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City's playing teacher's pet? Bias against public school, cry parents
nydailynews.com - Nicholas Fevelo for News Jimmy Dinkins outside Public School 256 in Bedford-Stuyvesant with his daughters Lycis (left), 6; Nylah (center), 5; and Shadayee, 2. Parents at a struggling Bedford-Stuyve...
Florida charter schools’ track record at issue in expansion
jacksonville.com - Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson said Tuesday the state application for opening charter schools doesn’t need to address performance. The application doesn’t take into account whether ...
Why the school progress reports and NYC education reporters deserve a big fat “F”
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Gary Rubinstein, a math teacher at Stuyvesant, totally outclasses the numerous education reporters in this city in his analysis of the recent school grades. He shows via this graph to the right an...
Shanker Blog » The Ratings Game: New York City Edition
shankerblog.org - Gotham Schools reports that the New York City Department of Education rolled out this year’s school report card grades by highlighting the grades’ stability between this year and last. That is, the...
68 Percent Of Millionaires Support Raising Taxes On Millionaires
thinkprogress.org - NEWS FLASH 68 Percent Of Millionaires Support Raising Taxes On Millionaires | According to a new survey by the Spectrem Group, “68% of millionaires (those with investments of $1 million or more) su...
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Crisis in the UK education system « theputneydebates
theputneydebates.wordpress.com - In today’s Guardian, columnist Deborah Orr proclaims that there is a literacy crisis in the UK. Her method is not particularly scientific; it is based on the observation that rioters failed to loot...
The Sky is Falling: Preparing for a 2% Tax Cap - Finding Common Ground
blogs.edweek.org - "The sky is falling. I saw it with my eyes. I heard it with my ears. Some of it fell on my tail." Chicken LittleMany educators have spent the past couple of years dealing with the realities of our ...
Redefining Teachers as True Professionals
leftyparent.com - So why is it that doctors play a key role in running the institutions (hospitals) where they practice their profession and defining what constitutes quality practice, but teachers generally don’t? ...
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Jean Quan’s Big Mistake Politics and Breaking News | Oakland, Berkeley, Bay Area & California
eastbayexpress.com - Jean Quan won the mayor’s race last year in large part because of her liberal credentials. She and fellow progressive candidate Rebecca Kaplan represented a sharp contrast to the more moderate, law...
Occupy Oakland: Mayor Quan Issues Contrite Statement after Police Crackdown | City Brights: Aimee Allison
blog.sfgate.com - Late last night, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan issued a statement about the police crackdown against Occupied Oakland protesters. In it, she expressed concern for those injured and a commitment to minimi...
Occupy first. Demands come later | Slavoj Žižek | Comment is free
guardian.co.uk - 'The protesters should fall in love with hard and patient work – they are the beginning, not the end' Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images What to do after the occupations of Wall Street an...
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Denver School Board Election Heats Up As National Spotlight And Outside Cash Become Focal Points
huffingtonpost.com - School board elections rarely garner significant attention -- these are not the typical high-profile races that bring in big money, U.S. Senate seats, and shady organizations known as Super PACs.Th...
Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich Talk Occupy Wall Street and Fox News (VIDEO)
huffingtonpost.com - Rachel Maddow and Frank Rich sat down Wednesday night to discuss Occupy Wall Street and the conservative media's response to the movement.Maddow also discussed Rich's Sunday column in New York Maga...
Four GOP Presidential Candidates Call For Diminished Federal Role In Schools
huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- The desire for a lighter federal hand in the nation's schools ruled the discussions at an education forum Thursday night with four of the GOP presidential hopefuls."I believe that the f...
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EXPOSED: Our Neighborhood's Hidden Gem, The Samuel Mills Sprole School
carrollgardens.patch.com - I would like to tell you a secret my husband and I swore to each other we’d never tell. “We can never tell anyone,” we said. “If more people came it would ruin it.” This conversation happened after...
Daily Show Occupy Oakland | Jon Stewart | Video
mediaite.com - Video “What the [bleep!] happened in Oakland?” asks Daily Show host Jon Stewart. He called the city’s decision to launch tear gas into the crowd “a little heavy-handed” and attempted to figure who ...
The OccupyUSA Blog for Thursday (Oct. 27), With Frequent Updates
thenation.com - I’ve been live-blogging OWS since October 1. For yesterday’s blog, click on my name at top. All times ET. E-mail: epic1934@aol.com. Twitter @gregmitch. From late Wednesday 9:15 Rightwingers wi...
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All parenting produces unhappy adults — Joanne Jacobs
joannejacobs.com - Every parenting style produces disturbed, miserable adults, according to a new study reported by The Onion. “Our research suggests that while overprotective parenting ultimately produces adults unp...
International Nestlé-Free Week: 31 October - 6 November 2011 | Protecting breastfeeding
info.babymilkaction.org - International Nestlé-Free Week is a time for people who boycott Nestlé over the way it pushes baby milk to do more to promote the boycott - and for those who don't boycott to give it a go. This pag...
U.S. OKs state’s 10% cut to Medi-Cal doctors, clinics
latimesblogs.latimes.com - The federal government has granted California permission to make further cuts to Medi-Cal -- the state’s healthcare program for the poor -- paving the way for other states to do the same. Californi...
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Economy Alters How Americans Are Moving
democraticunderground.com - Source: NYTThe continuing economic downturn has drastically altered the internal migration habits of Americans, turning the flood of migrants into the Sun Belt and out of states like New York, Mass...
Occupy The DOE | OccupyWallSt.org
occupywallst.org - In that room the people´s voices won over the elite panel. Thru dedicated struggle the people´s ACTIONS will win over the FINANCIAL ELITE. The police brutality lately shows that the Occupy Movement...
Blowing Holes in the Low-Road Approach
labornotes.org - The Remapping Debate website yesterday exposed the real motives behind a consulting company’s August report that suggested manufacturing companies are finding advantages to investing in the U.S.The...
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Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich Talk Occupy Wall Street and Fox News (VIDEO)
huffingtonpost.com - Rachel Maddow and Frank Rich sat down Wednesday night to discuss Occupy Wall Street and the conservative media's response to the movement.Maddow also discussed Rich's Sunday column in New York Maga...
Protesters Affiliated With Occupy Wall Street Disrupt Department Of Education Meeting
huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- When New York City schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott stood up to face a full Seward Park High School auditorium on the Lower East Side Tuesday evening, he found himself confronted by th...
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...
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Jersey Jazzman: The Ed Reform Gravy Train
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: The Ed Reform Gravy Train:The Ed Reform Gravy Trainby DukeIt's a-puffin' into Newark - all aboard!One of every three dollars of private money spent so far in Newark’s bid to reform ...
OCCUPY WALL ST AND ALLIES RALLY & MARCH UNITED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS | OccupyWallSt.org #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - OCCUPY WALL ST AND ALLIES RALLY & MARCH UNITED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS | OccupyWallSt.org:OCCUPY WALL ST AND ALLIES RALLY & MARCH UNITED FOR CIVIL RIGHTSby OccupyWallStSaturday, October 29thCity Hall Park...
National focus on DPS race | EdNewsColorado
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - National focus on DPS race | EdNewsColorado:National focus on DPS raceby Charlie BrennanA national media blitz by Denver school board candidate Emily Sirota is shaking up the race in southeast Denv...
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