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2012 Annual Letter From Bill Gates
gatesfoundation.org - Throughout m y careers in software and philanthropy—and in each of my annual letters—a recurring theme has been that innovation is the key to improving the world. When innovators work on urgent prob...
Bill Gates: 'Have to raises taxes' - MJ Lee
politico.com - Bill Gates said Thursday that the county’s has got to hike taxes and the wealthy should shoulder a greater burden of the increase, while he rejected any close correlation between job creation and t...
Opportunity to Listen Opportunity to Evaluate Teachers Opportunity to Expand Choice (Maybe) Opportunity to Extend the School Year Opportunity to Develop Literacy
allthingsedu.blogspot.com - Each day this week I have presented a response to different parts of Governor McDonnell's "Opportunity to Learn" education agenda. On Monday, I gave an introduction and talked about the goal of adv...
Concerns with the MDRC study on small schools released today
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - MDRC released a study today, which the NY Times writes “appeared to validate the Bloomberg administration’s decade-long push to create small schools to replace larger, failing high schools.” The r...
Some parents oppose longer school day - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY ROSALIND ROSSI Staff Reporter January 26, 2012 1:00AM Updated: January 26, 2012 2:54AM Parents charged Wednesday that the opposition to a 71/2 hour school day touted by Mayor Rahm Emanuel is str...
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- The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com - A new study commissioned by D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray recommends that the city turn around or close more than three dozen traditional public schools in its poorest neighborhoods and expand the num...
CRC Press Online - Book: The Crime Numbers Game
crcpress.com - Features Presents a critical analysis of Compstat based upon primary research Uses data from the NYPD available only to the authors Discusses both academic and practitioner views Contains numerous ...
Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Thursday edition. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Rahm doesn’t think pay-for-protesters is a problem. And his hand-picked board of education seems to have skipped a step. They’re budgeting for turnarounds before all the public hearings and before ...
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Editorial: ‘Rent-a-protesters’ take school battles to new low - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - Editorials January 25, 2012 6:00PM Updated: January 26, 2012 2:17AM Outrageous. There is no other way to describe the practice, revealed by the Sun-Times and other media, of ministers hiring “rent-...
Bill to limit contributions in school board races expected to die in committee
coloradoindependent.com - There once was a time–you know it’s true–when school board candidates in Colorado hoped to raise enough money for yard signs and a flyer to hand out or leave at doors. Times have changed. In the mo...
Tucson students walk out over banning of ethnic cultural studies
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Pres. Obama wrestled verbally over immigration policy with racist Ariz. Gov. Jan Brewer, after hundreds of Tucson students walked out of their schools in a coordinated protest against the banishmen...
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Newt Gingrich, Space Keynesian | TPMDC
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - Sahil Kapur January 26, 2012, 11:10 AM Newt Gingrich’s case for boosting federal investments into private sector space projects awkwardly embraces a core tenet of modern liberalism: the belief that...
GOP salutes Obama's ed policies
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - A GOP salute At least there's someone who likes Obama/Duncan ed policies. "Republicans tonight salute our President, for instance, for his aggressive pursuit of the murderers of 9/11, and for brave...
Rahm's hired army of protesters under investigation
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Pharaoh's army got drowndedO Mary don't you weep The Sun-Times reports: The Chicago Public Schools inspector general said Wednesday he is investigating reports that bused protesters were paid t...
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iWork 18 hours a day
leilaladomptable.wordpress.com - Update 5th Jan 2011 — This piece is being used in the campaign to tell Apple to Stop Slavery Practices at Foxconn’s Manufacturies. Please have a look, sign & promote! http://www.change.org/petition...
Commentary: LEAPing into the new, and the confusing
ednewscolorado.org - This article was submitted by Louise Smith, a longtime Denver-area teacher. “I’ve been LEAPed,” said my friend the last day before Christmas break. She was referring to the results of her trip thro...
Win a $5000 Tent or a Laptop for Your Occupation!
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - Occupy Supply command post tent at Occupy Rochester Occupy Supply is announcing a contest to give away five 11′ x 11′ command post tents worth $5000 each, three media laptops equipped with webcams ...
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Computer of Apple Quality Not Made in Poisonous Factory by Slave Labor
schoolsmatter.info - Yesterday I was at the gym watching on closed caption the story of Apple's cash problems. Seems they have almost a hundred billion bucks (more than most European countries) that they don't know wh...
Bernanke to deliver 4 college lectures on Fed
boston.com - WASHINGTON—Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will take a brief step back into his former life as a college professor.The Fed says Bernanke will deliver four lectures on the Federal Reserve and ...
Why All the Robo-signing?
dissidentvoice.org - The Wall Street Journal reported on January 19th that the Obama Administration was pushing heavily to get the 50 state attorneys general to agree to a settlement with five major banks in the “robo-...
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Recommend a Book to Mayor Bloomberg
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - January 25, 2012, 8:25 pm By THE NEW YORK TIMESDuring a visit to a high school English class in the Bronx, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg revealed his love for the John le Carré classic, “Tinker, Tailo...
Chester Upland teacher honored by president at State of the Union address
articles.philly.com - "We are adults; we will make a way," she told the paper this month. "The students don't have any contingency plan. They need to be educated, so we intend to be on the job."At the time, the district...
Obama: 'Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk'
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 'Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk'**Where did the phrase 'Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk' Originate?Almost certainly in England, but it's hard to say when. The earliest instance with the words 'cry' and 'spil...
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Comprehensive, Continuous, and Coherent Assessment « The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Comprehensive, Continuous, and Coherent Assessment « The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education:Comprehensive, Continuous, and Coherent Assessmentby Klea ScharbergOur goal is to educate students ...
NYC Public School Parents: The decline of science education in NYC high schools as shown by the falling number of Intel submissions and semi-finalists
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NYC Public School Parents: The decline of science education in NYC high schools as shown by the falling number of Intel submissions and semi-finalists:The decline of science education in NYC high s...
Jersey Jazzman: NOLA: Charter Nirvana
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: NOLA: Charter Nirvana:NOLA: Charter Nirvanaby DukeRick Hess took the week off and left the keys to his blog with Neerav Kingsland, the chief strategy officer for New Schools for New...
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top 1-26 Early Evening Posts #ows #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Thursday edition. « Fred Klonsky Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 58 minutes ago Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Thursday edition. « Fred Klonsky:Life in Rahm’s Chi...
Occupy Buffalo & What to Do with Homeless People
dissenter.firedoglake.com - John Washington, who is part of a core group of occupiers with Occupy Buffalo that work on multiple working groups to keep the momentum of the occupation alive, talked with me about the camp’s atti...
Win a $5000 Tent or a Laptop for Your Occupation!
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - Occupy Supply command post tent at Occupy Rochester Occupy Supply is announcing a contest to give away five 11′ x 11′ command post tents worth $5000 each, three media laptops equipped with webcams ...
