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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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