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LAUSD TOP-HEAVY ADMNISTRATION (VIDEO #2) - Perdaily.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - LAUSD TOP-HEAVY ADMNISTRATION (VIDEO #2) - Perdaily.com: LAUSD TOP-HEAVY ADMNISTRATION (VIDEO #2)by Leonard Isenberg(Mensaje se repite en Español) (For a national view of public education reform se...
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Grumpy Educators: Testing Perversion: Parent Threatened and Parental Rights Violated in NY Testing Perversion: Parent Threatened and Parental Rights Violated in NY
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Grumpy Educators: Testing Perversion: Parent Threatened and Parental Rights Violated in NY: Testing Perversion: Parent Threatened and Parental Rights Violated in NYThis story does not require much ...
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Virtual charter school pressure falling on state education board
ncpolicywatch.com - A proposed virtual charter school with ties to a Wall Street-traded education company wants to open this fall, and filed a legal grievance to try and force the N.C. State Board of Education to revi...
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Students required to take 9 hours of English and math exams and state using dummy questions
nydailynews.com - Students will spend 270 minutes in English Language Arts assessment and 270 minutes on math exams, but some of the questions don't even count. Those dreaded state tests are here again.All third-to ...
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NYS educators agree: Flawed, confusing and misleading ELA exams
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - This week, NY students in grades 3-8 are in the midst of taking lengthy ELA exams, which in NYC, will help determine whether they will be held back, and what schools they will attend in the future,...
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Ohio Student Progress Portal - Ohio Appalachian Collaborative Districts
portal.battelleforkids.org - The Collaborative represents 21 rural school districts, 74 schools, 2,066 teachers and 34,000 students. These districts are engaged in the pursuit of a common vision of college and career-readiness...
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Statement from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on Pat Summitt Stepping Down as Tennessee Coach
ed.gov - “I am saddened to see that Pat Summitt is stepping down as the basketball coach at the University of Tennessee because she has set the gold standard for coaches everywhere. Her accomplishments as a...
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Choice Neighborhoods - HUD
portal.hud.gov - Overview Choice Neighborhoods grants transforms distressed neighborhoods and public and assisted projects into viable and sustainable mixed-income neighborhoods by linking housing improvements with...
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Promise Neighborhoods
ed.gov - Detailed list of the 2011 High-Scoring Promise Neighborhoods Applicants The list of applicants that scored 80 points or higher in the 2011 competition is organized by grant type (i.e., Implementati...
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Agriculture Education Town Hall Meeting
mediasite.uwplatt.edu - Agriculture Education Town Hall Meeting “The purpose of this town hall conversation will be to engage agriculture educators and students who aspire to teach agriculture in a conversation about elev...
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Duncan, Vilsack Highlight Need for Rural Ed Investments
governing.com - Jumpstarting the economy of rural America starts with reinvigorating the education system, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said during the keynote address Tue...
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Heightening the Contraditions in Education Reform
fredbauerblog.blogspot.com - Conservative approaches to education reform may in the next few years encounter a fateful fork in the road. One long tradition of conservative educational theory has stressed the value of vouchers...
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Everything You Need to Know About President Obama's Blueprint for College Affordability
whitehouse.gov - Matt ComptonJanuary 27, 2012 at 06:10 PM EST President Barack Obama delivers remarks on college affordability while speaking at the football practice field at the University of Michigan's Al Glick ...
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Republicans Push To Cut Child Tax Credits For Undocumented Immigrant Families
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - Sahil Kapur April 19, 2012, 5:00 AM Exhibit A: Presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney is warning his donors that Republicans must win back Hispanic voters or face “demographic doom.”Exhibit B...
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A Foreshadowing of Illinois Pension Reform: An Analysis
teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com - Before becoming the controversial General Treasurer of Rhode Island, Gino Raimondo ran a venture-capital firm in Providence, Rhode Island. Recently, Raimondo’s remedies for her state pensions were...
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The Republicans who want ignorance to get equal time in schools | Diane Roberts | Comment is free
guardian.co.uk - Some Conservatives are keen to denounce global warming and melting ice caps as a 'hoax'. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images Not content with merely waging war on women, Republicans are targeting ...
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This Is How I Vote
schooltechconnect.com - So, the Sullivan HS LSC election is tomorrow. Turns out that the community candidates do indeed have digital footprints, and one of them is a known commodity here in Rogers. Here's the list, if any...
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Protect Schools & Public Safety
protectschoolsandpublicsafety.org - Our campaign must gather 807,615 signatures of California registered voters to give you the chance to prevent cuts to our vital services. You can help by printing your own petition, gathering signa...
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The Kids These Days, Pornography, and Pleasure
danagoldstein.net - Sasha Grey, via her Twitter feed A Cuddle Party would exist in my personal ninth circle of hell. Nevertheless, the sex/relationships guru who came up with the concept, Reid Mihalko, made some inter...
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This hedge-fund "school reformer" is so rich, he donates to the Koch Bros.
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Griffin is the one on the right Greg Hinz at Crain's, "Follow the money: Citadel's Ken Griffin and the Illinois GOP," reports on the Chicago hedge-fund billionaire who secretly throws millions into...
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Schooling in the Ownership Society: This hedge-fund "school reformer" is so rich, he donates to the Koch Bros.
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schooling in the Ownership Society: This hedge-fund "school reformer" is so rich, he donates to the Koch Bros.: This hedge-fund "school reformer" is so rich, he donates to the Koch Bros.by Mike Klo...
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Ohio resumes lethal injections despite exonerations and botched procedures
rawstory.com - By Ed Pilkington, The GuardianWednesday, April 18, 2012 20:24 EDT The state of Ohio is set to reclaim its position as one of the most avid practitioners of the death sentence in America after it ...
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The Book Bench: Justice for Ralph Ellison : The New Yorker
newyorker.com - One of the greatest of all American books, Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” was published by Random House sixty years ago, on April 14, 1952, and became an immediate sensation. Almost everyone who ...
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Espacio Publicitario: P&G: Gracias, mamá | Zambombazo
zachary-jones.com - 18/04/2012 • 1:58 pmEspacio Publicitario, una actividad en la que vemos anuncios con el objetivo de desarrollar nuestras competencias lingüísticas y mediáticas. En esta edición analizaremos un emot...
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RIP: This Is Your Life - Dick Clark Episode - Interview Part 1 (1959)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - June 24, 1959 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JJSDGK?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&link... Watch the full program:http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/11/this-is-your-life-dick-clark-inte...Richard...
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First it was corporations bailing out; now the parade of Louisiana Legislators exiting ALEC membership begins « Louisiana Voice
louisianavoice.com - At least one member of the Louisiana Legislature has seen enough of the inner workings of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Even as ALEC Executive Director Ron Scheberle bemoans wha...
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Corporations that Spent Big on Lobbying Saw Big Drops in Their Taxes
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - The Sunlight Foundation looked at the eight companies that spent the most on lobbying and found that all of them saw their reported tax rates drop. This drop in tax rates effectively reduced the ta...
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Robert Reich (The Significance of Citigroup's Shareholder Revolt)
robertreich.org - The shareholders of Wall Street giant Citigroup are out to prove that corporate democracy isn’t an oxymoron. They’ve said no to the exorbitant $15 million pay package of Citi’s CEO Vikram Pandit, a...
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Duncan, Vilsack Highlight Need for Rural Ed Investments
governing.com - Jumpstarting the economy of rural America starts with reinvigorating the education system, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said during the keynote address Tue...
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Everything You Need to Know About President Obama's Blueprint for College Affordability
whitehouse.gov - Matt ComptonJanuary 27, 2012 at 06:10 PM EST President Barack Obama delivers remarks on college affordability while speaking at the football practice field at the University of Michigan's Al Glick ...
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