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jonathanpelto.com - Apr 15 jonpeltoEducation, Ethics, Malloy, Michelle Rhee, StudentsFirst Education Reform, Malloy, Michelle Rhee, StudentsFirst Perhaps in Michelle Rhee’s world our Connecticut laws are “more of what...
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Letters: Testing, cybertheft, voter ID rules

chron.com - Sad testimony on testing There have been many articles and news reports over the past few months about the effects of standardized testing on schools in Texas. I am a ninth-grade student attending ...
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Leaders of New Group Have an "Interest" in Education

huffingtonpost.com - Few people define themselves as being a member of a special interest. That term applies to the folks on the other side -- the people you disagree with. New Yorkers got more evidence of that this mo...
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leoniehaimson Paul Farhi on so-called 'Failing Schools' On The Media -goo.gl/hrQ9V wish he'd discussed@educationnation like goo.gl/EWN6958 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite
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leoniehaimson Chris Cerrone: why I'm opting my son out of standardized tests; they are harming pub education Buffalo News - goo.gl/OsOgE56 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite
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Flunking the Test  | American Journalism Review

ajr.org - The American education system has never been better, several important measures show. But you’d never know that from reading overheated media reports about “failing” schools and enthusiastic pieces...
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Racist past haunts Florida town where Trayvon died

articles.chicagotribune.com - (Roberto Gonzalez, Getty Images)April 08, 2012|Tom Brown | ReutersSANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - The year before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier by becoming the first African American to play...
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Daily Kos: Today is Pascha

dailykos.com - Aleut (Sugpiag): Kriiiiistuusaq Ungwektuq! Pichinuq Ungwektuq! Albanian (Tosk): Krishhti Unjall! Vertet Unjall! Anglo-Saxon: Crist aras! Crist sodhlice aras! Arabic: Al Maset'h ahm! Hat'em ahm! and...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 14, 2012 Earlier today, in remarks at the Plenary Session of the 6th Summit of the Americas, President Obama highlighted hi...
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More Implications from NJ & MA for CT! « School Finance 101

schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Recently, I responded to an absurd and downright disturbing Op-Ed by a Connecticut education reform organization that claimed that Connecticut needed to move quickly to adopt teacher evaluation/ten...
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