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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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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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A Union of Professionals. www.nysut.org

nysut.org - Speaking to reporters Monday on the steps of the State Education building (l-r) NYS Teachers of the Year Dr. Patricia Jordan (1993), Rich Ognibene (2008) and Jeff Peneston ( 2011). Photo by El-Wise...

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Bonehead Assessment, 101 - Teacher in a Strange Land

blogs.edweek.org - Imagine this. You take your 16-year son to the DMV on his birthday, so he can get his driver's license. He takes the 20-question multiple-guess test, getting only two wrong. Congratulations, says t...

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Make Wall Street Pay. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - Photo credit: Jed Brandt My friend Amanda writes: I’m writing to ask for your help today. A group of NPA affiliates and allies (the org I work for) are starting to do some kick ass work around the ...

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CPS gives recess advocates a victory - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - BY ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter May 24, 2011 02:07AM Chicago elementary schools that do not offer a scheduled recess must vote on whether to provide one by fall 2012 under a victory for recess...

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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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NJ Spotlight | For Charter School Bills -

njspotlight.com - Four bills that would revamp how charter schools are reviewed and approved in New Jersey won easy passage yesterday in a key Assembly committee. Yet the prospect of most of those bills ever becomin...

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Dutch 'Sexy at 60' Cover Photos Defy Ageism

womensenews.org - By Margaret M. Gullette and Aagje SwinnenIf the Netherlands can make 60-ish women look hot, can American media too? And should we applaud or boo? (WOMENSENEWS)--News of Patti Davis posing nude for ...

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Something Missing From HBO's Too Big To Fail | Resurgence

bigthink.com - There was something missing from last night’s premiere of Too Big To Fail, a made for HBO movie which portrayed the inner workings of the U.S. Treasury during the financial crisis on Wall Street ba...

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Site News: New Blog Setup On Its Way

chicagonow.com - This is just a heads-up that there's a new version of this site heading our way -- I'm not exactly sure when -- and that there's likely to be a settling in period where things are not as ideal as I...

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tyler clementi's roommate pleads not guilty

blog.angryasianman.com - Another update on the Tyler Clementi suicide case... Today, Dharun Ravi entered a not guilty plea to charges that he streamed the footage of his roommate engaging in a physical relationship with an...

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Ohio judge gives defendants homework assignments

denverpost.com - TOLEDO, Ohio—A judge in Ohio gives defendants what sounds like homework assignments as a part of probation sentences. Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Stacy Cook in Toledo has ordered offenders to w...

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