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NYC Educator: The Dignity Gap
nyceducator.com - Who thought it was a good idea to send ATR teachers from school to school from week to week? How does that help anyone? The stories I'm hearing and seeing would be beyond belief it it weren't for t...
The New Progressive Movement
nytimes.com - OCCUPY WALL STREET and its allied movements around the country are more than a walk in the park. They are most likely the start of a new era in America. Historians have noted that American politics...
Research doesn’t back up key ed reforms - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - There is no solid evidence supporting many of the positions on teachers and teacher evaluation taken by some school reformers today, according to a new assessment of research on the subject. The Ed...
Online Education: My Teacher Is an App
online.wsj.com - Bob Croslin for The Wall Street Journal Allison Schnacky attends an online school at her Florida home. It was nearing lunchtime on a recent Thursday, and ninth-grader Noah Schnacky of Windermere, F...
Tough Questions on Changing Teacher Evaluations
nytimes.com - For the first time next year, thousands of Chicago Public Schools teachers will be evaluated based partly on how well their students are doing academically. Many fear they will face dismissal if th...
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EducateOurState
educateourstate.org - Campaign Platform The current public education system in California is broken. We recognize the complexity of both the problem and the potential solutions. We are focusing our reform efforts on the...
Education Films Series V: American Teacher
allthingsedu.blogspot.com - There are two ways to look at American Teacher, the recently released documentary by Dave Eggers and Ninive Clements Calegari: 1) If you don't know much about public education and school reform, th...
Charter School Reform Bill Signed Into Law
njtoday.net - TRENTON – Legislation that would make it easier to create charter schools in failing school districts was officially signed into law on Thursday. “With this legislation signed today, we are taking ...
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Romney Spit-Balls His Way To Privatizing Veteran’s Benefits
2012.talkingpointsmemo.com - Evan McMorris-Santoro November 11, 2011, 3:16 PM MAULDIN, SC — Over barbecue and sweet tea with 12 veterans here Friday, Mitt Romney appeared to brainstorm a fundamental change to the way the natio...
Livewire | TPM
livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com - SPARTANBURG, SC — A family of Herman Cain supporters stood on the corner outside Wofford College here Saturday in the run-up to the debate and told TPM they don’t expect their man to win on foreign...
“How many sidewalks are you going to close before we are all gone?” News of the Occupy Movement Week Ending 11-13-11
obrag.org - This week’s story is the utter appalling hypocrisy exposed in how the police responded to two protests on November 9. The first took place at CalU Berkeley, where a thousand students protested the...
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My Parents Were Home-Schooling Anarchists
nytimes.com - Tired of the constraints of the 40-hour workweek, my father, in 1972, quit his job in publishing. My parents were in their early 30s, and they had four children under 7. “But we still wanted to exp...
Engaging Parents In School… - “Pinellas school district tries going to parents”
engagingparentsinschool.edublogs.org - November 13th, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo Pinellas school district tries going to parents is an article about staff from a Florida school making home visits. Generally, I don’t recommend going unannoun...
Power Hungry Spam Filter (a request for advice) | Occupy Together
occupytogether.org - Hey there wonderful citizens of the web. We need some help/insight from someone who has a better understanding of WordPress than us. We found it odd that we hadn’t had any recent comments coming th...
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Romney, Gingrich at GOP debate: We'd go to war to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons - Political Hotsheet
cbsnews.com - (Credit: CBS) SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich said at the Republican presidential debate here Saturday night that they would be willing to go to war to keep Iran from attaining n...
Indiana Governor Bores In on Federal Debt
online.wsj.com - Corrections & Amplifications Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels favors a dramatic reworking of Social Security benefits, but not for those who would enter the system in the next 10 or 15 years. This story ...
George Will Rick Perry | George Will Conflict of Interest | Video
mediaite.com - video Christiane Amanpour asked George Will about Rick Perry‘s “very bad week” on This Week today, but before discussing the Texas governor’s presidential campaign, Will disclosed that his wife Mar...
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Police: Occupy San Francisco protesters attack officers
mercurynews.com - By Matthias GafniContra Costa Times SAN FRANCISCO -- One San Francisco police officer was slashed by a razor and another had his uniform torn and cheek cut in a clash with Occupy San Francisco prot...
Police Clear Out Occupy Denver
my.firedoglake.com - The noon sun warmed the crowd of Saturday marchers who paraded through downtown Denver today, rallying against the idea of “corporate personhood.” The people were peaceful in spite of a small alte...
Occupy Portland protesters defy eviction order in Oregon
democraticunderground.com - Source: Christian Science MonitorPORTLAND, OREGONAnti-Wall Street protesters and their supporters flooded a city park area in Portland early Sunday in defiance of an eviction order, and authorities...
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How Romney grew rich by plundering companies - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - By Robyn Blummer November 11, 2011 9:30PM Updated: November 12, 2011 6:21PM If Mitt Romney wins the GOP nomination for president, the narrative for his 2012 run is pretty clear. He will tout his cr...
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