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School Tech Connect: Everyone Has A Price
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Everyone Has A Price: Everyone Has A Priceby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)And in some Chicago Public Schools, it's pretty low. So many questions. Are all of the schools where the t...
coopmike48In 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 Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores
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...
leoniehaimsonIn 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 ...
fklonskyTeacher pay, evaluations tied to student data - Miami-Dade
miamiherald.com - More than a grade will be at stake when Jessica Fishbein’s 10th-grade students take the reading FCAT in the spring.Depending on their performance: Extra pay for their teacher and part of her annual...
DianeRavitchNo Child Left Behind: A conspiracy against public education that too few called out
blogs.ajc.com - A while back, I ran a piece from Jim Arnold, superintendent of Pelham City Schools in Mitchell County. Several of you commented that you wished you worked for such a straight-talking school chief.I...
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Supporters of Education Bill Seek to Replace Money Lost in Budget-Cutting Process
nytimes.com - The state budget that Gov. Pat Quinn signed on June 30 is missing a key component sought by education advocates: money. In the final days of the session, lawmakers stripped more than $5...
DianeRavitchIn Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores
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...
DianeRavitchDaily 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...
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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...
mikeklonskyNew Report Shows Alarming Rates of Poverty Among U.S. Children | PBS NewsHour | Aug. 18, 2011
pbs.org - JEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight, another in our series on inequality. Judy Woodruff looks at some new and troubling numbers about its impact on the youngest Americans. JUDY WOODRUFF: It's been w...
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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Ozone 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...
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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...
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Labor Day Showdown: Can Advocates Stop ‘NAFTA of the Pacific’?
my.firedoglake.com - Cross-posted from Colorlines.com This Labor Day, the Pacific Rim will wash into the Midwest’s flagship city, and activists will confront the tides of global commerce with a demand for global econom...
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BREAKING NEWS!!!! God Saves E4E Crew!
southbronxschool.com - Whew! If there ever was a time to sit down, think, and praise God, now is the time. Except if you are an agnostic or atheist.It has been reported by Educators4Excellence on their official Facebook ...
coopmike48Daily Kos: I don't belong here
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: I don't belong here: I don't belong hereby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)this is a reposting of a diary from more than 4 years ago that I just encountered while looking for something else...
coopmike48Four Ways QR Codes Could Revolutionize Education
huffingtonpost.com - RT @davewiner "there was no credible scientific basis for the conclusion that arson had been committed". http://r2.ly/g3ym "there was no credible scientific basis for the conclusion that arson had ...
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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...
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Obama Blows Chance to Force Stimulus Spending by Corporations
firedoglake.com - Oil Refinery Burn-off. (photo: dasroofless) President Obama asked the Environmental Protection Agency to kill a rule lowering permitted ozone emissions by giant Corporate Citizens, like utilities a...
coopmike48Capitulation 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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Health Care - California Teachers Association
cta.org - The CTA-opposed measure, SB 161, requiring school employees to rectally administer the drug valium to students experiencing epileptic seizures while in classes, has cleared both the Assembly and th...
leoniehaimsonCDC: 2 children sickened by new swine flu strain
northjersey.com - A new strain of swine flu has shown up in two children in Pennsylvania and Indiana who had direct or indirect contact with pigs. The virus includes a gene from the 2009 pandemic strain that might l...
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Daily Kos: I don't belong here
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: I don't belong here: I don't belong hereby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)this is a reposting of a diary from more than 4 years ago that I just encountered while looking for something else...
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School Tech Connect: More Chicago Nonsense
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: More Chicago Nonsense: More Chicago Nonsenseby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)He Who Raises The BarI know there are people for whom the Common Core Standards are the ultimate in fant...
coopmike48Back to school: How parent involvement affects student achievement (At a glance)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Back to school: How parent involvement affects student achievement (At a glance): Back to school: How parent involvement affects student achievement (At a glance) It may be one of the least controv...
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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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