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It Starts by Making Education a National Mission
ed.gov - President Barack Obama delivers remarks in Osawatomie, Kansas, White House Photo, Pete Souza, 12/6/11 “The world is shifting to an innovation economy and nobody does innovation better than America,...
Proposed Virtual Charter School Could Cost Teaneck School District $15M
teaneck.patch.com - The Township’s public school district has been warned to budget more than $15 million for a proposed Teaneck-based virtual charter school in a scenario that could lead to sweeping cuts to programs ...
Some New York City Scores Drop in U.S. Student Tests
nytimes.com - New York City students scored slightly lower on federal math tests this year compared with 2009, according to scores released Wednesday morning, even as scores of their counterparts in other big ci...
Summary of What I Learned from the 2011 NAEP TUDA report « GFBrandenburg's Blog
gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com - Here is the quick summary: I have a couple of blog entries on the 2011 TUDA. Major conclusions: DCPS is **not* last in every single category, in fact it’s number one in most measures of disparity...
McKay Scholarship expose prompts reform of a billion-dollar educational catastrophe - Page 1 - News - Miami
miaminewtimes.com - Five months ago, Miami New Times exposed a taxpayer-funded voucher program that, even on the overblown Floridian scale of dysfunction, is a stunning boondoggle. Students who receive the John M. McK...
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NCLB Waivers: Montana Says No Thanks - Politics K-12
blogs.edweek.org - Montana is formally rejecting the U.S. Department of Education's offer for more flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act, declaring that it doesn't make "educational or financial" sense to ap...
Are half of New York’s teachers really ‘not effective?’ - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by Carol Corbett Burris, principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New...
Are half of New York’s teachers really ‘not effective?’ - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by Carol Corbett Burris, principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New...
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Bloomberg's Girlfriend Was Paid $109,954 In 2009 By The Tax-Dodging Owners Of Zuccotti Park
thinkprogress.org - Bloomberg with girlfriend Diana Taylor. It has now been almost three weeks since New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg suddenly sent in riot police to evict the Occupy Wall Street encampment of Zuc...
Execution Case Dropped Against Abu-Jamal
nytimes.com - Prosecutors in Philadelphia announced Wednesday that they had dropped their attempts to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal, the death row inmate convicted of killing a police officer 30 years ago and whose su...
Congressman Kimble Protects Americans with Patti's Law
kimbleforcongress.blogspot.com - Protecting our nation has been a priority of Jack Kimble since his election to Congress in 2006. With terrorism threatening to bring America to it's knees at any moment, Jack Kimble has team with ...
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Obama's Osawatomie speech
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - "Here, finally, is the Barack Obama many of us thought we had elected in 2008." -- Robert ReichIf you had any doubts that the Occupy Movement was impacting the presidential elections, check out Pre...
FL gov most hated in US
teamsternation.blogspot.com - Even widely hated politicians can usually get a third of the voters to stick with them. Not Florida Gov. Pink Slip Rick Scott, who ought to be in jail but instead got voted into office. A new poll ...
Statement of PEF President Ken Brynien on tax rate reform
pef.org - Albany - We applaud the Governor’s and Legislature’s effort to address the growing income inequality in New York. The agreement announced today on tax reform is a step in the right direction but u...
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Phys Ed: A New Worry for Soccer Parents
well.blogs.nytimes.com - PhotoAlto via Getty ImagesWhat happens inside the skull of a soccer player who repeatedly heads a soccer ball? That question motivated a provocative new study of the brains of experienced players t...
Hispanics Had Greatest Health Risk During 2009\\\'s H1N1 Pandemic
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 12:48 pm, December 7, 2011 Photo Credits: Hispanic and H1N1 Outbreak Social determinants, including the lack of paid sick leave, contributed to higher risk of exposure to the influenza...
HHS says no to over-the-counter morning-after pill
northjersey.com - WASHINGTON— The nation's health secretary says young teenagers cannot buy the Plan B morning-after pill without a prescription — a surprise move overruling her own experts, who were preparing to le...
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Fox Business Attacks Liberalism of Muppet Movie
loyalopposition.blogs.nytimes.com - Valerie Macon/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesKermit attends the Premiere Of Walt Disney Pictures’ ‘The Muppets’ at the El Capitan Theatre, in Hollywood, California, on November 12, 2011.There’s...
ACLU settles lesbian yearbook flap in Mississippi
boston.com - JACKSON, Miss.—The ACLU says a Mississippi school district will require students to wear caps and gowns in senior pictures after a lesbian student was left out of the yearbook for wearing a tuxedo....
Tyler Clementi's family interviewed in People
northjersey.com - The family of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi speaks out in an interview with People magazine, according to a report on People.com. Tyler Clementi Clementi, of Ridgewood, jumped to his de...
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Occupy SF Protesters Re-Enter Plaza
baycitizen.org - Adithya Sambamurthy/The Bay Citizen A row of police helmets at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco on Dec. 7, 2011, the morning after Occupy San Francisco protesters were evicted from their encamp...
Arrests and a Media Blackout in San Francisco Occupy Raid - National
theatlanticwire.com - Just after 1 a.m. on Wednesday, San Francisco police stormed a downtown Occupy Wall Street encampment, using tactics that have begun to sound commonplace after New York police used them on occupier...
BP Claiming After Gulf Oil Spill, Halliburton Destroyed Evidence
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 8:15 am, December 7, 2011 Photo Credits: BP Claiming After Gulf Oil Spill, Halliburton Destroyed Evidence BP Plc accused Halliburton of “intentionally” destroying evidence linked to th...
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Susan Ohanian's Testing Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)
susanohanian.org - We're being steamrolled into one-size-fits-all NOTE: I am one of six "experts" commenting on the Common Core, the only one criticizing them, at the Learning Matters blog. I was an invited contribut...
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