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Ravitch to speak in California

cta.org - By Dina Martin Once an educational conservative and an early supporter of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind policy, Diane Ravitch has shaken up the education world by doing a complete...

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Turnaround Is Unfair Play | Gary Rubinstein's Blog

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - Superman has arrived and he takes Visa. As districts get more and more desperate trying to reach 100% proficiency by 2014, they begin to turn to a new breed of ‘experts.’ These experts claim that t...

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Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Benjamin Franklin did it. Henry Ford did it. And American life is built on the faith that others can do it, too: rise from humble origins to economic heights. “Movin’ on up,” George Je...

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Ten Things You Don't Know About DPS

huffingtonpost.com - I'll bet you think you know a lot about Detroit Public Schools from reading the headlines and watching the nightly news, right? Well, I'm about to surprise you with some things you don't know.The g...

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Arne Duncan's new job at the D.O.E.? Celebrity catcher

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - The ed secretary now appears to be in charge of silencing the administration's Hollywood critics.WaPo's Valerie Strauss broke the story with a leak from inside Duncan's department.According to two ...

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Rick Santorum's School Scandal | Mother Jones

motherjones.com - Patrick Fallon/ZumaThanks to his surprising surge, which brought him within eight votes of winning the Iowa caucuses, Rick Santorum is the candidate du jour. With his front-runner status is bound t...

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Chicago mayor stars in right-wing, anti-public school video

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Thanks to brother Fred I came upon this right-wing propaganda video targeting public school and teachers unions staring none other than Rahm Emanuel. "A Tale of Two Missions," co-stars the head of ...

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nypost.com - Fredric U. DickerANALYSIS ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo dialed back the sweeping promises of tax cuts and spending restraints that defined his first year in office yesterday with a big-on-rhetoric, modest-on...

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Matt Damon and Mother Reject Union's Award – SchoolBook

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Matt Damon and Mother Reject Union's Award – SchoolBook:Matt Damon and Mother Reject Union's AwardRobyn Beck/Agence France-Press-Getty ImagesMatt Damon with his mother, Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige, in...

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OB and Rest of Coast In Store For Major Waves

obrag.org - High surf on Nov 3, 2010, in OB. Photos by Jim Grant.CBS 8 Local San Diego News reports that Ocean Beach and the coast is in store for some major waves over the next few days.Meteorologist Shawn St...

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happy birthday, hayao miyazaki | angry asian man

blog.angryasianman.com - Happy birthday to one of the world's greatest living directors, Hayao Miyazaki. The master animator, responsible for such classics as Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and countl...

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Continuing Education, at the Bar

nytimes.com - FOR many, January means back to the lecture hall, and not just at colleges and universities. Across New York the backrooms of bars and the main stages of clubs are coming to resemble secret annexes...

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Ex-Walker aide arrested; charges to be announced

jsonline.com - The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel now is offering JS Everywhere, a new digital subscription package, which gives you unlimited access to JSOnline, the daily e-Edition, Journal Sentinel mobile site and...

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Chicago mayor stars in right-wing, anti-public school video

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Thanks to brother Fred I came upon this right-wing propaganda video targeting public school and teachers unions staring none other than Rahm Emanuel. "A Tale of Two Missions," co-stars the head of ...

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