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The Evidence on Charter Schools

huffingtonpost.com - In our fruitless, deadlocked debate over whether charter schools "work," charter opponents frequently cite what is often called the CREDO study (discussed here), a 2009 analysis of charter school ...

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some thoughts on a Saturday morning

dailykos.com - Before I became a teacher, I spent 20 years in data processing, as it was then called. While I was very good at programming computers and debugging the problems in programs written by others, my r...

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When Good Intentions Make Us Stupid :: Frederick M. Hess

frederickhess.org - by Frederick M. Hess • Nov 16, 2011 at 9:38 amCross-posted from Education Weekhttp://www.frederickhess.org/2011/11/when-good-intentions-make-us-stupidWhile I was gone, there were any number of cl...

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Thanks2Teachers RT @mrsjoananderson@nancyflanagan @DianeRavitch testing is about distracting the public from the true problem- POVERTY #edchat #edreform2 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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teacherken The Famine Next Timedailykos.com/story/2011/11/… - I start w/ a NY Times op ed focusing on Horn of Africa and explore the issue more broadlyabout 1 hour ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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teacherken 33 years ago today: we SHOULD rememberdailykos.com/story/2011/11/… - the assassination of George Moscone & Harvey Milk ( h/t @ZinnEdProject )24 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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For-Profit Certification for Teachers Is Booming

nytimes.com - DENTON — One afternoon in mid-November, Jeff Arrington scattered 80 paper gingerbread men labeled with numbers across the floor of his high school disaster-response class. The numbers ...

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Breaking the Cycle of Violence

utotherescue.blogspot.com - by Catherine M. Cole, Professor of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley Violence breeds violence. And that's why we must never tolerate violence at the university. UC Berkeley’s re...

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Research that Counts (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)

susanohanian.org - How Money Talks Susan Notes: The corporate and political entanglements of the Gates and Broad Foundations are well documented. The Wallace Foundation is not so well known but a study of its grant g...

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Why Did a UC Cop Draw His Gun Today? « Student Activism

studentactivism.net - A University of California police officer drew his gun and pointed it at students protesting meeting of the UC regents this morning, and the UC San Francisco police chief’s explanation as to why do...

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What Was The Best Education-Related Book You Read This Year?

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - As I do every year, I’m asking that readers leave a comment with the title and author of their favorite education-related that they read this calendar year. In addition, I ask that they leave a sen...

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The Mind’s Ear

nytimes.com - Morning commute in America. “I was fully conscious, but there were no more thoughts. Then I felt drawn into what seemed like a vortex of energy. . . . ” At the wheel of her Subaru, driving east on ...

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GOP Blows Up Yet Another Norm

motherjones.com - We all know that Republicans have done their best to hamstring President Obama's ability to get anything done via routine filibuster. That's old news. We also know that they've slow-walked his exec...

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The return of Van Jones - Joseph Williams

politico.com - As an unabashed and high-profile liberal on President Barack Obama’s White House staff, former “green energy” czar Van Jones was to Republicans what a red cape is to a snorting bull: an irresistibl...

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Money At The Top - NYTimes.com

krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - November 26, 2011, 5:33 pmA bit more on the subject of whether there’s significant money to be raised through higher taxes on the very rich. As it happens, there’s a recent analysis from the nonpar...

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Ocean Spray Craisins recalled because of metal fragments

vitals.msnbc.msn.com - By JoNel AlecciaOcean Spray is recalling certain lots of packaged and bulk original flavor Craisins -- sweetened dried cranberries -- because they may be contaminated with small, hairlike metal par...

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Memo to Hanushek: 0.08 SD is very small

minddump.org - Hanushek, an economist, claims that the .08 standard deviation increase in student learning is not as insignificant as the report makes it sound. According to his calculations, the benefits of such...

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Tank - Diary of a Mad Man

djbooth.net - Artist:TankTitle:Diary of a Mad ManProducer: The ComposerAlbum:Diary of a Mad ManLabel:Atlantic RecordsTwitter:@TheRealTankWebsite:Tank's WebsiteAverage Rating: 4.0Total Ratings: 4Is it j...

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Research that Counts (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)

susanohanian.org - How Money Talks Susan Notes: The corporate and political entanglements of the Gates and Broad Foundations are well documented. The Wallace Foundation is not so well known but a study of its grant g...

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The U.S. is getting it wrong on school reform

minddump.org - Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems by Marc S. Tucker and colleagues takes benchmarking one step further. The systems of schooling in Shanghai...

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Address Is Approximate - The Educator's PLN

edupln.com - The EETC Conference brings researchers, policy makers,administrators, educators, and practitioners together to present and discuss research and applications in the areas of preschool through elemen...

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Breaking the Cycle of Violence

utotherescue.blogspot.com - by Catherine M. Cole, Professor of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley Violence breeds violence. And that's why we must never tolerate violence at the university. UC Berkeley’s re...

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