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Variety of Models Fuels Hybrid Charter Growth

edweek.org - Published Online: March 5, 2012Published in Print: March 7, 2012, as Variety of Models Fuel Hybrid Charter GrowthIn innovation-friendly pockets across the country, the number of hybrid charter scho...
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Adrienne Rich, Feminist Poet, Dies at 82

nytimes.com - Adrienne Rich, a poet of towering reputation and towering rage, whose work — distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity — brought the oppression of women an...
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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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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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Every man a King

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Huey Long was a Progressive Senator during the Great Depression who believed in wealth redistribution. He organized upwards of seven million Americans to see this dream of wealth redistribution com...
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Business Bets on the G.O.P. May Be Backfiring

democraticunderground.com - When the number one goal of the republican party is to make president Obama a on term president, so they have to take the opposite stand on "anything" the president is for, it's king of hard to get...
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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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