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Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.

bronxboropres.nyc.gov - Schedule and Details The Bronx Education Summit will take place on October 15, 2011 from 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM at Lehman College. 8:30 am - 9:00 am Registration (lobby of the Music Building) 9:15am - 1...

DianeRavitch

Teachers Protest Rupert Murdoch At School Summit

huffingtonpost.com - SAN FRANCISCO -- Teachers in the San Francisco Bay area picketed Thursday outside an education conference that features News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch as a keynote speaker, saying they believe he an...

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Hip-Hop High

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Sam SeidelThere are lots of kids who can't or won't connect with the traditional high school setting. Many brilliant and talented among them drop out and wind up on the street. That's one of the re...

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Jeb Bush's Cyber Attack on Public Schools

motherjones.com - After that, parents are supposed to read the student Make Way for Ducklings. Parents are told to ask, "Why did Mrs. Mallard decide not to hatch her eggs in the public gardens?" Then, K12 instructs ...

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MoveOn.org Civic Action: Defend Occupy Wall Street

civic.moveon.org - Defend Occupy Wall StreetAt 7am tomorrow morning Mayor Bloomberg will effectively evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters from their home in Zuccotti Park.We have less than 24 hours to stop it.We n...

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Editorial: School aides can only help

thereporter.com - It's been a rocky start to the school year in Vacaville's elementary schools, where the state's fiscal crisis trickled down and washed out the vaunted class-size reduction program that limited to 2...

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Jeb Bush's Cyber Attack on Public Schools

motherjones.com - In June 2010, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to give the commencement speech for the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, the state's largest virtual charter school. ECOT, wh...

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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Mid Day Posts

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Mid Day Posts Big Education Ape: STOP Starving America’s Public Schools | Protest LAUSD CUTS Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 12 minute...

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This week's teaching & learning tidbits

ednewsparent.org - Boulder Valley School District board votes against later start to year The Boulder Valley School District board on Tuesday night rejected a proposal to start school four days later next fall than t...

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"Adversity Only Makes You Stronger"

bluejersey.com - Occupy Trenton, sandwiched in between the State House on one side and a State Police Office on the other, today got no attention from legislators but plenty of attention from state troopers. As wit...

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UCSD to hold family weekend

signonsandiego.com - The University of California San Diego is inviting parents, families and students to its fourth annual All-Campus Family Weekend Oct. 21-23.The event will include comedy performances, an alumni bar...

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Urban schools offer dynamic learning experiences

northjersey.com - Autumn is the time of year when high school juniors' minds begin weighing their future plans. The allure of faraway places might seem intriguing, but often the richest educational experiences can b...

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Looking Ahead

saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - Looking ahead to the next couple months, there are few items of interest that will come due.District Scorecard The annual District Scorecard is due soon. It should come out in November. Here is las...

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This week's safe schools snippets

ednewsparent.org - PEN presents “The Bully, the Bullied & the Bystander” The Parent Engagement Network will be hosting a free public forum with guest/author Barbara Coloroso The Bully, The Bullied, and the Bystander ...

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This week's healthy schools highlights

ednewsparent.org - What’s in your child’s school lunch? If I weren’t a journalist covering parenting issues (and this week, writing Motherlode), I would have missed it. It’s National School Lunch Week. My completely ...

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Obama Administration Nixes the CLASS Act

news.firedoglake.com - The Obama Administration announced that they will not implement the CLASS Act, a voluntary long-term care insurance program that was a key priority of the late Ted Kennedy, and which was instituted...

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Quick Hits (10.14.11)

quickanded.com - Fifth-grade courses in college? Educators in a Chicago suburb are addressing college readiness. One example: College of DuPage and six local high schools are working together to improve the math cu...

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Web Startup Tackles Student Debt 'Crisis'

huffingtonpost.com - (By Jon Cook) - Sue Khim was in her third year of medical school, $50,000 in debt and wondering if she would ever dig herself out.Instead of simply making the minimum monthly payments on her studen...

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Did You Make The Cut?

scholasticadministrator.typepad.com - Phantom Menace CAP: Even the statisticians who performed the [Fordham Institute] study have distanced themselves from the conclusions about the effect of NCLB on high achievers. Damn The Facts, Fu...

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New principal chosen for downtown L.A. arts high school

latimesblogs.latimes.com - After a difficult search process, officials have selected a veteran Los Angeles school principal, who later started a local charter school, as the newest leader of the downtown visual and performin...

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DPS mulling tax proposal in 2012

ednewscolorado.org - Voters may well be asked to open their wallets to strengthen Denver Public Schools in the November 2012 election. DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg used a presentation Friday to members of A+ Denver ...

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Dispatches From Denver « MomsRising Blog

momsrising.org - This year, we have achieved significant victories in our work to ensure more working people have the right to earn paid sick days. From Seattle to Connecticut, paid sick days standards have gained ...

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Weekly Update for the Week of October 9, 2010

seattleducation2010.wordpress.com - Some weeks are just better than others when it comes to education news. This week was a great one in terms of outrages and atrocities. But first we’ll start on a positive note. Diane Ravitch on CNN...

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Blog posts on this issue

whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 14, 2011 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the White House released Creating Pathways to Opportunity, a report highlighting the wor...

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Harkin-Enzi’s Pathways to College: What Does It Mean?

quickanded.com - Flickr photo by mmahaffieIn Part 1 of our Pathways series, we discussed the details of the proposed Pathways to College grant program. The question that remained was what does it all mean? Can it ...

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In the News: State labor board backs CTU | catalyst

catalyst-chicago.org - A state labor board is demanding a hearing on the Chicago Teachers Union’s allegations that city public school officials unfairly pressured some teachers into adopting a longer school day, the Sun-...

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Education Secretary gets earful from public school advocates

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Education Secretary gets earful from public school advocates:Education Secretary gets earful from public school advocatesArne Duncan faces off with union members who knock No Child Left Behind and ...

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Audit Questions Spending of Pre-K Dollars – SchoolBook

nytimes.com - Oct. 14, 2011, 2:07 p.m. New York City is failing to take advantage of all of the money allocated by the state for prekindergarten programs, according to an audit by City Comptroller John C. Liu. T...

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UCLA considers allowing coed dorm rooms

dailynews.com - LOS ANGELES - Coed dorm rooms could be a reality for some UCLA students as soon as next year - but don't expect campus housing to turn into "Real World UCLA" with strangers of different genders bei...

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These Occupy Wall Street protesters have a message

boston.com - NEW YORK—The Occupy Wall Street protests are hitting a nerve.A dearth of jobs, overwhelming student loans and soaring health-care costs are just three major issues protesters have targeted. And reg...

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Students storm Goldman Sachs building in Milan

democraticunderground.com - Source: Reuters - Raw StoryMILAN (Reuters) – A group of students stormed Goldman Sachs’s central Milan offices on Friday ahead of worldwide protests against financial inequality planned for the wee...

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