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Education Fairs Reach Out to Parents in Spanish | latinoedbeat
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Education Fairs Reach Out to Parents in Spanish | latinoedbeat:Education Fairs Reach Out to Parents in SpanishSpanish-speaking Latino parents often shy away from parent involvement programs like th...
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“MORE THAN A NUMBER” Is the new New York State principal...
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First in, first out? | Minnesota Public Radio News
minnesota.publicradio.org - US President Barack Obama, left, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, right, smile as the 2011 National Teacher of the Year award recipient, Michelle Shearer, speaks during a ceremony in the Ros...
McGill: Consequences to raising teacher pay - times
times-journal.com - State Sen. Shadrack McGill defended a pay raise his predecessors in the Legislature passed, but said doubling teacher pay could lead to less-qualified educators. At a prayer breakfast in Fort Payne...
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...
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A Revitalizing Day of PD
urbanedmusic.blogspot.com - When I visited GothamSchools.org today I was pleased to see Geoff Decker’s piece, At P.D. day,teachers discuss challenges of their profession (1/31/12); the insight provided by veteran teachers is ...
The "education crisis" myth - Media Criticism
salon.com - These pieces were clearly written with a very specific objective in mind: to draw media attention to the supposed “education crisis” in America — a favorite topic of these publications’ elite reade...
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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Rahm's Chicago crackdown aims at Occupy - Occupy Chicago
salon.com - In Chicago, which has been unable to secure a public space, the Occupy movement is trying to figure out how to sustain a public presence through a harsh winter while staging creative actions that c...
Michigan's Berserk Legislature Continues Attack on Workers
dailykos.com - Union busting is a pejorative term used by labor organizations worldwide to describe a wide range of activities undertaken by employers, their proxies, and governments, which attempt to prevent the...
Daily Kos: Breaking: Oakland Arrestees Tortured
dailykos.com - I just got word from a friend of a friend about the conditions that arrestees from the actions. It isn't pretty, in fact it's disgusting. "Just got out of Santa Rita Jail last night the prisoners ...
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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...
The Pink Badge of Cowardice | TBogg
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Pink Badge of Cowardice | TBogg:The Pink Badge of Cowardiceby TBoggI have to say that killing women with breast cancer before they might consider abortion sometime in their lives is one way to ...
Website Review: Mission 2 of Mission: US – “Flight to Freedom”
mrdsneighborhood.com - All video game franchises attempt to improve with time. With PBS’ Mission:US, however, the delays were making us question whether there was going to be a second mission after all. It has been a lon...
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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...
RI Gov. calls for new taxes, more school spending
boston.com - PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee made his pitch for new taxes on restaurant meals, pet grooming, car washes and taxi fares Tuesday, saying higher taxes on discretionary spending is...
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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...
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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...
All Education Matters: Lead Plaintiff SLM Ventures Files Class Action Suit Against SLM Corporation ("Sallie Mae")
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - All Education Matters: Lead Plaintiff SLM Ventures Files Class Action Suit Against SLM Corporation ("Sallie Mae"):Lead Plaintiff SLM Ventures Files Class Action Suit Against SLM Corporation ("Salli...
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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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Kimble's Corner: Jack Kimble Suspends Presidential Campaign
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Kimble's Corner: Jack Kimble Suspends Presidential Campaign:Jack Kimble Suspends Presidential Campaignby Representative KimbleI just got off the phone with my Mitt Romney. Once again, he attempted ...
The Pink Badge of Cowardice | TBogg
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Pink Badge of Cowardice | TBogg:The Pink Badge of Cowardiceby TBoggI have to say that killing women with breast cancer before they might consider abortion sometime in their lives is one way to ...
Big Education Ape: 1-31-12 PM Does Obama understand Race to the Top? EDition #EDREFORM #ows
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In Washington, Large Rewards in Teacher Pay
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — During her first six years of teaching in this city’s struggling schools, Tiffany Johnson got a series of small raises that brought her annual salary to $63,000, from about $50,000. Th...