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N.Y. Still Pursues Case Against Whistle-Blower

nytimes.com - ALBANY — The Cuomo administration is continuing to pursue a two-year-old disciplinary case against Jeffrey Monsour, a state employee at the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities who has...

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Lessons from High-Performing Countries

ed.gov - I welcome this opportunity to reflect on what the United States can learn from the nations with the best-performing education systems. My thanks to Marc Tucker and the National Center on Education ...

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New rules make kindergarten count for more

palmbeachpost.com - By Allison RossPalm Beach Post Staff WriterUpdated: 11:53 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011 Posted: 10:58 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, 2011Kindergarten is getting tougher this year.Counting to 20 and dabbling ...

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The school reform deniers | The Great Debate

blogs.reuters.com - By Steven BrillAll opinions expressed are his own. Every year I tell students in a journalism seminar I teach about the junior reporter for The American Lawyer – the magazine I founded and edited –...

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Protections against institutional cheating in NYC schools

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Spurred by reports of widespread cheating on standardized tests in Atlanta; Washington, DC; Los Angeles; Pennsylvania; and elsewhere, New York State Education Commissioner John King announced las...

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A depressing start to the school year

chron.com - Monday marks the first day of school for more than 200,000 children in the Houston Independent School District. Although our children are enjoying a fresh start, recent state budget cuts and loomin...

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Koch responds to Buffett: "Take your shared sacrifice and ..."

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Charles Koch, head of the massive petrochemical, manufacturing, and commodity speculating Koch Industries corporation, has responded to Warren Buffett's call for shared sacrifice:“No Thanks.” In a ...

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GE moving X-ray business to China

articles.boston.com - GE Healthcare, also the world’s biggest maker of magnetic resonance imaging and cardiac tomography scanners, got about $1.1 billion of its $16.9 billion in sales from China last year.The X-ray busi...

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Create a state bank as a public utility

sacramentopa.blogspot.com - Senator Darrell Steinberg, I encourage you to use your leadership position in the Senate to assist in passing AB 750, the bill to study the establishment of a California Trust (bank) as ...

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Gay student's slaying: Defense rests in murder trial

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Seven weeks after the start of his murder trial for the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old gay classmate, Brandon McInerney turned down his chance to testify.Defense lawyers rested their case Monday w...

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Jerry Leiber, Prolific Writer of 1950s Hits, Dies at 78

nytimes.com - Jerry Leiber, the lyricist who, with his partner, Mike Stoller, wrote some of the most enduring classics in the history of rock ’n’ roll, including “Hound Dog,” “Yakety Yak,” “Stand By Me” and “On ...

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Diez consejos para adaptarse a una escuela nueva

vidayfamilia.univision.com - Cuando se acerca el primer día de la escuela, empieza hablar con tu niño sobre sus expectativas, esperanzas y preocupaciones para el año que viene. - Thinkstock LLC/Picture Quest VIDEO Cómo ser un ...

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The school reform deniers | The Great Debate

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    NYC Educator: Cheat Proudly

    NYC Educator: Cheat Proudly

    Cheat Proudly

    by NYC Educator
    There are allegations that cheating is up in NYC, and the only surprise is that anyone is surprised. When you place a gun to someone's head to encourage a certain sort of behavior, you are likely to elicit that target one way or another. If test scores don't go up, we close your school and the principal can go fish. The teachers become wandering subs, going from classroom to classroom in the hope we can discourage them enough to quit of their own volition.

    So really, what can they expect? Maybe the next time we give a test, we allow the students to help one another. Maybe we leave a few highlighted review
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    The First Day

    The First Day

    The First Day

    by Sam

    This morning, I witnessed the start of a new school year at two very different buildings – a neighborhood public school that first opened its doors in 1924, and a public charter school that was opening its doors for the very first time.

    I still get back-to-school butterflies each time a new year begins. There’s just something uniquely beautiful, and precarious, about the first day a group of children come together under one roof. The promise of what lies ahead feels like an almost unbearable ache – the weight of the work to be done being so great, and so unsteady.

    By 7:00am this morning, there were still no children under the charter school’s roof — the school day didn’t

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