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Ex-employee sues Kenilworth operator | News

theadvocate.com - A former employee of Pelican Educational Foundation, which runs Kenilworth Science and Technology School in Baton Rouge, claims the foundation fired her in February 2011 for telling state officials...

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Chicago News Cooperative to suspend operations

articles.chicagotribune.com - A screenshot from a video of a Chicago News Cooperative staff meeting. (Image via chicagonewscoop.org)The Chicago News Cooperative, a non-profit news organization launched in 2009 to add another vo...

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Warren: Charter’s Discipline Fines Crude, Misguided

chicagonewscoop.org - As Newt Gingrich urges putting students to work as paid school janitors, a Chicago charter network may one day mull having them pay to sweep and clean toilets. Goodbye, corporal punishment. Hello, ...

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Grading the Teacher, Judging the Test

nytimes.com - To the Editor: Re “Cuomo Brokers Deal on Rating State Teachers” (front page, Feb. 17): If the goal is great teachers, the new evaluations are a giant step in the wrong direction...

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SD Unified moves massive bond plan forward

utsandiego.com - The San Diego Unified School District is moving forward with plans to float a $2.5 to $2.8 billion bond measure on the November ballot to generate revenue to repair and upgrade schools — and free u...

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"It takes a process to fail a child" -- Piccolo 7th grader

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - A. Klonsky photo "We need our school. If they've got the funding, give us the money and we'll do what we've got to do for Brian Piccolo." -- Parent Nedra Martin. Piccolo is just one of ten CPS scho...

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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - On the front door of Brian Piccolo Elementary School, Chicago. Our favorite barista is back from a trip to Spain. As we were having our coffee, she brought by her boyfriend from Argentina and intro...

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What Can Teachers Learn From Target?

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Today’s New York Times Magazine has a pretty scary article about how the retail giant Target tracks what’s going on in the lives of customers and uses that information to get us to buy more stuff f...

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School Tech Connect: Occupy #twill #soschat #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Occupy #twill: Occupy #twill by noreply@blogger.com (Tim) I've been in the suburbs all day, at the fabulously managed Students in Technology Conference at Stephe...

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NY newspaper man Richard Blood dies at 83

boston.com - NEW YORK—Richard J. Blood, a former city editor at the New York Daily News who nurtured a generation of young journalists while teaching for more than two decades at the Columbia University School ...

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Charges Are Dropped for 14 Demonstrators

nytimes.com - Judge Neil Ross’s courtroom had just come to order on Friday morning, and the first defendant of the day stood at a wooden table facing the bench. A prosecutor for the Manhattan distric...

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THE SYRIAN DILEMMA | Dailycensored.com

dailycensored.com - Saul Landau How to evaluate events in Syria and what to do? Syria borders on Turkey (north), Iraq (east), the Mediterranean (west), Lebanon (south and west), Israel (Golan Heights) and Jordan (sout...

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Can’t Wait to Have Students Read This | Outside the Cave

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Can’t Wait to Have Students Read This | Outside the Cave:Can’t Wait to Have Students Read Thisby Stephen LazarThere’s an interesting op-ed in Thursday’s New York Times, “Why China’s Political Model...

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School Tech Connect: Occupy #twill #soschat #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Occupy #twill: Occupy #twill by noreply@blogger.com (Tim) I've been in the suburbs all day, at the fabulously managed Students in Technology Conference at Stephe...

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