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Daily Kos: The most important speech on education in years #ows #edreform

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: The most important speech on education in years:The most important speech on education in yearsby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)was given yesterday at the National Opportunity to Learn Ed...

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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...

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The Assessment Game

texasisd.com - Did you and your friends ever try to learn a game no one in the group had actually played before, without the instructions? Did frustration lead to improvised rules tossed out at whim as the game...

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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...

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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...

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School Tech Connect: Words of Wisdom

schooltechconnect.com - Pass them along. Diane gave a barnburner in DC yesterday. I decided to pass it along to my state representative, my highly reformy state senator, my charter-happy liberal Democratic congresswoman, ...

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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...

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Where is the NEA leadership headed just at the time when we need a fighting union? « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - In Illinois Senate Bill 7 took away our seniority rights and tenure rights and the right to bargain teacher evaluation at the local level. Chicago teachers had their ability to strike made more dif...

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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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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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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...

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For 29 Dead Miners, No Justice

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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...

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The Koch Brothers, ALEC and the Savage Assault on Democracy

thenation.com - Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch finally got their way in 2011. After decades of funding the American Legislative Exchange Council, the collaboration between multinational corporations a...

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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Natalia Jiménez fue víctima de acoso escolar

vidayfamilia.univision.com - Estás Viendo: La popular cantante española confesó que por primera vez los difíciles momentos que vivió en su infancia. Fuente: Univision VIDEO School bullying and what is being done - Univision Ve...

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shop.wikileaks.org - WikiLeaks is under attack by the big financial services companies , but there are still ways you can beat them.Censorship, like everything else in the West, has been privatized. As a result of expo...

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School Tech Connect: Words of Wisdom

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Words of Wisdom:Words of Wisdomby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)Pass them along.Diane gave a barnburner in DC yesterday. I decided to pass it along to my state representative, my hi...

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Florida Governor Scott is tonight’s Tool Time winner « Continuing Change

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Florida Governor Scott is tonight’s Tool Time winner « Continuing Change:Florida Governor Scott is tonight’s Tool Time winnerby gatorbonbc“Come on Scott, your half-ass efforts on Thanksgiving are n...

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Big Education Ape: 12-10-11 PM Give Schools Back to the Community EDition #P2 #edreform #ows

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