Saturday, October 15, 2011

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Reason #15 to be wary of #TeachForAmerica

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - I wrote about this topic a few months ago, but on Twitter I recently saw this:This got a lot of ‘amens’ and retweets, of course. What I’m about to say needs to be prefaced VERY carefully so as to n...

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Cuomo promotes new kindergarten evaluation

newsday.com - Content Preview Newsday/Optimum Online® subscribers click here for full access Not a Newsday or Optimum Online® subscriber? Click here Originally published: October 14, 2011 8:05 PM Updated: Octobe...

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White Hat Case Far From Over

stateimpact.npr.org - Ida Lieszkovszky / StateImpact: OhioWhite Hat management is named for the white hat’s its founder, David Brennan, is known for wearing. Despite a decision out this week clarifying the definition of...

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Rupert Murdoch Compares US Education System to Third World Country's

motherjones.com - News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch has spent the last six months or so battling a rash of bad press over allegations that his UK-based News of the World tabloid engaged in phone-hacking and other unsee...

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CalPERS to vote against return of Murdochs to News Corp. board

latimesblogs.latimes.com - The nation's largest public pension fund said it would vote against the reelection of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his sons, James and Lachlan, to News Corp.'s board of directors.The California P...

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Hechinger Report | Kindergarteners at the keyboard

hechingerreport.org - By Jill Barshay Los Angeles — First-grader Lena Barrett clicks through a series of icons and logs onto a laptop under the fluorescent lights of her classroom. Before long, a cartoon version of a ga...

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Charter Schools: Getting Your Child on the List - Page 6 - News - Los Angeles

laweekly.com - 10/14/2011 6:39:00 PM Congratulations. When you are finished patting yourself on the back you need to realize that you are an established school and a high performing one not a fledgling charter tr...

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Parents shut out once again: Contracts for Excellence process in violation of state law

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Check out this letter sent Wednesday to NY State Education Commissioner King, from the UFT, Class Size Matters, NAACP & AQE, pointing out the numerous legal flaws as regards this year’s Contracts ...

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Those Third-Term Blues

nytimes.com - “It gets more complex and harder to get your message out and advertising rates keep going up.” — Mayor Bloomberg, under oath in court on Oct. 3 at the trial of John F. Haggerty Jr., hi...

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Cleaning of Zuccotti Park Is Postponed

nytimes.com - NEW YORK (AP) — The cleanup of a plaza in Lower Manhattan where protesters have been camped out for a month was postponed early Friday, sending cheers up from a crowd that had feared the effort was...

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nypost.com - Poor planning by the city’s Department of Education has forced it to return $133 million in unused state pre-kindergarten funds since 2007, an audit has found.Comptroller John Liu ripped the agency...

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Rupert Murdoch Heckled At California Education Summit

huffingtonpost.com - SAN FRANCISCO — Protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement heckled News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch during a speech at an education forum Friday, accusing the media mogul of trying to profit from...

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Why is Murdoch speaking at an "education summit" in the first place?

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Teachers want to knowTeachers 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 h...

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Assemblyman Appears Ready to Join Race for Congress

nytimes.com - Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, calling Congress a “swamp of dysfunction,” has begun accepting contributions for a race against a fellow Democrat, Representative Edolphus Towns of Brooklyn. ...

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Police Arrest 10 Occupy Seattle Protesters

nytimes.com - SEATTLE (AP) — Police say 10 people in a Wall Street related protest have been arrested at a Seattle park. The Occupy Seattle protesters were detained after Westlake Park closed late Thursd...

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Brookfield confirms: No more sleeping bags or 'lying down on the ground' in Zuccotti Park

capitalnewyork.com - 3:20 pm Oct. 13, 2011 | A new notice from the company that owns Zuccotti Park said the area will be cleaned in three stages "while remaining portions of the Park can continue to be used." But once ...

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Union members, Occupy L.A. protesters descend on revamped Hotel Bel-Air

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Economic protesters from the Occupy L.A. campsite at Los Angeles City Hall are on their way to join dozens of union supporters demonstrating in front of the newly refurbished Hotel Bel-Air, organiz...

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The Summer Soldier at the March « The Third City

thethirdcity.org - October 13th, 2011 On the last gorgeous Monday in October, I take to the streets of downtown Chicago! Join the Take Back Chicago march, the homegrown version of that thing – whatever it is — going ...

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Modern School: Are Boys and Girls Really That Different (Part II)?

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: Are Boys and Girls Really That Different (Part II)?:Are Boys and Girls Really That Different (Part II)?by Michael DunnIn honor of the one-year anniversary of Modern School, I'm repos...

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Daily Kos: The process now begins

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: The process now begins:The process now beginsby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)what process, you ask? Has it something to do with OWA?Not directly.The process is figuring out what to do w...

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Investor group to vote against Murdochs at NewsCorp AGM

reuters.com - LONDON | Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:17am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's campaign to keep control of News Corporation suffered a fresh blow on Friday after another key shareholder group called for ...

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Facility needs for Dallas ISD and other large districts outlined in report | Dallas ISD Blog

dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com - Dallas ISD needs about $1.3 billion to pay for infrastructure needs, such as new construction, repairs, renovations, modernization, and postponed maintenance repairs, according to a report released...

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What Are The Real Costs Of The Bush Tax Cuts? Go To CostOfTaxCuts.Com.

ourfuture.org - Popular This WeekOctober 10, 2011October 12, 2011more» Also Worth Reading $1,034,401,772,556. That’s the cost to the U.S. Treasury since 2001 from Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 5 percent of Ame...

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Union members, Occupy L.A. protesters descend on revamped Hotel Bel-Air

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Occupy Wall Street and the Ghost of Democracy

firedoglake.com - Photo credit: Nina Matzat In retrospect, the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement shouldn’t be all that surprising. Millions of hopeful people flocked to the ballot box in hopes of reversing de...

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Some Occupy San Diego protesters remain; two arrested, tents removed

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Several dozen Occupy San Diego protesters remained Friday night in the plaza behind City Hall after a day in which police forcibly removed their tents and other structures and two protesters were a...

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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...