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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
m.theatlantic.com - The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence.Sergey Ivanov/FlickrEveryone agrees the United States needs to improve its education system drama...
Healing the Heart of Democracy
dailykos.com - This is not an easy book to properly review. It is very personal - Palmer begins his prelude by talking about himself, his own history of depression (a malady I share and about which I have writte...
My Favorite Genuine Education Reform Stories of 2011 - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - A couple of weeks ago I posted a look back at 2011, with a list of all 170 of my posts to this blog. I am afraid I have spent a great deal of energy taking issue with what I see as very bad ideas b...
Chester Community Charter seeks $3.8 million from Chester Upland
delcotimes.com - By JOHN KOPPjkopp@delcotimes.com Seeking immediate payment of delinquent funding, Chester Community Charter School has filed a lawsuit against the Chester Upland School District and its school boar...
Smoking Rhee-Fer « The Recovering Politician
therecoveringpolitician.com - When Waiting for Superman was released in 2010, it was largely hailed as a documentary that depicted the human costs of children trapped in failing schools. The film helped escalate Michelle Rhee’...
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Boo-Friggin'-Hoo
jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - Regrets... I've had a few...Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday said that not getting his proposed public education overhaul through the Legislature is his biggest regret of 2011.The governor wants to ...
Resolve in 2012: Abolish No Child Left Behind
johnyoungcolumn.blogspot.com - The subject here is destructive education policies. But first: Have you heard of the Capital One Cup? It goes to the two Division I NCAA schools that win the most titles each year in men's an...
The Year in Education: Seven Innovations Changing the Way the World Learns - Education
good.is - GOOD Business tracks the seven big social innovation trends in 2011. Here are three ways we could better our Big Oil subsidies. Except these ideas would actually ease pain at the pump and save Amer...
StoriesSee all
I’m Beamin’ [I Get My Energy From My Inner G]
thejosevilson.com - Jose Vilson 2011The past year has been amazing. I started off the year with the intention of becoming a more transparent and open person, leaving much of my youthful ways behind. I’m ending the yea...
Is It Time for More Watchmen?
comics.ign.com - For those of you that may not have heard, rumors are swirling once again that DC is working on reviving the Watchmen comic book franchise. It's said that there are four mini-series being developed ...
11 Ways to Think Outside the Box
lifehack.org - Thinking outside the box is more than just a business cliché. It means approaching problems in new, innovative ways; conceptualizing problems differently; and understanding your position in relatio...
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A Proposed Solution to Voter ID Controversy
huffingtonpost.com - For the majority of Republicans it is an article of faith that their electoral fortunes would best be served by rain on election day -- that, despite evidence to the contrary, the lower the turnout...
VerSteeg: Public education a priority in name only for Florida
palmbeachpost.com - By Jac Wilder VersteegPosted: 7:40 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30, 2011'This next year is going to be chaos. Absolute chaos. And to watch my party get up and say, if you had 10 bucks of spending cuts and one...
Today in Labor History—December 30
modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/12/today-in-labor-historydecember-30.html"; December 30, 1883 - John Swinton's Paper described the abuse of immigrants conned by job sharks lured ...
PoliticsSee all
Top Ten Myths about the Arab Spring of 2011
juancole.com - 1. The upheavals of 2011 were provoked by the Bush administration’s overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq Bzzt! Wrong answer. None of the young people who made this year’s revolutions ever pointed to...
City sees drop in murder rate, but not in South Side’s Englewood - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY FRANK MAIN Staff Reporter/fmain@suntimes.com December 29, 2011 12:02AM Chicago Police Superintendent Garry F. McCarthy, during interview with Sun-Times reporter Frank Main about murders in 2011,...
It’s happening again! DC special interests meddling in WV politics!
dailykos.com - Just when we thought WV voters would be choosing their Congressional candidate, DC special interests are meddling in WV politics. For over a year Democrats throughout WV's1st Congressional District...
TechnologySee all
120 Social Media Marketing Terms Explained
blog.hubspot.com - .On the web today, things change fast. New applications launch every day, and existing applications continue to evolve and add new features. Just this year we witnessed the debut of Google+ and the...
More Recipes Like This From Food Network
food.com - Total Time: Prep Time: Cook Time: I love rice pilaf and I was excited to find this recipe for brown rice pilaf since brown rice is so much better for you. It is from Healthy Cooking. Directions: 1 ...
2011: the technology year in review | Technology
guardian.co.uk - In retrospect, 2011 was a year of enormous change in the computing and internet industry – although it was one in which the ground was laid, rather than coming immediately to fruition. What changes...
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Kate Winslet's Celebrity Friends Wear The Golden Hat For Autism
looktothestars.org - Kate Winslet will be releasing a special book to benefit her autism charity, the Golden Hat Foundation, in April 2012, and has called on some of her famous friends to help. The book features a coll...
52, and Still Working the Streets
nytimes.com - LIKE many single mothers, Barbara Terry, 52, scrounged for baby sitters and leaned on her own mother while raising her four children and working the night shift. But Ms. Terry is a pros...
17 Images That Will Ruin Your Childhood
cracked.com - Nostalgia is a sucker's game. We imagine all the toys and TV shows from childhood as perfect and awesome purely because our immature brains hadn't developed the ability to joylessly pick things apa...
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11 Ways to Think Outside the Box
lifehack.org - Thinking outside the box is more than just a business cliché. It means approaching problems in new, innovative ways; conceptualizing problems differently; and understanding your position in relatio...
The Five Biggest Ed-Tech Themes in 2011 - Digital Education
blogs.edweek.org - We at the Digital Education blog have tried to process a busy and pivotal year in the world of education technology. But in case you haven't read every single entry during the last 12 months (for s...
The A-Z Dictionary of Educational Twitter Hashtags
edudemic.com - Whether you’re a new or seasoned Twitter user, you likely come across confusing hashtags that probably look like a bunch of nonsense. First, What’s A Hashtag? The # symbol, called a hashtag, is use...
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Reading Articles about Real Estate Sales in the Wall Street Journal
dailycensored.com - There’s no quicker way to get a look at income disparity in this country than to look at Wall Street Journal articles gushing over luxury real estates deals. Here are two items appearing in the D...
11 Ways to Think Outside the Box
lifehack.org - Thinking outside the box is more than just a business cliché. It means approaching problems in new, innovative ways; conceptualizing problems differently; and understanding your position in relatio...
California Supreme Court puts redevelopment agencies out of business
latimes.com - The California Supreme Court threw hundreds of redevelopment agencies out of business in a ruling that will benefit state budget coffers but hobble local economic development and housing programs. ...