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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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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