nypost.com - Michael Goodwin After reading my reports from New York teachers who say they are forced to raise grades and pass failing students, a friend has questions. He writes: "If nine years of mayoral contr...
nytimes.com - TEN years ago, Congress adopted the No Child Left Behind legislation, mandating that all students must be proficient in reading or mathematics by 2014 or their school would be punished. ...
keystonestateeducationcoalition.blogspot.com - When they were recently asked whether the current administration is seeking to privatize public education, a couple of PA State Senators used the term "selective dismantling" in discussions with sc...
nypost.com - The e-mail box runneth over with bad tidings. Teachers are reporting that cheating is rampant in New York City schools -- and they claim principals are the culprits. The reports are responding to m...
nbcchicago.com - Richard Daley, Ex-Mayor, (Another) New Job Former Mayor Richard Daley has landed a job with the firm that negotiated Chicago's parking meter deal. Daley will be "of counsel" to Katten Muchin Rosenm...
thenotebook.org - The School Reform Commission passed a budget that was roundly criticized by a roomful of students, parents, advocates and others for cutting essential services like full-day kindergarten and most f...
projo.com - CRANSTON — Critics of Mayor Allan W. Fung’s proposal to open five charter schools in Cranston said at a hearing Tuesday that the plan was the latest attack on the public school system, one intended...
golocalprov.com - Email to a friend PermalinkTuesday, May 31, 2011Stephen Beale, GoLocalProv News Editor A second union in the Central Falls School District has held a vote of no confidence in Superintendent Franc...
ibtimes.com - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company had underestimated the risks a tsunami can cause to the nuclear installations in the ...
democraticunderground.com - Source: The HillMenendez says Dems won't back Medicaid cutsBy Sam Baker - 06/01/11 03:06 PM ETCuts to Medicaid are no more palatable than cuts to Medicare, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) told report...
news.firedoglake.com - My response to this San Stein story about the fast-growing Hispanic demographic reality that will imperil the GOP is that it’s a story, but maybe not as big as this makes it out to be. On May 26, t...
democraticunderground.com - Source: Think ProgressWashington State Supreme Court Orders Reversal In Cuts To Medicaid For Disabled ChildrenBy Zaid Jilani on Jun 1, 2011 at 3:55 pmThe Washington state supreme court.Across the c...
modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/06/oaxacan-teachers-resist-tests-merit.html"; On May 23, 70,000 teachers struck in Oaxaca, Mexico. They were not asking for raises or better benef...
news.firedoglake.com - There are plenty of areas where the Obama Administration has dashed hopes and failed to live up to expectations. However, while I’m not an expert on the reorganization of the Civil Rights Division ...
ednewsparent.org - This week’s healthy rewards for kids tip As part of a new campaign to attack childhood obesity and improve children’s health and learning, we offer you tips about healthy snacks and non-food rewa...
connectedprincipals.com - Posted by Akevy Greenblatt on 6/01/11 • Categorized as Best Educational Practicespicture: noupe.com As we come to the end of a school year many of the tweets and blog posts that I have seen talk ab...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Dear Seniors: Please, Just Go | Mr. Teachbad's Blog of Teacher DisgruntlementDear Seniors: Please, Just Goby mrteachbadHoly shit…you guys are the cat’s meow…let me tell you. You seniors…But you don...
gothamschools.org - by Philissa Cramer Exactly what Christine Quinn is proposing the DOE should cut instead of teachers. (City Room) The company under investigation for a city contract to run city payroll has folded. ...
reverendmanny.com - One of the distinctions that is always worth making is the differences between what labor used to do, and the direction labor needs to grow in the future. Among the new pathways unfolding themselve...
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release June 01, 2011 June 1, 2011Dear Mr. Chairman: (Dear Madam Chairman:) (Dear Representative:) (Dear Senator:)This report to the Con...
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Big losers are social services and schoolsThat's right. This week, former mayor Daley landed his pay-back job with the very firm that negotiated his notorious sell-off of the city's parking meters....
sacramentopa.blogspot.com - Ryan Lillis Sacramento Bee -- City Beat May 26, 2011 With Kings owners Joe and Gavin Maloof and dozens of fans in attendance at City Hall, the Sacramento City Council is getting its first look at t...
teamsternation.blogspot.com - It's official. The American middle class is dead. For decades the American middle class was defined by the clothes it wore, the cars it drove, the products it consumed. And for decades, Madison Ave...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NYC Public School Parents: Diane Ravitch on "Frozen Assets" by Marguerite RozaDiane Ravitch on "Frozen Assets" by Marguerite Rozaby Leonie HaimsonDiane Ravitch has a great oped in today’s Times on ...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Educators and Innovation - E.D. Kain - American Times - ForbesEducators and Innovationby E.D. KainI have received some surprising emails recently. Apparently my recent critique of teachers’ unions ...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - More area community college students bypassing UC, CSU - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento BeeMore area community college students bypassing UC, CSUShare By Laurel R...
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