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Educational Leadership:The Key to Changing the Teaching Profession:Who's Teaching Our Children?
ascd.org - We analyzed data from the largest and most comprehensive source of information on teachers available—the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and its supplement, the Teacher Follow-Up Survey (TFS).1 ...
Comptroller: Most schools not meeting P.E. time requirements
gothamschools.org - City students aren’t getting the physical education they’re supposed to, according to the latest Department of Education audit out of Comptroller John Liu’s office. The audit — which follows others...
Two KIPP employees returning to HISD | School Zone
blog.chron.com - The personnel swapping continues between Texas’ largest school district and one of the largest charter school chains. Two educators who left the Houston Independent School District to work for KIPP...
Is SB 512, the teachers’ pension killer, dead on arrival? « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - The Civic Committee’s current plan for what they call “pension reform”, Senate Bill 512, in spite of their best efforts, will not be called in the upcoming veto session. Not the three days in Octo...
A VERY Rare Disagreement
jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - Look, you guys know I love Matt DiCarlo. I mean, I LOVE the guy. He and Bruce Baker are the two safe ports in a storm of reformy pseudo-research; I'd be lost without both. And I'm really flattered ...
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Teachers at a young Brooklyn charter school vote to unionize
gothamschools.org - Yet another charter school is on the path to unionization after a majority of its teachers voted to seek representation from the United Federation of Teachers. Teachers at Fahari Academy Charter Sc...
DOE re lack of physical education in schools: what, me worry?
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - The NYC Comptroller released yet another devastating audit of DOE, this time on the lack of compliance with state regulations on the amount of physical education that students are supposed to recei...
Audit Finds City’s Schools Short on Physical Education
nytimes.com - Despite alarming obesity rates among school-age children and a state requirement that all students get some level of structured exercise every week, many New York City schools do not provide physic...
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Cain: ‘If You Don’t Have A Job And You Are Not Rich, Blame Yourself!’ (VIDEO)
2012.talkingpointsmemo.com - Eric Kleefeld October 5, 2011, 12:02 PM Herman Cain had some tough words for the Occupy Wall Street protests, in an interview with Wall Street Journal: Don’t blame the banks for your financial prob...
The Day: Like Putin, Like Bloomberg
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - Political ploys under way in Russia could almost serve as an instruction manual for the leadership at either end of New York’s City Hall. You have to slap your forehead in wonder that the New Yorke...
War and Sacrifice in the Post-9/11 Era
pewresearch.org - October 5, 2011As the United States marks the 10th anniversary of the longest period of sustained warfare in its history, the overwhelming majority of veterans of the post-9/11 era (96%) are proud ...
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Romney: Wall Street Protests ‘Class Warfare’ - Sarah B. Boxer
nationaljournal.com - THE VILLAGES, Fla. – Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney on Tuesday compared the current anti-Wall Street protests to “class warfare.” “I think it’s dangerous, this class warfare,” Romn...
Despite ongoing DC-37 protest, Walcott says layoffs fight is over
gothamschools.org - City Council members, union officials, and parents spent yesterday agitating for a last-minute deal to avert layoffs planned for more than 700 school aides. Council Speaker Christine Quinn said she...
U.S. lawmakers make China a whipping boy
cbsnews.com - President Obama shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao before a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, Jan. 19, 2011. (Getty) (AP) WASHINGTON - U.S...
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As jury selection continues in federal corruption trial of Springfield power broker William Cellini, teachers become the topic of discussion.
articles.chicagotribune.com - William Cellini arrives Tuesday at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago… (E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune photo)October 04, 2011|By Annie Sweeney, Tribune reporterJury selection for longtime ...
Jacques Rivera Released After 21 Years in Prison for Crime He Didn't Commit
myfoxchicago.com - Chicago - Jacques Rivera, who has spent 21 years in prison, was released after Cook County prosecutors dropped murder charges because a key witness recanted his testimony. Judge Neera Walsh last mo...
Wrongly imprisoned man to go free after 25 years
cbsnews.com - Michael Morton (The Innocence Project) (AP) GEORGETOWN, Texas - A grocery store employee who spent nearly 25 years in prison for killing his wife is set to go free after DNA tests showed another m...
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FHFA IG: Fannie Mae Knew About Foreclosure Fraud in 2003
news.firedoglake.com - The real bombshell of the past 24 hours in housing was the report of the FHFA Inspector General, the second in two weeks damning the conduct of the GSEs. In this case, Fannie Mae was found to have ...
Google, Microsoft war over cloud-based software apps escalates
mercurynews.com - The pitched battle between Google (GOOG) and Microsoft to sell software applications that run on the Internet "cloud" is escalating. The tech giants have already engaged in a public war of words th...
More Evidence of Systematic Bank Fraud And Violation of Law
news.firedoglake.com - I could hardly keep up with all the reports on housing that came out over the past 24 hours. So let me try to summarize a couple: • A recently unsealed lawsuit shows that banks cheated military vet...
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Emanuel Litvinoff, Poet and Detractor of T. S. Eliot, Dies at 96
nytimes.com - Emanuel Litvinoff, an English-born Jewish poet known for his scathing verse indictment of T. S. Eliot’s anti-Semitism — and for reading it before an audience that happened to include Eliot — died o...
Denzel Washington donates $2.25 million to Fordham
boston.com - NEW YORK—Denzel Washington has donated $2.25 million to Fordham University, his alma mater.The university said Monday that Washington has given $2 million to endow the Denzel Washington Chair in Th...
Occupy Wall Street Star Cut by Fox Wouldn't Want to Go on Fox - National
theatlanticwire.com - Jesse LaGreca, one of the budding stars of the Occupy Wall Street movement who we profiled on Tuesday, told the New York Observer Wednesday, even though having his incisive comments cut by Fox's Gr...
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School food: Fed Up With Lunch blogger Mrs. Q is a Chicago teacher - chicagotribune.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School food: Fed Up With Lunch blogger Mrs. Q is a Chicago teacher - chicagotribune.com:School lunch blogger 'Mrs. Q' drops anonymityComments68Share17081 2 next | single pageSarah Wu, a Chicago P...
Revisiting data on high school admission rates | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Revisiting data on high school admission rates | Philadelphia Public School Notebook:Revisiting data on high school admission ratesby Dale Mezzacappa on Oct 05 2011COMMENTS (0)PRINTEMAILTags:high s...
NBPTS on Teacher Evaluation: Getting it Right « InterACT
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NBPTS on Teacher Evaluation: Getting it Right « InterACT:NBPTS on Teacher Evaluation: Getting it Rightby David B. CohenOn Monday, October 3rd, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards...
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Cain: ‘If You Don’t Have A Job And You Are Not Rich, Blame Yourself!’ (VIDEO)
2012.talkingpointsmemo.com - Eric Kleefeld October 5, 2011, 12:02 PM Herman Cain had some tough words for the Occupy Wall Street protests, in an interview with Wall Street Journal: Don’t blame the banks for your financial prob...
Live Blog for #OccupyWallStreet: Day Nineteen, Community Groups, Unions & Occupiers March on Wall Street
dissenter.firedoglake.com - The late people’s historian Howard Zinn wrote, “Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” Today will be the largest and most significant march yet. The number of ...
How Zuccotti Park Got Its Name - National
theatlanticwire.com - Zuccotti Park, where the Occupy Wall Street encampment is located, is not actually a park (it's actually private land owned by Brookfield Properties) but the guy it's named after is real: he's John...
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