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Top 20 K-12 Schools | Green Power Partnership

epa.gov -   The Top 20 K-12 Schools list represents the largest green power users among K-12 school partners within the Green Power Partnership. The combined green power use of these organizations amounts to...
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Burbank instructor is named National Teacher of the Year

latimes.com - Though she was raised by two teachers, Rebecca Mieliwocki never figured she'd end up in front of a classroom. She first aspired to be a lawyer, then worked in publishing. Unfulfilled, she decided t...
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National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing

timeoutfromtesting.org - WHEREAS, our nation's future well-being relies on a high-quality public education system that prepares all students for college, careers, citizenship and lifelong learning, and strengthens the nati...
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Sweeping Changes and School Closings Proposed for Philly

nbcphiladelphia.com - Getty Images Planners of a new proposal expect 40 percent of Philadelphia public school students to be enrolled in charter schools by 2017. advertisement The Philadelphia school district could clos...
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ALEC Politicians - SourceWatch

sourcewatch.org - From SourceWatchLearn more about corporations VOTING to rewrite our laws.ALEC Politicians: ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind clo...
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why release test items? « Diane Ravitch's blog

dianeravitch.net - A reader said it would be expensive to release all test items as the test publishers would have to spend lots more money creating new ones. Actually there is another way to think about all this. Re...
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http://www.southbronxschool.com

southbronxschool.com - Did ya read David Brooks' column last week in The New York Times? In the immortal words of Carl Spackler, I had to laugh. It just shows how out of touch the people who think they are on the cutting...
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Blog posts on this issue

whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 24, 2012 Aboard Air Force One En Route North Carolina11:30 A.M. EDTMR. CARNEY:  I have no announcements to make at the top ...
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Procter & Gamble Becomes 13th Company To Drop ALEC

thinkprogress.org - Joining a dozen other major corporations, Procter & Gamble decided not to rejoin the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) this year, according to a statement from Color Of Change, which lau...
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Democrats’ latest tax target: Private corporations

articles.boston.com - The proposal would affect such companies with earnings of at least $250,000 annually and whose revenues come from the work of three or fewer owners. It would also apply to some lawyers, doctors and...
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Listen to WRHU - WRHU Radio Hofstra University 88.7 fm

hofstra.edu - Click below to tune in to a live webcast of Radio Hofstra University!E-mail us to report problems with the WRHU.org webcast.The broadcasters of tomorrow are at Hofstra today! Radio Hofstra Universi...
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Bruce Springsteen’s Appeal to Conscience « InterACT

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Bruce Springsteen’s Appeal to Conscience « InterACT: Bruce Springsteen’s Appeal to Conscienceby David B. CohenBruce Springsteen (image by GabboT, used by permission, via Flickr)Tonight, I’ll be amo...
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Pineapple Rebellion in full swing

illinoisntu.ning.com - The N.Y. Times reports:   Anti-testing activists have taken up the cudgel, saying that the passage and the multiple-choice questions associated with it perfectly illustrate the absurdity of standar...
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More mistakes on New York State tests

nydailynews.com - Just days after scrapping a puzzling question about a pineapple on state reading exams, New York education officials have admitted to mistakes on the math test, too.Both the fourth and eighth grade...
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