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Facing outcry from educators, Kenneth Cole to remove billboard
gothamschools.org - The Kenneth Cole billboard is visible from the West Side Highway, near 125th Street. Hundreds of angry educators from across the country seem to have taught the clothing retailer Kenneth Cole a les...
The Obama Record in Education
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Social media outrage brings down anti-union Kenneth Cole billboard. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - The billboard, featuring a woman exposing a lot of cleavage combined with an attack on teacher unions may have baffled some. But it pissed off enough people that Kenneth Cole, the sponsor of the si...
Low Teach For America retention rate examined, but Duval embraces program
jacksonville.com - In August, about 100 Teach For America recruits will arrive to work as teachers in Duval County Public Schools. If past trends hold, as few as 11 of them will still be teaching here in traditional ...
What’s Good About “Constructive Turbulence”? « Diane Ravitch's blog
dianeravitch.net - I blog weekly for Education Week. I think it is a wonderful publication and a great newspaper of record for education. On my blog, I have been free to write whatever I want. No one has ever told me...
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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...
The Wonkster » Blog Archive » Cuomo Creates Education Reform Commission
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CMT Scores and Teacher Evaluations – But Wait – That’s Like Comparing Apples and Tomatoes
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Kenneth Cole. Is it the shoes? « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - H/T NYC Educator The picture of the billboard showed up on lots of Facebook and blog sites this weekend. Kenneth Cole, shoe monger and brother-in-law of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, put up the b...
4 children, 4 the public, 4 social justice, 4 the future
ipetitions.com - The Petition We are education scholars, students, teachers, and citizens who support worldwide democratic efforts that demand economic and social justice. Access to decent education i...
Kenneth Cole gets schooled - Salon.com
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Romney's Advice To Students: Borrow Money From Your Parents
thinkprogress.org - If you’re young and you want to start your own business, Mitt Romney’s has some advice from you: Borrow money from your parents. At a “lecture” for students at Otterbein University in Ohio today, M...
more errors in 2012 Mathematics Tests Scoring Materials
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The Hardest Job Everyone Thinks They Can Do | Musings on Life and Love
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Why Hakeem Jeffries may be Cuomo's guy in the House
capitalnewyork.com - Andrew Cuomo may soon have a new ally in the New York congressional delegation.Last month, when the governor was aggressively pushing for expansion of the state's DNA database to include informatio...
Former Israeli Premier Assails Netanyahu on Iran
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Cuomo Forms Panel to Make 'Action Plan' for Education – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - April 30, 2012, 6:01 p.m. ALBANY — Declaring that “government has failed to do what government should be doing,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo moved on Monday to assert his influence over the state’s educat...
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Scandal and Scrutiny Hem In Murdoch’s Empire
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Growing Number of Americans Expect to Rely Mostly on Social Security
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US May Day protests planned, may disrupt commutes
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Occupy SF, Oakland plan May Day rallies, pickets
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NJ nuclear plant declares 'unusual event' and shuts down
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more errors in 2012 Mathematics Tests Scoring Materials
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Fly My Pretties | Gary Rubinstein's Blog
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - The original purpose of TFA was to encourage the ‘best and brightest’ to learn, first hand, about what is going on in the American education system, and then use this knowledge to help improve it. ...
Big Education Ape: 4-30-12 PM BOYCOTT PEARSON NOW EDition #EDREFORM #CORPREFORM
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