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Miracle Schools: Where Are They Now?
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - The current education reform battle is a bit like a boxing match. The corporate reformers had a lot of momentum until April 2010, when Diane Ravitch came out with ‘The Death And Life Of The Great A...
Fred Smith on David Abrams' resignation: No Mas!
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Fred Smith is a former senior analyst for the NYC Board of Education and an expert on testing. Here he comments on the sudden resignation of David Abrams, who led the NY State Education Dept. testi...
Bloomberg Says He Has 'Own Army' in NYPD, Slams Teachers
dnainfo.com - Mayor Bloomberg Delivers Keynote Address at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Collaborative Initiative Conference. (Mayor's Office/Edward Reed) MANHATTAN — Now he can add another title to...
Britons Strike as Government Extends Austerity Measures
nytimes.com - LONDON — Hundreds of thousands of public employees walked off their jobs in schools, hospitals, airports, courtrooms, libraries, museums and government offices on Wednesday, as British workers beca...
Villaraigosa says he raided Occupy LA to protect kids. 13,000 homeless children in LA. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Following the police raid on the City Hall Occupy LA encampment, LA’s Democratic Party Mayor Antonion Villaraigosa the LA Times reported: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said he decided it was time to e...
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Vote to lift charter school cap heads to full state House, Democrats fear 'tearing the cap off an experiment'
mlive.com - LANSING – A state House Committee agreed to lift the cap of charter schools, a move backers said will offer more choices to families in failing schools.But Democrats, who sought to make 15 amendmen...
Chicago Teachers Union | Chicago Teachers Union blasts new list of school closures and the parceling out of elementary students to other schools
ctunet.com - 11/30/2011CTU President Karen Lewis criticized the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) list of schools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do litt...
The Ravitch Switch: Searching for Answers to the Radical Transformation of Education Critic Diane Ravitch
thejewishweek.com - Ever since her fierce polemic against the school reform movement, “The Death and Life of the Great American School System,” which came out last year, Diane Ravitch has become an ubiquitous voice in...
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American lives, undocumented | Being Latino Online Magazine
beinglatino.wordpress.com - by Hector Luis Alamo, Jr. A deep recession has struck a nation, and in the rubble, one entire section of society is subjugated, dis-empowered and dehumanized. Right-wing nationalists establish a re...
Hillary's AIDS Plan Missed a Key Idea: Women
womensenews.org - It's an odd question to ask Hillary Clinton, the Obama administration's champion for global women's reproductive rights. But where were the women in her "AIDS-free generation" speech two weeks ago?...
Today's Teamsters News 12.01.11
teamsternation.blogspot.com - Unions survive anti-labor push in New Hampshire Los Angeles Times ...Legislators in New Hampshire voted to sustain Gov. John Lynch's veto of a right-to-work bill in New Hampshire that would have...
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Cuomo Considering Tax-Code Changes - NYTimes.com
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - Faced with a worsening financial climate, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday that he was contemplating whether to propose changes to the state tax code, and he did not rule out the possibility tha...
Britain's Massive Anti-Austerity Strike: Could It Happen Here?
ourfuture.org - Millions of employees mounted Great Britain's first General Strike in many years today after the government threatened to impose more cuts in retirement benefits and pay for public workers. It was ...
Think Progress: Wall Street’s Recession Cost 1.5 Million Times More Than The Cost Of Securing Occupy Protests
kochwatch.org - -By Zaid Jilani and Brad Johnson November 23, 2011- Today, the Associated Press (AP) has a story where it estimates the costs of police securing for the various ongoing protest occupations across t...
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A Banker Speaks, With Regret
nytimes.com - If you want to understand why the Occupy movement has found such traction, it helps to listen to a former banker like James Theckston. He fully acknowledges that he and other bankers are mostly res...
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 ...
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 ...
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Judy Lewis, Secret Daughter of Hollywood, Dies at 76
nytimes.com - Her mother was Loretta Young. Her father was Clark Gable. Yet Judy Lewis spent her first 19 months in hideaways and orphanages, and the rest of her early life untangling a web of lies s...
Mayor Bloomberg Has a Posse - Politics
theatlanticwire.com - Mayor Bloomberg, who always fends off the suggestion that he'll make a run at the White House, had to spell out why he's just as powerful where he's sitting in Manhattan: "I have my own army," for ...
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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 12/01/2011
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - Mindmaps | Social Media CoLab Harold Reingold's students post their mind maps developed for his social media class. This is going crazy over on Facebook with all the responses from many ...
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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 ...
Think Progress: Wall Street’s Recession Cost 1.5 Million Times More Than The Cost Of Securing Occupy Protests
kochwatch.org - -By Zaid Jilani and Brad Johnson November 23, 2011- Today, the Associated Press (AP) has a story where it estimates the costs of police securing for the various ongoing protest occupations across t...
A Background Check on the UC Davis Pepper-Spray Investigator
baycitizen.org - Getty Images William J. Bratton attends the Wired business conference at The Morgan Library & Museum on June 14, 2010 in New York City. William J. Bratton, the former police chief whom the Universi...
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School choice bill robs from the poor and gives to the rich - phillyBurbs.com : Guest Opinions: guest opinion, school choice, senate bill 1, vouchers,
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School choice bill robs from the poor and gives to the rich - phillyBurbs.com : Guest Opinions: guest opinion, school choice, senate bill 1, vouchers,:School choice bill robs from the poor and give...
Low-income schools shortchanged in funding | Thoughts on Public Education
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Low-income schools shortchanged in funding | Thoughts on Public Education:Low-income schools shortchanged in funding - by Kathryn Baronby Kathryn BaronBeing proven right is usually a cause for some...
Has teacher quality declined over time? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Has teacher quality declined over time? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:Has teacher quality declined over time?by Valerie StraussThis was written by Matthew Di Carlo, senior fellow at the ...
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