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Dividing Communities since 1991 CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Dividing Communities since 1991  CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALSGulen charter schools in North CarolinaThe Perimeter Primate at CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS - 56 minutes ago*STATE* *# A...
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My new blog « Diane Ravitch's blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - My new blog « Diane Ravitch's blog: My new blogApril 24, 2012 //0I decided to start my own blog because I was overusing Twitter and treating it as a miniblog, which it isn’t.My weekly blog at Bridg...
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2012 Spring Education Forum :: Learning Leaders

learningleaders.org - Please join Learning Leaders and our distinguished guests for a luncheon forum on the role of family engagement in education reform.Please purchase tickets below or click here to make a contributio...
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Lower Student Loan Interest Rates

huffingtonpost.com - Fifty years ago college was a luxury. Back then, you could still graduate from high school and get a good paying job that would guarantee you a place in the middle class. Those days are gone.A post...
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A Very Pricey Pineapple

nytimes.com - Let’s talk about talking pineapples. Actually (spoiler alert!) I’m going to use the pineapple as a sneaky way to introduce the topic of privatization of public education. I was driven t...
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Paul Karrer: The trouble with school testing

montereyherald.com - Witching hourrefers to the time when supernatural creatures such as witches and demons are thought to appear and to be at their most powerful, and black magic to be most effective. For educators th...
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Cheating feared after photos of school tests leaked

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Hundreds of photos of standardized tests have begun to appear on student social-networking sites in California, raising concerns about cheating and test security that could create thorny problems f...
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Mass Localism for Improving America’s Education

zhaolearning.com - A version of this post is published in Kappa Delta Pi Record, 48(1), p. 17-22 in Feb. 2012. To build a better education system, America must build on what we have—differentiation, uniqueness, and d...
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The Old versus New Illinois Pension Reality

teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com - “Payment of the required State contributions and of all pensions, retirement annuities, death benefits, refunds, and other benefits granted under or assumed by this [Teachers Retirement] System and...
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Font size may keep issue off Mich. ballot

upi.com - LANSING, Mich., April 26 (UPI) -- Opponents of a contentious Michigan law say they may go to court to fight a decision by elections officials to keep a challenge to the law off the state ballot. Th...
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Let Student Loan Rates Double

thinkprogress.org - The House will vote today on a bill to prevent the interest rate on government-backed student loans from doubling. Both Republicans and Democrats support the extension on the lower rate, but not th...
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Now Is the Time to Increase Social Security

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