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In Search of a Tipping Point
theassailedteacher.com - I was never an Obama supporter and never will be. Towards the beginning of his term, his supporters excused the sad state of the country by blaming Bush. We are now three years in, which means that...
The 5 Stages of TFA
anne2011.teachforus.org - Okay, I think I’m going to need to preface this one. I’m about to write the TFA version of the Kubler-Ross model. Now, this analogy has to be taken with a grain of salt, because what CMs go throu...
The Call Blog: Mayor Bloomberg Delivers "State Of The City" Address
ny1.com - Have something to tell us at The Call? Drop us a line at thecall@ny1.com and we'll post it to our blog.If Mayor Bloomberg's legacy is tied to education, he may not want to watch the 3am replay of t...
Kelly Flynn: Teachers Hold the Key. They Always Have. - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - Guest post by Kelly Flynn.I'm intrigued by the topic of Anthony Cody's two recent blog entries, "Are Critics of Corporate Education 'Reform' Winning the Online Debate?" and "Lopsided Debate Over Ed...
City: Local taxpayers won’t pay $40 million to $65 million NATO, G-8 tab - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com January 12, 2012 12:48PM City Hall issued the first of at least four parade permits — for a May 19 march from the Daley Center to 23rd and...
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Two Golden Opportunities Lost in the 1990s? - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,Reading Stephen Cohen's essay "The Soviet Union's Afterlife" in the latest issue of The Nation gave me the chills. I've occasionally pointed to the Soviet focus on centralized five-year ...
Stand for Children back in town to 'educate us' about turnarounds
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Like Freddy Kreuger, he's baaack! It could be time for a mic check as Jonah Edelman and his well-funded, out-of-town gang of professional union busters at Stand For Children, return to Chicago. O...
Critical stickers added to Success Academy’s new subway ads
gothamschools.org - An advertising onslaught to promote a new charter school is being met by anonymous adversaries who have a guerilla marketing strategy of their own. Glossy ads featuring smiling children went up thi...
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Missouri Republicans Introduce Bill That Forces Educators To Teach Creationism In Schools And Universities
addictinginfo.org - Apparently it’s that time of year when every Republican controlled legislature introduces bills designed to force Christianity upon us. As I reported earlier on Thursday, the Indiana Senate introdu...
Illinois teacher commits suicide citing working conditions
wsws.org - By Kristina Betinis 9 January 2012 Mary Thorson, a 32-year-old physical education teacher at Cottage Grove Upper Grade Center in Ford Heights, Illinois, took her own life on November 24, 2011. The ...
Jimenez: “I have never overspent”
ednewscolorado.org - Denver Public Schools board member Arturo Jimenez has notified district officials that he has no intention – contrary to prior comments he has made – to repay the $1,153 by which they say he oversp...
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3 billionaires who'll drag out the race - Kenneth P. Vogel
politico.com - Meet the three billionaires who could drag out the GOP presidential primary, bloody up front-runner Mitt Romney and weaken the odds of defeating President Barack Obama: Sheldon Adelson, Foster Frie...
Give tax money to Sears and CME. Freeze employee wages. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - GOP House Leader Tom Cross, who along with Mike Madigan, Governor Quinn and Rahm Emanuel got the massive tax breaks for Sears and the CME, demanded wage freezes for state employees. The State Journ...
Wonk Bloggers and the Vanishing Voices of Workers
inthesetimes.com - Earlier this week, I got into a little Twitter battle with Matthew Yglesias after the prominent blogger tweeted out “"EXCLUSIVE: The activities of individual business executives have no relationshi...
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Romney wants us to to talk about inequality in quiet rooms. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - The other day I was sitting through a school staff meeting. It was terrible. Under our current administration, each meeting seems worse than the last. Pointless. A checklist of what counts as poor ...
angry reader of the week: emily chang
blog.angryasianman.com - What is up, people? Time to meet another Angry Reader of the Week, spotlighting you, the very special readers of this website. Over the years, I've been able to connect with a lot of cool folks, an...
Mother Crusader: Pants on Fire
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mother Crusader: Pants on Fire:Pants on Fireby darciecimaTikun Olam lead applicant Sharon Akman responded to a reporter yesterday for the first time in months. Walt Kane from News Channel 12 did a...
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The Party Line - January 13, 2012: Too Cheap to Meter, Too Expensive to Compete
my.firedoglake.com - “Clean, safe, and too cheap to meter.” This sunny tagline from the early days of atomic energy has more recently become the quickest way to sum up how dark and dismal its prospects are today–as in,...
Blog posts on this issue
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 13, 2012 PLAN WILL MAKE GOVERNMENT LEANER, SMARTER AND MORE CONSUMER-FRIENDLYWASHINGTON, DC – As a follow up to last year...
Fresno Unified adds 13 buses to its cleaner fleetEducation and Schools
fresnobee.com - A $2.2 million grant is helping Fresno Unified's bus fleet run a little cleaner.Money from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District helped the district replace 13 diesel buses with new...
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HISPANIC STANDOUT,Samantha Garvey, Homeless to Science Award
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 4:48 pm, January 13, 2012 Photo Credits: Samantha Garvey (right) with her science research teacher Rebecca Grella Not one to let her family’s homelessness keep her form reaching for he...
Animated Napoleon Dynamite Airs Sunday, Efren Ramirez, Jon Heder
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 2:49 pm, January 13, 2012 Photo Credits: Animated Napoleon Dynamite Airs Sunday. Efren Ramirez, Aaron Ruell, Jon Heder Return Returning to the characters that made many of them famous,...
Michelle Obama 'random dances' at US appearance
boston.com - ALEXANDRIA, Virginia—They called it "random dancing" but First Lady Michelle Obama broke out some moves that resembled subdued variations of "the Monkey" or "the Jerk" Friday during an appearance a...
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From Resurrection City To The Occupy Movement
ourfuture.org - "We could use a massive, dramatic confrontation on behalf of the more than 27 million who are unemployed or underemployed today," I wrote one year ago. "The spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. would c...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Mid Day Posts 1-13 #ows #edreform #edchat
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 1-12 #edreform #ows Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 3 minutes ago NYC’s Largest Parent Group Responds to Mayor’s State o...
Live Blog for #Occupy: Congressman Continues Campaign Against Occupy DC
dissenter.firedoglake.com - Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), continues to relentlessly pound away at the Obama Administration and the National Park Service for allowin...
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Q&A: CEA Chair Alan Krueger on inequality
washingtonpost.com - On Friday morning, Alan Krueger, the Princeton economist who is on leave serving as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, gave a speech at the Center for American Progress on th...
