Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!
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The Incoherent Reform of Michelle Rhee
jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - Last Friday, Michelle Rhee was on Brian Lehrer's radio show. The segment, unsurprisingly, is a textbook example of the incoherence of the corporate reform movement. I'll have more to say about the ...
- Wait, What?
jonathanpelto.com - Apr 17 jonpeltoCharter Schools, Education, Malloy, State Budget Education Reform, Malloy Having collected some updated data on the status of Connecticut’s unfunded pension liability, it’s worth goi...
Will · Opting Out
willrichardson.com - Just wanted to share that next week while thousands of New Jersey school children will be subjected to the annual ASK standardized tests, my 12-year old son Tucker will not be among them. We made a...
Teachers Seek To Oust Louisiana Governor
huffingtonpost.com - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal delivers his 2012 State of the State Address to the state legislature.Two teachers have launched a recall drive to oust Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and state House S...
What the U.S. can’t learn from Finland about ed reform - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - Finland’s high-achieving public school system is now part of the conversation about U.S. education reform these days. What, it is often asked, can we learn from Finland? (Plenty, actually, though U...
Montgomery County MD versus Washington DC « GFBrandenburg's Blog
gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com - Excellent short article. Here is an excerpt: Anyone who has followed reform efforts in D.C. knows that student achievement over the past five years, as measured by test scores, has been unimpressiv...
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Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Royko would have loved Rahm. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - From the Southtown. That brilliant chronicler of the verities of Chicago’s corrupt politicians, Mike Royko, would see Rahm Emanuel, the Dimunitive Despot, as a columnist’s dream come true. The scen...
With Test Week Here, Parents Consider the Option of Opting Out – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - April 16, 2012, 2:29 p.m. While thousands of New York public school students will sit for mandated standardized tests this week, only a handful will be deliberately kept from picking up their No. 2...
To gauge day-to-day effects of Mojave's turnaround, federal official goes to school - Monday, April 16, 2012 | 2 a.m.
lasvegassun.com - Leila Navidi Joe Barison, the regional director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Communications and Outreach, tours Mojave High School campus with principal Antonio Rael in North Las...
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Our Bodies, Their Politics -- In These Times
inthesetimes.com - The last few months have made abundantly clear what women must do: Rid America’s capitols of misogynists. In the first half of 2011, close to 1,000 measures related to reproductive health and right...
HJRCA#49 has replaced HJRCA#5
iearegion28.wordpress.com - The Constitutional Amendment that we have been concerned about was filed over the weekend. Attached is information on HJRCA#49 (replaces HJRCA#5) filed by Speaker Madigan. This amendment would make...
Protesters decry closing of mental health clinics in Chicago
abclocal.go.com - April 16, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Protesters against the closing of mental health clinics in Chicago spoke out in front of the offices of the Chicago Department of Public Health just before the age...
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School Tech Connect: Totally Not A Rant
schooltechconnect.com - So... here's a cautionary tale, not a rant. It's going to sound like a rant. I'm not ranting, swear to God. Anyway I get an email from my state representative, and it turns out she's having office ...
How many NANNIES & MAIDS raised Romney boys?
dailykos.com - Hillary Rosen has caused a stir and one would think per the MSM it is an earth shattering stir ....his wife has actually never worked a day in her life.... Thanx to jbigss diary http://www.dailykos...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the First Lady For Immediate Release April 17, 2012 The Pinnacle at Symphony Place Nashville, Tennessee12:36 P.M. CDTMRS. OBAMA: Oh, my goodness. (Applause.) Wow. Well...
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Richard (RJ) Eskow: How "Centrist" Democrats Are Helping Conservatives
huffingtonpost.com - So a corporate Democratic lobbyist named Hillary Rosen made a gaffe about Ann Romney's resumé. So what? The reality is that Moms of all ages have been wounded by an obsolete and misguided consensus...
The War Metaphor
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - The war metaphor has been badly overused-- war on drugs, war on poverty -- but it still holds up in some cases. Dean Baker's Huffington piece, for example, describes The War on Public Sector Worker...
Obama Camp, Seeing Shift, Bets on Long Shot in Arizona - Pittsburgh Post
post-gazette.com - April 16, 2012 1:09 pm Share with others: By ADAM NAGOURNEY / The New York Times PHOENIX -- President Obama's re-election campaign is dispatching workers across Arizona's college campuses and Latin...
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Adopted Board Resolutions
tasanet.org - The following is a list of school districts that have adopted the Resolution Concerning High Stakes, Standardized Testing of Texas Public School Students. As of March 27, 2012, 192 districts have n...
Kindergarten cops! Say 5-year-old autistic boy's tantrum at school gets 3 generations in scrap with NYPD
nydailynews.com - Bryan Smith/for New York Daily News Kindergartner “G.R.,” with great-grandma Lana Lirtsman (l.), mom Ida Rozenberg and grandma Maria Lirtsman. A Brooklyn school’s botched handling of a 5-year-old a...
Police handcuff Georgia kindergartner for tantrum
boston.com - MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.—Police in Georgia handcuffed a kindergartner with her arms behind her back after the girl threw a tantrum and the police chief defended the action as a safety measure.The girl's ...
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Judge throws out Andrew Shirvell lawsuit against former U-M student body president
democraticunderground.com - Source: Detroit Free PressJudge throws out Andrew Shirvell lawsuit against former U-M student body president 4:43 PM, April 17, 2012 By David Jesse Free Press Education Writer A federal judge threw...
Over 6,000 LAUSD students to see 'Bully' today downtown
scpr.org - Jesse Grant/Getty Images For MPAA MPAA receives 200,000 signatures from bullied student, Katy Butler, urging reversal of "R" rating for "Bully" film at the offices of the Motion Picture Association...
Pulitzer Prize Winner Quiara Alegria Hudes Wins for Drama
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 12:46 pm EST, April 17, 2012 Quiara Alegria Hudes, a writer of Puerto Rican origin, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for drama with her play, “Water by the Spoonful,” Columbia University sa...
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Big Education Ape: 4-17-12 AM Stand ON Students First New AstroTurf EDition #CORPREFORM #ALEC
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Michelle Rhee's Education Reform
wnyc.org - Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of the Washington DC school system and now the head of Students First NY, talks about the new New York State advocacy group she's founded that's being described as ...