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Tackling Business Problems - Harvard Business Review

hbr.org - Tackling Business Problems Stop Tying Pay to Performance The evidence is overwhelming: It doesn’t work.by Bruno S. Frey and Margit Osterloh Time frame: next week | Degree of difficulty: operational...

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Draft of Teachers Letter to President Obama

withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com- We, the undersigned, a cross section of the nation’s educators, want to express our extreme displeasure with the policies implemented during your administration by Secretary of Education Arne Dunca...

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Rye Principal Retires to Fight Standardized Tests

thedailyrye.com - Osborn School Principal Clarita Zeppie announced she will be retiring at the end of 2011-12 school year to fight the "unhealthy" and "wrong" direction of the State's education program for grade-sch...

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A Score Card for Changing Schools – SchoolBook

nytimes.com - Jan. 27, 2012, 10:52 a.m. Sixty-two New York City schools are on a path to be closed or otherwise re-shaped this year. Here’s a score card to help you keep track of what schools are affected and ho...

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There’s One Big Worm In Checker Finn’s Apple

edwize.org - On the Fordham Foundation’s Flypaper blog and in the electronic pages of the Hoover Foundation’s Education Next, Checker Finn is bemoaning the state of the American work ethic, and blaming American...

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Render Unto Caesar...

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - Let's go back to Amir Khan for a minute or two:Pastor Khan - anti-marriage equity crusader and promoter of school voucher legislation to his congregation (is that allowed by the IRS?) - was granted...

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Jobs, Jobs and Cars

nytimes.com - Mitch Daniels, the former Bush budget director who is now Indiana’s governor, made the Republicans’ reply to President Obama’s State of the Union address. His performance was, well, boring. But he ...

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Unionization Rate Rises in 2011

news.firedoglake.com - This isn’t how conservatives wanted things to play out. They wanted to use the post-Tea Party period as a time to crush union membership. They sought out a coordinated strategy, in places like Wisc...

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I’m Looking At The Boy In The Bubble

tbogg.firedoglake.com - Roy has an interesting post up about how Charles “Coloreds Is Dumb” Murray has moved on from explaining why white people are superior to the dusky races and how now Murray is trying to instigate Wh...

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Parents 4 Teachers says, “Call Brizard.” « Fred Klonsky

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Parents 4 Teachers says, “Call Brizard.” « Fred Klonsky:Parents 4 Teachers says, “Call Brizard.”by Fred KlonskyHi Fred,My name is Erica–I’m a CPS parent (going on 14 years in the system!), an avid ...

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Tax Cut Extender: Boon to Charter Schools

citypragmatist.com - Illustration: FRBSF Charter schools are among the big winners in the tax cut extender deal signed into law on December 17 by President Barack Obama. Section 733 of H.R. 4853 provides for an additio...

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Jersey Jazzman: Merit Pay Fails Outside of Schools

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Merit Pay Fails Outside of Schools:Merit Pay Fails Outside of Schoolsby DukeMerit pay is a disaster wherever it goes:We’ve talked about this since the financial meltdown. Now it’s t...

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gr2 presents year of the dragon, january 28 - february 15

blog.angryasianman.com - More good stuff for art lovers in Los Angeles... Giant Robot is celebrating the Year of the Dragon, an art exhibition featuring dragons! And dragons are awesome. It's running January 28 through Feb...

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Daily Kos: WAM

dailykos.com - Mozart could have a sense of humor, which is why I offer this duet in English:We saw this opera perhaps the best way to see - the voices of great singers but done by marionnettes in Salzburg Mozart...

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