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Directory Scholarships, Internships, Programs for Latino Students - Hispanically Speaking News
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Directory Scholarships, Internships, Programs for Latino Students - Hispanically Speaking News:Check Out: Directory of Scholarships, Internships and Programs for Latino StudentsMarch 6, 2012 | by H...
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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...
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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...
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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...
DianeRavitch
Education Petition: Stop the Public Shaming and Unjust Firing of Teachers
change.org - Teachers need to be evaluated, but not publicly shamed and unjustly fired. The Teacher’s Union is about to agree to a provision that will allow data derived from the value-added modeling (VAM) of t...
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The Bipartisan Force Behind the For-Profit College Scam: Big Money
republicreport.org - Zaid Jilani 3.6.2012 at 6:17 PM For-profit colleges brought together leading Democratic and Republican consultants to teach them how to control Congress. As we head into an election year, we’re goi...
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Wendy Kopp: The Trouble With Humiliating Teachers
online.wsj.com - When I dropped my kids off at school last week, I had a hard time looking their teachers in the eye. The New York City government had just posted their performance assessments online, and though I'...
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States Loosening 'Seat Time' Requirements
edweek.org - States have established an array of policies in recent years to free schools from having to award academic credits based on "seat time," with the goal of making it easier for struggling students to...
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No Public Education, No Democracy
citywatchla.com - EDUCATION - I teach English at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, California. I love my school, my amazing colleagues, and the kids who enter my classroom each year. But I hate what is happening...
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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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Kadner: Lawmakers too silent on teacher pension shift
southtownstar.suntimes.com - Phil Kadner pkadner@southtownstar.com | (708) 633-6787 March 5, 2012 9:36PM Updated: March 6, 2012 4:05PM I’ve been waiting for an outcry from Southland legislators about a plan being discussed in ...
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Black Students Face More Discipline, Data Suggests
nytimes.com - Black students, especially boys, face much harsher discipline in public schools than other students, according to new data from the Department of Education. Although black students made...
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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...
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Iranian Teacher faces Imminent Execution
teachersolidarity.com - Abdolreza Ghanbari Iranian teacher, Abdolreza Ghanbari, has had his sentence of execution confirmed by the Iranian courts Abdolreza Ghanbari was sentenced to death for ‘waging war against God’. Rep...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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California Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program - School Nutrition (CA Dept of Education)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - California Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program - School Nutrition (CA Dept of Education):California Fresh Fruit and Vegetable ProgramThe Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, administered by the Califor...
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Teachers, stay safe. - The Educator's PLN
edupln.ning.com - There has been an awful lot posted online about how to keep students safe on the Internet. However, I haven't run into very much focusing on teacher safety. Perhaps we tend to think that, as adults...
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How to use Twitter Help
edupln.ning.com - Dear Educator's PLN,As someone who has been using Twitter for a while now I still find it somewhat confusing. Recently a bunch of friends who don't use Twitter have been asking me how to use the so...
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casting call: "high-achieving" asian teen on supernatural
blog.angryasianman.com - Got another casting call passed along to me, this time for the CW show Supernatural... They're looking for Asian teen to guest star on an upcoming three-episode arc as "K. Tran," a "brilliant, high...
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Guards fire warning rounds, quash inmate riot at Folsom Prison
latimesblogs.latimes.com - March 6, 2012 | 4:44 pm Guards fired warning shots and used less-than-lethal grenades to quash a riot involving about 70 inmates at Folsom Prison, a spokesman said Tuesday afternoon.The guards fir...
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Santa Ana disbands fire department to save money
latimesblogs.latimes.com - The firehouse on Walnut Street in Santa Ana is dotted with reminders of the department's proud 128-year history. A fire alarm telegraph system from 1924 takes up the back wall of the upstairs livin...
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FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team
fcmat.org - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 The Carlsbad school board just voted to eliminate 20 percent of its teaching positions. San Diego Unified is poised to issue more than 1,600 pink slips to teachers. Sweetwate...
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Arne Duncan's Genie, Part 2
schooltechconnect.com - I'm sure this all sounds very appealing to people who don't understand test scores. Check out the article title: I once blogged about this woman I met--- ages ago at a mall in Phoenix. She was work...
tbfurman
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 3-6 #soschat #EDReform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Police Anonymity Demands Thwart Release of UC Davis Pepper Spray Report « Student Activism Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 53 minutes ago Police Anonymity Demands Thwart Release o...
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DCPS budget: RHEEFORM IMPACT’s impact - D.C. Schools Insider - The Washington Post
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - DCPS budget: IMPACT’s impact - D.C. Schools Insider - The Washington Post:DCPS budget: IMPACT’s impactby Bill TurqueThere’s plenty for DCPS stakeholders to dislike in the newly released school-base...
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First, Kill All the School Boards - Magazine
theatlantic.com - It wasn’t just the slate and pencil on every desk, or the absence of daily beatings. As Horace Mann sat in a Leipzig classroom in the summer of 1843, it was the entire Prussian system of schools th...
leoniehaimson
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...
leoniehaimson
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 3-6 #soschat #EDReform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Police Anonymity Demands Thwart Release of UC Davis Pepper Spray Report « Student Activism Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 53 minutes ago Police Anonymity Demands Thwart Release o...
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