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Chicago charter schools produce wildly uneven results on state tests - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - By Rosalind Rossi and Art Golab Staff Reporters November 30, 2011 12:02AM Michael Milkie Superintendent Noble Network of Charter Schools, looking over Raquel Ibarra's work, while Principal Tressie ...
Response: Several Ways Teachers Can Create A Supportive Environment For Each Other - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo
blogs.edweek.org - S.H. asked: Our school culture has a growing sense of [unhealthy] competitiveness. I believe a lot of this stems from the fact that our administration does not recognize (or maybe they do and simpl...
State education officials kill plan for super-size test for third graders after chorus of complaints
nydailynews.com - Red-faced state educrats have killed a wildly unpopular plan to stick third graders with a four-hour battery of reading tests after critics ripped it in the Daily News.Officials had aimed to nearly...
Occupy UC'ers Profound Plea: "Gimme, Gimme" :: Frederick M. Hess
frederickhess.org - by Frederick M. Hess • Nov 30, 2011 at 8:19 amCross-posted from Education Weekhttp://www.frederickhess.org/2011/11/occupy-ucers-profound-plea-gimme-gimmeAs a nation, we've been living beyond our ...
We Must Do More Than Merely Avoid the NCLB Train Wreck
huffingtonpost.com - The Obama administration's decision to allow states to request waivers from No Child Left Behind was a step in the right direction, but only a baby step. Four in five schools across the country wil...
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Amid sweeping changes, state’s testing chief resigns suddenly
gothamschools.org - The State Education Department official who has supervised the state’s testing program since 2004 — through skyrocketing scores, a brutal crash, and the dawn of an overhaul — has resigned. David Ab...
Education Petition: Fulton County School Board: Deny Fulton Science Academy Charter Renewal Proposal
change.org - Fulton County School Board Greetings, Please do not renew Fulton Science Academy's charter as submitted. Fulton Science Academy has made presumptuous business decisions outside the parameters of it...
Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » 18 schools, 10,000 students targeted by CPS interventions
pureparents.org - Adding to the 10 turnarounds disclosed yesterday, CPS today announced that it will close 2 schools and consolidate, phase out, or otherwise intervene in 6 others. There will be a critical meeting o...
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Mayor Bloomberg: ‘I Have My Own Army’
politickerny.com - Mayor Bloomberg (Getty) In a speech at MIT last night to discuss the packed sweepstakes to build a tech campus in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg said he prefers City Hall to the White House. Almost...
Occupy New Haven: On Land Owned by an Aristocratic Body
dissenter.firedoglake.com - Help Kevin Gosztola purchase & distribute supplies from the Occupy Supply fund.Weeks ago, I began a tour of occupations to help bring FDL’s Occupy Supply fund to occupations on the Northeast coast....
Occupy L.A. protesters gone, so judge rejects restraining order
latimesblogs.latimes.com - A federal judge on Wednesday rejected as "moot" the request by Occupy L.A. demonstrators for a temporary restraining order to prevent police from disbanding their encampment on the grounds of City ...
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Police clear Occupy encampment, dozens arrested | Philadelphia Inquirer
philly.com - Police swarmed around City Hall and rousted Occupy Philadelphia protesters from their encampment overnight, more than two days after a deadline passed for them to leave. The occupiers responded by ...
Occupy L.A.: Police load protesters onto buses headed for jail
latimesblogs.latimes.com - On the north and west sides of City Hall, police were busy loading arrestees onto buses headed for jail. Bomb-sniffing dogs were being led around the building, sniffing for molotov cocktails that p...
200 arrested as cops raid Occupy LA camp
cbsnews.com - (CBS/AP) Updated at 6:51 a.m. Eastern LOS ANGELES - Police in Los Angeles and Philadelphia stormed Occupy Wall Street encampments in both cities Wednesday, demanding protesters leave demonstration...
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Enough handwringing about Occupy, already.
dailykos.com - There has been a lot of hand-wringing about the direction of the Occupy movement, its message, its leaderless nature, its outside-of-the-beltway tactics and the everyone-is-invited attitude of the ...
CALL TO ACTION: Why has bail for those arrested in L.A. set at $5,000?
alleducationmatters.blogspot.com - Please write to the following Councilmembers and ask them why bail has been set so high? You can feel free to copy and paste my message below. Also, here's their website, if you also wish to call. ...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the First Lady For Immediate Release November 30, 2011 Washington, D.C.11:52 A.M. EST MRS. OBAMA: Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Please, please. (Applause.) Well, th...
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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...
Britons Strike as Government Extends Austerity Measures
nytimes.com - LONDON — Public sector workers on Wednesday began Britain’s biggest strike in a generation to protest austerity measures, a day after the British government said that it was falling behind with its...
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...
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Chicago charter schools produce wildly uneven results on state tests - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - By Rosalind Rossi and Art Golab Staff Reporters November 30, 2011 12:02AM Michael Milkie Superintendent Noble Network of Charter Schools, looking over Raquel Ibarra's work, while Principal Tressie ...
Amazon Has a Very Good Reason to Now Support an Internet Sales Tax - Technology
theatlanticwire.com - Now that the legislation favors Amazon, in a total turnaround from earlier this year, today Amazon came out and said it "strongly supports" the Internet sales tax. A few months ago, Amazon was acti...
Doing It Their Way: Government Layoffs Worsening Unemployment
ourfuture.org - There is new evidence of the cost of right-wing austerity policies in the latest report on downsizing activity from global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., which headlines the f...
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Enough handwringing about Occupy, already.
dailykos.com - There has been a lot of hand-wringing about the direction of the Occupy movement, its message, its leaderless nature, its outside-of-the-beltway tactics and the everyone-is-invited attitude of the ...
Occupy New Haven: On Land Owned by an Aristocratic Body
dissenter.firedoglake.com - Help Kevin Gosztola purchase & distribute supplies from the Occupy Supply fund.Weeks ago, I began a tour of occupations to help bring FDL’s Occupy Supply fund to occupations on the Northeast coast....
Occupy L.A. protesters gone, so judge rejects restraining order
latimesblogs.latimes.com - A federal judge on Wednesday rejected as "moot" the request by Occupy L.A. demonstrators for a temporary restraining order to prevent police from disbanding their encampment on the grounds of City ...
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200 arrested as cops raid Occupy LA camp
cbsnews.com - (CBS/AP) Updated at 6:51 a.m. Eastern LOS ANGELES - Police in Los Angeles and Philadelphia stormed Occupy Wall Street encampments in both cities Wednesday, demanding protesters leave demonstration...
Live Blog for #Occupy Movement: @OccupyPhilly & @OccupyLA Being Evicted Now
dissenter.firedoglake.com - For the past six hours, it has been clear that the LAPD was building up for a raid on Occupy LA tonight. The biggest hint was the decision to hold a lottery for press that would be allowed into a “...
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