Sunday, October 2, 2011

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All Education Matters: Occupy Sallie Mae!

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - All Education Matters: Occupy Sallie Mae!:Occupy Sallie Mae!by Cryn JohannsenHow about occupying Sallie Mae, and demanding that usurious companies can no longer turn Americans into indentured educ...

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Jersey Jazzman: America SUCKS!

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: America SUCKS!:America SUCKS!by DukeSo says the corporate-deucation "reform" movement - and they will distort, deceive, and outright lie to convince you it's true.Don't believe me? ...

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Sabrina Stevens Shupe: Just Cause, or "Just 'Cause"?

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Sabrina Stevens Shupe: Just Cause, or "Just 'Cause"?:Sabrina Stevens ShupeTeacher-turned-activistJust Cause, or "Just 'Cause"?Late last week, news broke that 75 probationary (non-"tenured") teacher...

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Dictionary of Education Reform - Bad Teacher

dictionaryofreform.wikispaces.com- Most bigotry relies on a tiny grain of truth to justify sweeping generalization. Such is the case with the “bad teacher” myth. In any profession there are incompetent and irresponsible people who m...

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Philly.com : Ala. Hispanic students vanish

m.philly.com - Ala. Hispanic students vanish By Jay Reeves Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools after a court ruling that upheld the state's tou...

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Reflections on a Visit to Germany

huffingtonpost.com - I am a secular Jew. I don't belong to a synagogue. I seldom attend religious services, yet I feel Jewish. I understood what Daniel Pearl said before he died. Being Jewish is part of my identity, no...

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A Push to Improve Teachers' Colleges

online.wsj.com - The Obama administration announced a new $185 million competition Friday that would reward colleges for producing teachers whose students perform well on standardized tests. The competition would r...

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Critical voices needed in charter school debate

dailykos.com - Another review that didn't receive the attention it deserved was Tina Trujillo's review of CAP's: Charting New Territory: Tapping Charter Schools to Turn Around the Nation's Dropout Factories. Whi...

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Let’s Stop Rewarding Failure

nytimes.com - Léo Apotheker’s short, turbulent reign as the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard was by nearly all accounts a disaster. The board demanded his resignation, and if ever there was a case for firing s...

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Troy Davis mourned as a martyr by 1,000 in Ga.

northjersey.com - SAVANNAH, Ga. — Sent to death row 20 years ago as a convicted cop killer, Troy Davis was celebrated as "martyr and foot soldier" Saturday by more than 1,000 people who packed the pews at his funera...

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“Write On!” Why I Love Kidblog!

oldschoolteach.wordpress.com - A friend of mine was observed the other day. Her students were creating mini-books about the selection they read in the anthology. Little stapled books, a square for the picture, and lines for the...

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Enter to Win $7,500 To Create Your Ultimate School Lounge!

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Enter to Win $7,500 To Create Your Ultimate School Lounge!:California Casualty has been providing exclusive auto and home insurance benefits to education professionals like you for over 60 years. W...

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Live Video: Police Arresting Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - October 1, 2011, 4:29 pm By COLIN MOYNIHANAfter allowing marchers from the Occupy Wall Street protests to claim the Brooklyn-bound car lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge and get partway across, the polic...

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live streaming video powered by Livestream

livestream.com - This channel will feature live streams from global non violent revolution spreading across the globe, with the first broadcasts from Wall Street Occupation in NYC that will start on Saturday, Septe...

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School Tech Connect: Sadly, No

schooltechconnect.com - Hate to harp on this, but it does seem to be a requirement that no matter who is president, his or her secretary of education has to believe in things that simply aren't true. People have these lit...

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Nobody Told Me #edreform

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Three, fourEverybody's talking and no one says a wordEverybody's making love and no one really caresThere's Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairsAlways something happening and nothing going o...

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