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Apollo 20: Good intentions, few results

chron.com - Houston is home to some of the most innovative educational concepts in the U.S. The Houston Independent School District itself has pioneered several initiatives, with many of its schools becoming n...

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For Bloomberg, Waste Mars Another Digital Project

nytimes.com - Soon after becoming mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg announced a plan to modernize the computer system that handles personnel information for New York City’s vast work force. The $66 million project was...

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New Yorkers Say Mayor Has Not Improved Schools

nytimes.com - New Yorkers are broadly dissatisfied with the quality of their public schools, and most say the city’s school system has stagnated or declined since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took control of it ni...

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Bridging Differences - Education Week

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,It would be interesting to know what influenced the change of heart among those civil rights organizations, Diane. I've been exploring in my head—while I do my daily laps in the pond—wha...

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Romney, Perry Clash Over Race to the Top - Politics K-12

blogs.edweek.org - Thursday night's GOP presidential debate offered the clearest sign yet that the Republican field is united on K-12 policy: Basically, they all want the feds out.The highlight was a heated exchange ...

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Coalition organizes to defend public schools

nwitimes.com - INDIANAPOLIS | More than 100 supporters of traditional public schools decided Saturday they won't stand idly by as state funds pay for private school tuition and Indiana classrooms are turned over ...

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Cracks appear in Obama's Chicago base | In Other News

chicagobusiness.com - "There's a lot of people who are pretty depressed; there are some who are aggressively negative about Obama himself," art dealer Paul Gray says.Photo by: Getty ImagesPresident Barack Obama's Chicag...

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Poverty Is Not a ‘Death Sentence’ - Sen. Rand Paul

nationalreview.com - Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist and chairman of a subcommittee on which I am the ranking minority member, called a hearing this week titled, “Is Poverty a Death Sentence.” My answer...

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80 Arrested as Financial District Protest Moves North

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - Andrew HinderakerPolice arrested protesters who had marched from Zuccotti Park to Union Square.The police made scores of arrests on Saturday as hundreds of people, many of whom had been encamped in...

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kollaboration new york, september 29

blog.angryasianman.com - The Kollaboration movement will not stop. Next stop: Kollaboration New York, where the best and brightest of up-and-coming Asian American talent are coming together to compete and show their stuff....

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Notes on the Tolman Occupation « occupy california

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Notes on the Tolman Occupation « occupy california:Notes on the Tolman Occupationby *from indybay:As with the inaugural event of the California occupation movement two years ago – when students bar...

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New Yorkers Say Mayor Has Not Improved Schools

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    Daily Kos: NY Times calls death penalty "An Indefensible Punishment"

    Daily Kos: NY Times calls death penalty "An Indefensible Punishment":

    NY Times calls death penalty "An Indefensible Punishment"

    by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

    The editorial begins by reminding us that the reinstatement of capital punishment in Gregg v Georgia was done so "provisionally" and has attempted to give states guidance to avoid the "the arbitrariness and discrimination" that had led the Court four years earlier in 1972 to strike down all capital punishment statutes in Furman v Georgia.

    Last week we saw the atrocity of the execution of Troy Davis. The editorial says that underscores that

    the court has failed because it is impossible to succeed at this task. The death penalty is grotesque and immoral and should be repealed.

    This is an editorial that should be widely read and distributed. It should be sent to every legislator and executive

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    UC Berkeley student senators respond to bake sale

    UC Berkeley student senators respond to bake sale:

    UC Berkeley student senators respond to bake sale

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    A Facebook post announcing plans by a UC Berkeley Republican group to sell baked goods priced according to race, gender and ethnicity - "White/Caucasian" pastries for $2 and "Black/African American" pastries for 75 cents, for example - has drawn outrage on campus.

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    BERKELEY -- UC Berkeley student senators voted Sunday to condemn discriminatory behavior on campus - even if done in satire - in response to a Republican student group's plans for an "Increase Diversity Bake Sale," with pastries labeled according to race and gender.

    The 19-0 vote, with one absence, came during a special meeting of the Associated Students of the University of California, as the debate over affirmative action reignited in Berkeley.

    "Sure, it came off as discrimination," said Francisco Loayza IV, the treasurer of the Republican group, at Sunday's meeting. "People are being judged by their skin color (in affirmative action policies). I don't want to be judged because I'm brown. Look past the prices, and see what we're trying to do."

    But another student, Devonte Jackson, said the bake sale was inappropriate and hurtful, "attacking



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    Jeb Bush, Rupert Murdoch and the "business" of education - Blog For Arizona

    Jeb Bush, Rupert Murdoch and the "business" of education - Blog For Arizona:

    eb Bush, Rupert Murdoch and the "business" of education

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    by David Safier

    I could easily begin and end this post with the following sentence:

    Rupert Murdoch will deliver the keynote address at the Jeb Bush's National Summit on Education Reform.

    What more needs to be said? And yet, I can't resist saying more.

    Jeb Bush's group is the Foundation for Excellence in Education. Its purpose is to use the trumped-up triumphs of the "Florida Education Miracle" to push a nationwide privatization/voucher agenda, and he's got big money donors behind him. One of my favorite targets, Matthew Ladner, who used to be the education guy at the Goldwater Institute, works for Jeb now, which gives me greater insight into the agenda and methods of propaganda which are FEE's stock in trade.

    Rupert Murdoch has recently joined the "Gold in them thar schools" crowd, staking his claim with the company, Wireless Generation, which he bought for $360 million. It's a data mining company whose purpose is to compile test scores and other student information for school districts and state governments. The level of irony in trusting someone involved in a huge information hacking scandal to compile

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    Jerry Large | Zero-tolerance school-discipline policies are a problem | Seattle Times Newspaper

    Jerry Large | Zero-tolerance school-discipline policies are a problem | Seattle Times Newspaper:

    Zero-tolerance school-discipline policies are a problem

    People have a bad habit of overreacting to one problem and creating another in the process. Zero-tolerance school-discipline policies fall into that category. That's become increasingly clear in recent years, but the policies still linger in many districts.

    Jerry Large

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    League of Education Voters meeting on solutions: 6:30 p.m. Oct. 18 at Kent Senior Center, 600 E. Smith St.
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    People have a bad habit of overreacting to one problem and creating another in the process.

    Zero-tolerance school-discipline policies fall into that category. That's become increasingly clear in recent years, but the policies still linger in many districts.

    The League of Education Voters (LEV) and Our American Generation (OAG) are making a push to change that in Washington state by gathering information and spreading the word about the

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