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The impeccable logic of Turnaround schools

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Check out the new TV campaign on "Turnaround" schools produced by Last Stand for Children First. Though the campaign is focused on Chicago's efforts , the same strategies are being used here in NY...

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"Education Reform" As Collective Bullying

withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com - When I see the most powerful, and wealthiest people in this country, representing both major parties, attack public school teachers, it makes my blood boil. The education reform juggernaut, a "big ...

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NYC Educator: Martin Luther King's Legacy

nyceducator.com - I want to retch when I read Arne Duncan is going somewhere to pay tribute to MLK. In fact, King was assasinated while in Memphis, supporting striking workers. Duncan, conversely, is in the pocket o...

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The trouble with Alexander Russo

schoolsmatter.info - The irony is that Russo suggests we critics have been successful because WE are coordinating ourselves! And the "reformers" ought to do the same! We are seeing the most coordinated, sustained and s...

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David Beats Goliath – Wisconsin Style

forwardseeking.com - By Molly Belt “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~Margaret Mead Nearly everyone who was a part of the...

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School Tech Connect: Red Line Blues

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Red Line Blues:Red Line Bluesby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)What a ridiculous day...I planned to cover the CTU MLK event at Dvorak Elementary on the west side, but evidently you h...

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An Urban Teacher's Education: Something to Consider

anurbanteacherseducation.com - The assistant principal’s office is crammed into the corner of the second floor of the nearly ninety-year-old James Monroe Building in the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx. Behind me the door in...

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Huntsman Says He's Quitting G.O.P. Race

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - January 15, 2012, 9:18 pm By JEFF ZELENYCHARLESTON, S.C. — Jon M. Huntsman Jr. informed his advisers on Sunday that he intends to drop out of the Republican presidential race, ending his candidacy ...

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Donors Gave as Santorum Won Earmarks

nytimes.com - The announcements flowed out of Rick Santorum’s Senate office: a $3.5 million federal grant to Piasecki Aircraft to help it test a new helicopter propeller technology; another $3.5 million to JLG I...

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Study of Retail Workers Finds $9.50 Median Pay

nytimes.com - Retail workers in New York City earn a median of $9.50 an hour, most are part-time or temporary, and just 3 in 10 receive health insurance through their jobs, according to a new study of the city’s...

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Robert Reich (Free Enterprise on Trial)

robertreich.org - Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as “free enterprise on trial” – defining free enterprise as achieving success through “hard work and risking-taking.” Tea-Party favorite Senator Jim DeMint ...

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Retail lobby demands help to create more new jobs

northjersey.com - See more photos from the retail convention. The nation’s retailers are going to be pushing their political agenda in Washington, D.C., with a ramped-up lobbying effort and a shopping list of demand...

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