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How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools

thenation.com - As attendees stood up to leave the hall, the phalanx of lobbyists surrounding the room converged, buttonholing legislators and school officials. On a floor above the main hall, an expo center had b...

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Rocketship soars to Common Council approval

jsonline.com - Milwaukee's Common Council easily passed a deal with a California-based, tech savvy charter school network to set up a city-sponsored charter elementary school in Milwaukee. The vote was 14-1, with...

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MoveOn.org Civic Action: Save Social Security

civic.moveon.org - Save Social SecurityA report in The New York Times suggests that the "Super Committee" in Congress—which has the power to fast-track it's recommendations to reduce the deficit—is close to backing m...

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Charter schools: public in form but private in essence

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - "With these charter schools, people are trying to say, ‘I want a custom-tailored education for my children, and I want you, as my neighbor, to pay for it.’ ” -- Matthew Stewart, resident of up...

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Believing the reformers

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - 140 Chicago schools targeted Columnist Gene Lyons, posting at Salon.com, warns us: "Don’t believe the education “reformers.” Public schools, he says, are better than we think and efforts to quant...

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From Gingrich, an Unconventional View of Education

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - November 19, 2011, 1:37 pm By TRIP GABRIELNewt Gingrich has some unconventional ideas about education reform. He wants every state to open a work-study college where students work 20 hours a week d...

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Vilifying Rival, Wall St. Rallies for Senate Ally

nytimes.com - The warning has ricocheted around the financial world in recent weeks, in conversations at Midtown restaurants and Washington fund-raisers, carrying urgent appeals for money from financial executiv...

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Personalized Assesment Part 2

ideasandthoughts.org - It might help to read Part 1. I've been teaching a course at the University of Regina for over 5 years. I've taught it for roughly 12 sections over that time. I really don't enjoy the assessment pr...

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Saturday coffee + Old school . « Fred Klonsky #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky:Saturday coffee.by Fred KlonskyThis morning Anne and I headed over to Peets for coffee and a bagel. My Thanksgiving week off has begun.The week before Thanksgiving m...

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Agricultural program helps keep youth out of gangs

boston.com - WOODLAKE, Calif.—When Manuel Jimenez first set eyes on the land below a levee, thick with brush and weeds, the one-time field worker envisioned a place where youngsters could escape the temptations...

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UPDATE: State of Seized Library

peopleslibrary.wordpress.com - by Michael | November 16, 2011 · 11:22 (This post is being updated as news comes in, check back regularly.) We’re getting our first report back from the folks who went to the Sanitation Garage. May...

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City crews remove Occupy San Francisco tents, protesters

latimesblogs.latimes.com - San Francisco city crews are removing an Occupy encampment near the city’s financial district Saturday afternoon, an area newspaper is reporting. The crews, in blue disposable jumpsuits and paper m...

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