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Rheeinforcements TFA Group Violates Connecticut’s Ethics Laws? - Wait, What? Stand ON Children First: New AstroTurf from Teacher in the Box
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Another “Education Reform” Group Violates Connecticut’s Ethics Laws? - Wait, What?: Another “Education Reform” Group Violates Connecticut’s Ethics Laws?by jonpeltoIt now appears that Teach for Amer...
Latest skeptic of teachers unions is clothing label’s city billboard
gothamschools.org - This spring, the West Side Highway’s typical advertising fare also includes a political message that seems aimed at teachers unions. A billboard advertising Kenneth Cole — the clothing company owne...
New Research Suggests Federal Education Grants Are Working - Emily Richmond - National
theatlantic.com - At least in California, stimulus money for failing schools appears to be closing the achievement gap. Whether this will amount to long-term growth is yet to be seen. ReutersA new study found studen...
PA Blows Up Its School District, And No One In The Complicit National Media Even Cares
crooksandliars.com - The elites' plans are in place to close 40 schools, break the teacher and janitorial unions, and put the education of the City of Philadelphia's children up for bid. It just makes me sick. I knew i...
Students post several hundred images of state tests on social media networks
scpr.org - Rogers Herr Middle School Standarized test scantron answer sheetStudents have taken several hundred images of this year's state tests and posted them online on social networking sites including Fac...
Another “Education Reform” Group Violates Connecticut’s Ethic’s Laws?
jonathanpelto.com - Apr 29 jonpeltoBridgeport, Education, Ethics, Malloy, Teach for America Education Reform, Malloy, Teach for America It now appears that Teach for America is joining the “you won’t find our lobbying...
Charter schools get extra grant money by nesting schools within each other - Schools
miamiherald.com - From the outside, it looks like a single school, with one main door, one security guard, one principal greeting students. But on paper, the Charter School of Excellence at Tamarac is actually two s...
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Some schools offer incentives to students to improve state test scores
dailybreeze.com - Andrea Tinajero, 10th grader, holds ipod she recieved for maintaining her advanced CST test scores at Leuzinger High School. The program awards students who show improvement in the standardized tes...
PASS and PACT Things of the Past in PCSSD
arkansasmatters.com - "It eventually boiled down to a decision by him as to what needs to be done," said Pulaski County Special School District (PCSSD) Superintendent Dr. Jerry Guess. That was his reaction following Ark...
Abolish Tenure? - Innovations - The Chronicle of Higher Education
chronicle.com - The Virginia state legislature has been making headlines for discussing whether women should have to undergo a trans-vaginal ultrasound before having an abortion, but the same legislative body is r...
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After farm groups complain, Obama administration drops plan to restrict child labor on farms
washingtonpost.com - While labor officials said their goal was to reduce the fatality rate for child farm workers, the proposal had become a popular political target for Republicans who called it an impractical, heavy-...
BTF stages walkout on education chief - Schools
buffalonews.com - Friday may have proved the ultimate challenge for John B. King Jr. The state education commissioner found himself thrust before a grouchy convention of statewide teachers in Buffalo, where local un...
Complaint filed over reform consultant hiring
ctpost.com - HARTFORD -- The head of a non-profit consumer watchdog on Friday filed a whistleblower complaint charging that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and state Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor violated state law...
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How a Blind Chinese Activist Escapes House Arrest - Global
theatlanticwire.com - Details on how a blind Chinese activist under house arrest could escape and make it all the way to Beijing and, allegedly, to the American embassy have begun to emerge. Chen Guangcheng reportedly ...
Robert Gibbs: Romney’s slogan is Obama ‘didn’t clean up our mess fast enough’
rawstory.com - By David EdwardsSunday, April 29, 2012 13:51 EDT Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs on Sunday dismissed the Republican claim that women would vote for presumptive Republican presidential nominee...
Gov. Jerry Brown: Republican Party like a cult
rawstory.com - By Eric W. DolanSunday, April 29, 2012 14:43 EDT On CBS News’ Face the Nation Sunday morning, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said that politics had changed a “hell of a lot” since he started his...
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SCARS OF THE LAST MEN OUT OF SAIGON
utsandiego.com - A15-18: Military + DefenseNavy’s littoral combat ship under new scrutiny.Veterans’ key issues: employment, housing, VA enrollment John Valdez, senior enlisted Marine at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, ...
Drone strike kills four suspected militants in Pakistan
democraticunderground.com - Source: ReutersPESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike killed four suspected militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border on Sunday, intelligence officia...
TO JOLIET JAIL FOR NATO OFFENDERS?
suntimes.com - Mothballed for a decade, the Joliet Correctional Center could be temporarily reopened to serve as a detention facility for those arrested for serious offenses during the May 20-21 NATO summit.
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Activists prepare for (another) rally to close San Onofre nuclear power plant
democraticunderground.com - Source: KPCCAnti-nuclear activists plan a march and rally starting at 12:30 p.m. at the San Onofre nuclear power plant on Sunday. The groups want to shut down the plant permanently. The plant has b...
Fiesta Broadway expected to draw thousands downtown
latimesblogs.latimes.com - April 29, 2012 | 10:33 am Fiesta Broadway, Los Angeles’ yearly celebration of Latino culture and music, is expected to fill downtown streets Sunday with tens of thousands of revelers in what is bil...
Tickets on Sale for Hopefest 2012 Featuring Los Lobos!
chicagohomeless.org - March 31, 2012 Hopefest 2012 is here and this year’s event will be featuring LOS LOBOS! Local favorite ROLLOVER will be opening as well! When: Friday, June 1, 2012 @ 7 p.m. Where: Park West, 322 W...
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Scientists find gene that inhibits pancreas cancer spread
rawstory.com - By Agence France-PresseSunday, April 29, 2012 15:20 EDT PARIS — Scientists have identified a gene that slows the spread of pancreatic cancer tumours, paving the way for targeted treatment of one ...
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Link between value-added ratings and classroom observations is modest at best, studies show - D.C. Schools Insider
washingtonpost.com - Here’s a statistical postscript to the story of Sarah Wysocki , the MacFarland Middle School teacher fired by DCPS last year after she earned good classroom observation scores on IMPACT’s Teaching ...
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Just Cause, or "Just 'Cause"?
huffingtonpost.com - Late last week, news broke that 75 probationary (non-"tenured") teachers who were improperly fired under then-DCPS Chancellor Michelle Rhee would be re-instated.In covering the coverage, a writer o...
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