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Arlington, VA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post

edge.ascd.org - The hallmark of this brave new Information Age is the interconnectedness of everything: ideas, information, people. Relationships are key. It’s no longer what you know or how much you know…it’s who...

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Glenn Beck To Launch Children's TV Show : The Two-Way : NPR

npr.org - It's not Nick News, The Electric Company or even the Magic Treehouse. Starting next Monday, talk show host Glenn Beck hopes to educate a young audience with his new children's program, Liberty Tree...

TeacherSabrina

A New Approach to Teacher Education Reform and Improvement

educationsector.org - Over the next five years, more than a million new teachers will enter public school classrooms. But the system in place to prepare these teachers—supported by an ever-expanding set of federal finan...

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What I Saw at #OccupyWallStreet Last Night, and What I Saw When I Left « Student Activism

studentactivism.net - So last night I wandered down to Occupy Wall Street for the second time. I’d visited the night before, and been impressed — impressed by the richness of the space, impressed by the process and enth...

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And the (RttT) winners are… « School Finance 101

schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - In a previous post, I bemoaned the list of Race to the Top Nominees: http://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/and-the-rttt-nominees-are/ Today, we have our winners – Delaware and Tennessee....

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Bridging Differences - Education Week

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,It would be interesting to know what influenced the change of heart among those civil rights organizations, Diane. I've been exploring in my head—while I do my daily laps in the pond—wha...

DebMeier

As black families leave Oakland, their kids disappear from school

insidebayarea.com - Click photo to enlargeMaxwell Park Elementary School kindergartners Elizabeth Wolfgramm, 4, center, and her brother Friendly Wolfgramm, 5, right, hold signs in the hallway outside the theater durin...

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Ed Schools « School Finance 101

schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Ed schools seem to make an easy target in public policy debates over the quality of American public schooling and the American teacher workforce. In many recent lopsided “ed school as the root of a...

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More blacks leave urban cities for suburbs and the South

insidebayarea.com - Click photo to enlarge Oakland native Malcolm Westbrooks, 60, look over the grape vines in his Discovery Bay, Calif. backyard on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. Decades ago, John the Baptist Westbrooks w...

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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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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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Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)

act.boldprogressives.org - STATEMENT: "Today's economic crisis was caused by Wall Street acting improperly. Every American has paid the price -- with families losing their homes, investors losing their money, and many Americ...

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Government losses a big part of state unemployment increases

epi.org - Posted September 29, 2011 at 8:53 am by David Cooper On Monday, The New York Times released a nice graphic showing the changing trends in state unemployment rates immediately before the recession, ...

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Mayor Bloomberg, partner diagnose what's wrong with America: You - Michael Bloomberg

politics.salon.com - “The protesters are protesting against people who make $40-50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That’s the bottom line,” Bloomberg said, presumably meaning service workers on Wall St...

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A Kindling Group Documentary by Kindling Group — Kickstarter

kickstarter.com - About this project@home? What is this film about? @home tells the remarkable story of one man’s fierce commitment to make the homeless visible. Mark Horvath has experienced the highs and lows of Am...

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Daily Kos: doing something that matters

dailykos.com - This is my second attempt to post something today. I am on a very slow roaming connection on the wireless card for my computer. There is no AT+T or Sprint service here, so my Sprint Wireless card...

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The “The” in The Jose Vilson … and You

thejosevilson.com - Thank you, and you, and you. I know I don’t say it enough, but all the RTs, shares, and praise keeps me going at times when I’ve wanted to stop writing. This blogging, written from one’s gut instea...

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Apotheker leaves HP with $13 million; Whitman takes $1 a year

mercurynews.com - Click photo to enlarge Hewlett-Packard CEO, Leo Apotheker talks about his vision and strategy for his company during press conference at the W Hotel in San Francisco on March 14, 2011. (Gary Reyes ...

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Growth under pressure

mckinseyquarterly.com - Growth under pressureAfter a brief rebound, the global economy is back on its heels again. Persistent stagnation in Europe and renewed weakness in the US mean that the developed world's global outp...

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Outsize Severance Continues for Executives, Even After Failed Tenures

nytimes.com - The golden goodbye has not gone away. Just last week, Léo Apotheker was shown the door after a tumultuous 11-month run atop Hewlett-Packard. His reward? $13.2 million in cash and stock ...

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A Visual History of Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC]

mashable.com - The Social Media Infographics Series is supported by Vocus‘ Social Media Strategy Tool, a free, six-step online tool that lets you build a custom social media framework tailored to your organizatio...

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Firefox 8 Beta incorpora ‘Search Twitter’ como su buscador por defecto

geeksroom.com - Resulta complicado mantenerse al día con las actualizaciones de Firefox últimamente. En corto tiempo, y conforme lo anunciaran la gente de Mozilla, para ponerse al nivel de Chromium, han ido de Fir...

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AT&T Begins Sending Throttling Warnings to Top Data Hogs | Gadget Lab

wired.com - Following a trend set by other carriers, AT&T has begun sending SMS warning messages to the top five percent of data users on its network. The message alerts consumers that they are among AT&T’s to...

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Tired of Being the Nation's Punching Bag

teacherleaders.typepad.com - So I’m completely hacked off tonight. You see, I’ve spent a few hours wrapped in the criticisms of public schools found in the first pages of The Global Achievement Gap, Tony Wagner’s bit on how sc...

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5 myths about Gov. Chris Christie’s ed reform in New Jersey - The Answer Sheet

washingtonpost.com - This was written by David G. Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center in Newark, N.J., and lead counsel to the plaintiff schoolchildren in New Jersey’s landmark Abbott v. Burke litig...

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Teachers At Minority-Heavy Schools Paid Less, Survey Finds

governing.com - Teacher in schools with greater diversity are being paid significantly less than their peers, according to data released on Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Education. A survey of nearly 7,000 sch...

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