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A Retro-Rocketship to the Future: Corporate Education Reform Blasts Off in Silicon Valley
dailycensored.com - Rocketship is blasting off in Silicon Valley, with great fanfare – and no, it’s not a new tech start up, propelled by the genius of another 22-year old wunderkind who has invented the latest, most ...
LAUSD won't release teacher names with 'value-added' scores
latimes.com - The Los Angeles Unified School District has declined to release to The Times the names of teachers and their scores indicating their effectiveness in raising student performance. The nation's secon...
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...
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...
Interview with the guy did the “bat-man” on the Verizon building for OWS. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Xeni Jardin interviews Mark Read who did the bat-man projects on the Verizon building.XJ: How did you go about finding someone nearby who would allow you stage this from inside their home? MR: Oppo...
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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...
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...
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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NYC School Bus Driver Strike Likely, Warn Bloomberg And Walcott
huffingtonpost.com - Mayor Bloomberg called for an emergency press conference on Friday to address a possible immediate strike by the city's school bus drivers over a disagreement concerning provisions in a bus contrac...
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...
Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) coordinating Occupy raids
dailykos.com - Many of us have been wondering why the raids on Occupy camps across the country have had such a coordinated feel. If only the official response to real social ills could have been as timely and wid...
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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...
Barack Obama and Wen Jiabao meet, minus the print reporters - Jennifer Epstein
politico.com - BALI, Indonesia — President Barack Obama’s last-minute bilateral meeting Saturday with a top Chinese official made for a potentially dramatic moment — one that the traveling print reporters did not...
Will Egypt's Tahrir protests today dislodge military control?
csmonitor.com - It was one of Egypt's biggest demonstrations since Mubarak was toppled, a show of force against military efforts to maintain control. Amr Moussa recently discussed some of the key issues in an inte...
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Interview with the Occupy Wall Street "bat-signal" projection creator
boingboing.net - By Xeni Jardin at 11:15 pm Thursday, Nov 17[Video Link]. Earlier this evening, tens of thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters marched throughout New York City, and thousands of them marched on ...
Pompous 1%er Gets Bested By Occupy LA Filmmaker. Classic!
owsnews.org - Elvis Knievel: Elvis came from the 99% That's all she wrote, we win!...Nawahine: (here is a copy of my email to them) Your busted.... the news of your plot to take down the OWS movement is all over...
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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Ensure all school libraries are properly staffed, open, and available for children every day.
wwws.whitehouse.gov - creator Seanean S Inglewood, CA October 28, 2011 Signature # 1 Allacyn G Saint George, UT November 04, 2011 Signature # 820 Barbara A G Brooklyn, NY November 04, 2011 Signature # 819 Kaiba W Austin...
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...
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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Walt Hazzard, Former Star and Coach for U.C.L.A., Dies at 69
nytimes.com - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Walt Hazzard, the former U.C.L.A. and N.B.A. star who played on the Bruins’ first N.C.A.A. championship basketball team in 1964 and later coached the team for four seasons in the...
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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...
Interview with the Occupy Wall Street "bat-signal" projection creator
boingboing.net - By Xeni Jardin at 11:15 pm Thursday, Nov 17[Video Link]. Earlier this evening, tens of thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters marched throughout New York City, and thousands of them marched on ...
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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Interview with the Occupy Wall Street "bat-signal" projection creator
boingboing.net - By Xeni Jardin at 11:15 pm Thursday, Nov 17[Video Link]. Earlier this evening, tens of thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters marched throughout New York City, and thousands of them marched on ...
Big Education Ape:11-19-11 AM Diane Ravitch Criticizes Gates Foundation On Education EDition #OWS #N17 #p2 #EDreform
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