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Friday, April 20, 2012

Big Education Ape: 42012 PM We Should All Live in a Pineapple Under the Sea EDition #SOSCHAT #STUPIDTEST

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Commissioner King Statement on The Hare and the Pineapple

oms.nysed.gov - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 20, 2012For More Information Contact: Tom Dunn, Jonathan Burman or Jane Briggs (518) 474-1201www.nysed.gov STATEMENT FROM EDUCATION COMMISSIONER JOHN B. KING ON THE HARE...
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Oconomowoc students react to news of teacher layoffs

jsonline.com - Oconomowoc High School students wore special shirts with the message "We love our teachers" to school on Friday after news that 15 teachers received layoff notices this week. While the district is ...
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Get rid of the 3 p.m. school day

washingtonpost.com - School hours in the United States were developed during the 19th century, in part to allow students to help their families with farm work in the afternoon. We are no longer an agrarian economy, but...
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Quick Study

courant.com - About 60 college students rallied at the state Capitol Thursday evening to support education reform as part of a national non-profit group called Students for Education Reform.When Michael Daley wa...
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NYS educators agree: Flawed, confusing and misleading ELA exams

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - This week, NY students in grades 3-8 are in the midst of taking lengthy ELA exams, which in NYC, will help determine whether they will be held back, and what schools they will attend in the future,...
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- Wait, What?

jonathanpelto.com - Apr 20 jonpeltoEducation, Malloy, Stefan Pryor Education Reform, Malloy, Stefan Pryor Now we know why Governor Malloy is demanding that the “Commissioner’s Network” schools be exempt from having to...
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Controversial Policy Group Casts Long K-12 Shadow

edweek.org - Published Online: April 20, 2012In nearly 40 years of legislative advocacy, the American Legislative Exchange Council—a free-market, limited-government group now drawing intense scrutiny for its su...
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Vatican Reprimands U.S. Nuns Group

nytimes.com - The Vatican has appointed an American bishop to rein in the largest and most influential group of Catholic nuns in the United States, saying that an investigation found that the group has “serious ...
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"Underfunded": Let's kill this poisonous euphemism

illinoisntu.ning.com - Let's stop referring to state financial obligations as "underfunded" things. The media loads our brains with euphemisms. "Collateral damage." "Mistakes were made." "We must look to the present prob...
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Dare the council stand up to autocrat Rahm?

illinoisntu.ning.com - "We've debated this long enough. I'm not in the position of analysis. I'm in the position of getting things done." -- Rahm to his council  Scientists have discovered signs of life in Chicago's city...
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YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID « Teachers Fight Back

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID « Teachers Fight Back: YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID by alkleen Teachers, principals, administrators, aides, and any adult associated with a school. How many times do I h...
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Bail Hearing This Morning for Gunman in Martin Shooting

nytimes.com - SANFORD, Fla. — A bail hearing began on Friday morning for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who was arrested last week on second-degree murder charges in the shooting death of Tra...
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Missouri Teacher Forced 6-Year-Old To Sit In Her Diarrhea

huffingtonpost.com - Lisa Skidmore, mother of a kindergarten student at Southwest School in Washburn, Mo., is outraged after her daughter's teacher forced her to wrap a trash bag around herself and sit in her own diarr...
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Tragic Double-Slaying in Las Vegas Family

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 12:15 pm EST, April 20, 2012 This Monday when a 9-year-old arrived at school in the morning he told his teachers that his father had killed both his mother and older sister that very m...
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Headlines April 20, 2012 Whole Show | First Story >

democracynow.org - Levon Helm has died at the age 71 after a battle with cancer. He was a drummer and singer in Bob Dylan’s backup band, which later became the legendary musical group known simply as "The Band." Levo...
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- Wait, What?

jonathanpelto.com - Apr 20 jonpeltoEducation, Malloy, Stefan Pryor Education Reform, Malloy, Stefan Pryor Now we know why Governor Malloy is demanding that the “Commissioner’s Network” schools be exempt from having to...
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