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Mavericks High Schools Hope to Profit From Education – But at What Cost? - Page 1 - News - Broward/Palm Beach - New Times Broward
browardpalmbeach.com - Before the songs, chanting, and heartfelt tears, the ceremony next door to a Palm Springs strip mall begins with speeches. A thin, deeply tanned man in a pin-striped suit is among the first to take...
Schools flunked inquiries into suspicious scores in 2011
usatoday.com - By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY Posted A decade ago, Hopeville Elementary School was one of the worst-performing schools in Waterbury, Conn., 30 miles west of Hartford. So when Michael Puffer, an educatio...
Fighting back against mandatory school testing
sdcitybeat.com - The red pillow takes the least space. The yellow pillow takes more space than the blue pillow. Which of the following is not true:The red pillow takes more space than the blue pillow.The yellow ...
Andre Agassi and charter schools: Former tennis star Andre Agassi teams with L.A. bankers to finance charter school construction
articles.latimes.com - June 02, 2011|Roger VincentFormer tennis star Andre Agassi has joined with Los Angeles bankers to create an unusual for-profit investment fund for construction of as much as $750 million worth of c...
NAACP resolution on charter schools
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - In a process established by the NAACP Constitution, this resolution was adopted by the delegates to the 101st Annual Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, during the legislative session in July, 201...
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mikeklonsky Excellent piece by special ed teacher Pam Emerson in Jay Mathews column in WaPo. wapo.st/tsynXd Don't miss.47 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite
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No Educator Left Behind: Pearson, Leading Scorer of Standardized Tests, Subpoenaed
forbes.com - Publicly Traded Pearson Education Subpoenaed The New York Attorney General’s office launched an investigation this week into whether or not the education and testing of the state’s school children ...
How Pearson wins their testing contracts
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Steven Paine and Patricia Wright, superintendents in West Virginia and Virginia, with Mark Nieker, right, of the Pearson Foundation, in London in June 2010. Michael Wi...
How Paul Krugman found politics : The New Yorker
newyorker.com - These days when Krugman criticizes Obama, commenters on his blog tend to agree with him. He has regained his credibility with the left. There are even some songs about him on YouTube. “Hey, Paul Kr...
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NEW YEAR QUOTABLES
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Barack Obama "I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists." -- CNNLu You...
World News: America’s secret political power
thestar.com - Occupy Phoenix protesters came to protest to the American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization that brings together large corporations and conservative state lawmakers to draft model bills...
Russian Art Group Claims Attack on Police Van
nytimes.com - MOSCOW — A spokesman for the radical art collective Voina on Monday announced that its members had broken into a St. Petersburg police station on New Year’s Eve and used Molotov cocktails to incine...
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Sometimes You Have to Settle for Just Being There – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Jan. 2, 2012, 3:39 p.m. As a teacher, you are exposed to poverty, but you are not poor. You care for a child as long as he or she is within reach, but you cannot touch their lives after the school ...
You Have No Idea What To Count, So Shut Up
thejosevilson.com - Ira Socol, the unabashed scholar he is, dropped my first favorite quote of 2012 in his meme on December 30th: Things I don’t want to hear in 2012: (3) “Accountability” – you have no idea what to co...
Yes we can. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - I want to talk about Obama voting this morning. It sort of started back last July at the NEA convention. IEA President Dennis Van Roekel, in his infinite wisdom, decided we should endorse the guy t...
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Growing income inequality rooted in political corruption -- GazetteXtra
gazettextra.com - By MIKE MCCABE Monday, May 9, 2011 ADVERTISEMENT We̢۪ve reached a point when the richest 1 percent of Americans have more wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined, a sad truth verified in 200...
Gingrich Lines Up Experienced Education Adviser - Politics K-12
blogs.edweek.org - Lisa Graham Keegan, who served as a top adviser on K-12 issues during Sen. John McCain's bid for the presidency in 2008, is set to join former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's campaign early next year...
Governor Cuomo Announces A New Education Committee
southbronxschool.com - We here at SBSB wish to take the time and congratulate Governor Cuomo on his call in tomorrow's state of the state address tomorrow night in calling for an education committee to look at education ...
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AP: Officials Say Fracking Caused Ohio Earthquake
readersupportednews.org - Intro: "Officials said Saturday they believe the latest earthquake activity in northeast Ohio is related to the injection of wastewater into the ground near a fault line, creating enough pressure t...
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Meteor Shower January 4th, Northern Hemisphere Could See 100 Per Hour « CAFFEINATED POLITICS
dekerivers.wordpress.com - Take HOT beverage and…. Why do I think this is more for newspaper delivery folks than the rest of us? Still, this would be a sight to witness. The 2012 Quadrantids, a little-known meteor shower ...
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Union Line Says “Bah Humbug” to Occupiers
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - Occupy Memphis in Union Line jackets Occupy Supply has spent literally tens of thousands of dollars on union made Union Line goods over the course of the past few months. Their quilt lined work ja...
Rose Parade 2012: Cheers, jeers greet 'Occupy Octopus' human float
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Hundreds of Occupy the Rose Parade protesters marched down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena on Monday after the real event was over, lining up behind police squad cars, tow trucks and the last offici...
Occupy Iowa Could Get Messy - Politics
theatlanticwire.com - As Iowa's Republicans gear up for tomorrow's caucuses, party officials are making tense plans to deal with potential protesters from the Occupy movement. Politico's Edward-Isaac Dovere reports that...
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Segregated Charter Schools Evoke Separate but Equal Era in U.S.
kkk.bz - Comment by RachelPendergraft The kids in the article below seem to be happy. Parents have been given a choice as to where to send their children and without government interference, many have sele...