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The test score hypothesis
edexcellence.net - yes Michael J. Petrilli / January 31, 2012 The entire school reform movement is predicated on a hypothesis: Boosting student achievement, as measured by standardized tests, will enable greater pr...
Hundreds protest Lehman High School turnaround plan
bronxpresspolitics.blogspot.com - By MIAWLING LAMFormer Bronx teacher and education activist Peter Lamphere speaks during a rally to save Lehman High School.THE odds are stacked against them, but more than 200 former and current st...
Does Obama understand Race to the Top? — Ravitch - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education Week website. Ravitch and Meier exchange letters ab...
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Claremont McKenna College inflated freshman SAT scores, probe finds
latimes.com - Claremont McKenna College exaggerated the collective SAT exam scores of incoming freshman classes for the last six years, boosting statistics used for national school rankings, an internal probe ha...
IFF Study Released to Criticism of Research Methodology
realeducationreformdc.blogspot.com - Quality Schools, Every Child, Every Neighborhood Indeed A response by Teachers and Parents for Real Education Reform The Illinois Facilities Fund report titled: Quality Schools, Every School, E...
Does President Obama Know What Race to the Top Is? - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah, I don't know about you, but I am growing convinced that President Barack Obama doesn't know what Race to the Top is. I don't think he really understands what his own administration is...
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Sherman Alexie | The Progressive
progressive.org - Let's get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans are indigenous. So, in a strange way, I'm pleased that the racist folks of Arizona have officially declared, in bann...
Letters of Note: To My Old Master
lettersofnote.com - In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being ema...
NH GOP: Lynch's ideas too expensive
boston.com - CONCORD, N.H.—Republican leaders say Gov. John Lynch's state of the state address is calling for too much spending.Lynch urged increasing higher education funding, restoring the tobacco tax reducti...
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Do I Still Have a Place Here? « Cooperative Catalyst
coopcatalyst.wordpress.com - I teach in the shell of a once-suburban enclave of Phoenix. We have pretty euphemisms for it. Low-SES. Title One. Poverty. Underprivileged. Diverse (in the deep-red state of Phoenix, it’s the new r...
Chicago is Number One in Hating -- According to New York
chicagonow.com - Something called the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, put their collective egg heads together and wrote a study about something they have no knowledge of: anything west of the Hudson River...
School Tech Connect: Um, No. He Has No Clue
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Um, No. He Has No ClueUm, No. He Has No Clueby noreply@blogger.com (Tim) President Obama cannot possibly understand what is going on as a result of Race To Nowhere. He's simply...
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Bloomberg Defends 9/11 Memorial Salaries - Metropolis
blogs.wsj.com - By Michael Howard SaulAssociated Press Some of the first visitors to the National September 11 Memorial last year.New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the nearly $300,000 in severance pai...
Civilian Deaths Due to Drones Are Not Many, Obama Says
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday defended the use of drones to strike suspected terrorists in Pakistan and elsewhere, saying the clandestine program was “kept on a very tight leash” and enabl...
Second Year In, Republican Governors Moderate Tone
nytimes.com - A year after a coterie of new Republican governors swept into the statehouses and put in place aggressive agendas to cut spending and curb union powers, sparking strong backlashes in many places, m...
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Romney, Bain took over test giant Princeton Review
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - One of Bain's takeover targets while Gov. Romney ran the predator investment firm, was Princeton Review, one of the largest testing and test-prep operations in the country. In 2007, Bain and Prides...
Buyout Profits Keep Flowing to Romney
nytimes.com - Almost 13 years ago, Mitt Romney left Bain Capital, the successful private equity firm he had helped start, and moved to Utah to rescue the Salt Lake City Olympic Games and begin a second career in...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 31, 2012 Administration Takes Immediate Steps to Accelerate Startup and Small Business GrowthToday, on the one-year anniv...
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Illinois nuclear reactor shutdown probed
cbsnews.com - In this March 2011 photo, steam escapes from Exelon Corp.'s nuclear plant in Byron, Ill. (AP) (AP) CHICAGO - Officials are investigating the events surrounding a power failure at a nuclear reactor...
Officials investigating Illinois reactor shutdown
democraticunderground.com - http://apnews.excite.com/article/20120131/D9SJT4EO0.html Officials investigating Illinois reactor shutdown By TAMMY WEBBER CHICAGO (AP) - Officials are investigating the events surrounding a power ...
How our dues are being used. « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - How our dues are being used. « Fred Klonsky:How our dues are being used.by Fred KlonskyIn preparation for the IEA RA in March, local Regions held budget hearings last night. The meeting I was at ha...
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top 1-31 Early Evening Posts #ows #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Half The Story Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 11 minutes ago School Tech Connect: Half The Story:Half The Storyby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)Mayor's collaborat...
Schools Matter: New York Principal's Heroic Stand
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: New York Principal's Heroic Stand:New York Principal's Heroic Standby Judy RabinZeppie said Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recent implementation of standardized testing reviews is unhealthy an...
Peg with Pen: Awake in Indiana
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Peg with Pen: Awake in Indiana:Awake in Indianaby PeggyWhat does it mean to be awake? We hear that phrase a lot. When will they wake up? Whatwill it take to wake the 99%? Simply look at Indiana. ...
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top 1-31 Early Evening Posts #ows #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Half The Story Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 11 minutes ago School Tech Connect: Half The Story:Half The Storyby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)Mayor's collaborat...
Big Education Ape: 1-31-12 AM Race to the Top costs leave schools behind EDition #EDSOTU #edreform
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top AM Posts 1-30 #edreform #ows
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