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Does The DOE Really Dump "Low Achieving Students" Into The Large Struggling Schools? You Better Believe That They Do!
chaz11.blogspot.com - I am now in one of those large struggling schools that Mayor Bloomberg has threatened to make a "turnaround school" and eliminate 50% or more of the teaching staff. However, unlike the real "closi...
Court Strikes Down Ban on Gay Marriage in California
nytimes.com - LOS ANGELES – A federal appeals court panel ruled on Tuesday that a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in California violated the Constitution, all but ensuring that the case will proceed to t...
Texas Republican Blows the Whistle on the Techno-Scholastic Complex - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - In 1961, a Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, closed his term with a speech that carried a prophetic warning. He said: Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armame...
Large number of city teachers receive unsatisfactory evaluations
baltimoresun.com - A significant number of Baltimore teachers — in some schools as many as 60 percent of the staff — have received unsatisfactory ratings on their midyear evaluations as the system moves to implement ...
Turnaround Is Unfair Play | Gary Rubinstein's Blog
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - Superman has arrived and he takes Visa. As districts get more and more desperate trying to reach 100% proficiency by 2014, they begin to turn to a new breed of ‘experts.’ These experts claim that t...
Court Strikes Down Ban on Gay Marriage in California
nytimes.com - LOS ANGELES – A federal appeals court panel ruled on Tuesday that a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in California violated the Constitution, all but ensuring that the case will proceed to t...
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Susan Ochshorn: Preschool Teacher Sells Chili to Make Ends Meet: Where Are Our Values?
huffingtonpost.com - On the eve of the Florida primary, as Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney battled it out, the New York Times offered up "Years of Despair Add to Uncertainty in Florida Race." Among the afflicted, leading...
Productivity Agenda Yes! But based on real research & rigorous analysis! « School Finance 101
schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Pau Hill and Marguerite Roza’s response to my recent report – with Kevin Welner – and series of blog posts seems to offer as its central argument that we’re simply a curmudgeons, offering lots of c...
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson proposes sweeping plan to improve education for city students
blog.cleveland.com - CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Mayor Frank Jackson hopes to triple the number of Cleveland students attending good schools by throwing out union rules governing teacher pay and layoffs, partnering more with hi...
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German Firm ThyssenKrupp Apologizes For Racial Discrimination
myfoxchicago.com - Chicago - An executive at ThyssenKrupp Elevator Corp. is apologizing for a racially hostile work environment at a suburban Chicago office. Rich Hussey is president and chief executive officer of th...
Java and Justice
nytimes.com - If you’re among the fair-minded Americans who believe that two men or two women should be able to wed, there’s an easy though slightly caloric way to express that. Get a caramel macchiato. Maybe ma...
Keith Wright Wants To Take Control of City Schools Away From Mayor Bloomberg
politicker.com - Keith Wright (Photo: NYS Assembly) Assemblyman Keith Wright said the Department of Education’s plan to close the middle school at Wadleigh Secondary School of Performing Arts is the final straw tha...
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NO more school closings: IT'S TIME TO OCCUPY THE PEP!
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - IT'S TIME TO OCCUPY THE PEP THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH, 5:30PMBrooklyn Technical High School, 29 Fort Greene Pl (between Fulton and Dekalb) in BrooklynNear the Nevins 2/3/4/5 or the Dekalb B/D/N/Q/R Ba...
How To Use Social Media as a Weapon Against Organizations
my.firedoglake.com - Tonight on Virtually Speaking Mike Stark and I will be discussing what we can learn from the SOPA fight and the Susan G Komen Debacle. Listen live and later on BTR (9 EST, 6 PST) There will be a bi...
The Poetry of a Classroom
huffingtonpost.com - There is something terribly troubling in the media and political discourse about education in our time. We so urgently need critical thinking to gauge what measures we can engage so we might inspir...
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Teacher pensions and the two plans. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - The last session of the General Assembly there was just one plan for screwing teachers. That was Senate Bill 512. It was the brainchild of the Civic Committee, which is headed by millionaire corpor...
U.S. authorities looking into Murdoch foreign payments
reuters.com - By Mark Hosenball and Georgina Prodhan LONDON | Tue Feb 7, 2012 8:34am EST LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible viola...
pete hoekstra and the "yellow girl"
blog.angryasianman.com - You've seen Michigan Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra's racist bullshit campaign ad. You've seen the accompanying website, which is even worse. It may come packaged as a pretty Asian girl, but this i...
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ThyssenKrupp -- Rahm's "perfect example..."
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Boehner tours Krupp plant in Ohio This is the corporation that Rahm Emanuel lured to Chicago, calling it a "perfect example" of the "greatest companies around the globe." Reese said he will never ...
K12 4Q profit tumbles 46 pct as costs rise
boston.com - HERNDON, Va.—Educational software provider K12 Inc. said Tuesday that its fiscal second-quarter net income fell nearly in half on higher costs. Profit was less than half of what analysts expected a...
ThyssenKrupp -- Rahm's "perfect example..."
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Boehner tours Krupp plant in Ohio This is the corporation that Rahm Emanuel lured to Chicago, calling it a "perfect example" of the "greatest companies around the globe." Reese said he will never ...
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San Onofre nuclear power plant still shut down a week after leak
latimesblogs.latimes.com - February 7, 2012 | 5:41 pm The San Onofre nuclear power plant remained shut down Tuesday, a week after a leak in a steam generator tube was detected by a warning sensor.The leak, which was detecte...
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 2-7 #edreform #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - An essay on what our children need | Seattle Education Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 1 hour ago An essay on what our children need | Seattle Education:An essay on what our child...
Video Police Deleted from Journalist’s Camera After Occupy Miami Eviction Recovered
dissenter.firedoglake.com - Miami multimedia journalist Carlos Miller, arrested by Miami-Dade police during the eviction of Occupy Miami, has posted video he recovered from his camera. The footage is believed to have been del...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Early Afternoon Posts 2-7 #ows #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Secretary of Education Calls for Comprehensive Reform | News | The Harvard Crimson Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 4 minutes ago Secretary of Education Calls for Comprehensive R...
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 2-7 #edreform #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - An essay on what our children need | Seattle Education Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 1 hour ago An essay on what our children need | Seattle Education:An essay on what our child...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Early Afternoon Posts 2-7 #ows #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Secretary of Education Calls for Comprehensive Reform | News | The Harvard Crimson Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 4 minutes ago Secretary of Education Calls for Comprehensive R...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top 2-7 AM Posts #edreform #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NYC Public School Parents: NO more school closings: IT'S TIME TO OCCUPY THE PEP! Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 4 minutes ago NYC Public School Parents: NO more school closings: ...
