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Duncan Calls for Urgency in Lowering College Costs
nytimes.com - Education Secretary Arne Duncan in a speech Tuesday pushed higher education officials to “think more creatively — and with much greater urgency — about how to contain the spiraling costs of college...
Why Rich Kids Cheat On The SAT
forbes.com - Shortly before Thanksgiving, The New York Times reported that criminal charges have been filed against 20 students in an affluent New York suburb for allegedly cheating on the SAT. Some of those ch...
Common Core standards pose dilemmas for early childhood - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by Samuel J. Meisels, president of Erikson Institute, a graduate school in child development located in Chicago.By Samuel J. Meisels After a decade of concerns and criticisms abou...
Best and Worst in American Education, 2011
hoover.org - This was truly harmful for standards-based education reform, particularly because of how thoroughly it has been misinterpreted and misrepresented. What the public should have learned from the Atlan...
Students Urged to Refuse to Pay Off Loans As Schools Hike Tuition
democracynow.org - AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. We continue to talk about protests and another way. Well, Monday was a day of action for university students on both ...
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K12 Inc.: Public Online Schools, Private Profits
kunc.org - At a time when public schools are seeing deep cuts in funding, there’s a growing market for companies running online elementary, middle and high schools. The largest for-profit company overseeing t...
Education officials plan 4-hour state reading exams for 3rd through 8th grade students
nydailynews.com - A plan to nearly double the length of state reading exams to more than four hours over back-to-back days was flunked Monday by critics who called the extended tests for grades 3 to 8 excessive.Stat...
Interview with Diane Ravitch: California's Rejection of NCLB Waivers Sends a Message - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - California, with more public school students than any other state, has surprised many by declining to apply for waivers to No Child Left Behind. The implications of this decision are far-reaching, ...
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Occupy Durban! | Abahlali baseMjondolo
abahlali.org - 27 November 2011 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Occupy Durban!Occupations Currently Underway in Hillary, KwaMashu and Pinetown We are human beings, not dogs, and every human being has a righ...
Teacher Arrested Protesting for Education Funding in Olympia
seattleducation2010.wordpress.com - Jesse Hagopian, teacher in the Seattle Public School System and Founding Member of Seattle Equality Educators (SEE) was arrested on Monday for standing up for his students. Jesse Hagopian standing ...
Rick Perry Forgets The Legal Voting Age
2012.talkingpointsmemo.com - Thomas Lane November 29, 2011, 3:26 PM Oops, there he goes again. Fresh from forgetting which government agency he would abolish and in which century the American Revolution took place, Texas Gover...
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Michigan teachers under attack. See something. Say something. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Last April I caught hell for criticizing IEA Communication Director Charlie McBarron. In your blog, you make much of the inclusion of a particular link to an item in the daily news summary. McBarro...
Occupy San Diegans Join Occupy LA In Solidarity in Face-off With Police
obrag.org - Occupy Los Angeles - November 27, 2011.When a few of us in Occupy San Diego this past weekend heard that our sisters and brothers in Occupy LA were facing eviction early Monday morning, about two d...
Michelle-Rhee-Style Reforms Didn’t Work in DC! « GFBrandenburg's Blog
gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com - It bears repeating: Michelle Rhee’s reforms have been going on now in DC for nearly five years. SHE CLAIMED SHE WOULD PRODUCE MIRACLES if she was given full, dictatorial powers to REFORM education ...
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Newt Gingrich: 'I Call On The President To Repudiate The Concept Of The 99 And The 1'
thinkprogress.org - NEWS FLASH Newt Gingrich: ‘I Call On The President To Repudiate The Concept Of The 99 And The 1′ | 2012 GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich today, during an event in South Carolina, said that ...
Teen tweeter 1, Kansas governor 0
latimes.com - Ending a battle that could only have taken place in the brave new world of social media, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback on Monday apologized for an incident involving a teen who had maligned him on Twit...
'Spreading the Wealth' in Democrats' Favor
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Fighting from behind in the final days of the 2008 presidential election, Senator John McCain found a weapon in an unscripted encounter between his opponent, Senator Barack Obama, and ...
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2 Occupy Demonstrations Face Eviction
nytimes.com - In center city Philadelphia, hundreds gathered outside City Hall in a show of solidarity ahead of a city-imposed Sunday evening deadline to clear a campsite there. The protesters braced for a polic...
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant operator 'ignored tsunami warning'
democraticunderground.com - Source: The GuardianThe operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant ignored warnings that the complex was at risk of damage from a tsunami of the size that hit north-east Japan in March, ...
Iran Students Storm British Embassy in Tehran - Global
theatlanticwire.com - Students in Tehran stormed the British embassy there on Tuesday, forcing their way inside, where they threw papers from the windows and took down the British flag. The attack started with dozens pr...
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Teen Doesn't Need To Apologize For Tweet : The Two-Way : NPR
npr.org - Enlarge John Hanna/AP Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R). John Hanna/AP Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R). There's no need for 18-year-old Emma Sullivan to apologize and his staff overreacted by telling off...
das racist performs "michael jackson" on conan
blog.angryasianman.com - If you tuned in to Conan last night, you might have been treated to the television debut of Brooklyn alternative hip hop trio Das Racist, performing their single "Michael Jackson." The whole thing ...
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Occupy San Diegans Join Occupy LA In Solidarity in Face-off With Police
obrag.org - Occupy Los Angeles - November 27, 2011.When a few of us in Occupy San Diego this past weekend heard that our sisters and brothers in Occupy LA were facing eviction early Monday morning, about two d...
Pepper Spray Developer: It Has Become Fashionable to Use Chemicals on People with Opinions | The Dissenter #OWS
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Pepper Spray Developer: It Has Become Fashionable to Use Chemicals on People with Opinions | The Dissenter:Pepper Spray Developer: It Has Become Fashionable to Use Chemicals on People with Opinions...
One Up For Occupy Wall St. – Judge Orders Citigroup Cannot Buy It’s Way Out of Charges
democraticunderground.com - Source: Addicting InfoIn 2008, George Bush issued a DOJ directive that sealed the deal on a practice known as “deferred prosecutions.“ The directive gave DOJ and SEC desk jockeys incredible latitud...
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The "Shock Doctrine" Comes to Your Neighborhood Classroom
commondreams.org - "Let's hope the fiscal crisis doesn't get better too soon. It'll slow down reform." -- Tom Watkins, a consultant, summarizes the corporate education reform movement's current strategy to the Sunday...