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To Be Black at Stuyvesant High

nytimes.com - LIKE a city unto itself, Stuyvesant High School, in Lower Manhattan, is broken into neighborhoods, official and otherwise. The math department is on the 4th of its 10 floors; biology is on the 7th....

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U.K.'s version of Duncan in bed with Murdoch, Klein

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Brit Ed Sec. Michael Gove "I'd expect in the next [few] months we'd be making some acquisitions," Klein told the Financial Times. "There's the willingness to put in significant capital." The mos...

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Diane Ravitch | Inside the Academy

insidetheacademy.asu.edu - DIANE RAVITCH is Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. She is also a nonresident senior research fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D....

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michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - “This is an amazing panel, so I’m thrilled to be part of it,” Mr. Duncan said in his opening comment. Investigator Richard Hyde “I’m shocked that the secretary of education would be fraternizing ...

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assembly.state.ny.us - S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________6100I N S E N A T E(PREFILED)January 4, 2012 ___________Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice a...

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Latinos and Spainards Go Home Empty Handed from 2012 Oscars

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 12:29 pm EST, February 27, 2012 Photo Credits: 2012 Oscar Winners Latin artists left the 84th Annual Academy Awards unrewarded, even as “The Artist,” a French silent film in black and ...

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Pro-union lyrics in new Van Halen hit

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Cross-posted from American Rights at Work's Blog at Work: Van Halen has really got us going. The legendary rock band has reunited with original lead singer David Lee Roth and their first studio alb...

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New State Bank Bills Address Credit and Housing Crises

dissidentvoice.org - Seventeen states have now introduced bills for state-owned banks, and others are in the works. Hawaii’s innovative state bank bill addresses the foreclosure mess. County-owned banks are being pro...

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Deaths triple among football players

educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩMorning temperatures thought to play a role Heat-related deaths among football players across the country tripled to nearly three per year between 1994 and 2009 after averaging about one per year ...

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nypost.com - The city’s top-performing teachers have one thing in common: They’re almost all women.Ratings released by the Department of Education of more than 12,000 fourth- through eighth-grade teachers show ...

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