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Elite Club or Catalyst for Change?
edweek.org - Published Online: October 18, 2011Published in Print: October 19, 2011, as Broad Prize: Do the Successes Spread?When the Broad Prize for Urban Education was created in 2002, billionaire philanthrop...
Chinese Students Lose as U.S. Schools Exploit Need
bloomberg.com - Enlarge image China Students Paying $52,000 Say Boarding Schools Misled Guan Wang, a freshman at the University of California, Davis, from China, uses a laptop computer as she studies in her dorm r...
Tata's choice plan passes 6-2; Hill, Sutton vote no
indyweek.com - Kevin Hill (right, in yellow shirt) at Wake school board work session. Tony Tata is seated at left; James Overman, Tata's task force leader, is standing. Effective in the 2012-13 school year, unles...
Investigation confirms that a DOE official urged illegal lobbying
gothamschools.org - The head of the Department of Education’s public affairs office broke the law when he urged school employees to engage in political lobbying, according to a report today from Special Commissioner o...
The Koch Brothers And The Battle Over Integration in Wake County's Schools
huffingtonpost.com - The stakes in the battle over the Wake County Public School System in North Carolina couldn’t be higher.On one side are the billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, and the Tea Party and liber...
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Corporate School Reform and 10 Hopeful Signs of Resistance « Rethinking Schools Blog
rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com - On Oct. 1, 650 people attended the 4th annual Northwest Teachers for Social Justice conference in Seattle. Rethinking Schools editor Stan Karp gave a well-received talk on “Challenging Corporate E...
Readin’ > ‘Rithmetic | Gary Rubinstein's TFA Blog
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - Something that nearly every adult has wondered about, but is scared to say it out loud is “Is knowing math really that important?” They don’t say it out loud because they fear that someone, possibl...
Will new NCLB law be less test-obsessed? - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by Monty Neill, executive director of FairTest, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, a Boston-based non-profit dedicated to ending the misuse of tests.By Monty Neill It lo...
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Republicans jump into non-partisan school board races
9news.com - JEFFERSON COUNTY - Across Colorado, there is a changing landscape when it comes to school board races. Once thought to be "mom and pop," elections have now turned into coordinated, professional cam...
Senate Saves the Potato on School Lunch Menus
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — The Senate stood up Tuesday for the humble white potato and rebuffed an effort by President Obama to limit its consumption by millions of schoolchildren around the country. ...
About New York - Bloomberg Shrugs Over Maura Keaney’s Ethics Lapse
nytimes.com - On Monday afternoon, a City Hall political operative by the name of Maura Keaney was given a $143,000 job at the city’s Department of Education.The Keaney appointment is a bracing moment, even for ...
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Rahm wants more tax breaks for the 1%. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Updated: Ernst & Young adding 500 Chicago jobs; Emanuel pushes lawmakers for CME aid | Greg Hinz | Blogs | Crain’s Chicago Business. Teachers all over the state are looking anxiously at the coming ...
A.P. Reports Obama Will Withdraw All American Troops From Iraq
tomhayden.com - An updated and expanded version of this breaking story will appear at The Nation on Thursday, October 20, 2011. In a stunning victory for the American peace movement and Iraqi opponents of the US o...
Burke Questions Emanuel Water Fee Plan
chicagonewscoop.org - As the City Council held its first hearing on Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposed 2012 budget Wednesday, its longest-serving member questioned the plan to end water fee exemptions for non-profit institut...
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Commander Who Pepper-Sprayed Protesters Faces Disciplinary Charges
nytimes.com - A New York City police commander who sprayed protesters with pepper spray during the opening days of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations last month faces an internal disciplinary charge that coul...
Operative Scores in Court - WSJ.com
online.wsj.com - BY MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL A Manhattan judge on Monday dismissed some of the charges against a Queens political worker accused of stealing more than $1 million from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a victory f...
Denise McGregor Armbrister to resign from SRC
thenotebook.org - Another member of the School Reform Commission has resigned. In a statement, Secretary of Education Ronald Tomalis accepted the resignation and thanked Denise McGregor Armbrister for her service. M...
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OWS's Merry Pranksters at it again. Sotheby's can't be happy.
teamsternation.blogspot.com - It's a teensy bit hard to tell what's going on in this video, which shows Occupy Wall Street activists getting kicked out of Sotheby's. Again. One thing is clear: the pissed-off expressions on the ...
Zuccotti Park Is Not A Nightclub - National
theatlanticwire.com - Zuccotti Park is not a restaurant, night club, art gallery or fashion show, but that won't stop culture writers from trying to convince us otherwise. In today's New York Times, for instance, nightl...
Home - Inside Higher Ed
insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...
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The New Yorker Mocks The 1% With Its Occupy Wall Street Cover
businessinsider.com - Pretty classic. Please follow SAI: Media on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Noah Davis on Twitter. Ask Noah A Question > Share: x To embed this post, copy the code below and paste into your website or...
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Inspired by Wall St. protest, activists vow to ‘Occupy the DOE’ | GothamSchools #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Inspired by Wall St. protest, activists vow to ‘Occupy the DOE’ | GothamSchools:Inspired by Wall St. protest, activists vow to ‘Occupy the DOE’by Rachel Cromidas, at 5:47 pmSince the first proteste...
Missouri Education Watchdog: Teaching Kids To Go Back To Asking "Why" Teaching Kids To Go Back To Asking "Why"
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Missouri Education Watchdog: Teaching Kids To Go Back To Asking "Why":Teaching Kids To Go Back To Asking "Why"Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookThose who have children know that p...
#ows From a teacher’s perspective: The PTA needs to do their homework on Democracy. Go to an Occupation | Seattle Education
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - From a teacher’s perspective: The PTA needs to do their homework on Democracy. Go to an Occupation | Seattle Education:From a teacher’s perspective: The PTA needs to do their homework on Democracy....
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Inspired by Wall St. protest, activists vow to ‘Occupy the DOE’ | GothamSchools #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Inspired by Wall St. protest, activists vow to ‘Occupy the DOE’ | GothamSchools:Inspired by Wall St. protest, activists vow to ‘Occupy the DOE’by Rachel Cromidas, at 5:47 pmSince the first proteste...
Inspired by Wall St. protest, activists vow to ‘Occupy the DOE’
gothamschools.org - Since the first protesters arrived at Zuccotti park nearly five weeks ago, the Occupy Wall Street movement has ignited protests from California to the United Kingdom. The city Department of Educati...
OWS's Merry Pranksters at it again. Sotheby's can't be happy.
teamsternation.blogspot.com - It's a teensy bit hard to tell what's going on in this video, which shows Occupy Wall Street activists getting kicked out of Sotheby's. Again. One thing is clear: the pissed-off expressions on the ...
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