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In Race to the Top, the Dirty Work Is Left to Those on the Bottom
nytimes.com - Even if you think the Obama administration’s signature education program, Race to the Top, will not help a single child in America learn more, you have to admire its bureaucratic magnificence. ...
Analysis: City Hall Fails the School Test
nbcnewyork.com - advertisement For 10 years Mayor Bloomberg and his aides have been playing a numbers game with the people of New York. When he took over the school system, things were to be magically transformed. ...
Brown wants smaller role for U.S., state in local schools
latimes.com - Deviating sharply from education reform policies championed by President Obama, California Gov. Jerry Brown is calling for limits on standardized testing and reduced roles for federal and state gov...
Another day, another charter - Pastebin.com
pastebin.com - By: dianeravitch | Jan 23rd, 2012 | Syntax: None | Size: 3.93 KB | Hits: 20 | Expires: Never From: nyceducationnews@yahoogroups.com [mailto:nyceducationnews@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ellen Sent...
In Attacks on Obama, Food Stamps, Newt Gingrich is "Racially Coding Poverty"
democracynow.org - AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from Park City, Utah, home of the Sundance Film Festival, the nation’s largest festival for independent cinema. I’m Amy Goodman. Continuing with our South Carolina R...
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In Race to the Top, the Dirty Work Is Left to Those on the Bottom
nytimes.com - Even if you think the Obama administration’s signature education program, Race to the Top, will not help a single child in America learn more, you have to admire its bureaucratic magnificence. ...
Principal at Mavericks High in Palm Springs Not Certified to Teach in Florida - Broward/Palm Beach News
blogs.browardpalmbeach.com - maverickshigh.comMavericks High in Palm Springs.The principal of the Mavericks High charter school in Palm Springs is not certified to teach in Florida, according to the State Department of Educat...
Audit Culture, Teacher Evaluation and the Pillaging of Public Education
education-radio.blogspot.com - In this weeks' program we look at the attempt by education reformers to impose value added measures on teacher evaluation as an example of how neoliberal forces have used the economic crisis to b...
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Breaking! Fox News "unearths" 1995 Reader article about Obama
chicagoreader.com - Over the weekend a Google alert alerted me to this headline: "UNEARTHED: Acid-Tongue Obama on Christian Right" Fox sour-cherry-picked from a 1995 Reader story by Hank De Zutter, "What Makes Obama R...
Former Rep. J.C. Watts: 'We've Not Encountered Sharia Law' In Oklahoma
thinkprogress.org - CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Former Oklahoma congressman and Newt Gingrich-endorser J.C. Watts conceded late last week that despite his state’s push to ban Sharia law, it has never actually existed...
Foxconn Resolves a Dispute With Some Workers in China
nytimes.com - SHANGHAI — Foxconn Technology, a major supplier to several electronics giants, said on Thursday that it had resolved a pay dispute with scores of workers at one of its factories in central China af...
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the silver bullet… | Connected Principals
connectedprincipals.com - Posted by Amber Teamann on 1/23/12 • Categorized as Best Educational Practices (caveat: I don’t like guns. my title does not endorse guns. or bullets. ) (another caveat: this is also not about a bl...
Data Collection...
sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com - It really is time we took the word "mistake" out of the language...It makes people - children - WRONG, DEFECTIVE...Every action each of us undertakes is, at the core, merely data collection - this ...
Twinkie Defense | Intercepts
eiaonline.com - No doubt you’re aware that Hostess, the makers of the pseudo-food guilty pleasures we have all enjoyed, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. While the Sno-Balls will keep rolling downhill for the fores...
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Line of Scrimmage Forms Over Union Bill
nytimes.com - INDIANAPOLIS — This city is in full preen for its moment in the spotlight, its first Super Bowl. Everywhere, workers sprouted from cherry pickers over the weekend, hanging football banners from sig...
Newt needs a lesson about Saul Alinsky
suntimes.com - LYNN SWEET blogs.suntimes.com/sweet January 22, 2012 10:04PM Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich reacts to a question at the start of the Republican presidential ca...
White House delays release of 2013 budget
northjersey.com - WASHINGTON — The White House said Monday that it's delaying for one week the release of President Barack Obama's budget for the 2013 fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. The budget is traditionally rel...
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More Lockouts as Companies Battle Unions
nytimes.com - America’s unionized workers, buffeted by layoffs and stagnating wages, face another phenomenon that is increasingly throwing them on the defensive: lockouts. From the Cooper Tire factor...
How the 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...
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...
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Students disrupt UC regents in Riverside to protest cuts
latimesblogs.latimes.com - January 19, 2012 | 11:12 am Students protesting budget cuts temporarily disrupted the UC Board of Regents meeting Thursday in Riverside, at one point forcing officials to move to another room. Abou...
All-women team of Seabees makes history in Afghanistan
latimesblogs.latimes.com - It was an unusual job even for the Seabees, the U.S. Navy’s construction forces trained to hold a hammer in one hand and a Beretta M9 in the other. First, the team selected to build barracks high i...
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Mayor 13% Failed Me « EdVox
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mayor 13% Failed Me « EdVox:Mayor 13% Failed Meby edvoxnyby Jazmine MillerStudent leader, New York Communities for ChangeThis blog post was originally published on the Huffington Post and can be fo...
MomsRising Celebrates the Year of the Dragon: Lunar New Year Blog Carnival « MomsRising Blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - MomsRising Celebrates the Year of the Dragon: Lunar New Year Blog Carnival « MomsRising Blog:MomsRising Celebrates the Year of the Dragon: Lunar New Year Blog CarnivalGloria Pan at MomsRising Blog ...
Broad In or Out in The Jersey City
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - At Latest Superintendent Search Meeting, Residents Voice Concerns About State Control | The Jersey City Independent: "Broad "At Latest Superintendent Search Meeting, Residents Voice Concerns About ...
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Cartoons/YouTube on Charter Schools | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
larrycuban.wordpress.com - January 23, 2012 · 12:00 pm In each of the past four months I have posted cartoons on different issues in school reform (see “Digital Kids in School,” “Testing,” “Blaming Is So American,” and “Acco...