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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 ...
Governor Cuomo Announces Agreement on Evaluation Guidelines That Will Make New York State a National Leader on Teacher Accountability
governor.ny.gov - Printer-friendly version Albany, NY (February 16, 2012)Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, New York State Education Commissioner John King, and New York State United Teachers President Richard C. Iannuzzi to...
should jeremy lin be an NBA All-Star – USATODAY.com
usatoday.com - An increasingly intriguing question is bouncing around the sports world this week: Should the sensational Jeremy Lin be given a spot in next weekend's NBA All-Star Game?No matter how many millions ...
Shanker Blog » If Newspapers Are Going To Publish Teachers' Value-Added Scores, They Need To Publish Error Margins Too
shankerblog.org - It seems as though New York City newspapers are going to receive the value-added scores of the city’s public school teachers, and publish them in an online database, as was the case in Los Angeles....
Senate spikes McDonnell's teacher-contract overhaul | Richmond Times
timesdispatch.com - Virginia's Senate on Tuesday spiked Gov. Bob McDonnell's proposed overhaul of teacher and principal contracts, dealing a blow to a key piece of his K-12 education agenda. The chamber voted 20-18 to...
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Judith Warner: Why Are The Rich So Interested in Public School Reform? | TIME Ideas
ideas.time.com - Warner's latest book is We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication. It was perhaps inevitable that the political moment that has given birth to the Occupy movement, pitting Mai...
Education Petition: Do not publish the unreliable teacher data reports!
change.org - These reports, which rated 12,700 NYC teachers based solely on the 2010 test scores of their students, filtered through a complicated value-added formula, are seen by most experts as highly unrelia...
Can Democrats Find The Front In The 'Education Wars'?
ourfuture.org - Conventional wisdom among the Very Serious People in Washington DC has long maintained that the severely punitive nature of current policies governing America's public schools cannot be called an "...
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Rep. Darrell Issa's "Religious Freedom" Sausage Fest
motherjones.com - There's something surreal about watching a congressional hearing in which a room full of men spend a morning publicly discussing birth control, menstrual pain, ovarian cancer, and migraine headache...
Rick Santorum suggests opposition to public schooling - Political Hotsheet
cbsnews.com - (Credit: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images) Campaigning in Idaho on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suggested that he is opposed to a public school system overseen by the gover...
SB1467, American Taliban's latest assault on teachers
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - If SB1467 becomes law in Arizona, the state's public school teachers could be fired for engaging in “speech or conduct that would violate the standards adopted by the federal communications commis...
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New York City and union reach deal on teacher evaluations
nydailynews.com - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the teachers union struck a deal on evaluations Thursday morning. The city and the teachers union have struck a historic deal on teacher evaluations, the Daily News has ...
Leak Offers Glimpse of Campaign Against Climate Science
nytimes.com - Leaked documents suggest that an organization known for attacking climate science is planning a new push to undermine the teaching of global warming in public schools, the latest indication that cl...
Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Thursday edition. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Alderman Dick Mell is sponsoring legislation calling for more decorum in the city council. Mayor Daley the elder was famous for turning off the microphone of any alderman who rose to oppose him. Th...
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'Colbert Report' Suspended Without Explanation
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com - February 16, 2012, 10:47 am By DAVE ITZKOFFA spokesman for Comedy Central said on Thursday morning that the taping of “The Colbert Report” had been suspended on Wednesday evening and would be again...
Brass Bandits Hit L.A. Schools : NPR
npr.org - Enlarge Krissy Clark for NPR Teacher Ruben Gonzalez conducts the South Gate High School band. According to Gonzalez, thieves passed up a computer as well as a stash of valuable flutes, saxophones a...
Family Emergency Reported as Cause of Colbert Cancellation - Entertainment
theatlanticwire.com - The first shred of information about why the taping of the Colbert Report was suspended this week has been reported by the The Wall Street Journal and it's not happy. Sam Schechner reports that th...
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How the Heartland Institute plans to wreck education
grist.org - DeSmogBlog has publicized documents that illuminate the Heartland Institute’s denialist agenda, and who’s footing the bill. The list of funders is interesting — Kochs, Philip Morris, Microsoft — an...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release February 16, 2012 Obama Administration Sends Congress the Consolidating and Reforming Government Act of 2012WASHINGTON, DC – This...
The way food should be
wirenh.com - Mainers are leading a national push to restore family farming It was 20 degrees below zero when farmer Jim Gerritsen got up on the early morning of Feb. 13. Gerritson operates Wood Prairie Farm i...
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influential local high school coach fred yee dies at 77
blog.angryasianman.com - Speaking of basketball heroes... Out of the Pittsburgh area, we get sad news about the passing of Free Yee, a highly successful championship boys basketball and girls softball coach, who died last ...
From New York to Asia, Lin is a hoops sensation
boston.com - NEW YORK—Bigger than Shaq? Larger than LeBron? The Knicks as NBA champions?(Don't laugh too hard at that last one. The odds are getting better, according to one online sports book.)Nothing seems to...
