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Video: Walcott Takes Heat From Parents, Teachers and UFT Officials at Contentious Closing School Hearing (PS 215) in Rockaway How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other NYC Educator: A Fine Day for a Sellout Is Tenure a S
ednotesonline.blogspot.com - "This is not a UFT chapter meeting." ----Dennis Walcott at PS 215 hearing. The word doesn't match the image The NYCDOE holds a closing school hearing for PS 215Q on a Friday night at 6pm. Chancell...
Contract negotiations for teachers start - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - By Lisa Donovan Staff Reporter/ldonovan@suntimes.com January 21, 2012 1:40PM Marking the start of what is expected to be contentious contract negotiations, the Chicago Teachers Union made their fir...
Share this Letter to Promote Occupy the DOE in DC: March 30 – April 2
unitedoptout.com - Members, Thank you for your participation. As we’ve exited the New Year and are approaching our Occupy the DOE event on March 30th, I am attaching for you aquick letter I drafted today. In your lim...
Teach Plus National Survey of Teachers
surveygizmo.com - There was an error on your page. Please correct any required fields and submit again. Go to the first error On January 31, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will join Teach Plus to celebrate ...
Catholic leaders tell Gingrich, Santorum ‘to stop perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes’
floridaindependent.com - GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons) Catholic leaders issued a letter Friday to GOP presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, themse...
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Dear Michelle Rhee: About that teacher evaluation study - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - Dear Michelle Rhee, former D.C. schools chancellor and current leader of StudentsFirst:I just wanted to dash off a quick note about that commentary you wrote in Education Week about the big value-a...
Lobby to Save a Love of Reading – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Jan. 20, 2012, 12:37 p.m. On New Year’s Eve, we and another couple sat, as we have for many years, playing party games — waiting for midnight, a final toast, and a conservative but not reactionary ...
Emanuel announces plan to reopen libraries on Mondays - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com January 21, 2012 12:13AM Mayor Rahm Emanuel storyidforme: 24494268 tmspicid: 4149663 fileheaderid: 679991 Updated: January 21, 2012 11:49A...
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Invisible No More: Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys - Men and Boys of Color Network
steinhardt.nyu.edu - Invisible No More: Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys A new book by Metro Center's Pedro Noguera and Edward Fergus Invisible No More: Understanding the Disenfranchisement o...
Dylan Ratigan, Russell Simmons and Dr. Ben Chavis on Occupy the Dream and the Prison Industrial Complex
owsnews.org - Here’s an excerpt from the segment: “The nation honored the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr… On a day of reflection about racism in America and our progress as a society, there is a new math of ra...
Hundreds Rally in Downtown San Diego Against “Citizens United” and for Campaign Finance Reform
obrag.org - Several hundred rallied outside the Federal Building, Jan. 20, 2012. Photo by Lowell Waxman.At least 250 San Diegans rallied on Friday, January 20th, in downtown San Diego against the US Supreme Co...
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Outlawing dissent: Rahm Emanuel's new regime | Bernard Harcourt | Comment is free
guardian.co.uk - It's almost as if Rahm Emanuel was lifting a page from Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine – as if he was reading her account of Milton Friedman's "Chicago Boys" as a cookbook recipe, rather than as the o...
Obama's State of the Union: Jobs, re-election time
boston.com - WASHINGTON—Vilified by the Republicans who want his job, President Barack Obama will stand before the nation Tuesday night determined to frame the election-year debate on his terms, promising his S...
Obama's State of the Union: Jobs, re-election time
boston.com - WASHINGTON—Vilified by the Republicans who want his job, President Barack Obama will stand before the nation Tuesday night determined to frame the election-year debate on his terms, using his State...
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This Week In Web 2.0
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - In yet another attempt to get at the enormous backlog I have of sites worth sharing, I’ve recently begin a regular feature called “The Week In Web 2.0.” It’ll be a short compilation of new decent s...
DNC Rapid Response ad hits Romney
dailykos.com - “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.” ... ... by Giles Goat Boy 6...
The Nine Thousand Names of Freedom
dissidentvoice.org - Aren't Some Websites Stars of Freedom Dotting the Vast Night-sky of Ignorance and Obfuscation? And Web-servers Dot the Miles and Miles of Fibre, and Twinkle with Knowledge and Information? As night...
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How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
nytimes.com - When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. But as Steven P. Jobs of...
So funny it hurts | Ben Joravsky on Politics
chicagoreader.com - I know, I know—I should have already weighed in on the gazillion-dollar tax break Christmas present the state gave the Chicago Mercantile Exchange last month.But I was preoccupied with holiday part...
Parent Advocates - ParentAdvocates.org
parentadvocates.org - Private Equity's Investment in CongressSubmitted by Jeffrey Ernst Friedman on Jan 9, 2012, MapLightLINKJan. 10, 2012 - Mitt Romney's success at the Iowa caucus has carried over to New Hampshire, wh...
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Saturday coffee + Old school. « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky:Saturday coffee.by Fred KlonskyThere is lots of snow on the ground in Chicago this morning.The streets are clear, at least in our ward.On most days it takes 40 minut...
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“Teaching Quality and California’s Future” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - “Teaching Quality and California’s Future” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…:“Teaching Quality and California’s Future”Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 6 minutes ag...
Saturday coffee + Old school. « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky:Saturday coffee.by Fred KlonskyThere is lots of snow on the ground in Chicago this morning.The streets are clear, at least in our ward.On most days it takes 40 minut...
Is the Florida Rebublican’s Secret Privatization Maneuver the Most Deceitful Yet? | Scathing Purple Musings
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Is the Florida Rebublican’s Secret Privatization Maneuver the Most Deceitful Yet? | Scathing Purple Musings: Is the Florida Rebublican’s Secret Privatization Maneuver the Most Deceitful Yet? ...
