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Selling Schools Out | Corporate Accountability
theinvestigativefund.org - If the national movement to "reform" public education through vouchers, charters and privatization has a laboratory, it is Florida. It was one of the first states to undertake a program of "virtual...
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A NYC teacher's response to the publishing of her confidential -- and unreliable -- data report
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Roe Wrubel is currently a 4th grade teacher at PS 89 in Tribeca. My daughter was lucky to have Roe as her teacher in the 1st and 2nd grades. Her talent and commitment encapsulates everything that ...
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Teachers upset at CPS leader's remarks - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis on Tuesday criticized Chicago Public Schools chief Jean-Claude Brizard for remarks made a day earlier that he supported public dollars being invested in...
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AERA Erasing Line Between Scholarship and Partisanship - Rick Hess Straight Up
blogs.edweek.org - The American Educational Research Association (of which I am a member) modestly labels itself "the nation's leading scientific and scholarly association...devoted to advancing knowledge about educa...
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Ravitch: A war on public education in Louisiana - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education Week website. The item was first published on March...
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Buffalo teachers vote to keep attendance clause - Schools
buffalonews.com - The Buffalo Teachers Federation's Council of Delegates voted overwhelmingly tonight to maintain an attendance clause in this year's teacher evaluation agreement -- a move that appears all but certa...
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Ed Reform in Louisiana. Coming Soon to Your State? - Teacher in a Strange Land
blogs.edweek.org - What has happened down here is the winds have changed The river rose all day; the river rose all night. Some people got lost in the flood. Some people got away all right.Louisiana 1927, Randy Newma...
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Growing Gaps Bring Focus on Poverty's Role in Schooling
edweek.org - Published Online: March 6, 2012Published in Print: March 7, 2012, as Achievement Gaps Tied to Income Found Widening From left, 1st graders Durius Walker, Kayshawn Roundheart, Caleb Washington, Jahm...
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Kadner: Riley opposes shifting pension costs to schools
southtownstar.suntimes.com - Phil Kadner pkadner@southtownstar.com | (708) 633-6787 March 6, 2012 7:46PM Riley storyidforme: 26906241 tmspicid: 9162683 fileheaderid: 4134757 Updated: March 7, 2012 2:12AM State Rep. Al Riley (D...
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Students bring anti-turnaround message to PEP members
gothamschools.org - Wassem Albakka, a sophomore from Grady High School, tapes a poster of PEP member Linda Bryant to a fence near her Upper East Side office building. When student protesters came knocking on the front...
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parentrevolution.org - Today, local, Florida African-American community leaders across the state are demanding that state legislators stand by Florida’s most underserved communities and support the Parent Trigger bill. ...
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Chicago's G8 fiasco stirs ghosts of '68 convention - Blogs On Politics
chicagobusiness.com - (Updated 2 p.m.) The Grant Park riots of 1968 were a long, long time ago, now only a distant memory to me and something to read in history books for much of Chicago. But the city never fully exorci...
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Emanuel: Obama only gave me one-hour heads up on G-8 switch - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY DAVID ROEDER AND LYNN SWEET Staff Reporters March 7, 2012 7:42PM Mayor Rahm Emanuel listens during a forum on education at American University in Washington last week.. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Marti...
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President Obama Unknowingly Pulled Into Illinois' 10th District Race
huffingtonpost.com - WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has not endorsed a candidate in the Democratic primary for Illinois' 10th Congressional District, but a new flyer circulating in the district has still pulled h...
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Some Thoughts on the Wysocki Case « GFBrandenburg's Blog
gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com - There are many excellent reasons to reject VAM as a means of making decisions that affect either teachers’ or students’ lives. One of those reasons is the story of Ms. Wysocki – and she’s not the o...
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A Fair Trade, Organic Banana Life Cycle « Small Farmers. Big Change.
smallfarmersbigchange.coop - March 8, 2012 by Phyllis Robinson The following photographic story by Dean Schladweiler is reprinted from the Wedge Co-operative newsletter.In October 2011, Dean Schladweiler, Produce Manager, trav...
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Happy "Where's Cerf's Charter Report?" Day!
jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - It's the one year anniversary of ACTING NJ DOE Commissioner Cerf's promise to produce a report on charter school effectiveness "as quickly as is humanly possible"!Vowing to create "more transparenc...
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AMR offers to freeze, not terminate, pensions
democraticunderground.com - Source: ReutersAMR offers to freeze, not terminate, pensions By Kyle Peterson Wed Mar 7, 2012 4:41pm EST (Reuters) - AMR Corp, the bankrupt parent of American Airlines, on Wednesday proposed a plan...
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Census: Numbers of Asian, Hispanic homeowners rising in North Jersey
northjersey.com - Census: North Jersey home ownership, group by groupNorth Jersey town-by-town data from the 2010 Census Asian and Hispanic households have continued putting down roots in North Jersey’s suburbs, own...
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N.J. lobbyist spending hits new high at $73M; teachers union tops list again
nj.com - Once again, the state’s largest teachers union tops New Jersey groups when it comes to spending on lobbying.The New Jersey Education Association spent $11.3 million on lobbying last year, $10.8 mil...
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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 03/08/2012
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - Amazon Kindle: A Highlight and Note by Susan M Nestico from Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time Love this from @datruss #flatclass book...
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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 03/07/2012
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - Human Trafficking Webcast | | Global Nomads Group This webcast is tomorrow, Thursday, March 8, 2012.In partnership with the New York Times Learning Network, students will learn about the...
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Ed Reform in Louisiana. Coming Soon to Your State? - Teacher in a Strange Land
blogs.edweek.org - What has happened down here is the winds have changed The river rose all day; the river rose all night. Some people got lost in the flood. Some people got away all right.Louisiana 1927, Randy Newma...
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 3-7 #soschat #EDReform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Update: Happy "Where's Cerf's Charter Report?" Day! Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 11 minutes ago Jersey Jazzman: Update: Happy "Where's Cerf's Charter Report?" D...
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Ed Reform in Louisiana. Coming Soon to Your State? - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Ed Reform in Louisiana. Coming Soon to Your State? - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher: Ed Reform in Louisiana. Coming Soon to Your State?by Nancy FlanaganWhat has happened down he...
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Ed Reform in Louisiana. Coming Soon to Your State? - Teacher in a Strange Land
blogs.edweek.org - What has happened down here is the winds have changed The river rose all day; the river rose all night. Some people got lost in the flood. Some people got away all right.Louisiana 1927, Randy Newma...
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 3-7 #soschat #EDReform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Update: Happy "Where's Cerf's Charter Report?" Day! Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 11 minutes ago Jersey Jazzman: Update: Happy "Where's Cerf's Charter Report?" D...
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