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Moms Rising - All Week Long! #parents
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Thanks to ACA, More Cancer Patients Have Hope Bernadette Segura at MomsRising Blog - 7 minutes ago “I’m sorry ma’am, the hospitals only have to provide care to you in emergency circumstances. Th...
Everything You Need to Know About President Obama's Blueprint for College Affordability
whitehouse.gov - Matt ComptonJanuary 27, 2012 at 06:10 PM EST President Barack Obama delivers remarks on college affordability while speaking at the football practice field at the University of Michigan's Al Glick ...
President Obama's Plan to Train 2 Million Workers for Jobs in High-Demand Industries
whitehouse.gov - Megan SlackFebruary 13, 2012 at 04:26 PM ESTToday, President Obama announced the Community College to Career Fund, an $8 billion investment in his Fiscal Year 2013 Budget that would train two milli...
PAA Action News
archive.constantcontact.com - PAA and PAA founding member Rita Solnet honored in Florida! Watch the tribute by the Palm Beach County School Board here. PAA in the mediaTwo PAA founders published columns in this week's Washing...
Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » Urban Prep “miracle” – loses 50% of students, still reaps praise
pureparents.org - The Urban Prep Charter School marketing band wagon rolls on. Once again, the school is pulling out all the stops (and, apparently, Governor Quinn) to congratulate itself for having once more gotten...
Education Experts Attempt the Educate the Illiterate
mayoraltutorial.com - Yesterday the good people from the Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformative Education (CReATE) attempted what had to have felt like an exorcism on Mayor Rahm Emanuel when they prese...
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HechingerEd Blog | Little teacher support for some Obama school
hechingered.org - Teachers are skeptical about several of the major reform ideas the Obama administration and education activists are pushing to turn around the nation’s struggling schools, a new survey commissioned...
Flunking the Test | American Journalism Review
ajr.org - The American education system has never been better, several important measures show. But you’d never know that from reading overheated media reports about “failing” schools and enthusiastic pieces...
Only 7 Percent of Teachers Believe in Standardized Tests - Education
good.is - The number of standardized tests students have to take is about to increase, but the according to a national survey from Scholastic and the Gates Foundation, the nation’s teachers overwhelmingly do...
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More Wisconsin News
jsonline.com - A federal judge in Madison on Friday ruled that portions of Act 10 - which removed most collective bargaining for most public employees - are unconstitutional. Seven major unions had challenged the...
Campaign Donor Advertising Rule Thrown Out by U.S. Judge
democraticunderground.com - Source: BloombergThe U.S. Federal Election Commission exceeded its authority by allowing groups that give money for election advertising to withhold the names of their donors from the public, a fed...
American investigators may look into payment to police (Murdoch may have broken anti-corruption law)
democraticunderground.com - Source: The Independent UKA payment to a British police force by a News Corp company accused of using piracy to crack a rival pay-TV service could be studied by US authorities investigating whether...
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Non-Profit Marketing on a Tight Budget
justgabe.com - Posted by Gabe on March 30, 2012 under Facebook, Kids are Heroes, Twitter |Everywhere I look I read that direct mail marketing is where the bulk of the donors come from for non-profits. So why are ...
Is This How Madison Teacher Should Instruct About Trayvon Martin? « CAFFEINATED POLITICS
dekerivers.wordpress.com - From a Facebook friend of James come this message regarding the ‘lesson’ taught at a Madison middle school over the shooting of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin. The parent writes the following. She to...
Walking in her shoes: Stories from a Titanic descendant
davisenterprise.com - Joan Randall sits with photos of her mother’s shoes that were warn on the Titanic. The shoes are now in a traveling exhibit in Europe. Sue Cockrell/Enterprise photo Joan Randall carefully arranges ...
CrimeSee all
13 shot, 2 dead in Chicago in six hours Thursday night - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - By Peter Nickeas and Jeremy Gorner Tribune reporters 7:03 a.m. CDT, March 30, 2012 At least two people were killed and 11 others wounded in violence across Chicago overnight, most of the victims fr...
L.A. SCHOOLS TO NOTIFY PARENTS WHEN TEACHERS ARE REMOVED: They'll be told within 72 hours if an instructor is pulled because of sexual-misconduct allegations.
4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/H3GgVh Parents at Miramonte Elementary in unincorporated Florence-Firestone were upset that they received no explanation when veteran teacher M...
Sacramento Press / McClatchy High Students Experience Dangers of Driving Under Influence
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Sacramento Press / McClatchy High Students Experience Dangers of Driving Under InfluenceMcClatchy High Students Experience Dangers of Driving Under InfluenceStudents at C.K. McClatchy High School e...
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Student project helping to plan Hackensack’s downtown revival
northjersey.com - HACKENSACK — A group of rising urban planners is discovering opportunities for the city’s future where others may see relics of its past: the patches of unconnected walkways along its winding river...
General Motors pulls funding from climate sceptic thinktank Heartland
democraticunderground.com - Source: The GuardianGeneral Motors, the world's largest carmaker, has confirmed that it is pulling funding from the Heartland Institute, an ultra-conservative thinktank known for its scepticism abo...
Looking Back at Our Nuclear Future
my.firedoglake.com - The Los Angeles Times heralds the nuclear age in January 1957. (photo via wikipedia)On March 11, communities around the world commemorated the first year of the still-evolving Fukushima Daiichi nuc...
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From Estonia to the Philippines to Lake Ontario, Corvallis sixth-grader nails world geography, wins state bee
oregonlive.com - Corvallis sixth-grader Pragyna Naik didn't miss a single question on her way to winning the state geography bee Friday. Locating a wide variety of earth features, from the Kimberley Plateau to Moun...
Brownback, other governors tour beef plant to see ‘pink slime’
democraticunderground.com - Source: Associated PressSouth Sioux City, Neb. — Governors of three states got up close with “pink slime” Thursday, touching and examining treated beef at a plant and eating hamburgers made with it...
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Do you have a moment to join the Wait, What? Investigative Team
us4.campaign-archive1.com - Do you have a moment to join or help the Wait, What? Investigative TeamCan you help us track down the most recent salary for your local superintendent of schools? One of the most incredible devel...