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It's the substance & the stress (not the salary), stupid.

allthingsedu.blogspot.com - As some of you know, I am starting to look for, ahem, a job, including positions that would put me back in the classroom. The position of "unpaid writer" isn't exactly putting food on the table and...

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Oliver Sicat. The Closer. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Oliver Sicat is 32 years old. He has been a teacher and a principal. This is one of the screwy things that has occurred in recent years. Some guy gets his teaching certification. He teaches in a cl...

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Is Illinois broke? And if so, why? « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Ty Fahner and the Civic Committee spent a million and a half dollars to spread lies like this billboard. My friend Glen Brown, retired teacher, blogger, and wonderful poet, raises the question: Is ...

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Community groups offer plan to counter school closings

wbez.org - Nine community groups from Albany Park to Roseland Tuesday presented a “Neighborhoods Agenda for Schools,” a wide-ranging plan that calls for significant investment in struggling neighborhood schoo...

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School Tech Connect: Multiple Measures

schooltechconnect.com - I've seen some Twitter traffic lately on multiple measures. Duncan is always blathering on about multiple measures, and how he's in favor of them. The trouble is that multiple measures is an empty ...

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Left Agents of the 1% | Dissident Voice

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Left Agents of the 1% | Dissident Voice:Left Agents of the 1%by Frank Scott / November 23rd, 2011As the Occupy Wall Street movement spread across the nation, mistakes and setbacks occurred which ar...

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A Misconception About Asian Schooling

nytimes.com - Nicholas Kristof (“When school comes first,” Views, Nov. 11) is right when he says Americans should care more about education, like people do in Asia. However, the key to building human capital is ...

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Emanuel picks fights with unions - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - Letters to the Editor November 22, 2011 10:04PM Updated: November 23, 2011 2:18AM Unfortunately, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s claim in the Nov. 20 Sun-Times that he is “working well with Chicago’s unions” ...

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Raindrops on Roses, and Whiskers on Kittens...

edupln.ning.com - … EdTech and iPads, and Tools for the Teacher! ….These are a few of my favorite things! Two days into owning an iPad and I’ve become obsessed, so I figured I could share a f...

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"What's Love Got to do With It?" Ask Your Students!

edupln.ning.com - Once upon a time there was a little 2nd grade boy. He was new to a school, and he brought with him, all his problems and issues. Sent to live with dad after mom "couldn't take it any more", a...

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My First Entry - The Educator's PLN

edupln.ning.com - The day before Thanksgiving and I have been cooped up all day in the house. This past weekend I attended NYSCATE and am still trying to digest all of the information taken in. Since last night, I h...

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Occupy Fort Collins: Cast out into the Darkness

my.firedoglake.com - Packing Up & Down The Road (Photo: mejuan, flickr) What city along the base of Colorado’s Front Range is home to a large state educational institution of higher learning, supplies electricity and w...

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School Tech Connect: Multiple Measures

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Multiple Measures:Multiple Measuresby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)I've seen some Twitter traffic lately on multiple measures. Duncan is always blathering on about multiple measure...

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Kids’ health researchers talk turkey « MomsRising Blog

momsrising.org - At an all-day seminar last week, I listened to university researchers discuss this startling question: Are we poisoning our children? Quite a provocative topic — some might even say alarmist. Yet s...

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Arsenic, Antibiotics and Asthma Drugs in Your Turkey? Yes!

dissidentvoice.org - So far, 2011 has not been a great year for turkey producers. In May, an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases reported that half of U.S. meat from major grocery chains–turkey, beef, chicken and p...

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Occupy Fort Collins: Cast out into the Darkness

my.firedoglake.com - Packing Up & Down The Road (Photo: mejuan, flickr) What city along the base of Colorado’s Front Range is home to a large state educational institution of higher learning, supplies electricity and w...

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Left Agents of the 1% | Dissident Voice

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Left Agents of the 1% | Dissident Voice:Left Agents of the 1%by Frank Scott / November 23rd, 2011As the Occupy Wall Street movement spread across the nation, mistakes and setbacks occurred which ar...

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