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Answering Questions of Fundamental Fairness
ed.gov - Earlier today, Secretary Duncan released new data from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights that reveal unfortunate truths about our nation’s schools. The Civil Rights Data Collect...
Tribal Education Agency Pilot | ED.gov Blog
ed.gov - Thank you for your interest in the grant competition tentatively called the State-Tribal Education Partnership (STEP) Pilot, the Department’s pilot to provide an opportunity for tribes to meaningfu...
Hardly the reform we had in mind » The Commercial Appeal
commercialappeal.com - The public education "reform" movement, which began with the signing of the idiotic No Child Left Behind law in 2002, then morphed into the money grab called Race to the Top, which Tennessee legisl...
State school board votes to divert public money to private-school voucher program
projectnola.com - By Jessica Williams, The Lens staff writer | The state school board on Monday backed Gov. Bobby’s Jindal’s push for a statewide voucher program. Pending approval from the legislature, the voucher p...
Black Teachers Fired En Masse
blackagendareport.com - Printer-friendly versionA Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordEducational policy in the Obama era isn't about education at all. It's about replacing skilled, experienced teachers with rootles...
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Analyzing Released NYC Value-Added Data Part 3
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - The inaccuracy of the New York City teacher evaluation data is taking a beating in the media. As I expected, this data would not stand up to the scrutiny of the public or even the media. Value-Ad...
My View: When did teacher bashing become the new national pastime? – Schools of Thought
schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com - By Sam Chaltain, Special to CNN Editor’s Note: Sam Chaltain is a DC-based writer and education advocate. He can be found on Twitter at @samchaltain. With spring training under way, fantasy basebal...
Florida Parent Groups Frustrated by Lack of Access « Parents Across America
parentsacrossamerica.org - Check your pockets when a Corporate Education reformer claims to care about parent empowerment; nearly always, as in this case, they are working for their own private ends. For immediate release.Ta...
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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...
The Heartland Institute: Leaked Document Details “Operation Angry Badger” in Wisconsin | Dailycensored.com
iearegion28.wordpress.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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Exclusive: Russ Feingold Endorses Sheyman In IL-10
livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com - Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) has made his first endorsement in a Democratic primary since leaving the Senate. He's putting his weight and the strength of his PAC, Progressives United, behind Il...
Obama on yanking G-8 from Chicago: Camp David a better setting
blogs.suntimes.com - WASHINGTON--A day after the White House made a surprise announcement to switch the May G-8 summit from Chicago to Camp David, President Barack Obama said a specific reason for the change was he wan...
Obama campaign fires back, dares Koch brothers to reveal group's donors
thehill.com - The war of words between the Obama reelection campaign and billionaire conservative activists Charles and David Koch escalated Wednesday.The president's campaign manager, Jim Messina, sent a letter...
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Government Buying 7 Million Pounds Of Ammonia-Treated Meat For Meals
huffingtonpost.com - Pink slime -- that ammonia-treated meat in a bright Pepto-bismol shade -- may have been rejected by fast food joints like McDonald's, Taco Bell and Burger King, but is being brought in by the tons ...
Partners in ‘slime’ - WWW.THEDAILY.COM
thedaily.com - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s continued purchase of so-called pink slime for school lunches makes no sense, according to two former microbiologists at the Food Safety Inspection Service. “I ...
Healthy Child’s Legacy—And Future « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy Worldwww.healthychild.org I spent the past few weeks poring over the Healthy Child archives and I’m amazed at what I found. I ...
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'Mary Poppins,' 'Small World' songwriter Robert Sherman dies at 86
mercurynews.com - LONDON -- How do you sum up the work of songwriter Robert B. Sherman? Try one word: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." The tongue-twisting term, sung by magical nanny Mary Poppins, is like much ...
TV's "New Girl" Teacher Is She One Of You?
scholasticadministrator.typepad.com - March 6, 2012 | Posted At: 10:23 AM | Author: Alexander Russo | Category: School Life Pop Culture She's not exactly Mr. Prezbo, but on "New Girl" hyper-quirky actress Zooey Deschanel plays a a char...
Michelle Rodriguez, Ancestry, PBS Series "Finding Your Roots"
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Michelle Rodriguez Among Those Discovery Their Ancestry on PBS Series “Finding Your Roots” Published at 6:18 pm EST, March 5, 2012 Photo Credits: Michelle Rodriguez, PBS Series "Finding Your Roots"...
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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 03/06/2012
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - You're invited to a free webinar tomorrow with overview of the Flat Classroom book Free webinar on Tuesday, March 6 at 5 pm with Julie and me as we share the Flat Classroom framework to ...
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 03/06/2012
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - You're invited to a free webinar tomorrow with overview of the Flat Classroom book Free webinar on Tuesday, March 6 at 5 pm with Julie and me as we share the Flat Classroom framework to ...
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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...
Big Education Ape: 3-6-12 AM Making a Great Teacher is a Team Effort EDition #CORPREFORM #OCCUPYEDCA
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Give New York State Parents the Right to Opt Their Children Out of High Stakes Testing
signon.org - Flag petition as inappropriateBy The Change the Stakes Campaign and the Grassroots Education Movement (Contact)To be delivered to:The New York State House, The New York State Senate, and Governor A...
