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Alert From the Sacramento Comprehensive High School Coalition
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - From the Sacramento Comprehensive High School Coalition: An update is in order for anyone hopeful that the Sac High campus might be reclaimed for use as a pedestrian-friendly comprehensive high sc...
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...
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...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: Distraction Matters
anurbanteacherseducation.com - I spent a large portion of my Thanksgiving Break doing things like watching The Walking Dead and Dexter. (I don't really love either of the shows, but my affinity for both end-of-the-world scenario...
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, ...
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...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Bob Herbert: Occupy Wall Street's Cry of the Heart
thenation.com - Despite all the dismissive criticism, Occupy Wall Street has spread across the globe since its inception three month ago. How could a leaderless and seemingly amorphous movement achieve such global...
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 ...
House rejects Senate's CME tax-break bill 8-99; issue may be dead for now | Blogs On Politics
chicagobusiness.com - The Illinois House Tuesday evening overwhelmingly rejected the Senate's version of a bill designed to keep Chicago's trading exchanges and Sears Holdings Inc. from moving out of Illinois.Though the...
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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...
Latest #OccupySupply Update – Coats Arrive!
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - Jon Walker models the new OccupySupply Coat We took delivery on our first shipment of heavyweight duck blanket lined jackets, made by UFCW local 1541 workers and modeled by Jon Walker in the photo....
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...
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Beaverton School District seeks community help to prioritize its budget; take the survey
oregonlive.com - The Beaverton School District is asking the community to take a survey to help it prioritize its budget for 2012-13.The topics are fairly broad in some cases, but the district does not yet know wha...
Banks made billions on secret Federal Reserve loans
sfgate.com - Karen Bleier / AFP/Getty Images The Federal Reserve and a group of big banks battled in court for two-plus years to keep details of the huge 2007-2010 bailout a secret. The Federal Reserve and the ...
Hank Paulson’s Secret: Of Course the System Is Rigged
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - When former Goldman Sachs exec Henry Paulson was Treasury Secretary he apparently gave his hedge fund buddies extremely helpful and lucrative secret information about his plans to seize Freddie Mae...
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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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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Early Evening Posts #ows #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Education Research Report: Children At Risk: A State-by-State Report on Early Intervention Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 32 minutes ago Education Research Report: Children At Ri...
Remainders: Bronx school tells parents to stop airing its issues | GothamSchools
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Remainders: Bronx school tells parents to stop airing its issues | GothamSchools:Remainders: Bronx school tells parents to stop airing its issuesby Philissa Cramer, at 9:00 pmP.S. 24 in the Bronx t...
Schools Matter: Got 4K? Start Teaching Today--in Texas
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: Got 4K? Start Teaching Today--in Texas:Got 4K? Start Teaching Today--in Texasby Jim HornOnline and for-profit teacher "preparation," another innovative job creating strategy from th...
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Early Evening Posts #ows #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Education Research Report: Children At Risk: A State-by-State Report on Early Intervention Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 32 minutes ago Education Research Report: Children At Ri...
OCCUPY EDUCATION I occupy Education...
occupyedu.tumblr.com - 29th November 2011 Photo with 6 notes From a student at Occupy High… I occupy Education because I am the future, the pillars of society. We are the future, the pillars of society. The good and the...
OCCUPY EDUCATION Don’t analyze me....
occupyedu.tumblr.com - This is a collection of adults and children's messages that challenge public school to become something more than it is - messages that dare public school to serve students' passions instead of pol...
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