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My View: The other types of cheating – Schools of Thought
schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com - By Gary Rubinstein, Special to CNN Editor’s Note: Gary Rubinstein is a high school math teacher and the author of two guidebooks for new teachers, “Reluctant Disciplinarian” and “Beyond Survival.”...
Campus Task Force Criticizes Pepper Spraying of Protesters
nytimes.com - LOS ANGELES — Police officers at the University of California, Davis, should not have used pepper spray on protesters who had set up camp in the middle of campus as part of the Occupy movement last...
The Wages of Ideology
nytimes.com - Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin is struggling to fight off a determined effort to replace him in an extraordinary recall election scheduled for June 5. The original reason more than 900,000 Wisconsi...
U.S. Schools Are Still Ahead—Way Ahead
mobile.businessweek.com - U.S. Schools Are Still Ahead—Way Ahead By Vivek Wadhwa January 12, 2011 9:01 PM EST America has an inferiority complex about its education system. You hear the sirens every year, when the OECD Prog...
Charter Schools No Cure-All for Black Students, Says Study
utexas.edu - April 11, 2012 AUSTIN, Texas — Despite being promoted as a viable alternative to traditional public schools, privately owned charter schools in Texas have higher attrition rates for black students ...
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Controversy over Scientology influence clouds future of Pinellas charter school
tampabay.com - By Drew Harwell, Times Staff WriterDrew HarwellTampa Bay Times In Print: Sunday, February 26, 2012 DUNEDIN — One Friday afternoon in December, leaders of a tax-funded elementary school called Life ...
Cost doesn't spell success for Colorado schools using consultants to improve achievement
denverpost.com - They are among the 5,000 worst schools in America, where the percentage of kids who can read or do math at grade level often hovers in the teens or 20s and only about half graduate. These schools a...
ASAP Press Announcement
campaign.r20.constantcontact.com - Vancouver, BC - A direct comparison between human graders and software designed to score student essays achieved virtually identical levels of accuracy, with the software in some cases proving to b...
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Booing Bloomberg: Atttacking Arbitrators is Attacking Democracy, Mets Fans Booing Bloomberg Shows Wisdom
mets2006.wordpress.com - … large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. James Surowie...
A well-funded intimidation campaign against ALEC? They’re kidding. Right? « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - ALEC complaining about a “well-funded campaign of intimidation” is like the Klan complaining about the rise in sheet prices. The American Legislative Exchange Council has for years been a weapon in...
Reynoso pepper-spray report Long-awaited reports are no whitewash | Davis Enterprise #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Long-awaited reports are no whitewash | Davis Enterprise: Long-awaited reports are no whitewashby Bob DunningAN AVOIDABLE TRAGEDY … while there’s plenty of blame to go around in the long-awaited Re...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Vice President For Immediate Release April 12, 2012 Exeter Town Hall Exeter, New Hampshire12:20 P.M. EDTTHE VICE PRESIDENT: Hello, New Hampshire. (Applause.) Diedre...
Free engineering, medical education for girls in UP colleges
deccanchronicle.com - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav receives bouquets from party workers at his official residence in Lucknow - PTIFree engineering and medical education would be given to girls in governme...
VIDEO: 'Katehi Isn't Going Anywhere'
davis.patch.com - Freeborn Hall was more than half empty during Wednesday night's presentation of the Reynoso Task Force's pepper spray findings. That same hall was full when a similar town-hall discussion was held ...
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A.G. Schneiderman Secures Indictment Of Former Brooklyn Charter School Network Founder And Ceo
ag.ny.gov - NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced his office has secured an 11-count indictment of Eddie Calderon-Melendez, the founder and former CEO of the beleaguered Williamsbu...
U.S. Indicts 1st Anti-Gay Hate Crime
livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com - For the first time in history, the United States has issued an indictment in hate crime case involving a crime against an individual based on their sexual orientation, the Justice Department said T...
Trayvon Martin shooting: L.A. Urban League backs suspect's arrest
latimesblogs.latimes.com - April 12, 2012 | 8:42 am After the arrest of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, the Los Angeles Urban League issued a statement supporting a decision to file sec...
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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 04/12/2012
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - Floe animation for Open Education Week | Open Education Week If you want to understand what FLOE does and how it can help you use free resources to help all learners, then you can watch ...
Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 04/12/2012
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - Flattening #oer Here is the presentation I gave to the Open education forum at the Berkman Center at Harvard - it was a very short overview of Flat Classroom and designed to make the poi...
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 04/12/2012
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - UNESCO IITE | News | UNESCO World OER Congress "The First World OER Congress will be held 20-22 June 2012 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. Organized in cooperation with the Commo...
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Seismic monitoring plan for Diablo Canyon nuclear plant approved
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Coastal regulators have approved plans by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to install an array of seismic monitoring devices on the seafloor off the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo C...
5.9 earthquake strikes West Coast; 7.0 quake hits Mexico
latimesblogs.latimes.com - April 11, 2012 | 4:19 pm A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck the Pacific Ocean about 160 miles west of the coast of Oregon, the U.S Geological Survey said, but no tsunami is expected. A second ...
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A well-funded intimidation campaign against ALEC? They’re kidding. Right? « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A well-funded intimidation campaign against ALEC? They’re kidding. Right? « Fred Klonsky: A well-funded intimidation campaign against ALEC? They’re kidding. Right?by Fred KlonskyALEC complaining ab...
Creating Safe Schools for LGBT Students — Whole Child Education
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Creating Safe Schools for LGBT Students — Whole Child Education: Creating Safe Schools for LGBT Studentsby ASCD Whole Child BloggersPost submitted by whole child blogger Christine Fisher, a senior ...
Hechinger Report | Report highlights lagging Latino college achievement state by state
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Hechinger Report | Report highlights lagging Latino college achievement state by state: Report highlights lagging Latino college achievement state by stateby Nick PandolfoA student receives help at...
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- Wait, What?
jonathanpelto.com - Apr 11 jonpeltoAchievement First/ConnCAN, Charter Schools, Democratic Legislators, Education, Malloy, Poverty, Stefan Pryor Charter Schools, ConnCAN, Education Reform, Malloy, Stefan Pryor “Getting...
