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#AskArne Twitter Town Hall Kicks Off American Education Week

ed.gov - Secretary Duncan talks with John Merrow during the first #AskArne Twitter Town Hall in August 2011. (Official Department of Education photo by Paul Wood) To kick off American Education Week, Secret...

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Occupying Andrew Cuomo: NYC Office Election Day Protest How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other NYC Educator: A Fine Day for a Sellout Is Tenure a Strike Issue?Moskowitz Aims Charters at Wealthy- So Much for Closing th

ednotesonline.blogspot.com - A short 7 minute video I made to try to capture the spirit of the demo - I would have had even more stuff if I had remembered to press the "record" button.Watch directly on you tube: http://youtu.b...

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Shanker Blog » The Evidence On Charter Schools

shankerblog.org - In our fruitless, deadlocked debate over whether charter schools “work,” charter opponents frequently cite the so-called CREDO study (discussed here), a 2009 analysis of charter school performance ...

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Dealing with disingenuous teachers unions: There are no shortcuts

educationgadfly.net - After its big referendum victory last week, Ohio teachers union vice president Bill Leibensperger said “There has always been room to talk. That’s what collective bargaining is about. You bring adu...

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Call for Open University Strike and Solidarity Actions on November 15th

reclaimuc.blogspot.com - Adopted by the Occupy Cal General Assembly After a mass rally and march of over 3,000 people, and repeated police assaults on the Occupy Cal encampment, the general assembly at UC Berkeley decided ...

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EducationSee all

Proof there is no proof for education reforms - The Answer Sheet

washingtonpost.com - This was written by Carol Corbett Burris, principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New...

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Dealing with disingenuous teachers unions: There are no shortcuts

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TCRecord: Article

tcrecord.org - Of the following three statements, which refer to the Soviet Union in the 1930s and which refer to America today? 1. “Teachers are asked to achieve significant academic growth for all students at ...

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SocietySee all

On the Rise in Alabama

nytimes.com - Alabama’s ruling class has dug in against the storm it caused with the nation’s most oppressive immigration law. Some of the law’s provisions have been blocked in federal court; others won’t take e...

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Occupy Portland Protesters Face Showdown With Police Over Eviction Order

huffingtonpost.com - PORTLAND, Ore. — Several hundred protesters, some wearing goggles and gas masks, marched past authorities in a downtown street Sunday, hours after riot police forced Occupy Portland demonstrators o...

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They Like Transparency, Until They Don’t

nytimes.com - The New York City public advocate, Bill de Blasio, has started an investigation into why the city fails so miserably to release even the most routine data requested under the state’s Freedom of Inf...

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PoliticsSee all

Rahm. Madigan. Fahner. Mayor of Wall Street. Speaker of Wall Street. Wall Street lawyer. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Democratic Speaker of the House Mike Madigan. Graphic: Crain’s I haven’t checked to see if millionaire corporate lawyer Ty Fahner has taken down his lying Illinois is Broke billboard from the exit ...

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Recall Effort Against Labor-Hating Governor Kicks Off This Week

gawker.com - Fresh off their victory in Ohio—where voters rejected an anti-collective bargaining law supported by their "reflective" Republican governor, John Kasich—the unions are now aiming to unseat Wisconsi...

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Hawaiian singer surprises Obama summit with ‘Occupy’ song

rawstory.com - By Agence France-PresseSunday, November 13, 2011 HONOLULU, Hawaii — A popular Hawaiian recording artist turned a top-security dinner of Pacific Rim leaders hosted by President Barack Obama into a...

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StoriesSee all

The OccupyUSA Blog for Tuesday (Nov. 15), With Frequent Updates

thenation.com - I've been live-blogging OWS here daily since October 1. Email: epic1934@aol.com. All times ET. My new book, just published, is "40 Days That Shook the World: From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Ev...

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#Occupy Oakland Returns to Oscar Grant Plaza « occupy california

occupyca.wordpress.com - By * OAKLAND, California – After a second eviction by police that occurred earlier today, #OccupyOakland reconvened at 4pm on the steps of a public library. After a rally, they marched back to Osca...

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We Need to Teach So that Kids Will Care « Cooperative Catalyst

coopcatalyst.wordpress.com - Someone I respect says we shouldn’t teach kids stuff they don’t care about. It sounds appealing. On some level this seems to make sense. It is also patently absurd. We have to teach kids things the...

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EnvironmentSee all

Movie Trailer: A documentary on New Orleans schools

learningmatters.tv - October 20th, 2011Produced by: Jane Renaud, Jessica Windt, David Wald and John Merrow / Duration: 9:00We spent years covering Paul Vallas in New Orleans, and now we’re dedicating an entire document...

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Bronze artifact found on Alaska's Seward Peninsula

boston.com - ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A research team is attempting to discover the origin of a cast bronze artifact excavated from an Inupiat Eskimo home site believed to be about 1,000 years old.The artifact resembl...

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California Legislature Will Reconsider Brownley Bag Ban In 2012

californiaprogressreport.com - Printer-friendly versionSend to friendBy Dan Aiello California Progress Report In an interview last week with Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, California Progress Report has learned the Santa Monica D...

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CrimeSee all

Charlie Gilmour released from prison after four months | World news

guardian.co.uk - Charlie Gilmour, pictured with his parents, has been released from prison following his sentence for violent disorder. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA The adopted son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gil...

mikeklonsky

Man busted for trespass at Occupy Colorado Springs

denverpost.com - A man who entered tents of Occupy Colorado Springs members, and was apparently unwanted by the group, was cited Saturday by police. Timothy Semple was taken to police headquarters, cited for trespa...

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Three Occupy Denver protesters arrested after scuffle with police

denverpost.com - On Saturday, police take down the Occupy Denver kitchen area. Seventeen protesters were arrested in Civic Center. Another three were arrested Sunday. (Leah Millis, Special to The Denver Post)Tensio...

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#owsSee all

Hawaiian singer surprises Obama summit with ‘Occupy’ song

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Headlines for November 14, 2011

democracynow.org - Unelected Technocrats Take Control in Italy, Greece, as Debt Crisis GrowsUnelected technocrats have taken over Italy and Greece as the two countries continue to battle a growing debt crisis. In Ita...

mikeklonsky

Occupy Movement Coming To An End? | OWSnews.org #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Occupy Movement Coming To An End? | OWSnews.org:Occupy Movement Coming To An End?November 15, 2011 in Denver, Liberty Park, Los Angeles, Oakland, OccupyTogether, Police Brutality, Portland, Video ...

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Big Education Ape: 11-15-11 AM #AskArne Twitter Town Hall Ticks Off American Education Week EDition #OWS

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