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Bitter Politics of Envy?
nytimes.com - You’re just jealous. At least that’s how Mitt Romney sees it. The millionaire who posed for a picture with the boys at Bain Capital with the long green clinched between their teeth and poking out o...
Accountability without Autonomy Is Tyranny
dailykos.com - When educational research reaches the public through the corporate media, the consequences are often dire. Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff released "The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-A...
APPR Paper - New York Principals
newyorkprincipals.org - In May 2010, the New York State Legislature—in an effort to secure federal Race to the Top funds—approved an amendment to Educational Law 3012-c regarding the Annual Professional Performance Review...
Education reform draws praise, doubt | The Argus Leader
argusleader.com - Daugaard’s education plan Phase out teacher tenure by not awarding it to any teacher who doesn’t have it by July 1. “Administrators will have a strong foundation to make informed decisions about th...
Men at War | The Weekly Standard
weeklystandard.com - We’ll stipulate that of course the Marines who urinated on the bodies of dead Taliban in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, last year should be appropriately disciplined, assuming things are as they ap...
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Long-struggling schools in Chester, Pa., running out of money, may not be able to make payroll
therepublic.com - CHESTER, Pa. — Nearly two decades after being declared financially distressed, the school system in this struggling Philadelphia suburb faces a new and even more daunting crisis: It may run out of ...
America's Teachers See Growing Poverty Up Close
readersupportednews.org - Naison writes: "We have a President who holds an 'education summit' that includes the nation’s top business leaders and foundation heads, but no teachers; we have billionaires lobbying to privatize...
An Annotated Scorecard – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Jan. 13, 2012, 12:08 p.m. A mayor’s State of the City address offers a chance to look back on the previous year’s accomplishments and lay out goals for the year ahead. Education has always figured ...
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Peace activist Marv Davidov dies
startribune.com - Marv Davidov, an iconic figure in the Minnesota peace movement who founded and led the Honeywell Project in a decades-long campaign to halt the production of anti-personnel weapons by the Honeywell...
In Romney's Campaign, What's Race Got to Do With It?
campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com - Jon Moe/Associated PressMitt Romney, a Republican presidential candidate, with his extended family in 2007.Mitt Romney may not have officially clinched the Republican nomination, but his victory ha...
Dr. King family’s civil trial verdict: US government assassinated Martin Luther King
dailycensored.com - “What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.” - Napoleon Bonaparte [69]The following is from : Occupy This: US History exposes the 1%’s crimes then and now (6-part...
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New York State faces losing $1 billion in federal education funds over teacher evaluation issue
nydailynews.com - Albany — New York is on notice: The feds are threatening to yank nearly $1 billion in education funding unless the state adopts a new teacher evaluation system.Senior members of U.S. Education Secr...
In flap over S. Carolina law, old tensions and a campaign issue
news.yahoo.com - COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - The state that fired the first shot in the Civil War is once again battling the government in a racially charged conflict that is drawing heated rhetoric from R...
Perry: WH handling of Marine video is "over-the-top" - Political Hotsheet
cbsnews.com - Texas Gov. Rick Perry waits to be introduced at a campaign stop at the Hilton Head Diner, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, in Hilton Head, S.C. (Credit: AP Photo/David Goldman) Texas Gov. and presidential as...
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My dinner with Rahm. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Nothing captures the change that has taken place in my neighborhood over the past four decades than the restaurant Lula. We think of it as our neighborhood place. You can get the world’s best BLT ...
The Innovative Educator: A Dream to Be Free At Last From State Standardized Tests
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Innovative Educator: A Dream to Be Free At Last From State Standardized Tests:A Dream to Be Free At Last From State Standardized Testsby noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Nielsen)Parents across the nat...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the First Lady For Immediate Release January 13, 2012 Hayfield Secondary School Alexandria, Virginia11:58 A.M. ESTMRS. OBAMA: Oh, wasn’t that exciting? (Applause.) You ...
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Peg with Pen: Yelling from Who-ville. We Will Be Heard. Occupy the DOE in DC.
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Peg with Pen: Yelling from Who-ville. We Will Be Heard. Occupy the DOE in DC.:Yelling from Who-ville. We Will Be Heard. Occupy the DOE in DC.by PeggyYou’ve already heard the Whos in Who-ville haven...
My dinner with Rahm. « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - My dinner with Rahm. « Fred Klonsky:My dinner with Rahm.by Fred KlonskyNothing captures the change that has taken place in my neighborhood over the past four decades than the restaurant Lula.We th...
My Day at Occupy Nashville
my.firedoglake.com - Stopping by FedEx to pick up my welcoming Occupy Supply box of goodies, I proceeded to Legislative Plaza, site of Occupy Nashville to meet with and learn about the little community that could. Occu...
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Is Walmart the Answer to 'Food Deserts"?
motherjones.com - Walmart and other mega-retailers hold the key to bringing fresh, healthy food into low-income urban areas where grocery options are severely limited. At least, that's what some prominent observers ...
Confederate Civil War Submarine H.L. Hunley Able To Be Viewed For First Time « CAFFEINATED POLITICS
dekerivers.wordpress.com - Civil War buffs have something else to marvel over. Considered the Confederacy’s stealth weapon, the Hunley sank the Union warship Housatonic in winter 1864, and then disappeared with all eight Con...
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Catharine Bellinger and Alexis Morin: The Students | TIME's 12 Education Activists to Watch in 2012 | TIME Ideas
ideas.time.com - Catharine Bellinger and Alexis Morin: The Students Catharine Bellinger (left) and Alexis Morin.Frustrated with the pace of educational change, Bellinger and Morin started Students for Education Ref...
Catharine Bellinger and Alexis Morin: The Students | TIME's 12 Education Activists to Watch in 2012 | TIME Ideas
ideas.time.com - Catharine Bellinger and Alexis Morin: The Students Catharine Bellinger (left) and Alexis Morin.Frustrated with the pace of educational change, Bellinger and Morin started Students for Education Ref...
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Matt Damon’s mother is wrong - Class Struggle
washingtonpost.com - Almost all of us say that as a nation we should work out our differences and unite to solve our problems. But we don’t mean it. Exhibit A is the bad blood between the National Education Association...
