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Is DOE's Turnaround Fair Play? The NYS Assembly doesn't think so
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Assemblymembers Cathy Nolan of Queens and Jim Brennan of Brooklyn Yesterday, the NY State Assembly Education Committee held a rare hearing in NYC on the state and city's implementation of the feder...
A Leader of Schools Is Indicted for Fraud
nytimes.com - When state investigators demanded last year to see personal tax returns filed by Eddie Calderon-Melendez, the founder and chief executive of a troubled network of charter high schools in Brooklyn, ...
23 protesters arrested at Woodlawn clinic - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - sun-times media April 13, 2012 2:13AM Updated: April 13, 2012 5:21AM Twenty-three people were arrested early Friday after barricading themselves inside a South Side mental to protest Mayor Rahm Ema...
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.”...
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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Is there really a point to advocating both standardization and choice? « School Finance 101
schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - I’ve long been perplexed that the Thomas B. Fordham Institute frames as its top two policy priorities: Implementing the Common Core Advancing Choice Their new web site layout makes this more obviou...
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...
Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » It’s spring, and the astroturf is spreading like crabgrass!
pureparents.org - What's underneath??? It seems that every time you turn around, there’s another astroturf education group sprouting up. The fertilizer, of course, is the money of wealthy privatizers and union buste...
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- Wait, What?
jonathanpelto.com - Apr 12 jonpeltoEducation, Malloy, State Politics Education Reform, Malloy In a meeting with local officials Dan Malloy made it clear that if he doesn’t get an “education reform” bill that eliminate...
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...
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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...
23 protesters arrested at Woodlawn clinic - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - sun-times media April 13, 2012 2:13AM Updated: April 13, 2012 5:21AM Twenty-three people were arrested early Friday after barricading themselves inside a South Side mental to protest Mayor Rahm Ema...
Investigation into charter school CEO ends with an indictment
gothamschools.org - The founder of a moribund chain of Brooklyn charter schools embezzled taxpayer funds and did not pay taxes on his earnings, then falsified documents to try to cover up his crimes, according to Atto...
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Lawyer for Phone-Hacking Victims Is Coming to America
mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com - April 12, 2012, 1:22 pm By AMY CHOZICKLefteris Pitarakis/Associated PressMark Lewis, the lawyer for many victims of phone-hacking, outside court in London in November.The lawyer at the center of th...
Hasn't worked? Obama stands up for Romney's wife
apnews.excite.com - WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House - and President Barack Obama himself - rushed into a damage control campaign Thursday to blunt the impact of a Democratic consultant's suggestion that Ann Romney i...
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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...
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Noticigrama: Crucigrama + Noticias (12-04-2012) | Zambombazo
zachary-jones.com - 12/04/2012 • 6:35 pm¿Quieres aprender algunas de las palabras más relevantes de la semana del 9 de abril del 2012? ¡Sólo tienes que resolver nuestro noticigrama (noticias + crucigrama)!Cómo resolve...
When a Hazing Goes Very Wrong
nytimes.com - IN the early-morning hours of that Friday in February 2011, at around 3 a.m., George Desdunes and another Cornell sophomore were sitting on a couch blindfolded, their wrists and ankles bound with z...
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Double Dutch Dog Shows Off Incredible Jump Rope Skills (VIDEO)
huffingtonpost.com - Sometimes the weight of the world can seem overwhelming. But occasionally, if we're lucky, YouTube presents us with videos of adorable canine activities to ease the pain.If you're feeling down, spe...
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jonathanpelto.com - Apr 12 jonpeltoEducation, Malloy, State Politics Education Reform, Malloy In a meeting with local officials Dan Malloy made it clear that if he doesn’t get an “education reform” bill that eliminate...
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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 04/13/2012
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - Paving the way toward inclusive Open Education Resources | floe I met Jutta Treviranus from the FLOE project. This is about creating open resources that are translatable, move from place...
