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EVENING EDITION Feb. 12, 2011: Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

indypendent.org - Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System. President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan have formed an alliance with billionaire “school reformer...

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ednotesonline.blogspot.com - A GEM TFA alum is in the house.Saturday, February 12, 2011Teach for America 20th Anniversary Alumni Summit8:00 AMArrived at the convention center to register. This is a seriously huge event—11,000 ...

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denverpost.com - The unraveling of an upcoming education forum, which was to aid a 527 organization, underscores the need for transparency.It should come as no surprise that a long list of sponsors for a planned ed...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - by Rick AyersFebruary 11, 2011All changed, changed utterly:A terrible beauty is born.William Butler Yeats penned those lines after the Irish Easter uprising of 1916. And how haunting and true they ...

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grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com - Saturday, February 12, 2011Teach for America 20th Anniversary Alumni Summit8:00 AMArrived at the convention center to register. This is a seriously huge event—11,000 alumni (and some current corps ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - February 12, 2011 by tomwhitbyThis is a guest Post I did for Shelly Terrell’s Blog, TEACHER REBOOT CAMP, back on Friday, July 24th, 2009. It was one of my first toe-dipping experiences in the world...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - You Are Invited &Your Voice is Needed!What should real educational reform look like in Chicago?Dream Big for Our Public Schools.Download the FlierCaucus of Rank and File Educators presentsCORE’s 3r...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Big Education Ape: Ed News NowBig Education Ape: Ed News Noweducationnext.org - Evidence from the New York City schools | Print | NO PDF | Share Spring 2011 / Vol. 11, No. 2 An unabridged version o...

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action.aft.org - Negotiate with Teachers Now! Sulejman F. Dizdarevic--attorney with Belongia, Shapiro & Franklin, LLP--and his fellow Board members at Chicago Mathematics and Science Academy are subverting the righ...

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huffingtonpost.com - Rahm Emanuel "didn't do his homework" when he touted the supposed superiority of charter schools in a televised debate, three Chicago high school students assert in a YouTube video that's attracted...

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nepc.colorado.edu - The Education Review has been published continuously since 1998 as an "open access" (free-to-read) journal of book reviews in education. In 2010, nearly 300 new books were reviewed by more than 250...

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politico.com - Don't count Ann Coulter among Mitt Romney's fans. When she was asked for her take on the 2012 presidential field, the conservative commentator dissed Romney's chances. Continue Reading "If we don't...

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democraticunderground.com - Edited on Sat Feb-12-11 04:04 PM by Joanne98 Source: The TelegraphHosni Mubarak used the 18 days it took for protesters to topple him to shift his vast wealth into untraceable accounts overseas, We...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - picture of Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, darling of the ruling classes of the western worldGov. Scott Walker of Milwaukee, Wisconsin says he is confident state workers will continue to show up ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - I want to share some thoughts about the last few days of being a teacher in the crosshairs of the right-wing bullies who want to take away our unions and our democratic rights to speak out for what...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 11:00 am, February 12, 2011 Photo Credits: Organization of American States The Organization of American States, (OAS), Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza called for democracies to i...

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zinnedproject.org - Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 7 pages. Students examine excerpts from Lincoln’s first inaugural address, the rarely mentioned original Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution that Lincol...

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depolitics1011.com - (Photo by Maham Khan) By Maham Khan Rahm Emanuel’s absence was conspicuous at the recent Pan Asian mayoral candidate forum, organized by the Pan Asian Voter Empowerment (PAVE) group of the Asian Am...

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dailycensored.com - Picture of current ‘president’ of DFT, Keith JohnsonThe Detroit Federation of Teachers membership meeting voted 84 – 49 to hold a new DFT Officers election, at its meeting last night. This is huge...

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chicagoelections.com - UPDATE: In response to the blizzard closings last week, the Election Board has worked with the City so that, weather permitting, all 51 Eary Voting locations will be open on Lincoln's Birthday, Fri...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 5:00 pm, February 12, 2011 Photo Credits: Emergency Room Cuban Immigrant, Birgilio Marin-Fuentes (61) drove himself to the hospital on Thursday night to the Portland Adventist Medical ...

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dissidentvoice.org - You don’t have to eat cattle who have worn trenbolone ear implants to end up with the growth stimulating androgenic hormone in your body reported the Associated Press in 2008. Water taken near a Ne...

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boston.com - SAN FRANCISCO—By the time today's teenagers were old enough to read, new drugs were available that meant HIV was no longer a death sentence.But with infections among youth and young adults in the U...

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chicagoist.com - For those of us who had the privilege of watching the Bulls rule the basketball world at the end of the last century, part of our brain will always believe it's 1993. Some small hunk of gray matter...

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