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How the FCAT Cut Score Debate Isolates Jeb Bush, Pearson, Florida Chamber of Commerce and Gerard Robinson

bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com - From Kaitlyn Ross, writing for First Coast News: The FCAT is getting national attention after a school board member in Orange County failed the standardized test. “That should tell you a lot. Somet...

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December 9, 2011 : The Daily Papert

dailypapert.com - Posted by gary on Friday, December 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment “Actually the educational software industry does know best about something, but about something other than the best ways to learn math...

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As Washington Props Up For-Profit Colleges, Students Vote With Their Feet « Student Activism

studentactivism.net - For-profit colleges have boomed in the last decade, spurred largely by success in hoovering up public money — for-profit college students now account for a quarter of all Pell Grant disbursements, ...

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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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New York State in the Post-Funding Equity Era « School Finance 101

schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - I did a post a short while back about the fact that there are persistent inequities in state school finance formulas and that those persistent inequities have real consequences for students’ acces...

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Shanker Blog » The Year In Research On Market-Based Education Reform: 2011 Edition

shankerblog.org - If 2010 was the year of the bombshell in research in the three “major areas” of market-based education reform – charter schools, performance pay, and value-added in evaluations – then 2011 was the ...

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The most important speech on education in years

dailykos.com - Or perhaps, from the next paragraph, these words: The free market works very well in producing goods and services, but it works through competition. In competition, the weakest fall behind. The m...

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A Look at State Aid Cuts in New York State 2011-12 « School Finance 101

schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Following is another in my school finance geeky series of straight-up analyses of state school finance formulas. I wrote about New Jersey’s funding formula few days ago. This analysis focuses speci...

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The Good And The Bad Of The New OPEN Bill From Wyden And Issa

techdirt.com - from the some-good,-some-bad deptSen. Wyden and Rep. Issa have released a draft of OPEN: Online Protection & ENforcement of Digital Trade Act, intended as an alternative to SOPA/PROTECT-IP. See my ...

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Daily Kos: January 7: National Opt Out Day

dailykos.com - Posting for your information a message that is being widely distributed among some educational lists and Facebook groups: United Opt Out National has declared January 7th as National Opt Out Day. O...

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Today in Labor History—December 10

modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/12/today-in-labor-historydecember-10.html"; Portrait of Spies, prior to his execution on trumped up murder chargesDecember 10, 1865 – August Spies...

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The Answer Sheet - The Bill Gates problem in school reform

voices.washingtonpost.com - Posted at 8:00 AM ET, 03/ 2/2011By Valerie StraussThis was written by Paul Thomas, an associate professor of education at Furman University in South Carolina, who taught high school English for 18 ...

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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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Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create Jobs

businessinsider.com - Image: 60 MinutesAmerica's real job-creators...who can't afford to create any jobs.In the war of rhetoric that has developed in Washington as both sides try to blame each other for our economic mes...

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Big Ghost Chronicles on His Drake Review: Music: GQ

gq.com - The strangest, least decorous, and definitely funniest writing about rap music in 2011 comes to us courtesy of Big Ghost Chronicles, a blog written in the imitable voice of the Wu-Tang Clan's own G...

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Eva Longoria Fires Off At Newt Gingrich On Twitter

huffingtonpost.com - Eva Longoria has turned to Twitter to criticize GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's controversial proposal to use children as janitors, writing: "@newtgingrich you clearly know little about ...

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The Best Videos For Educators In 2011

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - This is always one of my favorite year-end lists to do….. You might also be interested in: Part Two Of The Best Videos For Educators — 2010 The Ten Best Videos For Educators — 2010 And you might al...

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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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The Best Places To Learn About Christmas, Hanukkah, & Kwanzaa

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa are all coming-up, and I thought it would be timely to create a “The Best…” list focusing on those holidays. Obviously, there are a lot more materials about Christm...

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The Reemerging Popularity And Relevance Of Inanimate Objects

huffingtonpost.com - If you have any doubt that puppets are playing an influential role in our current culture, just take a look at what happened last week, when they were implicated as communists in a liberal, anti-co...

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Put It on My Marquee: I Just Watched ‘Creepshow 2’

nytimes.com - IF Netflix has its way, Facebook members in the United States may soon be able to see which of their friends and family members have just video-streamed “Paranormal Activity” or “Boys Don’t Cry.” ...

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2011 Lobby List Sorted by Lobbyist

ethics.state.tx.us - 2011 Lobby List with Concerns (Employers and Clients) Sorted By Lobbyist Name Part III - (I-M) Printed December 9, 2011 Lobbyist Employer/Client Igo, Shanna (00013440) (512)231-7400 1821 Rutherford...

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Where Are the Women Executives in Silicon Valley?

bits.blogs.nytimes.com - Though it won’t be news to anyone who has worked in Silicon Valley, a new study confirms that tech companies are woefully behind in including women among their board members and highest-paid execut...

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The Answer Sheet - The Bill Gates problem in school reform

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Tools for 21st Century Teachers (by Miss Noor) – Teaching Village

teachingvillage.org - Living in a complex, rapid, digital environment, and having a digital-savvy generation that has grown up in this environment, requires us as educators to be aware of changes and challenges and to b...

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