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Longer Standardized Tests Are Planned, Displeasing Some School Leaders
nytimes.com - Students across New York State will sit longer for high-stakes standardized tests in language arts and math this April compared with past years, education officials indicated Friday, drawing critic...
Give Schools Back to the Community
huffingtonpost.com - "Churn rate (sometimes called attrition rate), in its broadest sense, is a measure of the number of individuals or items moving into or out of a collective over a specific period of time.... The ph...
Tearing Down Education Piece by Piece - Finding Common Ground
blogs.edweek.org - Today we had to tear down a longhouse in our main hallway. The longhouse was built by our fourth grade teachers and students during our No Testing Week. We had to take it down for a variety of reas...
Morningside Center
morningsidecenter.org - 'Education is about preparing young people to make the world better than it is' Pedro Noguera's speech at Morningside Center's Courageous Schools Conference May 21, 2011 I am in the middle of a l...
Mayor Bloomberg’s 2008 State of the City Address
nytimes.com - Following is the prepared text of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s 2008 State of the City address as provided by the mayor's office. Thank you, Helen, and good afternoon. It's great to be in Queens. Ho...
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Gates Foundation works to influence education laws through big grant to ALEC
dailykos.com - Bill Gates (World Economic Forum)On the one hand you've got billionaire philanthropists like Bill Gates, pouring money into reshaping public education into whatever model they think best—and becaus...
Judith Warner: Why Are The Rich So Interested in Public School Reform? | TIME Ideas
ideas.time.com - Warner's latest book is We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication. It was perhaps inevitable that the political moment that has given birth to the Occupy movement, pitting Mai...
List of Schools Targeted by City for Closing Is Up to 19
nytimes.com - Three months into a federal grant program designed to improve some of the country’s lowest-performing schools, New York City’s Education Department has instead moved to close two troubled high scho...
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Mayor Bloomberg To Appeal Order To Release Correspondences With Cathie Black
huffingtonpost.com - The Bloomberg administration is set to appeal an order from the State Supreme Court to release email correspondences between the Mayor and former Schools Chancellor Cathie Black before she took off...
Santorum: Undocumented Immigrant Families Should Be Broken Up
thinkprogress.org - At a campaign stop in Spencer, Iowa on Wednesday, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) join the game of one-upsmanship his fellow GOP presidential contenders have been playing for weeks to see who can ...
For 29 Dead Miners, No Justice
nytimes.com - Ann Arbor, Mich. EARLY on April 5, 2010, in the heart of West Virginia coal country, a huge explosion killed 29 workers at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine. Later that day, Preside...
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Emanuel says he'll testify if called before Congress on Solyndra
chicagotribune.com - By Kristen Mack Clout Street 7:28 p.m. CST, December 1, 2011 Mayor Rahm Emanuel today said that if asked, he will appear before a Congressional panel investigating the now-bankrupt solar power firm...
With Lobbying Blitz, For-Profit Colleges Diluted New Rules
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Last year, the Obama administration vowed to stop for-profit colleges from luring students with false promises. In an opening volley that shook the $30 billion industry, officials prop...
Conservative pundits turn down Newt - Alexander Burns
politico.com - The conservative opinion elite has reached a consensus on Newt Gingrich: He’s not the one they’ve been waiting for.In the days since Gingrich leaped to the forefront of the Republican presidential ...
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Executives Collect $2 Billion Running U.S. For-Profit Colleges
bloomberg.com - Enlarge image Former DeVry Co-CEO Ronald Taylor Ronald Taylor, former co-chief executive officer of Devry Inc. Ronald Taylor, former co-chief executive officer of Devry Inc. Source: DeVry Inc. via ...
Postal Service plant closures will be 'a mess'
northjersey.com - THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE'S PLAN TO CLOSE 252 MAIL PROCESSING FACILITIES AND CUT 28,000 JOBS BY THE END OF NEXT YEAR MAY HELP THE AGENCY CURB ITS MOUNTING FINANCIAL PROBLEMS, BUT IT FACES BIG PRACTIC...
Year-end tax tips for 2011: Education tax credit often better than tuition deduction
oregonlive.com - The federal tax deduction for tuition expires Dec. 31. That might make you think you need to rush and pay next term's tuition early. Not so fast. You can't take both the deduction and a federal edu...
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State Appellate Court overturns conviction in 1992 Lake County murder - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - By Dan Hinkel, Cynthia Dizikes, Steve Mills and Ruth Fuller Chicago Tribune 10:25 p.m. CST, December 9, 2011 The Illinois Appellate Court has reversed the first-degree murder conviction of Juan Riv...
Man held in boy's disciplining with metal rod at parents' request
latimesblogs.latimes.com - A man who allegedly struck a 15-year-old Irvine boy with a metal pole after the boys’ parents asked him to discipline the youth on their behalf has been booked on suspicion of felony willful cruelt...
Philadelphia school official steps down amid pay allegations
articles.philly.com - The controversial pay raises - ranging from $4,500 to $25,000 - were initiated by Matthews and granted in July and September, even though the district was shedding 3,800 jobs to help close a $629 m...
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The 'adorable' gay penguins who adopted a baby chick
mobile.theweek.com - Instant Guide posted on December 9, 2011, at 12:35 PM A pair of Adelie penguins: Chinese zookeepers have allowed two "gay" penguins to adopt a chick from a female penguin who was struggling to care...
Natalia Jiménez fue vÃctima de acoso escolar
vidayfamilia.univision.com - Estás Viendo: La popular cantante española confesó que por primera vez los difÃciles momentos que vivió en su infancia. Fuente: Univision VIDEO School bullying and what is being done - Univision Ve...
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Judith Warner: Why Are The Rich So Interested in Public School Reform? | TIME Ideas
ideas.time.com - Warner's latest book is We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication. It was perhaps inevitable that the political moment that has given birth to the Occupy movement, pitting Mai...
Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRank #ows #EDreform #sosmarch #p2 #1u
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRank Hide8.4 For-Profit College Rules Scaled Back After Lobbying - NYTimes.com 2011-Dec-9 For-Profit Col...
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With Lobbying Blitz, For-Profit Colleges Diluted New Rules
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Last year, the Obama administration vowed to stop for-profit colleges from luring students with false promises. In an opening volley that shook the $30 billion industry, officials prop...
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