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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...
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The Wonkster » Blog Archive » Cuomo Creates Education Reform Commission
gothamgazette.com - The office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo is touting some unflattering figures about New York’s educational system today–”73 percent of New York
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The Obama Record in Education
ed.gov - Thank you, Mark.Good morning and welcome to Washington, delegates.This is the third Mom Congress, and I've been honored to be at all three of them. I'm even more honored to have partners like you w...
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A Really Cool Event « Diane Ravitch's blog
dianeravitch.net - Back when I was writing The Death and Life of the Great American School System, I was looking for a way to characterize Race to the Top. It sounded so familiar to me because its main ideas came dir...
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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...
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Today’s tests burst bubble of creativity - Denise Jewell Gee
buffalonews.com - Sharpen the No. 2. It’s time for a test. Q: What happens when the Department of Education tries to get creative on a statewide eighth-grade English exam? A) Students are flummoxed. B)A testing comp...
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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...
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Former Cleveland schools leader named interim chief ed officer | catalyst
catalyst-chicago.org - Less than one business day after revealing that Chief Education Officer Noemi Donoso is leaving, CPS officials announced that she will be succeeded by Barbara Byrd Bennett, a veteran educator who r...
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CMT Scores and Teacher Evaluations – But Wait – That’s Like Comparing Apples and Tomatoes
jonathanpelto.com - Apr 30 jonpeltoEducation, Malloy, Stefan Pryor Education Reform, Malloy, Standardized Tests, Teacher Evaluation Governor Malloy, Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor and the rest of the “education r...
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NYC Parents Union Statement on Governor Cuomo's Newly Formed New York State Education Reform Commission
us2.campaign-archive1.com - For Immediate Release April 30, 2012 Contact: Mona Davids, NYC Parents Union, (917) 340-8987 New York City Parents Union Statement on Governor Cuomo's newly formed New York State Education Reform C...
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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...
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Armenian youth mix activism, rememberance during commemorations of 1915 genocide
scpr.org - In a recent evening inside Glendale High School’s auditorium high school student Angela Pachanian rehearsed a poem of suffering and sadness by Paruyr Sevak, Armenia’s best-known poet of the genocid...
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more errors in 2012 Mathematics Tests Scoring Materials
groups.yahoo.com - For this we're paying $32 Million? ________________________________ > > From: NYSED EXAMREQUEST [mailto:EXAMREQUEST@...] > Sent: Mon 4/30/2012 9:44 AM > Subject: Notice to Test Scoring Coordinators...
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Dogs In Cars: It Only Takes 10 Minutes!
rosemont.patch.com - This blog was originally written 6/28/09, however, every summer we still respond to hundreds of calls for dogs in vehicles! The news stations are already reporting about dogs being found in vehicle...
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The Hardest Job Everyone Thinks They Can Do | Musings on Life and Love
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Hardest Job Everyone Thinks They Can Do | Musings on Life and Love: The Hardest Job Everyone Thinks They Can Do By Dennis Hong, September 13, 2010 6:30 am 119KShare Image by doug8888...
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Wisconsin Gov. Walker Raises $13 Million For Recall In Less Than Four Months
livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has raised $13 million in less than four months (from mid January 2012 to last week), and has $4.8 million in the bank as the recall election for the state’s governo...
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Former Israeli Premier Assails Netanyahu on Iran
nytimes.com - Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of Israel, plunged on Sunday into the country’s growing debate over Iran policy with harsh criticism of his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu. As seve...
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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...
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Scandal and Scrutiny Hem In Murdoch’s Empire
nytimes.com - In the months after a phone-hacking scandal erupted in Britain last summer, Rupert Murdoch told people within News Corporation that he wanted to revisit his media company’s discontinued $12 billion...
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Wall Street Banks Coordinate To Fight May Day Protests, Compare Themselves To Elk Hunted By Wolves
democraticunderground.com - Source: ThinkProgressOrganizers and protesters around the world will come together to commemorate International Workers Day tomorrow, and they are taking on familiar targets. Large protest actions ...
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Growing Number of Americans Expect to Rely Mostly on Social Security
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - Over the last decade a steadily increasing number of Americans expect to rely on Social Security as a major source of retirement income. From Gallup:However, nonretirees’ expectations have changed ...
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Roads closed, traffic gridlock likely for May Day protests
latimesblogs.latimes.com - April 30, 2012 | 6:44 pm Numerous streets in downtown Los Angeles and beyond will be closed Tuesday as various May Day marches move through the city. According to the Los Angeles Police Department...
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Opry owner, Wisconsin company sue over Nashville floods
cnn.com - By the CNN Wire Staff updated 8:38 PM EDT, Mon April 30, 2012In May of 2010 more than 13 inches of rain fell over two days, causing the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee, to flood.(CNN) -- T...
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US May Day protests planned, may disrupt commutes
northjersey.com - May Day protests may disrupt the morning commute in major U.S. cities Tuesday as labor, immigration and Occupy activists rally support on the international workers' holiday. Demonstrations, strikes...
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more errors in 2012 Mathematics Tests Scoring Materials
groups.yahoo.com - For this we're paying $32 Million? ________________________________ > > From: NYSED EXAMREQUEST [mailto:EXAMREQUEST@...] > Sent: Mon 4/30/2012 9:44 AM > Subject: Notice to Test Scoring Coordinators...
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Big Education Ape: 4-30-12 PM Kenneth Cole to remove billboard EDition #PINEAPPLEGATE
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Big Education Ape: 4-29-12 AM #EDReform Billboard - What a Maroon EDition #PINEAPPLEGATE #TEACHERS
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!:Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!Published by Coopmike48 – 5 news spotters todayNext update in about 10 hours See all articles HEADLINES EDUCATION SOCIETY POLITICS STO...
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