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College students face shorter Pell Grants
money.cnn.com - Students, again, will feel the brunt of congressional penny-pinching in student loans.WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- Thousands of college students may soon feel a financial pinch and another 100,000 may ...
Productivity Research, the U.S. Department of Education, and High-Quality Evidence
nepc.colorado.edu - December 15, 2011 America’s leaders have frequently invoked the principle that important policy decisions should be evidence-based. This rhetorical embrace, however, has not always prevailed agains...
for me an unusual Saturday morning
dailykos.com - I am totally disconnected from my normal tasks - grading papers, planning, doing house work. Went to sleep at around 8 for 3.5 hours, then headed to Union Station to catch a 3:15 AM train to NYC ...
Monster List of Apps for People with Autism
appsineducation.blogspot.com - The touch screen interface and intuitive nature of the iPad has been a productive and inclusive way to provide educational experiences for people with Autism. Many schools and organisations use spe...
iTDi Webinar
web20education.bo.lt - Scott Thornbury - 'Teacher as manager'iTDi Academic Director A key role that teachers play – and one of the first things they have to learn – is how to manage classes. This involves everything from...
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Accountability Plateau, Double-Standards, and the Defense of Sloth - Rick Hess Straight Up
blogs.edweek.org - Hey, it's a hectic Friday, so just three quick things that I want to touch upon today.First, Fordham yesterday released Mark Schneider's new paper "The Accountability Plateau." Mark, former NCES Co...
Duncan’s dilemma: What happens to states that don’t get NCLB waiver? - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - Thiswas written by educator Anthony Cody, who worked for 24 years in the Oakland schools, 18 years teaching science at a high-needs school and six years as a mentor and coach of teachers. He is a N...
Schultz: Tallahassee doesn't plan to pay for merit pay
palmbeachpost.com - By Randy Schultz, Editor of the Editorial PagePosted: 7:59 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, 2011Anyone who knows the politics of public education in Florida would have seen it coming. We at The Post did. Now,...
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Time to Throw Money at the Problem « InterACT
accomplishedcaliforniateachers.wordpress.com - It’s a well-worn phrase: you can’t just throw money at the problem. Well, what if the problem is a serious lack of money? Essentially, that’s the issue playing out in the Colorado court system. Th...
Arrests as Occupy Protest Turns to Church
nytimes.com - From his spot at the center of Duarte Square in Lower Manhattan, Matt Sky watched on Saturday as hundreds of protesters streamed into the public areas of the triangle-shaped space at the center of ...
Christopher Hitchens’s Best Zingers: From Sarah Palin to Barack Obama
thedailybeast.com - ON RELIGION “ To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.” —God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,...
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Inconvenient Income Inequality
nytimes.com - Is income inequality becoming the new global warming? In other words, is this another case where the facts of an existential threat lose traction among a weary American public as deniers attempt to...
Inconvenient Income Inequality
nytimes.com - Is income inequality becoming the new global warming? In other words, is this another case where the facts of an existential threat lose traction among a weary American public as deniers attempt to...
Newt Gingrich Launches Broad Attack on Nation’s Courts
thedailybeast.com - Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign took an unusual turn on Saturday as he challenged the long-established notion that the Supreme Court should have the final say over constitutional questions.As...
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NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums of 2011 : NPR
npr.org - Given that it was compiled by a score of NPR Music staffers and public radio DJs, and that it spans more than a dozen genres and embraces artists both well-known and brand-new, one might reasonably...
The Best Tweets Of 2011
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Every month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. I thought it...
motherjones: greenstate: rabblevolunteer: ... - The Last Third
lastthird.tumblr.com - OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children. He asked to pay something on his bill b...
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COMING SOON: The Edudemic iPad Magazine!
edudemic.com - Friday, December 16, 2011 9:15 am, Posted by Jeff Dunn - Executive Editor 0 | Featured Topics: app store, Apple, education, edudemic magazine, guide, ipad in classroom, magazine Announcing the firs...
One More Thing Brill Got Wrong
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