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Not Common. Not Core, Either. - Teacher in a Strange Land

blogs.edweek.org - My friend Claudia Swisher, an exceptional veteran teacher from Oklahoma, recently posted an update in Goodreads, a kind of virtual book club where we hang out together. We have challenged each othe...
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UK Study: Parents, Not Teachers, Key to Education

educationnews.org - A study by the Royal Economic Society, to be presented this week, finds that parental effect on test results is five times that of teachers’ influence. This comes in the wake of warnings by Sir Mic...
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Different Results, Same Flawed Methods

shankerblog.org - Without question, designing school and district rating systems is a difficult task, and Ohio was somewhat ahead of the curve in attempting to do so (and they’re also great about releasing a ton of ...
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OUR CHILDREN FOR SALE « Jean Jacques Crawb's Blog

jeanjacquescrawb.wordpress.com - About 15 years ago, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania created the concept of charter schools. These schools were to be free of the entanglement of most state regulations. They also were to be bastio...
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CT News Junkie | OP-ED

ctnewsjunkie.com - by Sarah Darer Littman | Mar 23, 2012 11:21am(25) Comments | Log in to Post a Comment Posted to: Opinion (Updated 4:39 p.m. Sunday) Wednesday’s Where We Live with John Dankosky featured three membe...
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A Civil Right to Unionize

nytimes.com - FROM the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progres...
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Adrienne Rich. RIP. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - BY ADRIENNE RICHThere’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted who ...
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Adrienne Rich. RIP. « Fred Klonsky

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Adrienne Rich. RIP. « Fred Klonsky: "Lying is done with words and also with silence." - Adrienne RichWhat Kind of Times Are TheseBY ADRIENNE RICHThere’s a place between two stands of trees where th...
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LAUSD TEACHER WITCH HUNT GOES INTO HIGH GEAR - Perdaily.com

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - LAUSD TEACHER WITCH HUNT GOES INTO HIGH GEAR - Perdaily.com: LAUSD TEACHER WITCH HUNT GOES INTO HIGH GEARby Leonard Isenberg(Mensaje se repite en Español) (For a national view of public education r...
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Group Allied With Cuomo Tops Albany Spending List

nytimes.com - ALBANY — Highlighting a shift in the way money is spent to influence government, the group that spent the most on lobbying in New York last year was a coalition of business leaders allied with Gov....
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Adopted Board Resolutions

tasanet.org - The following is a list of school districts that have adopted the Resolution Concerning High Stakes, Standardized Testing of Texas Public School Students. As of March 27, 2012, 192 districts have n...
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Princeton Review to Sell Test-Prep Unit

online.wsj.com - BY MELODIE WARNER Princeton Review Inc. agreed to sell its test-preparation business and the "Princeton Review" brand to private-equity firm Charlesbank Capital Partners for $33 million in cash as ...
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The American Spring’s New Tactics

theassailedteacher.com - The warm weather is rapidly approaching, which means the possibility of a resurgence of protests across the country. The Occupy movement has been scattered thanks to the evictions by the corporatis...
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Reports from the Front Lines  | Occupy Together

occupytogether.org - This week in Occupy, the arrival of Spring brought everyone back into the streets, thousands rallied for Trayvon Martin, Union Square was #occupied and Occupy UC Davis permanently closed a bank bra...
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CT News Junkie | OP-ED

ctnewsjunkie.com - by Sarah Darer Littman | Mar 23, 2012 11:21am(25) Comments | Log in to Post a Comment Posted to: Opinion (Updated 4:39 p.m. Sunday) Wednesday’s Where We Live with John Dankosky featured three membe...
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