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All Education Matters: Occupy Sallie Mae!

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - All Education Matters: Occupy Sallie Mae!:Occupy Sallie Mae!by Cryn JohannsenHow about occupying Sallie Mae, and demanding that usurious companies can no longer turn Americans into indentured educ...

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Jersey Jazzman: America SUCKS!

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: America SUCKS!:America SUCKS!by DukeSo says the corporate-deucation "reform" movement - and they will distort, deceive, and outright lie to convince you it's true.Don't believe me? ...

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Sabrina Stevens Shupe: Just Cause, or "Just 'Cause"?

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Sabrina Stevens Shupe: Just Cause, or "Just 'Cause"?:Sabrina Stevens ShupeTeacher-turned-activistJust Cause, or "Just 'Cause"?Late last week, news broke that 75 probationary (non-"tenured") teacher...

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Dictionary of Education Reform - Bad Teacher

dictionaryofreform.wikispaces.com- Most bigotry relies on a tiny grain of truth to justify sweeping generalization. Such is the case with the “bad teacher” myth. In any profession there are incompetent and irresponsible people who m...

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Philly.com : Ala. Hispanic students vanish

m.philly.com - Ala. Hispanic students vanish By Jay Reeves Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools after a court ruling that upheld the state's tou...

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Reflections on a Visit to Germany

huffingtonpost.com - I am a secular Jew. I don't belong to a synagogue. I seldom attend religious services, yet I feel Jewish. I understood what Daniel Pearl said before he died. Being Jewish is part of my identity, no...

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A Push to Improve Teachers' Colleges

online.wsj.com - The Obama administration announced a new $185 million competition Friday that would reward colleges for producing teachers whose students perform well on standardized tests. The competition would r...

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Critical voices needed in charter school debate

dailykos.com - Another review that didn't receive the attention it deserved was Tina Trujillo's review of CAP's: Charting New Territory: Tapping Charter Schools to Turn Around the Nation's Dropout Factories. Whi...

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Let’s Stop Rewarding Failure

nytimes.com - Léo Apotheker’s short, turbulent reign as the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard was by nearly all accounts a disaster. The board demanded his resignation, and if ever there was a case for firing s...

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Troy Davis mourned as a martyr by 1,000 in Ga.

northjersey.com - SAVANNAH, Ga. — Sent to death row 20 years ago as a convicted cop killer, Troy Davis was celebrated as "martyr and foot soldier" Saturday by more than 1,000 people who packed the pews at his funera...

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“Write On!” Why I Love Kidblog!

oldschoolteach.wordpress.com - A friend of mine was observed the other day. Her students were creating mini-books about the selection they read in the anthology. Little stapled books, a square for the picture, and lines for the...

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Enter to Win $7,500 To Create Your Ultimate School Lounge!

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Enter to Win $7,500 To Create Your Ultimate School Lounge!:California Casualty has been providing exclusive auto and home insurance benefits to education professionals like you for over 60 years. W...

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Live Video: Police Arresting Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - October 1, 2011, 4:29 pm By COLIN MOYNIHANAfter allowing marchers from the Occupy Wall Street protests to claim the Brooklyn-bound car lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge and get partway across, the polic...

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live streaming video powered by Livestream

livestream.com - This channel will feature live streams from global non violent revolution spreading across the globe, with the first broadcasts from Wall Street Occupation in NYC that will start on Saturday, Septe...

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School Tech Connect: Sadly, No

schooltechconnect.com - Hate to harp on this, but it does seem to be a requirement that no matter who is president, his or her secretary of education has to believe in things that simply aren't true. People have these lit...

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Nobody Told Me #edreform

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Three, fourEverybody's talking and no one says a wordEverybody's making love and no one really caresThere's Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairsAlways something happening and nothing going o...

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    Hold Will Weatherford Accountable | Scathing Purple Musings

    Hold Will Weatherford Accountable | Scathing Purple Musings:

    Hold Will Weatherford Accountable

    by Bob Sikes

    There’s no surprise that Florida’s republican legislators will be expanding the privatization of education in the next legislative session. No state is moving toward privatization faster than Florida. In this space here yesterday I reported that Rick Scott intends to advance Parent Trigger legislation – warts and all. GRADEBOOK’s Jeffrey Solochek reports that the legislature will be looking to expand the state’s corporate tax credit. Solochek interviewed House-speaker-in waiting Will Weatherford:

    They did it last year. And there’s talk that Florida lawmakers might do it again.

    “There may be an opportunity to expand the corporate tax scholarship fund,” said House speaker-in-waiting Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel.

    The demand is proven, he told the Gradebook.

    “There’s still a waiting list” of students requesting the vouchers, he said. “There’s still a cap on the

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    Southern Poverty Law Center: Education About Civil Rights Movement Dismal

    Southern Poverty Law Center: Education About Civil Rights Movement Dismal:

    Study: Education About Civil Rights Movement 'Dismal'

    Study: Education About Civil Rights Movement 'Dismal'
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    NPR is reporting that nearly three-quarters of states fail at teaching the civil rights movement, according to a study released by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

    The study assigned 35 states a grade of "F". Only three states -- Alabama, New York and Florida -- received an "A".

    Here's how the study's authors sum it up:

    "Rather than recognizing the profound national significance of the civil rights movement, most states mistakenly see it as a regional matter, or a topic of interest mainly for black students. Nine of the 12 highest-scoring states are from the former Confederacy. They are joined by the states of Illinois, Maryland, and New York.

    Generally speaking, the farther away from the South -- and the smaller the African-American population --

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    Arrest of 700 Occupy Wall Protesters a Good Sign for Protests - Forbes

    Arrest of 700 Occupy Wall Protesters a Good Sign for Protests - Forbes:

    Arrest of 700 Occupy Wall Protesters a Good Sign for Protests

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    NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 01: Police arrest dem...

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    Police have arrested over 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters who occupied the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down traffic for hours. Many protesters complained that police had tricked them into moving in front of traffic instead of staying on the side of the street in order to arrest them.

    The Occupy Wall Street protests may not have a coherent agenda yet, but these arrests illustrate the fact that they are growing in strength, numbers, and momentum. That the NYPD felt obliged to arrest close one thousand protesters reveals a nervousness that wasn’t there before. This is the sort of action police usually take during a

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