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Give New York State Parents the Right to Opt Their Children Out of High Stakes Testing
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Investing in kids | The Salt Lake Tribune
sltrib.com - Sen. Karen Morgan deserves more than a pat on the head for her dogged effort to convince her colleagues to allocate money to reduce class sizes in kindergarten through third grade. Morgan, a Democr...
Fire first, ask questions later? Comments on Recent Teacher Effectiveness Studies « School Finance 101
schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Yesterday was a big day for big new studies on teacher evaluation. First, there was the New York Times report on the new study by Chetty, Friedman and Rockoff. Second, there was the release of the ...
Teachers Decide To Work For Free After Budget Cuts Leave Pennsylvania School District Without Funds For Salaries
thinkprogress.org - A teacher at Chester Upland Schools The Chester Upland School District in Delaware County, Pennsylvania suffered a serious setback when Gov. Tom Corbett (R) slashed $900 million in education funds ...
Charter Schools’ New Cheerleaders: Financiers
nytimes.com - When Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo wanted to meet certain members of the hedge fund crowd, seeking donors for his all-but-certain run for governor, what he heard was this: Talk to Joe. ...
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Voucher Program Student Performance | Educate Now!
educatenow.net - In 2008, the Louisiana Legislature passed the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program to provide tuition vouchers to low-income students in Orleans Parish to attend private and paro...
The $4700 teacher. Some comments on the $2.5 million study. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - When the NY Times wrote a story yesterday on the 20 year study by some Harvard and Columbia University economists on the worth of a value-added teacher here were some comments to the Times: I teach...
Economists to teachers: We’ve dropped the “Deselection” and moved straight to “Fire ‘em”
cedarsdigest.wordpress.com - I had a few thoughts about the big teacher quality and VAM study that came out today that I wanted to share before they float away. My thoughts are less about the methods of the study itself and mo...
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California Dream Act foes' petition drive falls short
latimes.com - Jonathan Luna, left, and Yohana Hinojosa participate in a rally supporting the California Dream Act last year. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) By Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times January 7,...
The G.O.P.’s ‘Black People’ Platform
nytimes.com - That didn’t take long. As we’ve gotten around to casting votes to select a Republican presidential nominee, the antiblack rhetoric has taken center stage. You just have to love ...
Arizona school funding withheld over Tucson ethnic studies class
latimes.com - Tucson's Mexican American studies program remains in violation of state law, Arizona's public schools chief ruled Friday, ordering that millions in state funding be withheld from the school distric...
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Quinn’s Coffers Reach Goal for Mayoral Primary
nytimes.com - Twenty-two months before New York City chooses its next mayor, Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker and a Democrat, has become the first candidate to surpass a key threshold: She has raised...
Reining in Chicago protesters - Chicago Tribune
articles.chicagotribune.com - Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s planned limits on protests, ahead of the G-8… (Nancy Stone, Chicago Tribune)January 06, 2012|By Marilyn KatzUsing May's G-8 and NATO summits as the trigger, Mayor Rahm Emanuel ...
"It's working!" --- if by that you mean war on Wisconsin's working class
uppitywis.org - Koch-leer implantBacked by Wisconsin's right-wing MacIver Institute and the now-infamous Koch brothers and their billions in wealth -- as channeled through the nefarious Americans For Prosperity fr...
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Intimacy Intensifies in Women's 'Second Adulthood'
womensenews.org - Despite conventional wisdom dictating that intimacy ends at midlife for women, Suzanne Braun Levine says this is untrue in her new book "How We Love Now." In this except, she describes how love act...
Mayor Emanuel: Money for CME, cuts for public libraries
chicagoreader.com - Mayor Emanuel must have got lots of rest on his South American vacation, cause he marched back into town last week supercharged and ready to kick ass—specifically, librarian's ass. Not really sure ...
Time is Nothing // Around The World Time Lapse
edupln.com - 17 Countries. 343 Days. 6237 Photographs. One incredible journey. After I quit my job last year, I packed a bag, grabbed my camera and bought a one way ticket to London. 17 countries later, I put t...
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Walker Looks To Avoid Criminal Investigation
huffingtonpost.com - MADISON, Wis. — With salacious felony child enticement and embezzlement charges swirling around former close associates, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is doing his best to stay above the fray and hop...
Oakland, 2011: An Especially Bloody Year in an Increasingly Violent City
baycitizen.org - Thor Swift For The Bay Citizen Toys, notes and candles at a memorial for 5-year-old Gabriel Martinez in Oakland on Jan. 4, 2012 Five-year-old Gabriel Martinez Jr. died Dec. 30, shot as he played un...
10 wounded, 2 killed in shootings since Friday night
nola.com - At least 10 people were injured, and two killed, in a spate of unrelated shootings Friday night and Saturday morning.Five of those wounded were children, including four teenagers shot after a high ...
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Profiles of For-Profit and Nonprofit Education Management Organizations: Thirteenth Annual Report - 2010-2011
nepc.colorado.edu - January 6, 2012 While past annual Profiles reports have focused on either for-profit EMOs or nonprofit EMOs, this is the first annual Profiles report to cover both categories in a single report whi...
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Can Cuomo become the next education governor?
edexcellence.net - yes Peter Meyer / January 6, 2012 Having proved himself the “steamroller” governor that his defrocked predecessor Eliot Spitzer had promised to be, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo strode into a pa...
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Give New York State Parents the Right to Opt Their Children Out of High Stakes Testing
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