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When Making a Great Teacher is a Team Effort (Gotham Gazette, Mar 2012)
gothamgazette.com - When Making a Great Teacher is a Team Effortby Andrea Gabor Mar 2012Photo by Andrea Gabor Just a few years ago, while teaching at a middle school in the Bronx, David Baiz was given an unsatisfactor...
Our student loan complaint system is open for business > Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
consumerfinance.gov - Mar 5 2012 By Rohit Chopra Since we opened our doors, student loan borrowers have told us about some of the frustrations they sometimes face with their lenders, servicers, and debt collectors. Borr...
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...
Controversial charter pitches another school — in nabes it jilted • The Brooklyn Paper
brooklynpaper.com - By Kate Briquelet The Brooklyn PaperA politically connected charter school network that is being sued after promising to open in a district stretching from Brooklyn Heights to Bedford-Stuyvesant, t...
Richest 1 Percent Account For Nearly All Of U.S. Recovery's Gains: Report
huffingtonpost.com - Technically, the economy has been in recovery for two years. But it turns out the rich have been doing most of the recovering.In 2010 -- the first full year since the end of the Great Recession -- ...
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My Letter to an Idealistic, Young Teach for America Corps Member About How Destructive the Organization Has Become
withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com - Dear . . . .Unlike many people on this list serve, I am not an expert on pedagogy, nor someone with a lifetime of experience teaching, or training teachers, in publicschools. However I have over fo...
Governor Quinn’s Proposal Will Somersault TRIP
teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com - Sure, let’s take away $87 million from the retired teachers of Illinois, and then let’s give that money away perhaps to more corporations as a gift from the governor. a retired teacher pays a tota...
Shanker Blog » Revisiting The "5-10 Percent Solution"
shankerblog.org - In a post over a year ago, I discussed the common argument that dismissing the “bottom 5-10 percent” of teachers would increase U.S. test scores to the level of high-performing nations. This argume...
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Parent trigger bill faces uncertain future | Florida politics blog: The Buzz
tampabay.com - A coalition of Democrats and Republicans is gearing up to fight the so-called parent trigger bill. On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Nan Rich, D-Weston, spoke out against the proposal, which would ...
Rush Limbaugh To Be Honored In 'Hall Of Famous Missourians'
thinkprogress.org - Radio host Rush Limbaugh will soon be honored in the Missouri Statehouse with a bust in the Hall of Famous Missourians. Limbaugh, a Missouri native whose show is losing advertisers after he verball...
Romney, Santorum, Paul, Gingrich: Where they stand now on education - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - The American public education system is going through historic changes but you couldn’t tell that if you have been following the Republican campaign to tap a candidate to take on President Obama in...
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City to Hire Cops, Boost Kids Programs with Tax Refunds Taken from Scofflaws
myfoxchicago.com - Chicago - A crackdown on scofflaw violators and the fines they owe is helping to fuel the employment market in Chicago. The millions of dollars collected will go towards summer jobs for kids. Mayor...
“F… you,” he tells CTU leader. “And f… the school kids too.” « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Back in November it was widely reported that Rahm Emanuel told Karen Lewis, Chicago Teachers Union President, “Fuck you.” The reports were not denied by Rahm or his spokesmen. Now, it turns out tha...
Paul Krugman is a MUST-READ
dailykos.com - In States of Depression he explains, in detail, why the recovery is not stronger, including providing specific comparison with the recovery on Reagan's watch. The biggest single drag on the econom...
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School junk food -- chicagotribune.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School junk food -- chicagotribune.com:"I am a pediatrician on Chicago's North Side and have two children who attend a Chicago Public Schools school, Inter-American Magnet. I became the chair of ou...
Younger children in the classroom likely overdiagnosed with ADHD
educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - Ω Immaturity may lead to diagnosis of disorder The youngest children in the classroom are significantly more likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — and prescr...
STUDENTS’ BALLOON SOARS AND TRANSMITS
utsandiego.com - A high-altitude weather balloon jammed with cameras rose far, far higher than jets fly, traveling to the edge of space during a journey that thrilled its “pilots” back at San Diego’s Mt. Carmel Hig...
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Pearson's edu-testing profits soar
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - London-based Pearson Publishing, the standardized testing giant, reports a 72% "surge" in profits during 2011. But the profit picture in the U.S. is not as rosy as it looks. Most of the profits are...
Life in Rahm’s Chicago: Penny Pritzker. When charitable giving is nothing more than a scam. « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Life in Rahm’s Chicago: Penny Pritzker. When charitable giving is nothing more than a scam. « Fred Klonsky:Life in Rahm’s Chicago: Penny Pritzker. When charitable giving is nothing more than a scam...
Map: Fannie and Freddie's Bay Area Properties
baycitizen.org - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have quietly become major residential landowners in the Bay Area’s hardest hit neighborhoods, thanks to the mortgage crisis. According to records provided by ForeclosureR...
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The Hyatt’s Penny Pritzker has seven bathrooms, appeals her taxes and screws her employees. « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Hyatt’s Penny Pritzker has seven bathrooms, appeals her taxes and screws her employees. « Fred Klonsky:The Hyatt’s Penny Pritzker has seven bathrooms, appeals her taxes and screws her employees...
How I Did It: Jill Donenfeld, Founder of The Culinistas
mariashriver.com - How I Did It: Jill Donenfeld, Founder of The Culinistas By Jill DonenfeldI'm one of those lucky kids who grew up eating around the family table. The middle child between two boys and all the produc...
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Deselection of the Bottom 8%: Lessons from Eugenics for Modern School Reform
blogs.scientificamerican.com - We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State fo...
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March 5 Update! | Occupy Education California
occupyeducationca.org - 5:28pm EST 17 arrests so far at Occupy the Capitol action at the Governor’s Office in Albany. 5:21pm EST Now up 13 arrests at the Governor’s Office in the Capitol Building in Albany chanting “The s...
