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Race to the Top is a Race Off a Cliff | Seattle Education
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Race to the Top is a Race Off a Cliff | Seattle Education:Race to the Top is a Race Off a Cliffby seattleducation2011Thank goodness that our state didn’t go aggressively after the Race to the Top b...
Federal Program Blamed For Long Island City High School Scheduling Chaos
ny1.com - To view our videos, you need toenable JavaScript. Learn how.install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. Students at Long Island City High School in Quee...
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nypost.com - High schools serving the most challenging students were much likelier to get saddled with a bad grade from the Department of Education than schools that serve few high-needs kids, a Post analysis f...
The Common Core Will Be The Common Cure
laststand4children.blogspot.com - Back in 1979 when they used to actually make family movies, I remember seeing a wonderful movie called The Great Santini. The movie was about a Marine Lieutenant Colonel who is raising a family. ...
Paul Karrer: Bean counters and educational compliance
montereyherald.com - About 4,000 schools in California are in "failing" status. And of those, a measly 85 have managed to "unfail" themselves. That is just a squeak over 2 percent. What gets schools and even entire dis...
The myth of the progressive city
salon.com - If you’ve listened to a political pundit predict any election in the last 50 years, you’ve been told that there are Republican small towns whose politics are organized around the three G’s (guns, G...
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District edges toward state takeover
toped.svefoundation.org - By Many school districts are worried about running out of money this year. San Diego Unified, the state’s second largest district, is openly talking about it. But surprisingly, given the financial ...
Shanker Blog » Schedule Conflicts
shankerblog.org - As most people know, the majority of public school teachers are paid based on salary schedules. Most (but not all) contain a number of “steps” (years of experience) and “lanes” (education levels). ...
U.S. young-old wealth gap worse than ever - Newsroom: Bernie Sanders
sanders.senate.gov - November 7, 2011 WASHINGTON - The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunitie...
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Personhood USA Creator Blames ‘Paternalistic’ Government For Women Having Free Choice
addictinginfo.org - The founder of Personhood USA, the group that is attempting to declare that life begins at the time of fertilization, blames our government’s ‘paternalistic’ policies for the fact that there are ab...
Governor: Let U of ND dump Fighting Sioux nickname
boston.com - BISMARCK, N.D.—Gov. Jack Dalrymple asked North Dakota lawmakers Monday to reverse a decision they made eight months earlier and allow the University of North Dakota to drop its Fighting Sioux athle...
Duncan praises push to help undocumented students
boston.com - WASHINGTON—Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday he's encouraged that some states are allowing the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at public colleges.As an example, Dun...
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ABC News Poll: Americans Angry, Election Up For Grabs - Boston News Story
thebostonchannel.com - POSTED: 6:58 am EST November 7, 2011UPDATED: 8:40 am EST November 7, 2011 BOSTON -- It is exactly one year away from the next presidential election, and a new ABC News poll shows voters are angry a...
Occupy DC Disrupts Koch Group Gathering; Activists Struck by Car
truthout.org - Time was when David Koch could bring his Americans for Prosperity Foundation convention to our nation's capital, and conventioneers could feel pretty secure in the notion that Washington, D.C., was...
AFL-CIO president leads union push on Ohio vote
boston.com - CLEVELAND—AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka led organized labor's final push Monday in a fierce election battle over Ohio's collective bargaining law. Gov. John Kasich headlined election-eve rallies...
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Atlanta police arrest 5 people following protest
sfgate.com - David Goldman / AP A protestor tries to get away as he's arrested by police after Occupy Atlanta protestors and an officer clashed as he was driving through the crowd on a motorcycle Saturday, Nov....
NYC Occupy Wall Street protesters erect military tents for winter
northjersey.com - NEW YORK — For those who've been asking whether the Occupy Wall Street protests can last through the winter, the New York City protesters have an answer. On Monday, they began erecting what they d...
Freedom Waves to Gaza Boats November 6, 2011 « Bill Ayers
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Freedom Waves to Gaza Boats November 6, 2011 « Bill Ayers:Freedom Waves to Gaza Boats November 6, 2011by billayersThe take over of the Tahrir and the Saoirse was violent and dangerous. Despite very...
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Wall Street Traders Have Profited More Under Obama Than In Eight Years Under Bush
thinkprogress.org - As protesters around the country take to the streets to protest the excesses of Wall Street banks that benefited from a federal bailout and quickly returned to profitability, new data from the fina...
Remittances to Mexico Experience Biggest One Month Jump Since 2006
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - In October, Mexico received more than $2 billion, which was substantially higher than the month before.Mexico remittances rose 21.2 percent from September to October, making it the biggest one-mont...
Bank Transfer Day a Resounding Success for Move Your Money Movement
news.firedoglake.com - It’s going to be hard to gauge the actual success of Bank Transfer Day for a while. Not only do we have to wait for record-keeping – and Bank of America, at least, is not giving up the data – but m...
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Google Launches Google+ Pages, Links Search and Social Networking
forbes.com - Social media isn’t just about connecting people with people. It’s also about selling people stuff. Google’s launch of Google + Pages is an attempt to make that social network more useful for busine...
Talk of job cuts is ‘soul-destroying’ for teachers – union · TheJournal
thejournal.ie - File photoImage: Photocall IrelandSPECULATION THAT AS many as 2,000 teaching posts could be cut as part of government cost-cutting measures is “soul-destroying” for members of the Teachers Union of...
Cool Ways to Make Meaning with Tag Clouds #teaching
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - While preparing for my presentation on 50+ Fantastic Free tools to use in the classroom for the Georgia Independent Schools Association Conference tomorrow, I've been playing around with a new tech...
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ASCD Inservice: Casey―and ASCD―at Bat for Well-Rounded Ed. Policy
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - ASCD Inservice: Casey―and ASCD―at Bat for Well-Rounded Ed. Policy:Casey―and ASCD―at Bat for Well-Rounded Ed. Policyby David Griffith, ASCD Public Policy DirectorThe No Child Left Behind Act's (NCLB...
California Teachers of the Year for 2012 - Year 2011 (CA Dept of Education)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - California Teachers of the Year for 2012 - Year 2011 (CA Dept of Education):State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Announces California's Five Teachers of the YearSelects Burbank Teacher as Nominee to N...
Public Policy Blogger: Inevitable consequences of too much standardization and testing in our public schools
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Public Policy Blogger: Inevitable consequences of too much standardization and testing in our public schools:Inevitable consequences of too much standardization and testing in our public schoolsby ...
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Occupy Fresno: More than 20 people arrested over the weekend
latimesblogs.latimes.com - It wasn't evident by looking at Patch, a one-eyed homeless advocate, and his Chihuahua-mix dog Bandit, the lone guards of the Occupy Fresno camp on Monday morning, but after two nights of arrests b...
Pinch me. Juan Williams spoke up for Occupy Wall Street on Fox |
bluecheddar.net - So is (1) Juan Williams just the contrarian wherever he goes or (2) does he really believe what he’s saying? Or (3) is the Occupy Wall Street movement so strong at this point that FOX told Juan to ...
Occupy San Diego – One Month Old Today – What Has It Wrought?
obrag.org - Now today Occupy San Diego is one month old! The first large march and encampment occurred on Friday, October 7th. The very next day, occupiers then moved over to the Civic Center Plaza where the...
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