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How Can Smart People Do Dumb Things?
larrycuban.wordpress.com - Top Federal Reserve officials in 2006–recall that was the time that the housing bubble was about to burst–”laughed about cars that builders were offering as signing bonuses.” These economists and i...
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mobile.philly.com - 01/17/2012 10:49 AM By James Osborne Inquirer Staff Writer New Jersey education officials had a dilemma last summer: Following the approval of a record number of charter schools, questions were fly...
Bush Foundation Comes Out in Favor of Parent Trigger Legislation
bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com - In stark opposition to parent public school advocacy groups across the state, Jeb Bush’s education foundation announced its support for controversial parent trigger legislation. The Orlando Sentin...
Reporting misses crucial bias behind charter school study | Philadelphia City Paper
citypaper.net - This morning's headline was: “Pa., N.J., and Del. all get lower grades on charter school ranking.” What WHYY didn't tell listeners was that the study authors, the National Alliance for Public Chart...
The Griffins -- hedge fund power couple
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Ken Griffin and wife Anne, have become two of the most prominent and powerful names associated with Chicago's corporate-style school reform. As the founder and head of the Chicago-based hedge fund ...
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Exams in South Korea: The one-shot society
economist.com - ON NOVEMBER 10th South Korea went silent. Aircraft were grounded. Offices opened late. Commuters stayed off the roads. The police stood by to deal with emergencies among the students who were takin...
What Value Did the Chetty Study Add? - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,Just days ago, three economists released a study that created a great deal of controversy. Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman of Harvard University and Jonah Rockoff of Columbia Universit...
Study on Teacher Value Uses Data From Before Teach-to-Test Era
nytimes.com - My four children have all attended public schools in our middle-class suburban district. When my oldest was in fourth grade, in 1998, he took the state tests, and I was not even aware of it. Later,...
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Romney Campaigning With Anti-Immigrant Official With Ties To Hate Groups On Martin Luther King Day
thinkprogress.org - On a day set aside to honor civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Mitt Romney plans to tout his extreme immigration positions during a campaign stop in South Carolina today — with Kris Kob...
Santorum Staffer Says Women Shouldn't Be President Because It's Against God's Will
thinkprogress.org - In an article about the reasons Rep. Michele Bachmann’s campaign fizzled, the Des Moines Register points to “sexism among conservatives,” singling out an offensive email written by a staffer to Ric...
Timuel Black Jr.'s history of Chicago is on display - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - In the 1960s, Chicago historian and educator Timuel Black Jr. had a lady friend with a penchant for neatness who gently suggested he throw out some of the bags of memorabilia crowding his Hyde Park...
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Scott Walker should look to Ronald Reagan on collective bargaining
latimes.com - On Jan. 17, 1962, President Kennedy signed Executive Order 10988, bringing collective bargaining rights to most federal workers for the first time. Kennedy's order might be the least known of the s...
Staying Above the Fray, Romney Keeps Eye on Obama
nytimes.com - FLORENCE, S.C. — Mitt Romney sought to keep the upper hand in his effort to swiftly wrap up the Republican presidential nomination, urging voters here on Tuesday morning to take the long view and b...
Target met to recall Wisconsin GOP leader Fitzgerald - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - Wisconsin Senate GOP leader Scott Fitzgerald (Getty Images) Associated Press 11:25 a.m. CST, January 17, 2012 MADISON, Wis. -- Petitioners say more than enough signatures are being submitted to for...
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Flame Retardants Refuse To Burn Out « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy Worldwww.healthychild.org Think the flame retardant Tris is a thing of the past? Think again. Last week the Washington Toxics ...
Physical Activity Program Leads to Better Behavior for Children with ADHD
educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - Ω While children who suffer from attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) struggle with hyperactive-impulses and have trouble maintaining attention, a recent study found that a structured ph...
Shanker Blog » Trial And Error Is Fine, So Long As You Know The Difference
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Shanker Blog » Trial And Error Is Fine, So Long As You Know The Difference:Trial And Error Is Fine, So Long As You Know The Differenceby Matthew Di CarloIt’s fair to say that improved teacher evalu...
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National Science Board Report: US Losing R&D Jobs To Asia
ourfuture.org - The United States is losing ever more jobs and becoming ever less competitive as our universities are cut back and companies move R&D jobs to Asia. We lost 687,000 high-tech manufacturing jobs lost...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 17, 2012 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Obama convened a meeting at the White House with the President’s Council on Jo...
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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NCSE | National Center for Science Education
ncse.com - Welcome to the National Center for Science Education’s climate change education initiative. Long respected for its work in defending and supporting the teaching of evolution in the public schools, ...
Obama will accept nomination at N.C. stadium
politico.com - The Charlotte Observer reports that President Obama will formally accept the Democratic nomination at Bank of America stadium in Charlotte, N.C. — an outdoor venue: The move to the Carolina Panther...
Occupy protesters rally against Congress at Capitol
democraticunderground.com - Source: ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Demonstratorsfrom the Occupy movement rallied outsidethe U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to protestagainst the influence of money on Congress.In a sign of renewed vigo...
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76 Percent of For-Profit College Students Attend Schools that are Wall Street Owned: Drive-by predatory colleges fueled by private and public debt | Dailycensored.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 76 Percent of For-Profit College Students Attend Schools that are Wall Street Owned: Drive-by predatory colleges fueled by private and public debt | Dailycensored.com:76 Percent of For-Profit Colle...
Independent Learning is Out – Group Think is In « PWC Education Reform Blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Independent Learning is Out – Group Think is In « PWC Education Reform Blog:Independent Learning is Out – Group Think is InJanuary 17, 2012 — pwceducationreformOn the lists of “What’s in / What’s o...
Jersey Jazzman: Where Do They Find These Guys?
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Where Do They Find These Guys?: Where Do They Find These Guys? by Duke Would it be OK if the people in charge of ensuring the quality of airline pilots had never flow...
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“Occupy Congress” Begins – Week-Long Demonstration Will Be the Largest Gathering of the Occupy Movement
obrag.org - Occupy Congress/DC protesters hold a banner in front of the U.S. Capitol during a rally in Washington, January 17, 2012. Reuters.It has begun – “Occupy Congress” is in its first day – the first day...
Big Education Ape: 1-16-12 PM New York State leaders are expected to kneel for Mayor Bloomberg's school plan EDition #edreform #ows
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: Universal Public Education Is Dead: The Rise of State Schools Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 1 minute ago Daily Kos: Universal Public Education Is Dead: The Rise of St...
