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Media get manipulated by Velderman trolls with Karen Lewis tape. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Mainstream media outlets like Huffington would rather focus on the circus instead of the substance. The press, including Huffington Post, got all in a tizzy about a video of Chicago Teachers Union ...

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Town Hall: 140 Characters at a Time

ed.gov - “I love my job,” Secretary Duncan said at the close of yesterday’s second #AskArne Twitter Town Hall, moderated by education journalist John Merrow. Merrow covered a wide-range of education topics ...

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Shanker Blog » Explaining The Consistently Inconsistent Results of Charter Schools, Part One

shankerblog.org - This is the second in a series of three posts about charter schools. Here is the first part. As discussed in a previous post, there is a fairly well-developed body of evidence showing that charter ...

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Achievement gap: Little progress in closing gap between white and black students in Chicago.

chicagotribune.com - Twenty years of reform efforts and programs targeting low-income families in Chicago Public Schools has only widened the performance gap between white and African-American students, a troubling tre...

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Freddie Mac Reportedly Paid Gingrich at Least $1.6 Million

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - Newt Gingrich is beginning to feel the inevitable glare of the spotlight that follows a rise of fortunes in the presidential sweepstakes.Bloomberg News reported Tuesday night that Mr. Gingrich rece...

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Williamson County snubs student teaching | The Tennessean

tennessean.com - Tennessee’s new teacher evaluation system has hit an unexpected snag.With teacher tenure and job retention riding on a top score, Williamson County is banning student teachers from working in core ...

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When Good Intentions Make Us Stupid :: Frederick M. Hess

frederickhess.org - by Frederick M. Hess • Nov 16, 2011 at 9:38 amCross-posted from Education Weekhttp://www.frederickhess.org/2011/11/when-good-intentions-make-us-stupidWhile I was gone, there were any number of cl...

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L.A. Teachers Seek to Put Evaluations to a Referendum - Teacher Beat

blogs.edweek.org - A collection of Los Angeles teachers plans to force a vote among the district's teaching corps that, if passed, would require their union to advocate for "teacher-led" changes to the teacher-evalua...

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100 March on NYPD 1st Precinct to Demand Dignity;  Women in Custody Being Harassed, Police Protocols In Question

occupywallst.org - Message from Protestors to NYPD: If you SEE something, a fellow officer violating protocol, SAY something Over 100 people, mostly women, marched from Liberty Square to NYPD’s 1st Precinct HQ at 11p...

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Lost and found: Mario Savio’s reflections

dailycal.org - “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part … and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears … and make it stop. And ...

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Federal judge orders Central Coast landscaper to rehire employees, bargain with union

democraticunderground.com - Source: NLRBA U.S. District Court judge has ordered Jason Lopez’s Planet Earth, a landscaping company based in Nipomo, California, to offer interim reinstatement to two employees who were laid-off ...

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'New day' at City Hall as the mayor's budget passes — unanimously | Blogs On Politics

chicagobusiness.com - Mayor Rahm EmanuelPhoto by: Stephen J. Serio Water rates will double and fines on all kinds of municipal sins will go through the roof. Police stations and mental health centers are shutting, and p...

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Raids on Occupy Protesters ‘Inexcusable Says Trumka | AFL

blog.aflcio.org - by Mike Hall, Nov 15, 2011“They can take away the tarps and the tents. But they can’t slow down the Occupy Wall Street movement,” says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka following today’s early mor...

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What? Attacks on Occupiers were coordinated by Obama's people?

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Oakland before the attack.Yes they were. The simultaneous and unprovoked, often violent attacks on the anti-Wall St. protesters these past three weeks, were the product of a well-coordinated plan, ...

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My OccupySupply Shop: Warming the Country, one hat at a time.

my.firedoglake.com - As the UPS truck rolled down Potomac Avenue and parked in front of our small office, our excitement grew. With excitement came fatigue after helping to unload over 120 boxes of clothing in just 4 d...

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Pizza as veggie in school lunch, girls & math

ednewsparent.org - Pizza as a vegetable in school lunch?Certainly there is room for debate about the best way to improve the nutritional quality of lunches served at school. But, really, pizza as a vegetable? I think...

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Billionaire Michael Bloomberg's New York

occupywallst.org - Police state? Obama is making us a welfare and police state people. Wake up and smell the coffee. Open your eyes to the socialism and marxism being brought in by our President. These people broke t...

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Journalists detained at NYC Occupy protests

online.wsj.com - Associated Press NEW YORK — Journalists have been detained by police while covering Occupy Wall Street protests in New York. Associated Press writer Karen Matthews was taken into custody Tuesday al...

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Police in riot gear face down Occupy protesters inside bank

latimesblogs.latimes.com - November 16, 2011 | 3:11 pm Police in riot gear warned Occupy San Francisco protesters who took over the lobby of a Bank of America in the city’s financial district Wednesday that they would be ar...

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Navy investigates cheating in nuclear sub training program

northjersey.com - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Last updated: Wednesday November 16, 2011, 3:08 PM HARTFORD, Conn. — The Navy's inspector general for the Atlantic submarine force is investigating claims that perva...

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House GOP Classifies Pizza As A Vegetable To 'Prevent Overly Burdensome' School Lunch Regulations

thinkprogress.org - This meal is chock full of vegetables, according to the House GOP. Earlier this year, the USDA made an attempt to bolster the nutrition guidelines for the federal school lunch program. Under the ne...

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Echoing Reagan Years, House GOP Classifies Pizza As Vegetable to Cut School Lunch Funds

firedoglake.com - I remember all too well the food served in public schools back in the day. In high school (Stuyvesant Class of 1981, NYC), the main course offerings were, um, basic: “Lasagna” (perfect square, litt...

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Transcendental Meditation effective antidote to record stress levels in school students

educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩWith record levels of student stress reported in a recent UCLA survey, can a simple stress-reducing meditation technique be a viable solution?A new study published in the Journal of Instructional ...

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Police in riot gear face down Occupy protesters inside bank

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Occupy San Francisco protesters take over Bank of America lobby

latimesblogs.latimes.com - November 16, 2011 | 2:59 pm Occupy San Francisco demonstrators and student protesters have taken over the lobby at a Bank of America branch in the city’s financial district, chanting “We are the 9...

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Students join Occupy San Francisco rally in financial district

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Student protesters joined an Occupy San Francisco rally in the city's financial district Wednesday to denounce bank bailouts and to protest tuition increases. Unions chartered buses to take UC Berk...

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Big Education Ape:11-16-11 AM The Battle of Jersey - Opening Salvos EDition #OWS #ASKARNE

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Big Education Ape: 11-14-11 PM John Merrow ain't easy #askarne EDition #EDreform

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Posted: 11/16/11 10:32 PM ET

When Brenda Belcher, principal of the new Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine, interviewed Mo Torres this past summer for a position teaching Spanish, he seemed like a good fit.

"It was a match," Belcher recalled in a phone interview on a recent busy Friday. "I just felt it."

What Belcher found out only later is that Torres is no ordinary teacher. He's a corps member with Teach for America, a nationwide alternate certification program that has drawn 200 young teachers with mostly no experience and little training to Detroit over the past year and a half as part of the organization's second shot at success in the Motor City.

TFA Detroit members teach both in traditional public schools and in charter schools. They are the

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