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Occupy Wall Street Spills Into Classrooms
huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- While on Wall Street many protesters decry economic inequality, and in Washington, D.C. debates continue over federal education policy, teachers across the country are occupying their c...
Noguera: School reform is community reform
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - BBA's project in Newark In the new issue of Kappan, Pedro Noguera describes the theory and practice behind a Broader, Bolder Approach (BBA) initiative in Newark which links community-based reform w...
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nypost.com - An administrator at a Brooklyn high school that saw an unusual surge in Regents test scores last year violated state grading policies by urging teachers to re-score exams that fell just shy of pass...
Lawrence :: Federal visit could mean money for schools
6lawrence.com - By Theo Hayes on October 21, 2011 LAWRENCE - The U.S. Department of Education's Assistant Secretary of Special Education, Alexa Posney, promoted President Obama's Jobs Act on Friday during a tour o...
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nypost.com - Just one out of every four students who started high school in 2007 went on to graduate in 2011 prepared for college under a first-ever city measure aligned with City University of New York entranc...
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kdvr.com - DENVER -- A year after Colorado saw the most expensive U.S. Senate race in the entire country, an election that's seen more than $600,000 in campaign contributions might seem like a low budget affa...
NCLB: End It, Don't Mend It - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,Have you been following the evolving story of the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind? I have, and it is disheartening. Instead of ditching this disastrous law, senators are trying...
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The Great Equalizer Or Business As Usual
shankerblog.org - Several weeks ago, a survey of college admission directors and enrollment managers conducted by Inside Higher Education sparked considerable media coverage about an issue that is not entirely new: ...
All Current Investments - The Broad Foundation
broadeducation.org - ACHIEVEMENT FIRSTwww.achievementfirst.org The Broad Foundation supports the New York City expansion of Achievement First, which aims to deliver high-quality education for low-income and minority st...
IEA update. How your dues are being used. Part two. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Mary is an IEA member concerned about her pension. Mary has heard from me that she should go to the IEA website for current information. That’s what Mary does. There Mary finds a featured video of ...
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The Bonus Army – Zinn Education Project
zinnedproject.org - Article. History of the 1932 Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF) or Bonus Army. By Mickey Z. Bonus Army camp. July, 1932. Photo by Theodor Horydczak, Library of Congress. One little told story in Ameri...
Florida Teacher Somehow Broke Law By Registering Students To Vote
wonkette.com - Grim hairless weasel Rick Scott’s idea of defending democracy is to pass a hated law to make sure that minorities and students (read: dangerous liberals) in Florida are never again allowed to parti...
Occupy Movement Faces Arrests, Aims at Verizon and Foreclosures
labornotes.org - While Occupy Wall Street and the Communications Workers rallied against runaway corporate power at New York’s Verizon headquarters Friday, Occupy Detroit marched from the downtown park it calls hom...
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The grade-in at #OWS. Going viral. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - When we got back to where we were staying in Brooklyn after going to Occupy Wall Street on Sunday, I blogged a short post about the grade-in that was scheduled across the street from Liberty Park. ...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the First Lady For Immediate Release October 25, 2011 Walgreens Store Chicago, Illinois 2:55 P.M. CDTMRS. OBAMA: Well, goodness. (Applause.) Keica, that was beautiful. ...
The World Is Surprisingly Angry About the End of Google Reader - Technology
theatlanticwire.com - The demise of Google Reader's share features is affecting everyone from RSS-junkies to Iranian freedom fighters, and many of them are very displeased. Google Reader itself is very much alive and we...
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Watchdogs take aim at MSNBC, Buchanan - On Media
politico.com - Main Content October 25, 2011 Both Media Matters for America and Color Of Change are petitioning MSNBC this week to either fire or sanction former GOP presidential candidate and MSNBC contributor P...
Tanden will look to future at CAP - Ben Smith
politico.com - The new head of the Democratic Party’s think tank hub for politics and policy said the group will focus beyond the 2012 election, and attempt to renew the party’s economic policy appeal.“We have to...
Elizabeth Warren Is Criminal Genius Mastermind Behind Flash Mob Jaywalking Crime Wave Of Terror
tbogg.firedoglake.com - Karl Marx’s mom, Elizabeth Warren, is really getting under the skin of the Grand Ogliarch Party so they are pulling out the big guns and accusing her of inciting the mass riots and death and destru...
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Smarter Kids and How They Got That Way
thedailybeast.com - What makes a genius? Even experts argue over whether IQ, EQ, executive function, and/or academic achievement matters most. Nature? Nurture? The role of genetics in intelligence—i.e., the extent to ...
Training Parents Effective for Treating Young Children with ADHD
educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - Ω“Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Effectiveness of Treatment in At-Risk Preschoolers; Long-Term Effectiveness in All Ages; and Variability in Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment,”Formal ...
Cancer prevention - California Teachers Association
cta.org - By Dina Martin Jerilyn (Jeri) Harris. Jerilyn (Jeri) Harris was given six months to live when, as a teen-ager, she was diagnosed with stage IV melanoma. “It was a bad one,” the now-retired Ukiah Hi...
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ActionableFinance - EPR - Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Earnings Trump Europe
actionablefinance.com - A continually growing collection of analyst comments from financial websites.The content on this site is provided as general information only and should not be taken as investment advice. All site...
We Can't Wait: Obama Administration to Lower Student Loan Payments for Millions of Borrowers | The White House
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - We Can't Wait: Obama Administration to Lower Student Loan Payments for Millions of Borrowers | The White House:We Can't Wait: Obama Administration to Lower Student Loan Payments for Millions of Bor...
Wal-Mart Cutting Health Benefits for Future Employees
wepartypatriots.com - Wal-Mart, America’s largest corporation, will be cutting health benefits for a large number of future employees in the upcoming year. According to an article from The New York Times, all future emp...
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The grade-in at #OWS. Going viral. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - When we got back to where we were staying in Brooklyn after going to Occupy Wall Street on Sunday, I blogged a short post about the grade-in that was scheduled across the street from Liberty Park. ...
Occupy Movement Faces Arrests, Aims at Verizon and Foreclosures
labornotes.org - While Occupy Wall Street and the Communications Workers rallied against runaway corporate power at New York’s Verizon headquarters Friday, Occupy Detroit marched from the downtown park it calls hom...
Occupy Wall Street Oakland—“There are Children in There Without Gas Masks”
obrag.org - According to @occupyarrests, as of yesterday, 2,428 people had been arrested nationwide since the start of Occupy Wall Street.Around 5:00 am this morning (10/25/11) hundreds of riot gear clad Oakla...
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The Bonus Army – Zinn Education Project
zinnedproject.org - Article. History of the 1932 Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF) or Bonus Army. By Mickey Z. Bonus Army camp. July, 1932. Photo by Theodor Horydczak, Library of Congress. One little told story in Ameri...
We Party Patriots » Blog Archive » “We Are the 99% (And So Are You!)” T-Shirts Hit #OccupyWallStreet Protests Nationally
wepartypatriots.com - Leading up to Occupy Wall Street’s October 15th International Day of Solidarity which featured the big New York march to Times Square and nearly 1000 occupations globally, We Party Patriots was abl...
