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State Tests Extended to About Three Hours

nytimes.com - New York State math and language arts tests for elementary and middle school students will each be lengthened to about three hours beginning this April. The state’s education commission...

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Taking It to the Next Level With CPS and AUSL

huffingtonpost.com - Did I miss a recent press conference at Chicago's Collins Academy? You know, the shindig where Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard announced that Collins, as of November 2011, was no...

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Malloy outlines broad principles for education reform

ctmirror.org - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today outlined six broad principles that he says will guide the debate on education reform next year, including "intensive interventions" by the state in troubled school syste...

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Charting a course for charter schools

dothaneagle.com - At Pataula Charter Academy, they do things differently. At the K-7 school in Edison, Ga., teachers use an education philosophy called expeditionary learning, where real-world applications of school...

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Charter School Proponents Focus On Accountability In Word If Not In Deed

huffingtonpost.com - The most recent call to close underperforming charter schools came not from a teachers' union or a school district, but from a charter-school trade association.On Thursday, the California Charter S...

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With cyber charter competition, school districts start to advertise - News - The Times

thetimes-tribune.com - An electronic billboard on Business Route 6 in Dickson City flashes an image of smiling students and teachers. The advertisement for the Mid Valley School District promotes student achievement and ...

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Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50 officials call for direct state funding of charter school - chicagotribune.com

chicagotribune.com - By Andrea L. Brown, Special to the Tribune December 20, 2011 After losing most of its share of state money to Prairie Crossing Charter School, Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50 off...

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2011 UNITY NewU Startup Funds

landing.k12newsnetwork.com - BIOCynthia Liu, PhD, is CEO/Founder of the online organizing and education news site K12NewsNetwork.com, a "MoveOn" for supporters of public education.In 2011, she received the BlogHer.com / HTC 20...

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Florida parents win round #1 in court vs. budget cuts to schools « Parents Across America

parentsacrossamerica.org - Dec 20, 2011 leoniehaimson Each and every year here in Florida, parents spend our hard-earned money building public education for our children. We pay our property taxes to fund our schools only t...

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If they bring in Jonah Edelman to work on pensions, run! « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - If all you did was read the Chicago Buffoon you would think that the reason Illinois is allegedly broke is due to two union employees who scammed the system. A tax code that favors the rich has not...

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Overworked, understaffed and still broke. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Which state has the lowest number of government workers per capita in the nation? Scott Walker’s Wisconsin? Chris Christie’s New Jersey. Florida? Ohio? Michigan? Certainly not patronage rich Illino...

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One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom

togetherforjacksoncountykids.tumblr.com - “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was ju...

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Mother Crusader: Sorry Mr. Brown, but I gotta DIS your opinion piece

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mother Crusader: Sorry Mr. Brown, but I gotta DIS your opinion piece: Sorry Mr. Brown, I gotta DIS your opinion piece by darciecima I have a thought or two about Neil Brown's gues...

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Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - As regular readers know, I’ve got a “beef” with most of the quotation sites on the Web because they don’t include the source of the quotes. I included a longer discussion on that issue, along with ...

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Modern School: Crippling the Right to Organize?

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: Crippling the Right to Organize?: Crippling the Right to Organize? by Michael Dunn Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons In an Op-Ed in the New York Times on December 15, ...

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Ron Paul, A Force for Peace

tomhayden.com - Iowa polling for now shows Rep. Ron Paul leading the Republican pack. Peace and justice advocates should re-examine the profound establishment demonizing of Paul’s “isolationism” and realize that t...

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Robert Reich (Why the Republican Crackup is Bad For America)

robertreich.org - Two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the Republican crackup threatens the future of the Grand Old Party more profoundly than at any time since the GOP’s eclipse in 1932. That’s bad for America. The ...

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Parents Race Against Sundown - The Bay Citizen

baycitizen.org - Shoshana Walter/The Bay Citizen Campbell Village, a public housing complex in West Oakland In her house, Sherry Sims has one unbendable rule: “Beat the street lights,” she says. “You gotta get home...

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¡Edúcate! los famosos te dicen por qué

vidayfamilia.univision.com - Estás Viendo: La cantante colombiana sueña con que todos los países ofrezcan estudio para niños y grandes. Fuente: Univision.com VIDEO A Chino y Nacho les encanta estudiar - Univision.com Ver video...

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Etta James' husband to remain her conservator, judge rules

latimesblogs.latimes.com - The longtime husband of terminally-ill blues legend Etta James will remain as the conservator of her $1-million estate, a Riverside County judge has ruled. In court documents, James' son, Donto Jam...

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Council Mandates City Alerts on PCB Dangers – SchoolBook

nytimes.com - Dec. 19, 2011, 5:39 p.m. The City Council voted on Monday to require the city to notify parents when toxic chemicals are discovered in the fluorescent light fixtures illuminating many of the classr...

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New Study Reveals California Has Enough Housing to Meet Demand for More Than Two Decades

californiaprogressreport.com - Printer-friendly versionSend to friendBy Bruce ReznikPlanning and Conservation League Last week, the Urban Land Institute (ULI) released a study detailing how California’s four largest metropolitan...

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Antidote for Stupidity of Shipping Tax-Dollar-Financed Jobs Overseas

ourfuture.org - Amid prolonged, painfully high unemployment, ABC News Anchor Diane Sawyer for the past year tirelessly advocated a simple solution – buy American-made products. She clearly explained the reasoning:...

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In Defense of the Mic Check

huffingtonpost.com - After years of attending Chicago Board of Education monthly meetings, on December 14, 2011 I felt like I left one where the community was actually heard, by the public and by the board. During the ...