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Hard-Working Teachers, Sabotaged When Student Test Scores Slip
nytimes.com - For 15 years, Anna Allanbrook has been the principal of Public School 146 in Brooklyn, one of the highest-achieving elementary schools in the city. In that time, she has never had a more talented a...
March Madness Begins in Our Schools: It's Test Prep Time - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - Follow me on Twitter at @AnthonyCodyIn our nation's public schools, March Madness has taken on a whole new meaning. It is test prep time in America.Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is fond of say...
A rare break from testing madness - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by Pamela Grundy, a founding member of Mecklenburg Area Coming Together for Schools (Mecklenburg Acts), a grassroots coalition of parents, citizens and organizations working on beh...
Bridgeport School System Compared to Achievement First – Bridgeport Academy
jonathanpelto.com - Mar 01 jonpeltoAchievement First/ConnCAN, Charter Schools, Education, Malloy, Stefan Pryor Achievement First, Charter Schools, Education Reform, Malloy, Stefan Pryor Question: Why not just hand ov...
Trumpets Please: Connecticut’s Corporate Giants Know the Way Forward on Education Reform
jonathanpelto.com - Feb 29 jonpeltoAchievement First/ConnCAN, Charter Schools, Corporate Viewpoint, Education, Teacher Tenure Achievement First, Charter Schools, ConnCAN, Education Reform Governor headed to the Connec...
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Failings of One Brooklyn High School May Threaten a Neighbor’s Success
nytimes.com - Corrections Appended Set just a few subway stops apart in blue-collar Brooklyn, drawing from a similar pool of new immigrants and American-born blacks, two high schools spent the past decade career...
Bronx Students Release 10-Point List of Demands to Reform NY Public Education
blackyouthproject.com - Dubbing themselves The Resistance, a group of Bronx students have decided to “Occupy” public education, releasing a 10 point plan for reforming New York City’s public school system. This is exactly...
Charter school dangers on display in Scientology case
tampabay.com - The Life Force Arts and Technology Academy in Dunedin, a charter elementary school serving low-income children, has sold area parents a bill of goods. It promised an enriching arts and technology p...
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FDL Book Salon Welcomes Arthur Goldwag, The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right
fdlbooksalon.com - Welcome Arthur Goldwag (blog, ArthurGoldwag) and Host Alexander Zaitchik (author, Common Nonsense) [As a courtesy to our guests, please keep comments to the book and be respectful of dissenting opi...
Occupy Buffalo's F29: ALEC Protest at Bank of America
my.firedoglake.com - 2/29/12- Occupy Buffalo assembled in Niagara Square to participate in F29 in solidarity with 80 other cities nationwide. F29 targeted corporations that are members of ALEC, that is the American Leg...
The Heartland Institute: Leaked Document Details “Operation Angry Badger” in Wisconsin
dailycensored.com - According to journalist Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel out of Wisconsin, a Chicago-based free-market think tank has prepared a strategy to sway the recall debate in Wisconsin in favor of Gove...
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In Which I Admit I'm Squatting....
schooltechconnect.com - Scout In PursuitHere's an image from the day, mashed up in Fotoflexer. So here's a conundrum. I have a number of different URL's that I pay for--- none of them have anything to do with these topic...
To train and control or to teach and learn: is there a choice? « Cooperative Catalyst
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - To train and control or to teach and learn: is there a choice? « Cooperative Catalyst:To train and control or to teach and learn: is there a choice?by educatedtodeathOriginally posted at educatedto...
School Tech Connect: In Which I Admit I'm Squatting....
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: In Which I Admit I'm Squatting....:In Which I Admit I'm Squatting....by noreply@blogger.com (Tim)Scout In PursuitHere's an image from the day, mashed up in Fotoflexer. So here'...
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David Koch expects you to believe he wasn't speaking on behalf of himself, his brother, his industries, or Americans for Prosperity.
democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - So when David Koch said to the Palm Beach Post late last month, "We're helping him, as we should. We've gotten pretty good at this over the years. We've spent a lot of money in Wisconsin. We're goi...
The Future of the Florida Senate: Will the Anti-Privatization Coalition Extend to Schools | Scathing Purple Musings
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Future of the Florida Senate: Will the Anti-Privatization Coalition Extend to Schools | Scathing Purple Musings:The Future of the Florida Senate: Will the Anti-Privatization Coalition Extend to...
Breitbart gone. Kyle Olson picks up his banner. « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Breitbart gone. Kyle Olson picks up his banner. « Fred Klonsky:Breitbart gone. Kyle Olson picks up his banner.by Fred KlonskyGlen Yarbrough left the Limelighters.To those who thought the passing of...
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'8,' Dustin Lance Black's Prop. 8 Play, Available In Full On YouTube (VIDEO)
huffingtonpost.com - Dustin Lance Black's traveling Prop. 8 play, "8," landed at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles Saturday night with its star-heavy cast, including the newly announced Brad Pitt (there's a "Se...
George W. Bush impersonator Steve Bridges dies at 48
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Steve Bridges, 48, a comic actor and impersonator who was best known for his mimicry of President George W. Bush and appeared alongside the chief executive at the 2006 White House Correspondents' A...
Lopez: LEARNING LESSONS FROM A FATHER’S PRIDE IN HIS SON - A visit with a respected instructor shows how success can be nurtured – in a classroom, and in a family.
4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - By Steve Lopez, LA Times columnist :http://lat.ms/yjX78I Patrick Gordon, a teacher at Gahr High School in Cerritos, is the 2012 winner of the Jaime Escalante Advanced Placement Award. (Gary Frie...
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U.S. senator asks FTC to probe Apple, Google
democraticunderground.com - Source: msnbcNEW YORK A U.S. senator has urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate reports that applications on the Apple and Google mobile systems steal private photos and contacts and p...
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top 3-4 AM Posts #soschat #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 3-3 #soschat #EDReform Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 4 hours ago Saturday coffee + Old school. « Fred Klonsky #soschat...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Mid Day Posts 3-4 #edreform #soschat
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This Week's Education Research Report #soschat #edchat
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Education Research Report:Does Shortening the School Week Impact Student Performance?Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 7 minutes agoΩ Public schools face difficult decisions on how...
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Emergency manager review team told Muskegon Heights school deficit plan unrealistic
mlive.com - LANSING -- A plan to ask Muskegon Heights school employees to take a 40 percent cut in wages is not realistic, casting serious doubts on the district’s plan to climb out of debt, an emergency manag...
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nypost.com - By CYNTHIA R. FAGEN and SUSAN EDELMANShe has appeared on “60 Minutes,” starred in the documentary “American Teacher” — and makes $125,000 at an unusual Washington Heights charter school.But celebri...