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When Pineapple Races Hare, Students Lose, Critics of Standardized Tests Say
nytimes.com - A reading passage included this week in one of New York’s standardized English tests has become the talk of the eighth grade, with students walking around saying, “Pineapples don’t have sleeves,” a...
Illinois Democrat’s plan to blow up the public school system. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Illinois is a blue state. We’re not talking about Walker’s Wisconsin or Kasich’s Ohio. We talking Democrats. Chicago’s Mayor Emanuel. Governor Quinn. Party Chairman and Speaker Madigan. Senate Pres...
NCLB Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)
susanohanian.org - Testing: How to Stop the Reign NOTE: NCLB testing begins tomorrow in New York, when 1.2 million kids begin to take the ELA and math tests in grades 3 - 8. This year the tests contain embedded multi...
Wendy Lecker: The real needs in Connecticut classrooms
ctpost.com - In the past few weeks, Connecticut has been inundated with high-priced ads from out-of state lobby groups, op-eds from businessmen, and appearances by the governor, all claiming that there is a "mo...
Bishop Who Compared Obama To Hitler Urged To Resign From Notre Dame Board By Members Of Faculty
huffingtonpost.com - Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky is continuing to feel the heat for a sermon in which he preached that President Obama's policies were following a 'similar path' to that of Hitler and Stalin.A spokeswo...
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Teachers union, CPS agree to call in ‘fact-finding’ panel for contract talks - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - By ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter April 16, 2012 6:23PM Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis and Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard discuss the schools. FILE PHOTO. | Tom Cru...
Education Justice | April 19, 2012 - Pro
educationjustice.org - April 20, 2012 Charter school finance and real estate advisor Illinois Facilities Fund (IFF) issued a report that recommends major disruptions for children and families in 37 public schools in Wash...
Finding an End to the Parent-Teacher Wars
parenting.blogs.nytimes.com - According to Ron Clark, Disney’s American Teacher of the Year, new teachers remain in our profession an average of just four and a half years, “and many of them list ‘issues with parents’ as one of...
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Remembering Bernard Rapoport | The Nation
thenation.com - Bernard Rapoport's death at the age of ninety-four has brought to a close one of the storied chapters in the history of American liberalism.Also by the AuthorThe recently-exposed massacre in Hadith...
Fethullah Gülen's Official Web Site
en.fgulen.com - Last Updated on Friday, 20 April 2012 20:56 by fgulen.com Friday, 20 April 2012 18:37 An article with the heading “Shadow force grows in Turkey” by Dan Bilefsky and Sebnem Arsu appeared in the Inte...
When Pineapple Races Hare, Students Lose, Critics of Standardized Tests Say
nytimes.com - A reading passage included this week in one of New York’s standardized English tests has become the talk of the eighth grade, with students walking around saying, “Pineapples don’t have sleeves,” a...
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IT’S ALL ABOUT TRUST AT CITY HALL - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - MARK BROWN markbrown@suntimes.com April 18, 2012 10:00PM Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks to the press after a city council meeting which voted in favor of the new anti-speeding cameras in Chicago. | Al P...
Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - I was president of our local for ten years and I hated the last two months of the school year. That is when administrators made decisions That is never a good thing. Yesterday we got a memo from ou...
Spokeswoman for group pushing ‘parent trigger’ going to work for Obama campaign in California
postonpolitics.com - by Dara Kam | April 20th, 2012 The spokeswoman of the California-based Parent Revolution group that pushed a controversial “parent trigger” bill in Florida is going to work for President Obama’s re...
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Murdoch’s Muscle
nytimes.com - When I last saw you, at a White House Correspondents’ Dinner after-party in 2000, you were squiring around a foxy actress named Kathleen York. I have a pretty stiff public appearance, I guess. The ...
Murdoch’s Muscle
nytimes.com - When I last saw you, at a White House Correspondents’ Dinner after-party in 2000, you were squiring around a foxy actress named Kathleen York. I have a pretty stiff public appearance, I guess. The ...
Bee Gees star Robin Gibb wakes from coma: spokesman
rawstory.com - By Agence France-PresseSaturday, April 21, 2012 16:28 EDT Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb has woken from a coma and responded to members of his family, his spokesman said Saturday. Gibb, 62, contracte...
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Earth Day: In 1972, EPA battled pollution; now it's politics
mercurynews.com - WASHINGTON -- A polluted drainage ditch that once flowed with industrial waste from Lake Charles, La., petrochemical plants teems with overgrown, wild plants today. A light-rail line zips past the ...
Sands Montessori and Burlington Elementary Schools Plant Trees to Celebrate Earth Day -- CINCINNATI, April 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
prnewswire.com - CINCINNATI, April 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Over 100 students from Sands Montessori and Burlington Elementary Schools took home trees today to plant and to celebrate Earth Day. The trees were do...
Rally Against Nuclear Power at San Onofre on April 29th
obrag.org - Rally Commemorates Chernobyl, TMI, continuing meltdown at Fukushima on Sunday, from Noon to 3pm “Shut Down San Onofre” Momentum builds following Radioactivity Release and Design-Error Shutdown of t...
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Contrasting Reports on State Revenues and Spending Tell Us Who’s Paying the Price for Harmful National Economic Policy
news.firedoglake.com - CBPP Report: Figure 1. An article in today’s New York Times tells us about two new reports, one from the Rockefeller Institute (RI), the other from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)...
President Obama Calls on Congress to Prevent Student Loan Interest Rates from Doubling | ED.gov Blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - President Obama Calls on Congress to Prevent Student Loan Interest Rates from Doubling | ED.gov Blog: President Obama Calls on Congress to Prevent Student Loan Interest Rates from Doublingby Camero...
Hiring report offers hope to California's jobless - Around the valley
modbee.com - Maybe the economic recovery isn't cooling off, after all.Although jobless rates increased last month, employers continued hiring at a decent pace throughout California in March, state officials sai...
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Lobbying Spending Database - Pearson Education, 2011
opensecrets.org - Lobbying A special interest's lobbying activity may go up or down over time, depending on how much attention the federal government is giving their issues. Particularly active clients often retain ...
‘Pineapple and the Hare’ flunks the test of common sense
nydailynews.com - Sabo, Robert/New York Daily News A pineapple ready to be eaten. Just like the talking fruit in the unanswerable question on the state’s 8th grade English exam. No one in a position of authority wou...
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nypost.com - State Education Department officials were blind to the feelings of deaf students on this week’s English exams — heartlessly asking them questions about sounds such as the clickety-clack of a woman’...
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Lobbying Spending Database - Pearson Education, 2011
opensecrets.org - Lobbying A special interest's lobbying activity may go up or down over time, depending on how much attention the federal government is giving their issues. Particularly active clients often retain ...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Early Evening Posts 4-21 #SOSchat #p2 #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - President Obama Calls on Congress to Prevent Student Loan Interest Rates from Doubling | ED.gov Blog Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 4 minutes ago President Obama Calls on Congres...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 420 #soschat #EDReform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Reports raise concerns about stability of principal corps in Philly schools | Philadelphia Public School Notebook Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 54 minutes ago Reports raise co...
