidential Election

texastribune.org - As Gov. Rick Perry begins criss-crossing the nation in pursuit of the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, one of his most controversial utterances as governor — his flirtation with secession a...

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Interactive: State of Metropolitan America Indicator Map - Brookings Institution - State of Metropolitan America

brookings.edu - The John L. Thornton China Center develops analysis and policy recommendations to help address key long-term challenges, both in terms of U.S.-China relations and China's internal development. Suza...

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Education "Reformers" Next Target? "One-Size-Fits-All" Democracy

huffingtonpost.com - Now that they've had some success destroying public education, the school reform privateers are setting their sights on something even more precious and fundamental to our nation -- our democracy.Y...

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My District Spent $33 Million on Technology and All I Got Are These Lousy Test Scores « The Core Knowledge Blog

blog.coreknowledge.org - Maybe the medium is not the message. Voters in the Kyrene school district, which serves students in Tempe, Phoenix and Chandler, Arizona approved spending $33 million on education technology, and a...

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Chicago Shopping

chicagotribune.com - Mundelein High School students obliged when U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh encouraged them to ask him questions during a visit to their Advanced Placement government class Tuesday.Why, Emily Colon asked, did ...

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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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Duncan to Talk Education and the Economy in Swing States - Politics K-12

blogs.edweek.org - U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan always bristles at the political side of his cabinet secretary gig. He says that K-12 education is a bipartisan issue and that he wants to work with both sid...

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Romney unveils his jobs plan with a dig at Obama

articles.cnn.com - He promised to bring the corporate tax rate down from the current level of 35% to 25%, in line with much of the rest of the world, saying, "I will do that on day one." He also pledged to immediatel...

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Audio: Chris Christie Lets Loose at Secret Koch Brothers Confab

motherjones.com - Wed Sep. 7, 2011 3:00 AM PDTClick for Part 1 of this two-part series: "Exclusive Audio: Inside The Koch Brothers Secret Seminar Also read Gavin Aronsen's breakdown of top Koch donors: "Exclusive: T...

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Making Meetings Meaningful | Connected Principals

connectedprincipals.com - Posted by bharrison on 9/07/11 • Categorized as Best Educational Practices http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkadog/3574742620/sizes/o/in/photostream/ One of the more humorous definitions of a meeting...

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Guns and Tragedy - Forbes

forbes.com - Mistermix at Balloon Juice writes: The story of a Rochester area man who killed his 10 year-old and 3 year-old daughters over the weekend didn’t even make the national news, because some nut in Nev...

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Here Are The Sites I Used In My 9/11 Lesson Today

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Sep 07 2011 Larry FerlazzoYesterday, I posted about my plans for a three-day 9/11 lesson (it’s going pretty well). I thought it might be helpful for readers to see the websites I showed, and in wha...

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Federal Report Illustrates Low-income Texans Struggle to Afford Good Nutrition

cppp.org - E-Mail This ArticleAuthor:Celia Cole /(512) 320-0222 x110September 7, 2011 Read Full Article >> The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its annual report that illustrates the struggle l...

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Don't Trash Talk the Tubers (or Corn, Peas, or Lima Beans) - Politics K-12

blogs.edweek.org - From guest blogger Nirvi Shah:As the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee gets together this afternoon to talk about the 2012 agriculture budget, I wonder whether the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

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Variability in Pretest-Posttest Correlation Coefficients by Student Achievement Level

educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩState assessments are increasingly used as outcome measures for education evaluations and pretest scores are generally used as control variables in these evaluations. The correlation between the p...

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Troy Anthony Davis' execution set for Sept. 21

ajc.com - By Bill RankinThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionThe Georgia Department of Corrections has set the execution of Troy Anthony Davis for 7 p.m. on Sept. 21.AJC FileTroy Anthony Davis was sentenced to de...

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Fake-address mom isn’t a felon any more — Joanne Jacobs

joannejacobs.com - Lying to get children into a better school should be a misdemeanor, Ohio Gov. John Kasich has decided, overruling the state parole board. Kelley Williams-Bolar, of Akron, served nine days in jail f...

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Charges lessened in Ohio school fake-address case

boston.com - COLUMBUS, Ohio—Ohio governor John Kasich (KAY'-sik) has reduced the charges against a woman jailed for using her father's address to enroll her children in a neighboring school district.Kelley Will...

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