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Friday, February 24, 2012

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Drowning In A Rising Tide Of…

takingnote.learningmatters.tv - “The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.” Surely everyone recognizes the five-w...

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No Team Left Behind

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - February 23, 2012 (GBN News): Signaling a new flexibility in his signature Race to the Top program, Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced today that he is giving local school districts greater ...

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Shame Is Not the Solution

nytimes.com - Seattle LAST week, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that teachers’ individual performance assessments could be made public. I have no opinion on the ruling as a matter of law, ...

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Other People's Children

withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com - Hello Michael Moore and Matt Damon! I have a title for a new movie we would like you to make about the corporate school reform movement. We could call it "Other People's Children" because no school...

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There's No 'I' in 'Congress'

online.wsj.com - Mitt Romney is inevitable again, although his detractors can take heart that he's been inevitable before and it's never lasted. That's another way of saying we agree with the conventional wisdom th...

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Board Closes All 17 Schools!

teachersforjustice.org - Tonight, Feb 22, 2012, at about 6:15 PM, the appointed Board of Education of the city of Chicago closed, phased out, and turned around all 17 schools on their chopping block without a dissenting vo...

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Bible class: Arizona House says OK in high schools

latimes.com - Some Arizona lawmakers want to allow high schools to offer a class on the Bible's historical and cultural influence. Here, a personalized Bible is used during a class at a women's prison in Minneso...

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The noise of change

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday he’s sensitive to the “noise associated with change.” -- Sun-Times Somehow the words, "sensitive" and "Rahm" just don't sound right in the same sentence. Chicago's ...

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In Reality and Film, a Battle for Schools

nytimes.com - LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday officials in Adelanto, a California desert town, are set to consider whether parents there can be the first to take over a failing public school under a new state law that ...

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Hollywood vs. reality — Joanne Jacobs

joannejacobs.com - Adelanto parents attempt to take control of their failing school was rejected by the Desert Trails school board last night. Seventy percent of parents in the Southern California town had signed the...

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Summary of Budget and Interim Report Status

cde.ca.gov - Summary of disapproved budgets and negative and qualified certifications for local educational agencies. Fiscal Year Disapproved Budgets Totals (1) Budget Review Committee Fiscal Year Totals (2) Ne...

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The Crane Deal's A Crock

schooltechconnect.com - I started to regret saying anything positive about the Crane “deal” the instant I heard that Rahm had praised it. In the very same nanosecond, I started to worry that the deal won't be what it seem...

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