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Just when you think you’ve seen it all… Big City Mayors Speak Out
jonathanpelto.com - Mar 24 jonpeltoAchievement First/ConnCAN, Charter Schools, Education, Malloy, Stefan Pryor Achievement First, Big City Mayors, Charter Schools, ConnCAN, Education Reform, Malloy Three of Connecticu...
Cheating our children: Suspicious school test scores across the nation
ajc.com - By Heather Vogell, John Perry and Alan Judd and M.B. PellThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionSuspicious test scores in roughly 200 school districts resemble those that entangled Atlanta in the biggest ...
Smiley & West featuring Pasi Sahlberg
smileyandwest.com - West: From PRI, Public Radio International in Princeton I’m Cornel West and this is Smiley & West. Duncan: All of us have to move outside our comfort zone. All of us have to change....
What happens when charter schools close?
nola.com - Nearly four years ago, teenagers Lynntrell Westbrook and Damonika Stokes took a chance on an ambitious new charter school that promised a rigorous high school curriculum combined with regular commu...
In Texas, a revolt brews against standardized testing - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - More than 100 school districts in Texas have passed a resolution saying that high-stakes standardized tests are “strangling” public schools, the latest in a series of events that are part of a brew...
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Help Save Flushing High School
urbanedmusic.blogspot.com - *I humbly ask in advance that if you would like to support Flushing HS, as well the other schools that face likely closure, please share this article with as many people as possible—politicians, la...
Sharp Themes Emerge from #AskArne Questions - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - A few days ago I posted an invitation for people to share questions they have for Arne Duncan, in preparation for his Twitter Town Hall meeting on Wednesday, August 24th.The questions that are emer...
Washington Post writes about Texas resolution
tasanet.blogspot.com - Valerie Straus, writer of The Washington Post's phenomenally popular education blog The Answer Sheet, just posted a lengthy entry about the debate surrounding high-stakes, standardized testing here...
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Trayvon Martin Stand Your Ground ALEC NRA
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - Ryan J. Reilly March 22, 2012, 6:00 AM Trayvon Martin was just 10 years old when politicians in Florida passed legislation that, seven years later, is being blamed for letting his killer walk free....
History of Neglect Leads to Today’s Pension Woes
iearegion28.wordpress.com - Senate President John Cullerton has called on legislative leaders to make pension reform a major focus during the upcoming legislative session. The President has recently led the Senate in passing ...
How ALEC Took Florida’s ‘License to Kill’ Law National | The Nation
iearegion28.wordpress.com - Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush endorsed Mitt Romney Wednesday, earning national headlines as an elder statesman of a Grand Old Party that is still trying to wrap its head around the concept of Ro...
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Meet the New Boss - Magazine
theatlantic.com - Image credit: Tim KleinI was walking around my sister’s Near North neighborhood in Chicago recently and came upon a small patch of green called Bauler Park. Paddy Bauler was the rollicking tavern o...
Special Session Updates
saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - Looking around it seems that there is some forward motion but our legislators still haven't gotten enough done. The gimmicks around waiting one day for a payment to K-12 districts to save some mone...
Robots Kill, but the Blood Is on Our Hands
dissidentvoice.org - In her spare time, between non-stop peace activism and leading international exchanges, Medea Benjamin has somehow managed to write the best book yet on the most inhuman form of war yet. The book ...
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‘Pink Slime’ Losing Place on School Lunch Menus
nytimes.com - BOSTON — Andy Gomez, a ninth grader at Brighton High School, was not sure why hamburgers and meatballs had disappeared from the cafeteria, but he was not happy about it. “Today I just ate peanut bu...
Rocks, fossils and artifacts star at Portland State University's Archaeology Roadshow
oregonlive.com - From a cardboard box Chris Kiefer carefully draws out a large object wrapped in a gray towel and lays it on the table; unwrapped it becomes a colorful club, with a head made of smooth brown-beige b...
Schools Drop ‘Pink Slime’ Beef Filler Like a Hot Potato - NYTimes.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Drop ‘Pink Slime’ Beef Filler Like a Hot Potato - NYTimes.com: ‘Pink Slime’ Losing Place on School Lunch MenusEvan McGlinn for The New York TimesOrchard Gardens K-8 School in Boston no long...
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Man Shot Near Elementary School; Suspect Sought
rosemont.patch.com - A 20-year-old man is expected to live after being shot near Sequoia Elementary School on Rosemont Drive Saturday, authorities said. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department spokesman Dep. Jason Ramos...
Trayvon Martin: March demanding justice planned in South L.A.
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Community activists will stage a march in South Los Angeles on Sunday to demand justice for Trayvon Martin, the black Florida high school student whose shooting death has grabbed the attention of P...
Local News | Investigation: Lowell principal mishandled claim of sex misconduct
seattletimes.nwsource.com - Originally published March 23, 2012 at 9:08 PM | Page modified March 23, 2012 at 9:30 PM The principal and assistant principal at Capitol Hill's Lowell Elementary School mishandled a report of alle...
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Milk money: Clout-heavy family got $162 million in contracts - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - By CHRIS FUSCO, TIM NOVAK, ANDREW SCHROEDTER and ROBERT HERGUTH Staff Reporters cfusco@suntimes.com March 24, 2012 12:13AM Milk prices per half-pint Ranked by the price of skim white milk in Febr...
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School Tech Connect: It's Called A Shakedown It's Called A Shakedown
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: It's Called A Shakedown: It's Called A ShakedownEvery once in a while someone says something so succinctly that really, nothing more need be said. And that person is MiC:Agreei...
S.1782: Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2011 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - S.1782: Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2011 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress: S.1782 - Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2011A bill to provide for the reduction in unintended pregnancy...
Big Education Ape: 3-24-12 PM Sharp Themes Emerge from #AskArne Questions EDition
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Sharp Themes Emerge from #AskArne Questions - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - A few days ago I posted an invitation for people to share questions they have for Arne Duncan, in preparation for his Twitter Town Hall meeting on Wednesday, August 24th.The questions that are emer...
Big Education Ape: 3-24-12 PM Sharp Themes Emerge from #AskArne Questions EDition
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