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nybooks.com - Mark Lennihan/AP Photo Cathie Black speaking with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg during a groundbreaking ceremony in New York on April 6. She resigned as Schools Chancellor the following day.Apri...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Budget Deal Eliminates Summer Pell Grants « Student ActivismBudget Deal Eliminates Summer Pell Grantsby Angus JohnstonNews reports this morning suggest that summer Pell Grants will be eliminated un...

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huffingtonpost.com - Representative Paul Ryan, the architect of the GOP's long-term budget proposal, would hotly dispute the claim that he hates kids. He'd tell you that he's a good family man, a good father to his thr...

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change.org - We care deeply about the education of our children. We want to see improvements in public education, and are concerned about where test-driven reforms have taken us. We want better, deeper reform...

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huffingtonpost.com - It's safe to say that for approximately 4 million teachers in our nation, education reform's F word is now -- Florida!Last month, Florida's Governor enacted a teacher merit pay bill. Legislators cu...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System « Teacher RealityWhy the United States Is Destroying Its Education SystemApril 12, 2011 by TeacherRealityWhy the United States Is Destroying...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Poverty + poor reading = dropout | Thoughts on Public EducationPoverty + poor reading = dropoutShare3rd grade reading ability tied to high school graduationPosted on 4/12/11 • Categorized as Presch...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Arne Duncan Urges Parents to Be Education ‘Truth-Tellers’ – ED.gov BlogArne Duncan Urges Parents to Be Education ‘Truth-Tellers’At the second annual meeting of Parenting Magazine’s Mom Congress ear...

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washingtonpost.com - After briefly trying to brush off suggestions that recent test score gains are fraudulent, the D.C. public schools have adopted the right attitude about massive and mysterious wrong-to-right erasur...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Distinguished Schools for 2011 - Year 2011 (CA Dept of Education)State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Announces2011 California Distinguished SchoolsSACRAMENTO — State Superintendent of Public Instruct...

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blog.coreknowledge.org - In a recent head-scratcher of an article in Education Next, economist Eric A. Hanushek puts forth the argument that effective teachers produce higher salaries in their students. The logic? Well, ac...

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huffingtonpost.com - WASHINGTON -- One of the thorniest progressive groups in the side of the Obama administration is launching a new campaign against the president on Tuesday, this time targeting the president’s vaunt...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: THIS IS the biggest stickup in American history.THIS IS the biggest stickup in American history.by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)That is the first line of a paragraph that continues like ...

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tomhayden.com - A concerted campaign is underway to pressure Iraq’s U.S.-installed government to officially request that President Obama extend the stay of American troops past December 31, the agreed date for the...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - WILL LAUSD'S JOHN DEASY AWARD THE FIRST ANNUAL JOSEPH GOEBBELS MEDIA MANIPULATION AWARD?(SE LAUSD PREMIO JOHN DEASY EL PRIMER PREMIO ANUAL Joseph Goebbels manipulación del News?) - Perdaily.comWILL...

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gothamschools.org - by Philissa Cramer Thirteen hours before Mayor Bloomberg told Cathie Black she was fired, he told Joel Klein. (City Room) Dennis Walcott schmoozed lawmakers in Albany and got a warm reception. (Dai...

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dferwatch.wordpress.com - Minor Updates Posted by kennethlibby on April 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment The Huffington Post’s Alex Wagner quotes DFER’s Whitney Tilson and ERN’s Brian Zied. Michelle Rhee praised DFER for their wo...

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justsaynow.firedoglake.com - Three out of every four California voters support reducing the criminal penalty for possession of a small amount of illegal drugs for personal use, according to a new poll from Lake Research Partne...

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news.change.org - Martin Luther King, Jr. is best known as a civil rights crusader who bravely fought against racial injustice in the 1950s and '60s. A perhaps lesser known fact about King is that he was also a tire...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - This is THE face of Republican incompetence. I blogged about this partisan County Clerk before, when all the red flags went up, but no one stepped up to stop her. One thing to keep in mind, there i...

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blogs.forbes.com - EducationApr. 12 2011 - 3:56 pm | 0 views | 0 recommendations |By E.D. KAIN I’m not sure if this means that Obama is going to endorse the entirety of the Bowles-Simpson plan, or a version of the pl...

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fdlaction.firedoglake.com - On his blog, Paul Krugman has suggested one “really radical” proposal to fixing our health care cost problem is to modestly expand socialized medicine in this country. But if you want a really radi...

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tomhayden.com - Roadside Bombs Blow Off Legs, Testicles An unexploded IED, discovered by an Army task force. The death toll of American soldiers in Afghanistan has jumped to 1,516 since 2001. 886 of the deaths hav...

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jsonline.com - April 12, 2011 5:20 p.m. | Madison -- Lawmakers fighting allegations they violated the state’s open meetings law may have to waive their legislative immunity by Thursday if they want to argue their...

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blog.angryasianman.com - Damn. In San Francisco, four teenage boys have been arrested and fifth is being sought in the death of 16-year-old Andy Zeng, as well as an alleged arson plot -- presumably in an attempt to destroy...

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bluecheddar.wordpress.com - Let’s assume the numbers as presented by “yourguest” below are deemed correct by people with a decent night’s sleep who can check them out (this was published at approx. 11pm, I just found it at at...

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sacbee.com - UC Davis students angry about rising tuition have staged many protests in the last year and a half – including sit-ins at campus buildings, a naked rally on the quad and a march that almost walked ...

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