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Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!
Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!

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Oh, it’s good to be Michelle Rhee;

jonathanpelto.com - May 12 jonpeltoEducation, Malloy, Michelle Rhee, StudentsFirst Education Reform, Malloy, Michelle Rhee, StudentsFirst Imagine.  Knowing you are always right… And regardless of whether you are right...
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A Parent Chooses « Diane Ravitch's blog

dianeravitch.net - This is one of the best stories I have read in days. Here is an example of a parent who said “enough is enough.”This parent filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding that the Pearson tes...
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Nikhil Goyal • Separate and Unequal

goyalnikhil.tumblr.com - This Sunday’s New York Times features a hard hitting piece entitled ‘Why Don’t We Have Any White Kids?’ as part of the series “A System Divided.” It delves into the racial schisms of Explore Charte...
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‘Why Don’t We Have Any White Kids?’

nytimes.com - (Page 6 of 6) “I don’t know that segregation is this horrible thing,” Ms. Adams said. “The problem with segregation is the assumption that black is bad and white is good. Black can be great. That’s...
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NJ test asks 3rd graders to reveal a secret

online.wsj.com - Associated Press Some New Jersey parents are steamed about a question on a statewide standardized test this week that asked some third-graders to write about a secret and why it was hard to keep. R...
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Roy Orbison - In Dreams

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A candy-colored clown they call the sandmanTiptoes to my room every nightJust to sprinkle stardust and to whisper"Go to sleep. Everything is all right."I close my eyes, Then I drift away Into the m...
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Why is Dick a nickname for Richard

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Why is Dick a nickname for Richard: Why is Dick a nickname for Richard? In: Name Origins, Names and Name Meanings [Edit categories] Answer: Improve a man named Richar...
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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Happy Mother’s Day Mrs. Eileen Quinn. Teachers you worked with your entire working career may soon be royally screwed if your son gets his way. Governor Quinn’s mom wasn’t a teacher. But she was th...
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Today would be Kate Hepburn's 105th birthday

dailykos.com - and as a result, Turner Classic Movies is focusing on her life and her work. I suppose what I should put up is something that focuses on her. But I have just finished watching a movie in which she ...
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L.A. mom defends her breastfeeding Time cover photo

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Jamie Grumet, the woman in the controversial Time magazine cover on breastfeeding, is a Los Angeles mother and she's speaking out. The magazine image shows Grumet's 3-year-old son, Aram, standing o...
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Emanuel Criticizes Chicago Union in Interview

educationnews.org - As the Chicago Teachers Union is set to go head to head with the Chicago Public Schools system in what many believe will be contentious contract negotiations, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has publicly critic...
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NATO summit Chicago 2012

blogs.suntimes.com - Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright --the co-chair of the Chicago NATO Host Committee-- spoke to the Chicago Council of Global Affairs on Wednesday in the run-up to the May 20-21 Summit at...
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Einstein’s Prescience

dissidentvoice.org - by William T. Hathaway / May 12th, 2012 Albert Einstein wrote in 1939, “There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has ...
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Big Education Ape Nite Cap 5-12-12 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - James Baldwin said it best:  "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become." A Big Education Ape Nite Cap Seattle Schools Community Foru...
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