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Bill Gates: Selling Bad Advice to the Public Schools

thedailybeast.com - Everyone agrees that American schools need help. But as Diane Ravitch argues, the fixes proposed by billionaire savior Bill Gates will only makes things worse. Over the weekend, the New York Times ...
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No Child Left Behind From the Rapture

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - May 23, 2011 (GBN News): The world did not end last Saturday, but the US Department of Education was prepared just in case it did. GBN News has learned that a whopping $100 billion of the Departmen...
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Teach Plus :: Our Team

teachplus.org - Celine Coggins is the founder and CEO of Teach Plus. Coggins is a former teacher and current Mind Trust Education Entrepreneur Fellow. She has a background that includes research, policy and K-12 t...
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Common Core’s manifesto war | Thoughts on Public Education

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Common Core’s manifesto war | Thoughts on Public EducationCommon Core’s manifesto war - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guessby John Fensterwald - Educated GuessOpponents of the Common Core standard...
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Five myths about America’s schools

washingtonpost.com - The end of the school year and the layoffs of tens of thousands of teachers are bringing more attention to reformers’ calls to remake public schools. Today’s school reform movement conflates the mo...
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Remainders: The mea culpa of exasperated parents’ dreams

gothamschools.org - by Philissa Cramer An expansive apology from the DOE to exasperated parents. Hint: It’s not real. (Insideschools) True or false: UFT : Joel Klein :: NYSUT : Commissioner of State Ed Department. (Ed...
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it's okay to be takei! | angry asian man

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - it's okay to be takei! | angry asian manit's okay to be takei!Last week, the Tennessee State Senate approved S.B. 49, better known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, which prohibits teachers from discuss...
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Remembering the Creepinator's idiotic "girly men" remarks

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Looking back and remembering Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2004 speech to the GOP Convention. He ridiculed those who lacked optimism about the state of the economy, calling them "economic girly men"...
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Egyptian bloggers rally against military

democraticunderground.com - Source: Al Jazeera EnglishEgyptian bloggers rally against militaryEvan Hill Last Modified: 23 May 2011 19:34Hundreds of Egyptians have staged an unprecedented show of online defiance against their ...
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Confessions of Partially Proficient Parent: Summer break

ednewsparent.org - Well, here it is, the end of another school year. I’d say we all have mixed feelings about the onset of summer “vacation.” Is summer really a vacation for anyone anymore? My real and Balkan daughte...
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Emanuel: Ties ‘Didn’t Hurt’ in Luring New Jobs

chicagonewscoop.org - by HUNTER CLAUSS | May 23, 2011Mayor Rahm Emanuel said his ties to the head of General Electric â€Å“didn’t hurt” as the company finalized an expansion in Chicago that was announced Monday. GE Ca...
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California Leads Nation in Inequality

modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/05/california-leads-nation-in-inequality.html"; A new report out by the American Human Development Project indicates that while some Californians en...
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Common Core’s manifesto war | Thoughts on Public Education

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