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New York schools enter the iZone
bbc.co.uk - 25 October 2011 Last updated at 19:34 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Uncertain horizons: New York's economic fortunes are now linked to education After the iPhone and the iPad...
CPS Principal Merit Pay Metrics Unveiled, Will Bonuses Improve Student Performance?
huffingtonpost.com - Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday unveiled details of his newly proposed merit pay program for Chicago Public Schools principals.The program will offer principals bonuses ranging from $5,000 to $20,0...
SINI.2011.
oms.nysed.gov - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 10, 2011For More Information Contact: Tom Dunn, Jonathan Burman or Jane Briggs (518) 474-1201www.nysed.gov 1325 SCHOOLS AND 123 DISTRICTS STATEWIDE IDENTIFIED FOR IMP...
Things Fall Apart
comingofageinthemiddle.blogspot.com - I don't say this out loud very often, but I love my job. I love going to work every morning, I look forward to seeing my students, I love the subjects I teach. I know. I'm so lucky. I took a twisty...
Wanted: Creative Resistance - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,Like you, I was immensely cheered to read that my colleagues were speaking truth to power! Yes, I agree with virtually every word that those Long Island administrators said. The sad fact...
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Thomas B. Fordham Institute: Email
support.edexcellence.net - Opinion and News AnalysisOpinion: You’d be crazy to see SB5’s defeat as rejection of Ohio school reformBy Terry Ryan Ohio’s electorate soundly rejected Issue 2 (the referendum on Senate Bill 5) on ...
Coalition head: Let voters have say | Home
theadvocate.com - The leader of a coalition of public school groups Wednesday criticized what he labeled as outside interference in three Nov. 19 runoffs for the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.Jac...
Is Steve Bowen a friend to education?
mindsofkids.blogspot.com - Steve Bowen, Maine's Commissioner of Education under our dear darling Governor Paul LePage, is a smart man by all accounts. Friends in Camden say good things about him from the time he was a teach...
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Russell Pearce, Arizona’s Loudest Immigrant-Bashing Pol, Gets the Boot
colorlines.com - In the end, Russell Pearce was undone by his own obsession with anti-immigrant demagoguery. For a decade, soon-to-be former Arizona State Senate President Pearce had assiduously groomed a reputatio...
An anonymous comment from someone who claims to love transparency. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - I received this comment today: It’s rather fun to watch the bugs scurry when the lights are turned on. Remember when the left tried to manipulate, and deceive (with the Open Meetings law) to shut d...
Occupy Cal Day of Action is Berkeley’s Biggest Protest In Years « Student Activism
studentactivism.net - CategoriesSelect CategoryAccess (212) Financial Aid (38) Tuition and Fees (83)Campus Communities (160) Faculty (98) Graduate Students (19) Town and Gown (48)Campus Life (73) Alc...
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IL House adjourns Wednesday without voting on SB512. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - A House committee voted SB512 to the House floor Tuesday by a 5 to 4 vote. But Wednesday came and went with no House vote on the Cross-Fahner pension killer. The last chance to vote on it is Thursd...
Why Ohio Is Not Wisconsin - By Christian Schneider - The Corner
nationalreview.com - When news broke last night that Gov. John Kasich’s collective-bargaining changes had been repealed by popular vote, the Left in Wisconsin rejoiced (even though it was clear the law was going down b...
Union-busting, homophobic Michigan state Rep. Paul Scott narrowly recalled
dailykos.com - There's a lot to celebrate in the wake of Tuesday's elections; let's not let the recall of Michigan state Rep. Paul Scott slip through the cracks. Scott, a Republican, was chair of the state's Hous...
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Jessica Lahey « The Core Knowledge Blog
blog.coreknowledge.org - Some lessons take a while to germinate. I know that. I have been at this teaching thing for a while now – long enough that a few of my students have become teachers themselves – but I am still amaz...
The kindness of strangers
dangerouslyirrelevant.org - I was supposed to do a webinar. Scheduled on Tuesday evening, the webinar was for school board members in Iowa and was the second of four scheduled online events for the Iowa Association of School ...
All Education Matters: 15 Minutes of Fact With Jerry Ashton #OWS
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - All Education Matters: 15 Minutes of Fact With Jerry Ashton:15 Minutes of Fact With Jerry Ashtonby Cryn JohannsenI spent the last two days with Jerry Ashton in lower Manhattan at OWS. He's been spe...
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Alabama's Jefferson County OKs bankruptcy filing
reuters.com - By Melinda Dickinson BIRMINGHAM, Alabama | Wed Nov 9, 2011 5:51pm EST BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Legislators in Alabama's Jefferson County on Wednesday voted 4 to 1 to file for bankruptcy cour...
News from California Independent Grocers Association
campaign.r20.constantcontact.com - George Wong, a founder of Bel Air Supermarkets who led the chain as president for 40 years, died Sunday after recent weeks of failing health, his family said. He was 87. As the only president in...
Occupy Foreclosure disrupts Bank of America foreclosure auction
teamsternation.blogspot.com - When the banks attack, these people fight back. According to Occupy Worcester, a bank made a predatory loan to Pablo and Shirley Travieso to refinance their mortgage. The Travieso's couldn't keep ...
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Event: IPCC 34th Session - Climate Change Policy & Practice
climate-l.iisd.org - The 34th session of the IPCC will be held back to back with the first joint Sessions of IPCC Working Groups I and II to approve and accept the IPCC Special Report on “Managing the Risks of Extreme ...
President Obama Sends Keystone XL Pipeline Project Back to State Department
obrag.org - By Bill McKibben / 350.orgDear Friends,Um, we won. You won.Not completely. The President didn’t outright reject the Keystone XL pipeline permit. My particular fantasy — that he would invite the 125...
Blog posts on this issue
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011I support the State Department's announcement today regarding the need to seek additional info...
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Are You Ready for MORE CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS #edREFORM #ows #sosmarch
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Are You Ready for MORE CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALSI'm NOT but here they are anyway!Prime Prep AcademyThe Perimeter Primate at CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS - 24 minutes ago*“Former f...
Wild scene at Sotheby's
teamsternation.blogspot.com - If you haven't seen it yet, we thought we'd share it with you. And while we're at it, we thought we'd mention that Sotheyb's former chief executive, Dede Brooks, committed felonies but spent no ti...
Another Trigger Happy Oakland Cop is Caught on Video Shooting a Peaceful Protester (VIDEO)
addictinginfo.org - This photo captures the moment at which an Oakland policeman fired his gun at Scott Campbell. In an op-ed piece in today’s New York Times, author Ishamel Reed makes some insightful observations abo...
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Are You Ready for MORE CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS #edREFORM #ows #sosmarch
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Are You Ready for MORE CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALSI'm NOT but here they are anyway!Prime Prep AcademyThe Perimeter Primate at CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS - 24 minutes ago*“Former f...
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