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We Can't Wait to Help Young Americans Find Jobs

whitehouse.gov - Posted by Colleen Curtis on January 05, 2012 at 10:41 AM EST Your first job brings you more than just a steady paycheck – the experience teaches young people life and work skills that serve them lo...

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IMPACTed Wisdom Truth? | Gary Rubinstein's Blog

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - The big news in New York today is the release of the Teacher Data Reports (TDRs) for some 18,000 teachers. These were ratings that the city calculated using a value-added model. The New York Time...

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Charter School Segregation Target Of New Report

blackstarjournal.org - February 23, 2012 Charter schools often promise to bring greater equity to education, but a new brief starts with the assumption that they fall short in delivery — and provides recommendations to ...

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City Teacher Data Reports Are Released – SchoolBook

nytimes.com - Feb. 24, 2012, 11:21 a.m. 12:00 p.m. | Updated After a long legal battle and amid much anguish by teachers and other educators, the city Department of Education released individual performance rank...

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Teachers reject education award - Connecticut Post

ctpost.com - TRUMBULL -- Thanks, but no thanks. That sums up the letter fired off last week by some Trumbull teachers who have decided being recognized by Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, an education...

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Wendy Lecker: Up is down in school reform plan

stamfordadvocate.com - Remember Bizarro World from the comics? Where everything is opposite from the way it is on Earth? Such is the world I entered listening to the hearing on Governor Malloy's education "reform" bill, ...

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CT News Junkie | OP-ED

ctnewsjunkie.com - by Sarah Darer Littman | Feb 24, 2012 4:55pm(0) Comments | Log in to Post a Comment Posted to: Opinion One thing I learned from meeting Gov. Dannel P. Malloy last Friday is that the lawyer-turned-p...

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Unexplained deaths behind closed doors

californiawatch.org - Hundreds of thousands of Californians suffer from developmental disabilities like cerebral palsy and severe autism. Some of the most severely disabled are cared for at state-run facilities with aro...

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Publication of Teacher “Data” Reports « JD2718

jd2718.wordpress.com - The court forced NYC to hand over the reports? That’s what Bloomberg claimed on the John Gambling Show on WOR: “I think what people miss is the courts have ordered us to release the data.” Typica...

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The Return of ZombieX: Rob Gaudette Teaches Outside the Test

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Return of ZombieX: Rob Gaudette Teaches Outside the TestThe Return of ZombieX: Rob Gaudette Teaches Outside the Testby CYNTHIA on JUNE 24, 2011ZombieX is a 12-year old public school 7th grader....

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Scott Walker's Koch Connection Goes Bad

thenation.com - Billionaire campaign donor David Koch has rarely spoken in public about the central role he has played in the election of Scott Walker as governor of Wisconsin, the defense of Walker's embattled go...

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A Broader Bolder Approach to Tackling the Achievement Gap

huffingtonpost.com - Rising income and wealth inequality has eroded economic opportunity in America. The potential of education to overcome adversity and our collective belief in a fluid social structure continue to be...

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