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Which charters are flunking according to DOE's own metrics?
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - About two weeks ago, DOE officials released a list of twenty elementary and middle schools that they are considering closing. According to the NY Times, “The schools on the list fit at least one ...
What’s New in Healthy, Green Schools at the U.S. Department of Education
letsmove.gov - Posted by Secretary Arne Duncan, U.S. Department of Education on November 03, 2011 In September, I opened the pilot year of the Green Ribbon Schools award to recognize the highest performing green ...
Port Washington Educators Oppose Evaluation System
portwashington.patch.com - Three top educators of the Port Washington School District joined hundreds of Long Island public school principals in challenging the state Education Department and criticizing new standards for ev...
Guess What? The EddyFormer$ lied. (Educational Deformers) « GFBrandenburg's Blog
gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com - If you look at the tables that I posted on my blog, which I culled from the NAEP scores over the years, it is clear that no miracle occurred under Rhee’s reign. It is also clear that turning 40% of...
Side by Side: On Britain's School Wars
thenation.com - Nothing is so likely to cause a dinner party to turn violent. In Britain, the question of the type of school parents choose for their children ranks with international terrorism and global warming ...
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Eduwonk » Blog Archive » Second Response From Diane Ravitch
eduwonk.com - Ed Note – All week Eric Hanushek and Diane Ravitch have discussed and debated the pros and cons of more assertive policies to deselect the lowest-performing teachers. Hanushek started on Monday, R...
Shanker Blog » The Impact Of The Principal In The Classroom
shankerblog.org - Direct observation is way of gathering data by watching behavior or events as they occur; for example, a teacher teaching a lesson. This methodology is important to teacher induction and profession...
The Problem With Paying Teachers Less Money | Swampland
swampland.time.com - Lara Cerri / St. Petersburg Times / ZUMAPRESS.comShore Acres Elementary fourth grade teacher Telsha Marmash leads her students in a discussion about prefixes Nov. 1, 2011 in St. Petersburg, Florida...
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There Are Far More Americans Living in Poverty Now - National
theatlanticwire.com - Things aren't getting better yet: the number of Americans living far below the poverty line is growing larger, and increasingly the hardest hit areas are becoming suburbs. Today's census data shows...
Ann Coulter on Herman Cain: “Our blacks are so much better than their blacks” | Politics Blog
blog.sfgate.com - Not surprising that the Fox News conservative cheer squad is rallying to Herman Cain’s defense over allegations of sexual harrasment from his past. (Cain’s wife Gloria Cain may field softballs from...
Anonymous Spokesman Barret Brown Says #OpCartel Is On (VIDEO)
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 6:02 pm, November 3, 2011 Photo Credits: Anonymous VS Los Zetas. Barret Brown, spokesperson for Anonymous, said the hacktivist group has examined 25,000 stolen Mexican Government docum...
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Romney's Estate Tax Cut Would Save The Koch Brothers Up To $8.7 Billion Each
thinkprogress.org - Mitt Romney speaking at a Koch summit in previous years; David Koch speaking at his own gala Tomorrow, 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is slated to give a “major spending policy speech” a...
Elizabeth Warren Heckler Hurls Epithet At Senate Candidate
huffingtonpost.com - BRACKTON, Mass. -- Moments into a speech before volunteers here Wednesday evening, Elizabeth Warren was interrupted by a Tea Party supporter who hurled a gender-based epithet at the Senate candidat...
Mike Bloomberg's Marie Antoinette Moment | Matt Taibbi
rollingstone.com - Last year I had a chance to see New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg up close at the Huffington Post’s “Game Changers” event. I was standing right behind the guy when he was introduced by Nora Ephron, and...
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Police, Occupy protesters clash in Oakland #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - News from The Associated Press:Police, Occupy protesters clash in OaklandBy TERRY COLLINS Associated PressAP Photo/Terry CollinsUS VideoBuy AP Photo ReprintsMultimediaTimeline on World Cup Violence...
Northeast High Schools May Shorten Student Vacations
huffingtonpost.com - HARTFORD, Conn. -- Education officials in the Northeast worried Thursday about having to shorten school vacations to make up for all the days students have missed because of power failures caused b...
Occupy protesters disavow Oakland violence
boston.com - OAKLAND, Calif.—Occupy Wall Street supporters who staged rallies that shut down the nation's fifth-busiest port during a day of protests condemned on Thursday the demonstrators who clashed with pol...
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Bronx school recorded hundreds of cases of sick students since '05
nydailynews.com - Students at a Bronx elementary school suffered from ailments including headaches, nausea, vomiting, abnormal gaits and seizures before the building was closed because of toxic contamination, accord...
Raising Medicare Eligibility Age Erodes Social Security, New Study Shows
ourfuture.org - A proposal to increase the Medicare eligibility age, which the Super Committee is considering, would drive up health care costs to the point where they would consume almost half of the Social Secur...
How Important is a Correct Diagnosis? :: Help! S-O-S for Parents
sos-research-blog.com - Barbara Lester, LCSW, member of OUR Journey THRU Autism (OJTA), shared that she is often asked the importance of obtaining a “correct” diagnosis before determining treatment, since the symptoms of ...
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Lesbian student crowned homecoming king
nydailynews.com - Happy is the head that wears the crown. San Diego area high school senior and self-identified lesbian Rebeca Arellano has been voted homecoming king by her fellow Patrick Henry High school peers He...
CNN, Mornings With Latinas Soledad O'Brien and Zoraida Sambolin
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 3:46 pm, November 3, 2011 Photo Credits: Zoraida Sambolin and Soledad O'Brien soon-to-be the faces of CNN morning shows CNN is looking to change things up a bit and is doing so by reva...
The convicted extortionist William Cellini, Jim Thompson and Ty Fahner. Connect the dots and follow the arrows to TRS. « Fred Klonsky's blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The convicted extortionist William Cellini, Jim Thompson and Ty Fahner. Connect the dots and follow the arrows to TRS. « Fred Klonsky's blog:The convicted extortionist William Cellini, Jim Thompson...
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There Are Far More Americans Living in Poverty Now - National
theatlanticwire.com - Things aren't getting better yet: the number of Americans living far below the poverty line is growing larger, and increasingly the hardest hit areas are becoming suburbs. Today's census data shows...
Eva Occupies OWS
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - November 2, 2011 (GBN News): NY City Mayor Michael Bloomberg believes he has found a sure-fire way of evicting those nettlesome Occupy Wall Street protesters, GBN News has learned. According to Cit...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top AM Posts #ows Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top AM Posts #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top AM Posts #ows Because I'm Worth It? - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 17 minutes ag...