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Good Choices for BESE Seats

louisianaeducator.blogspot.com - Several experienced, and dedicated educators have qualified for election to BESE along with several incumbents who have already proven themselves to be friends of public education. Voters will have...

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Bloomberg Education Record Stained by More Corruption

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Special Commissioner for Investigation Richard Condon has released a blockbuster report on the fraud perpetuated by favored DOE contractor FTA. (Report pdf is here.) The SCI points to fraud of ...

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Sending out an SOS. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - Monday’s Park Ridge board of education meeting was fascinating. Let me set the scene. The board was going to adopt the proposed budget. Because Park Ridge is a moderately affluent community, and be...

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Complaint alleges Iowa education chief violated ethics law

thegazette.com - CEDAR RAPIDS — A Palo man has filed a complaint alleging that the director of the Iowa Department of Education violated state law by accepting a trip to a conference in Rio de Janeiro.Richard Frede...

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The Jobless: Robbed with a Fountain Pen

progressivesforobama.blogspot.com - The Men We Trusted to Lead Us By Robert Scheer Progressive America Rising via Ttuthout Sept. 29, 2011 - Now he tells us. On Wednesday Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke referred to th...

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Poll: Social Security still popular - Maggie Haberman

politico.com - CNN included a Social Security question in a round of polling, and found that some share the idea that it's unconstitutional - which Rick Perry has intimated but not explicitly said - but most vote...

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CTU Taking Case to Council

chicagonewscoop.org - As Mayor Rahm Emanuel continues pushing for a longer day this school year, the Chicago Teachers Union hopes to boost its support in the City Council by holding a series of closed-door “policy brief...

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THE DEMISE OF OUTDOOR RECESS « Teachers Fight Back

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - THE DEMISE OF OUTDOOR RECESS « Teachers Fight Back:THE DEMISE OF OUTDOOR RECESSby alkleenI hear that more schools are completely doing away with outdoor recess. I’m sure the lawyers for school dis...

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'Occupy Wall Street' Links up with Locked-Out Teamsters

labornotes.org - Expanding their reach beyond the confines of Wall Street, a dozen activists from the ongoing Occupy Wall Street action disrupted an art auction at Sotheby’s last week.The protest supported 43 union...

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Home - Inside Higher Ed

insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...

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A History of Fat Presidents

forbes.com - Timothy Noah asks: Who, besides William Howard Taft (300+ pounds)–who may or may not have gotten stuck in the White House bathtub but certainly arranged for a bigger one to be installed there–were ...

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DOE Contractor Is Cited for Fraud

online.wsj.com - BY LISA FLEISHER A technology contractor bilked the New York City Department of Education out millions of dollars, lying to investigators about shell companies it allegedly used to outsource work, ...

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Learning Walks: The Power of Teacher to Teacher PD

peterpappas.com - Peter Pappas » 22 September 2011 » In How To, Leadership, PD, Reflection, Teachers » Learn and Lead It's always a pleasure to work with the school district that “gets it.”Lebanon Community Schools ...

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    American Teacher: Dave Eggers and Matt Damon’s new documentary is almost as flawed as Waiting for Superman. - Slate Magazine

    American Teacher: Dave Eggers and Matt Damon’s new documentary is almost as flawed as Waiting for Superman. - Slate Magazine:

    Still Waiting for Superman

    Dave Eggers and Matt Damon’s American Teacher is almost as flawed as last year’s big school reform movie.

    By |Posted Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011, at 4:56 PM ET

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    What is it with documentaries offering silver bullet solutions for the woes of the American public education system?

    Last September, the big school reform movie was Waiting for Superman, which posited that the proliferation of nonunionized charter schools could close the achievement gap between poor and middle-class students—even thoughresearch shows that nationally, only 17 percent of charters are consistently better than traditional public schools at raising students’ math and reading scores.

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    This fall, there’s another school reform film making the rounds:American Teacher, which opens in New York and Los Angeles Friday and is screening sporadically at festivals, college campuses, and community centers across the country. The documentary argues that paying teachers more—say, $125,000 annually—would, by attracting more talented college graduates to the classroom and encouraging them to stay there, be the single best way to better prepare

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    Database: Tuition trends at California's 200 largest colleges - Sacramento Bee

    Database: Tuition trends at California's 200 largest colleges - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee:

    Database: Tuition trends at California's 200 largest colleges

    By Phillip Reese
    Published: Thursday, Sep. 29, 2011 - 10:04 am
    Last Modified: Thursday, Sep. 29, 2011 - 10:21 am

    Two thirds of California's largest colleges charge in-state students at least twice as much today as they did a decade ago, new federal figures show. The average tuition increase at these 200 schools during that period was 123 percent. The cheapest four-year college in California, CSU-Monterey Bay, charges in-state students about $4,700 in annual tuition and fees; the most expensive, the University of Southern California, charges about $41,000.

    This database shows in-state tuition and fee charges over the last decade at the 200 largest



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