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nytimes.com - Fewer than half of American eighth graders knew the purpose of the Bill of Rights on the most recent national civics examination, and only one in 10 demonstrated acceptable knowledge of the checks ...

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preaprez.wordpress.com - For weeks IEA President Ken Swanson and Executive Director Audrey Soglin have tried to use the Chicago Teachers Union as their cover for selling out members in what the state Senate passed as Senat...

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texastribune.org - Michael Marder prefers pictures to words. A sentence can be constructed to support any position, but data cannot be so easily dismissed. Lately he's been looking at data about public education in T...

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anurbanteacherseducation.com - In response to Arne Duncan's Open Letter to America's Teachers, Sabrina Stevens Shupe responded with what I would say amounted to a written backhand to the face, saying essentially that the US Secr...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Illinois House GOP leader Tom Cross complains that teachers live too damn long. « Fred Klonsky's blogIllinois House GOP leader Tom Cross complains that teachers live too damn long.by Fred KlonskyTo...

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Mike Klonsky: Rahm Still Believes in Texas 'Miracles'

Mike Klonsky: Rahm Still Believes in Texas 'Miracles'
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Rahm Still Believes in Texas 'Miracles'


The data shows that the longer you stay in the classroom learning, you'll learn more..." -- Rahm Emanuel

While you mull that one over, I want to know who the genius was that told Chicago mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel to model his school reform initiative after Houston, Texas? It's one thing having the mayor in charge of public education turn CPS into a wing of City Hall. It's another to have that same mayor taking advice from a group of hand-picked, politically loyal, billionaire "expert" members of his new corporate-reform education team.

Was it David Vitale? Penny Pritzker? I'm sure they both know Houston quite well. Penny owns a few Hyatts down there and David probably has a bank or two.

Or maybe Emanuel ran into George Bush's former ed secretary Rod Paige back in D.C., who may have told him about the "Texas Miracle." That questionable story actually propelled the former

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Modern School: What’s Good for GM Is Good for American Kids, Not

Modern School: What’s Good for GM Is Good for American Kids, Not

What’s Good for GM Is Good for American Kids, Not

by Michael Dunn

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, like an increasing number of politicians across the country, has placed a business executive with no experience running a public school district in charge of Detroit Public Schools (DPS). The incompetent and corrupt Bob Bobb will be replaced by a former General Motors executive Roy S. Roberts as the new Emergency Manager of DPS, with the power to nullify teacher contracts, fire all teachers and privatize DPS schools to his heart’s content under Michigan’s financial martial law.

Roberts, like Bobb, has a similar sounding name and a history of serving the interests of capital. Unlike Bobb, Roberts has no direct connection with Eli Broad, which means his $250,000 salary won’t be further bloated with donations from the Broad Foundation (Bobb’s salary, including foundation support, was $425,000). It should be pointed out, though, that after
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