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Schools As Collateral Damage: The Price We Pay For A Decade Of Tweed’s Failed Policies
edwize.org - Much like the brief torrential rain which drenched New Yorkers on Thursday morning, Mayor Bloomberg’s Thursday afternoon State of the City Address received a deluge of media attention. Today, the p...
Working Toward "Wow": A Vision for a New Teaching Profession
ed.gov - Thanks for having me. It's a real honor to be addressing an organization that has done so much to strengthen America's most important profession.I don't look at newspaper cartoons much, but someone...
The 5 Stages of TFA
anne2011.teachforus.org - Okay, I think I’m going to need to preface this one. I’m about to write the TFA version of the Kubler-Ross model. Now, this analogy has to be taken with a grain of salt, because what CMs go throu...
Kelly Flynn: Teachers Hold the Key. They Always Have. - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - Guest post by Kelly Flynn.I'm intrigued by the topic of Anthony Cody's two recent blog entries, "Are Critics of Corporate Education 'Reform' Winning the Online Debate?" and "Lopsided Debate Over Ed...
To protest school closure, students fill officials’ voicemail boxes
gothamschools.org - April Pichardo, Justin Watson, and Harry Rivas (center), students from Manhattan's Legacy School for Integrated Studies, organized a phone bank to lobby officials to keep the school open. Students ...
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In Search of a Tipping Point
theassailedteacher.com - I was never an Obama supporter and never will be. Towards the beginning of his term, his supporters excused the sad state of the country by blaming Bush. We are now three years in, which means that...
Why Is Congress Redlining Our Schools?
thenation.com - Redlining was the once-common practice in which banks would draw a red line on a map—often along a natural barrier like a highway or river—to designate neighborhoods where they would not invest. St...
The Williamsburg Latino community fights back against Success charter expansion
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - In yesterday's State of the City, Mayor Bloomberg said he would encourage Eva Moskowitz' Success Academy charter chain and KIPP to accelerate their expansion. He may have a fight on his hands. Fir...
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Bitter Politics of Envy?
nytimes.com - You’re just jealous. At least that’s how Mitt Romney sees it. The millionaire who posed for a picture with the boys at Bain Capital with the long green clinched between their teeth and poking out o...
Tucson students confront loss of their Chicano studies class
latimes.com - On Wednesday, 28 seventh- and eighth-graders at Tucson's Mansfeld Middle School followed their familiar routine. They walked into Room 306, sat at their desks and greeted teacher Rene Martinez. But...
Missouri Republicans Introduce Bill That Forces Educators To Teach Creationism In Schools And Universities
addictinginfo.org - Apparently it’s that time of year when every Republican controlled legislature introduces bills designed to force Christianity upon us. As I reported earlier on Thursday, the Indiana Senate introdu...
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Santorum says there are no classes in the United States - Political Hotsheet
cbsnews.com - Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (Credit: Elise Amendola) Former Pennsylvania Sen. says the United States does not have any classes and Republicans should stop using the term "middle class" b...
Wonk Bloggers and the Vanishing Voices of Workers
inthesetimes.com - Earlier this week, I got into a little Twitter battle with Matthew Yglesias after the prominent blogger tweeted out “"EXCLUSIVE: The activities of individual business executives have no relationshi...
City: Local taxpayers won’t pay $40 million to $65 million NATO, G-8 tab - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com January 12, 2012 12:48PM City Hall issued the first of at least four parade permits — for a May 19 march from the Daley Center to 23rd and...
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Romney wants us to to talk about inequality in quiet rooms. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - The other day I was sitting through a school staff meeting. It was terrible. Under our current administration, each meeting seems worse than the last. Pointless. A checklist of what counts as poor ...
angry reader of the week: emily chang
blog.angryasianman.com - What is up, people? Time to meet another Angry Reader of the Week, spotlighting you, the very special readers of this website. Over the years, I've been able to connect with a lot of cool folks, an...
Mother Crusader: Pants on Fire
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mother Crusader: Pants on Fire:Pants on Fireby darciecimaTikun Olam lead applicant Sharon Akman responded to a reporter yesterday for the first time in months. Walt Kane from News Channel 12 did a...
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Modern School: Wisconsin Worker Sent Home For Wearing Union Shirt to Work
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: Wisconsin Worker Sent Home For Wearing Union Shirt to Work:Wisconsin Worker Sent Home For Wearing Union Shirt to Workby Michael Dunn(Image from Flickr, by Buschap)An employee of the ...
Point man on Sweetwater bond review is sidelined
utsandiego.com - The man leading an outside audit of Sweetwater Union High School District bond projects has been removed from the review because he used to work for the construction management company whose work i...
U.S. Attorney activates ‘school corruption hotline’ - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - U.S. Attorney activates ‘school corruption hotline’ - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:U.S. Attorney activates ‘school corruption hotline’by Valerie StraussThe United States Attorney in the W...
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#edreform - Cream - White Room
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Cream - White Room---In the white room with black curtains near the station.Blackroof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings.Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes.Dawnlight smiles...
adam warrock/kirby krackle west coast tour 2012
blog.angryasianman.com - This one's for all my geeky West Coast hip hop heads. You know who you are... Our friend Eugene Ahn, aka prolific comic book rapper Adam WarRock, just announced he'll be hitting the road for an 8-d...
January 13, 1982
rantsravesandrecollections.blogspot.com - January 13, 1982 Blizzard snow dances down in droves. The girl putters about outside, aimless, studying the blanketed landscape of sidewalks, trees, s...
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Q&A: CEA Chair Alan Krueger on inequality
washingtonpost.com - On Friday morning, Alan Krueger, the Princeton economist who is on leave serving as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, gave a speech at the Center for American Progress on th...
Big Education Ape: 1-13-12 PM The 5 Stages of TFA EDition #OWS #REALREFORM
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