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USA Science & Engineering Festival
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - USA Science & Engineering Festival: Don’t miss the largest celebration of science in the US: the 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival will feature over 3,000 fun, interactive exhibits, more than ...
School closing hearings at John Ericsson JHS and Grover Cleveland HS
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - The following is by Pat Dobosz, a teacher and a graduate of John Ericson MS 126: On Wednesday, April 4 we attended the closing hearing at John Ericsson MS 126 in Brooklyn. This was a "restart" sch...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 06, 2012 Today, at the White House Forum on Women and the Economy, the President will discuss the importance of restoring t...
Duncan and Posny Join CEC Convention for Twitter Town Hall
ed.gov - U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Alexa Posny, will join the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) during their 201...
U.S. Department of Education Awards Joplin Schools Nearly $50,000 to Support Local Recovery Efforts
ed.gov - The U.S. Department of Education awarded Joplin Schools a $49,780 Project SERV grant to help provide local students and education staff with academic and mental health services following the Catego...
Dallas ISD board may join other Texas districts in signing resolution condemning standardized testing | Dallas-Fort Worth Education News - News for Dallas, Texas
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Charter schools deserved to lose
kingfish1935.blogspot.com - I'm going to say it: we deserved to get beat on the charter school bill last week. No sugar-coating or spinning. The other side earned their victory. They did what they had to do, they showed up fo...
USC prez lets loose with reformy cliches. Not much else.
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Looking through the April 4th issue of EdWeek, I found this back page commentary piece, "Reaching Beyond the Ivory Tower Into the Classroom" co-written by C.L. Max Nikias, the president of USC and ...
- Wait, What?
jonathanpelto.com - Apr 09 jonpeltoEducation Education Reform Photo courtesy of CTNewsjunkie (Michael Lee-Murphy) Last week, Karissa Niehoff, the Executive Director of the Connecticut Association of Schools participat...
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Roll Call Lobbying & Influence
rollcall.com - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today became the latest backer to withdraw financial support for the American Legislative Exchange Council.A foundation spokesman told Roll Call that it does n...
A Tale of Two Crows (Guest Voice)
themoderatevoice.com - A Tale of Two Crows by Catherine Tanguis As if the Stand Your Ground law and the current efforts to restrict voter registration hadn’t reminded us that discrimination is alive and well in the 21st ...
In Chicago, it’s not how many votes you get. It’s who counts them. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Chicago Machine Boss Berrios. Chicago politics ain’t mumbly peg Mayor Washington used to say. If you’re taking on the powerful Chicago Democratic Machine, that goes double. Cook County Democratic C...
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Guzzardi Asks For Recount
nbcchicago.com - advertisement Will Guzzardi isn’t giving up in his quest to unseat the Boss’s Daughter. With all precincts reporting, Guzzardi, a former Huffington Post editor, was trailing state Rep. Toni Berrios...
Yo El Jefe - Both of Obama's HEAT Jerseys were in the wash - Hispanically Speaking News
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Castro Pokes Fun at Obama's Plan to Wear "Cuban Garment" to Summit - Hispanically Speaking News: Fidel Castro Pokes Fun at President Obama’s Plan to Wear Cuba’s “Official Garment” to SummitPublishe...
White House rejects President Peres’ plea to release Pollard
democraticunderground.com - Source: AP via HaaretzThe White House rejected the appeal by Israeli president Shimon Peres to grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard on Monday, saying its position hasn’t changed, and that the preside...
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Teacher: Dear students, I’m sorry about that test I made you take - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by Ruth Ann Dandrea, who has taught secondary English in upstate New York for 29 years. A freelance writer, she is co-author of “Women on Water,” about women’s kayaking, which will...
Occupy Mancos, CO: The Importance of Small Occupies
my.firedoglake.com - ("I believe the town in the valley is Mancos, CO" by SFAntti, courtesy of flickr.com) We’ve been Occupying this tiny town in the Four Corners area since last October to beneficial effect, imo. I i...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Flexibility | Inside Higher Ed
insidehighered.com - Last week I wrote about my day, as part of the larger #dayofhighered project of documenting what we academics do. When I left off, I still had about four hours of work to do, and I figured I’d be a...
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Trayvon Martin: Protesters march to L.A. City Hall
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Marchers were moving through the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Monday evening to protest the shooting of black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. The Los Angeles Police Department warned that so...
Vt. teachers union strike entering 4th day
boston.com - POULTNEY, Vt.—Teachers in a striking Vermont school district and school administrators are headed back to the bargaining table.Representatives of the 70 teachers and the five schools are going to m...
Prosecutor won't use grand jury in Trayvon Martin shooting case
democraticunderground.com - Source: CNN.comSpecial prosecutor Angela Corey has decided against using a grand jury in the case involving the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, her office said Monday. "The decision s...
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Justin Bieber Backs BULLY With 'Born To Be Somebody' -- NEW YORK, April 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
prnewswire.com - NEW YORK, April 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that Justin Bieber continues to lend his support to the fight against bullying with use of his song "Born T...
yul kwon hosts pbs' america revealed
blog.angryasianman.com - He found the Immunity Idol. He outwitted, outplayed and outlasted the other Cook Islands castaways. And perhaps most importantly, he ran around half-naked on national television for 39 days. So wha...
Caricatura: Vía Crucis | Zambombazo
zachary-jones.com - 9/04/2012 • 10:00 amEsta caricatura hondureña se llama “Vía Crucis”. ¿Qué perspectivas revela sobre el precio de la gasolina, particularmente durante la Semana Santa? ¿Qué consecuencias ha tenido p...
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Big Education Ape: 4-9-12 PM A Tale of Two Crows EDition #CECTOWNHALL #SPECED
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