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Diane Ravitch on "Frozen Assets" by Marguerite Roza

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Diane Ravitch has a great oped in today’s Times on the “miracle” schools promoted by corporate reformers, that all too often turn out to be based on PR spin, inflated test score results and/or sky...
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Shortcuts, School Reform & Private Foundations

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Jun 01 2011 Larry Ferlazzo Author Bob Sutton recently wrote about a report commissioned by the Annie Casey Foundation that examined one of its major funding initiatives related to school reform (th...
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Obama at the ‘Miracle In Memphis’

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - On Monday May 16th, President Obama will be the commencement speaker at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, TN. They had won a competition called ‘The Race To The Top High School Commencem...
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Third Turn of the Screw: The DOE and Closing Schools

edwize.org - Most New Yorkers who follow these things know that the DoE has targeted for closure four high schools with a C on their annual high-stakes Progress Reports even though schools with a D or F have no...
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nypost.com - Michael Goodwin After reading my reports from New York teachers who say they are forced to raise grades and pass failing students, a friend has questions. He writes: "If nine years of mayoral contr...
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asians, hispanics are the fastest-expanding minority groups

blog.angryasianman.com - More census figure fun... but probably stuff you already could have guessed. According to new findings from the U.S. Census Bureau, Asians and Hispanics are the nation's fastest-expanding large min...
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Meanwhile, in the original war that never ends

firedoglake.com - A group of retired political leaders — strangely not under the influence of lobbying money (or drugs) — has recommended the world, especially the United States, reconsider the War on Drugs. Their r...
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I want to see Marco Rubio’s birth certificate

beinglatino.wordpress.com - by Orlando Rodriguez Marco Rubio is not Cuban. He is not even an immigrant. Prove it. I want to see his Cuban birth certificate. I have a Cuban birth certificate so I can authenticate his. Mine rea...
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Today's Teamster News 06.02.11

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Three GOP senators go to court to block recalls Associated Press ...GOP Sens. Dan Kapanke of La Crosse, Luther Olsen of Ripon and Randy Hopper of Fond du Lac all want judges to block the Governm...
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Poll: Voters want say in budget process

californiawatch.org - ericsphotography/istockphoto.com More than three in four Californians buy into Gov. Jerry Brown's notion that voters should have a say in deciding which cuts and taxes will be used to plug the stat...
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Tanton tantalizes with an Euler gem » Fun Math Blog

wildaboutmath.com - June 1st, 2011 | by Sol | James Tanton has produced another great video, this one on a very intriguing partitioning problem with a very clever solution.There are four ways to break the number 6 dow...
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A Quote Collage for the First Week of June

nyceducator.com - Climate control:"MISS, PUT ON THE AIR CONDITIONER."--half of my students"MISS, TURN OFF THE AIR CONDITIONER, IT'S COLD."--the other half of my students"NO MISS, PUT THE AIR CONDITIONER BACK ON."--t...
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TechnoDyne, Involved in CityTime Project, Shuts Down

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - WAYNE, N.J. — A New Jersey technology company that had been a major contractor on the Bloomberg administration’s troubled CityTime payroll project has abruptly halted operations and terminated its ...
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In Chicago it's called a "win-win"

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Big losers are social services and schoolsThat's right. This week, former mayor Daley landed his pay-back job with the very firm that negotiated his notorious sell-off of the city's parking meters....
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Daley Lands Job With Parking Meter Lawyers

nbcchicago.com - Richard Daley, Ex-Mayor, (Another) New Job Former Mayor Richard Daley has landed a job with the firm that negotiated Chicago's parking meter deal. Daley will be "of counsel" to Katten Muchin Rosenm...
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