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Schools Matter: National Resolution on High Stakes Testing #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: National Resolution on High Stakes Testing: National Resolution on High Stakes Testingby Judy RabinThis Resolution calls on federal and state policymakers to reduce standardized tes...
Student Loans: Interest Rate Bill By George Miller Would Cut Tax Loopholes To Keep Rate Down For A Year
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Student Loans: Interest Rate Bill By George Miller Would Cut Tax Loopholes To Keep Rate Down For A Year: Student Loans: Interest Rate Bill By George Miller Would Cut Tax Loopholes To Keep Rate Down...
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...
ED & SBA Host Twitter Chat: Connecting Grads to Resources to Help Them Startup
ed.gov - Cross-posted from SBA.gov Graduation season is right around the corner and to help grads that are looking to start a small business, SBA and the U.S. Department of Education will host a Twitter Q &...
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...
Philadelphia School District announces its dissolution | Philadelphia City Paper
citypaper.net - Philadelphia public schools are on the operating table, reeling from a knockout blow of heavy state budget cuts. It was too much to bear after decades of underfunding and mismanagement at the hand...
NY State Education Department is a Problem « Diane Ravitch's blog
dianeravitch.net - Ten years ago, the New York State Education Department got embroiled in a very embarrassing scandal. A vigilant parent discovered that many passages on the Regents’ exam in English had been he...
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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...
RheeFirst! » When Pineapplegate meets Erasuregate why, call it a “DC miracle!”
rheefirst.com - Dated but highly relevant to the text fixation of corporate reformers like Rhee Written by Laura Clawson for the DailyKos. Read the entire article here. “Data from 2009 and 2010 show that scores d...
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...
Quinn: Putting pension costs on schools not “essential” immediately
dailyherald.com - Article updated: 4/24/2012 5:06 PM Bill Zars/bzars@dailyherald.com Illinois Governor Pat Quinn talks about state pensions, Medicaid and gambling with the Daily Herald editorial board. Bill Zars/b...
Republican Attack on Fair Union Election Rule Fails in Senate
aflcio.org - Congressional Republicans today failed in their latest attempt to roll back workers’ rights. The U.S. Senate defeated (45-54) a measure (S.J. Res. 36) to kill a new National Labor Relations Board (...
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Another Nonsense Question From New York's Standardized English Tests
gawker.com - Teachers have been responding to our request yesterday for more examples of queer questions from New York's English Language Arts test, which was administered last week to third- through eighth-gra...
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...
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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Nobel Peace Prize laureates warn against unnecessary wars at summit in Chicago - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - Nobel Peace Prize laureates meeting in Chicago on Monday said the proliferation of nuclear weapons is among the most challenging threats to world peace, but they criticized countries, including the...
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 ...
25 Millionaires Who Each Gave a Million Dollars (at least)
obrag.org - By Frank Rich / The New Yorker / April 22, 2012 The first 25 conservative donors to give $1 million or more to super-PACs this cycle, either on their own, with their families, or with companies tha...
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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...
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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Tony Perkins Laments that 'Mike and Ike' Are Gay and 'Sexualizing Candy'
rightwingwatch.org - As part of a new advertising campaign for the candy, ‘Mike and Ike’ have announced that they are divorcing so Ike can pursue a career in the arts and Mike can fulfill his dream of becoming a “music...
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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...
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...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 4-24 #soschat #EDReform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Bruce Springsteen’s Appeal to Conscience « InterACT Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 6 minutes ago Bruce Springsteen’s Appeal to Conscience « InterACT: Bruce Springsteen’s Appeal...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Early Evening Posts 4-24 #SOSchat #p2 #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools for the corporate era - Colorlines.com - Salon.com Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 18 minutes ago Schools for the corporate era - Colorlines.com - Salon.com: Schools for...
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RheeFirst! » When Pineapplegate meets Erasuregate why, call it a “DC miracle!”
rheefirst.com - Dated but highly relevant to the text fixation of corporate reformers like Rhee Written by Laura Clawson for the DailyKos. Read the entire article here. “Data from 2009 and 2010 show that scores d...
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...
Examination of primary school Chinese bias were dismissed pandas and rabbits different Zoo feeding
chinastudygroup.org - Bees, birds, rabbits, Panda, who’s different? Answer: the Panda, is kept in the Zoo Primary school language and burst out “stupid” questions Experts: simple and crude in Chinese teaching of t...
