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Why I'm hunger striking at UVA
michaelmoore.com - Joseph Williams Wonman Joseph Williams is a third year student at the University of Virginia, and a football player for the Virginia Cavaliers. He hails from Sterling, VA.February 23rd, 2012 11:08 ...
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » NYT Sues for Right to Publish Bad Teacher Data
fair.org - The New York Times, along with a few other media outlets, went to court to win the right to publish Teacher Data Reports--the "value-added" ratings for some 18,000 New York City public schoolteache...
The TDR's Pull Back The Curtain On The Sham That Is VAM
perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com- In theory, using value-added measurements based upon test scores to evaluate teachers seems practical. It seems like a common sense thing to do.But here is how it works in practice:The New York Ci...
NYCLU Lawsuit Challenges Punitive Quota System in Bronx Precinct | New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)
nyclu.org - February 23, 2012 — The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the repeated retaliation against a veteran police officer who has disclosed the use of an illegal q...
Release of Teacher Data Is Widely Denounced – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Feb. 24, 2012, 10:02 p.m. Outside the doors of the Tweed Courthouse, the headquarters of the city’s Education Department, there were few champions on Friday of the release of individual performance...
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Mike Petrilli. Your Ohio charter schools are lousy for kids. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Mike Petrilli is a charter booster for the right-wing Fordham Foundation. He’s never seen a public school he likes or a charter he doesn’t. Even his own crappy ones in Ohio.Almost 2,400 students ar...
Why are strong readers being labeled remedial? - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer and author.By Marion Brady I began teaching history at the high school level in the fall of 1952. It wasn’t by ...
The Teacher Data Reports on SchoolBook: An Explanation – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Feb. 24, 2012, 10:06 p.m. SchoolBook has published the teacher data reports using a new tool that was created by interactive journalists at The New York Times and WNYC. The goal of the tool: to mak...
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Michigan Tea Partiers Share Rick Santorum’s Fears Over Obama’s College Push
2012.talkingpointsmemo.com - Evan McMorris-Santoro February 25, 2012, 5:25 PM TROY, MICHIGAN — Rick Santorum’s contention here Saturday that President Obama’s plan to make college more accesible is really a scheme to brainwash...
Mike Madigan, this moutza's for you - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - My fellow chumbolones, do you know what time it is?It's Moutza of the Month time.And today, we give the first-ever Moutza of the Month award. I almost started this column with the headline "Why We ...
Vallas fires consultant linked to cheating scandal
ctpost.com - BRIDGEPORT -- A consultant brought in by Interim Schools Superintendent Paul Vallas to help fix the school district left days after she arrived when it was learned she was caught up in one of the n...
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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...
Deserted by Democrats. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - The crowd of hundreds walked silently up Mayor Emanuel’s street on Chicago’s north side late yesterday afternoon. It was not like any march I had been on before. No megaphones. No chanting of “The ...
News | www.kochwatch.org
kochwatch.org - February 20, 2012- RAW Story: Wisconsin Democrats tell David Koch: Get out and take Gov. Walker too February 20, 2012- Palm Beach Post: David Koch intends to cure cancer in his lifetime and remake ...
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Chicago-based investment group purchases Sun-Times Media - Post
posttrib.suntimes.com - By David Roeder Business Reporter December 21, 2011 8:13PM Timothy P. Knight, new CEO of Sun-Times Media Holdings LLC, in his Chicago office, Wednesday, December 21, 2011. | John H. White~Chicago S...
Buffett: Unemployment linked to housing - Omaha.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Buffett: Unemployment linked to housing - Omaha.com:Buffett: Unemployment linked to housingBy Steve JordonWORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER« MoneyShareRelated NewsBuffett ‘wrong' on housing Warren Buffet's...
German Tax Collectors Are Volunteering For Duty In Greece
democraticunderground.com - More than 160 German tax collectors have volunteered for possible assignments in Greece to help the struggling Mediterranean country gather tax more efficiently, the Finance Ministry in Berlin said...
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Labor and the 1%: Oscar is Not Hollywood’s Most Fateful Vote
dissidentvoice.org - Should I read all those pages of Ballot Materials -- or Just perform the quick-and-easy Clooney-Hanks Test? On February 27th, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television...
Saturday coffee + Old school. « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky: Saturday coffee. by Fred Klonsky Cartoon: Paul Schickler The coffee just seemed extra good this morning. Maybe because it is so cold out. Everyone s...
Viva Tirado - El Chicano (in HD)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - El Chicano, originally formed under the name VIP, arose during a period of increasing Chicano consciousness in America. Their initial hit, the jazzy "Viva Tirado", was a rendition of Gerald Wilson'...
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Window Plant Agreement Ends Worker Sit - Local News - Chicago, IL
msnbc.msn.com - Serious Energy and UE Local 1110 have reached an agreement to end a sit-in at a Goose Island window plant."The Chicago plant remains open at this time, and the parties are working together to find ...
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The Youth Data Archive links data across schools, public agencies, and community based organizations
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - John W Gardner Center for Youth:The Youth Data ArchiveYDA ProjectsAlternative Education Transitions Educational Outcomes of Dependent Youth English Learner After School Program Participation in Red...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 2-25 #soschat #ReclaimingReform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 1 hour ago Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky:Saturday coffee.by Fred KlonskyCartoon: Paul SchicklerThe coffee just ...
Schools Matter: What the U.S. Can Learn from Education in Venezuela
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: What the U.S. Can Learn from Education in Venezuela:What the U.S. Can Learn from Education in Venezuelaby Judy RabinThe PBS NewsHour this Friday evening featured a music program tha...
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After Championing Release, City Says It Did Not Want Teacher Data Public – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Feb. 24, 2012, 9:31 p.m. Facing a flood of criticism from teachers and principals, the city’s Education Department is trying to distance itself from the release of 18,000 teachers’ individual perfo...