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More Angels Under the Bus
jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - An update to my post about two schools in Newark whose students and staff were misrepresented by a child advocacy group, the press, and the Newark superintendent:Branch Brook is the elementary scho...
Our schools exam system is no longer fit for purpose | Mehdi Hasan | Comment is free
guardian.co.uk - It was a sorry sight. On Thursday, the heads of England's four exam boards, as well as three of their examiners, filed into the Thatcher Room of Portcullis House to be quizzed by MPs on the educati...
Officials stop paying for test cheating audit - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News
sacbee.com - High-stakes education testing in California is operating on the honor system because two years ago state officials eliminated the system used to catch cheaters.The routine checking of tests for era...
Video: 30,000 Chinese "Occupy" Highway to Protest Polluting Coal Plants
thinkprogress.org - Tens of thousands of residents in China’s southern Guandong Province gathered in the streets yesterday, occupying a highway to demonstrate against the development of a new coal plant near Shantou c...
More Georgia Schools Accused of Cheating
nytimes.com - Investigators who this year found rampant cheating among Atlanta public school teachers and principals released another report on Tuesday detailing widespread wrongdoing in another Georgia county. ...
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One Year Ago Congress Defined Novices "Highly Qualified Teachers" - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - Guest post by Tara Kini, Public Advocates Inc.Today marks the first anniversary of one of the most far-reaching legislative actions in education in recent memory. It was highly controversial and ad...
Vallas, the master of disaster, takes interim job in Bridgeport
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - "I am used to taking on great challenges and going into crisis situations," he said. "Our plan is to move fast." --Paul VallasI guess his consulting business in Haiti and Chile must have bottomed o...
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 ...
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VP Biden's Brother Frank Has an IRS Problem
btownerrant.com - photo by D'Arcy Norman In his role as president of the for-profit charter school company, Mavericks in Education Florida, Francis W. Biden is paid with taxpayer money. Yet, according to records, Fr...
Chris Turney’s last letter to me. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Back in the Fall when we were in the thick of the fight against the attack on pensions, Chris Turney invited me to speak to the Dupage County chapter of the Illinois Retired Teachers Association of...
Cuts for the Already Retired
nytimes.com - Retired police and firefighters from Central Falls, R.I., have agreed to sharp pension cuts, a step thought to be unprecedented in municipal bankruptcy and one that could prompt similar attempts by...
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Christmas Arrived Early In Seattle...
sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com - I've already got my Christmas present, as have many Seattle public education advocates: "Seattle scores victory over GATES and BROAD; evicts education deformist superintendent, kicks out/dumps two ...
State of the Occupation: 9 Encampments Threatened With Eviction
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - Yesterday we published a list of 61 active occupation encampments across the country that are planning to be there through the winter. People were helpful in the comments in identifying and documen...
Billionaires Say the Darndest Things About Those Occupy Protesters - Business
theatlanticwire.com - Bloomberg Businessweek is getting a lot mileage out of its recent report on what the 1 percent -- it mostly quotes just the millionaires and billionaires -- is saying about the protesters standing ...
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'One Term President With Some Balls Would Have Been Better'
huffingtonpost.com - Matt Damon, one of Barack Obama's earliest supporters and once one of his most staunch advocates, slammed the President in the new issue of Elle Magazine."I've talked to a lot of people who worked ...
Violence Enters 5th Day as Egyptian General Blames Protesters
nytimes.com - CAIRO — In a fifth day of unrest, Egyptian troops and riot police were reported to have attempted to remove demonstrators from Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday, even as the country’s military ruler...
Hickenlooper, state appeal Lobato education-funding decision
coloradoindependent.com - Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced today that the state would appeal a recent district judge’s ruling in the Lobato case, which declared that the state has failed to fund a ‘thorough and uni...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 21, 2011 MEMORANDUM FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCYSUBJECT: Flexible Implementation of the ...
We Did It! Americans Cheer EPA for First-Ever Protections Against Toxic Mercury « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - The following is a guest post from a favorite mom of mine with some great news – Mary Anne Hitt, Director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign: Are you one of the over 800,000 people who submitt...
Kean University gets approval from Chinese government to build degree-granting campus
nj.com - UNION COUNTY — Kean University has received approval from the Chinese government to establish a campus in the country, officials announced today.The Chinese national education ministry has approved...
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What SOPA Means For Education, Technology, and the Future of the Internet
edudemic.com - Topics: infographic, NBC, online piracy, piracy, questions, sopa There’s a lot of talk about the Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”) right now and for good reason. The future of the Internet depends on...
Census: Population slowing in large portions of US
northjersey.com - WASHINGTON — Many states that posted big population gains in the 2010 census are now seeing their decade-long growth fizzle, hurt by a prolonged economic slump that is stretching into larger port...
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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 ...
Stanford professor wins Grawemeyer award for book on inequity in education | The Courier-Journal | courier-journal.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Stanford professor wins Grawemeyer award for book on inequity in education | The Courier-Journal | courier-journal.com: Stanford professor wins Grawemeyer award for book on inequity in education ...
NEA Teachers Step Up | ED.gov Blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NEA Teachers Step Up | ED.gov Blog: NEA Teachers Step Up Posted on December 21, 2011 by Arne Duncan Last year the National Education Association (NEA) took a courageous step by creating a Counc...
