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Launching Project RESPECT | ED.gov Blog

ed.gov - “Our goal is to work with educators in rebuilding their profession—and to elevate the teacher voice in shaping federal, state and local education policy,” said Secretary Duncan today at the launch ...

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What Is "Teachers Village"?

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - Remember the name: Teachers Village. It's a $150 million, mixed-use development that just broke ground with great fanfare in Newark. The idea is that teachers will live in the complex and teach at ...

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The Board of Education's Circus Act Doesn't Help Kids

huffingtonpost.com - I blogged about the December 14th takeover of the Chicago Board of Education meeting by parents and educators where I described the feeling of being dismissed by powerful people while presenting co...

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Spying on the Rev.

nypdconfidential.com - February 13, 2012 An NYPD informant spied on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network [NAN] as the group was organizing large-scale protests of the Sean Bell case acquittals, a police documen...

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Rick Santorum's Pincer Movement - New York Times (blog)

campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com - New York Times (blog)Rick Santorum's Pincer MovementNew York Times (blog)It's been clear since Iowa that Rick Santorum, of all the Republican contenders, posed the most serious challenge to Mitt Ro...

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Why You Don't Have To Be 'More Like A Man' To Get Ahead

huffingtonpost.com - "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" sings Professor Higgins in the musical "My Fair Lady". Charming as the song is, I can't help but be offended. And in Higgins' misguided opinion, women fall f...

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What to do when a teacher ignores bullying

ednewsparent.org - Q. What advice can you give when the children bullying your child do it quietly. My son is 11 years old. Tattling is frowned upon. He gets harassed one-on-one when the teacher is not looking. Then ...

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Google: One Privacy Policy to Rule Them All

insidehighered.com - Beginning on March 1st, Google will eliminate more than 60 separate privacy policies and replace them with a single privacy policy for all of their services. A shiver ran across my back when I watc...

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This Week In Web 2.0

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - In yet another attempt to get at the enormous backlog I have of sites worth sharing, I’ve recently begin a regular feature called “The Week In Web 2.0.” It’ll be a short compilation of new decent s...

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