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Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education

nap.edu - Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine-read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole....

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Blog :: Sabrina Stevens Shupe

sabrinastevensshupe.com - status quo: “the state in which”; the existing state of affairs The education reform discussion (or debate, depending on who’s talking) is filled with buzzwords and terms, most of which (like “acco...

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S.&P. Downgrades U.S. Long-Term Debt

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Standard & Poor’s removed the United States government from its list of risk-free borrowers for the first time on Friday night, a downgrade that is freighted with symbolic significance...

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First Try

thinkingaboutschools-jhstlny.blogspot.com - It's time to write. It's about kids - all of them, not some of them. It's about teachers, not McTeachers. It's about substance, not illusion and promises. It's about meaning, not memorizing. It'...

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Dozens Killed as NATO Helicopter Shot Down in Afghanistan

nytimes.com - KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents shot down a NATO Chinook helicopter during an overnight operation in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 37 people on board, a coalition military official said on ...

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Teacher in a Strange Land

blogs.edweek.org - NBC --the originator of the idea that education in America would be improved by a giant national hurricane, to sweep everything clean and let the reformers have at it--is sponsoring a Teachers Town...

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The Reinvention of Rahm Emanuel

businessweek.com - By Devin Leonard Chris Buck Rahm Emanuel doesn’t sleep much. You can see it in his eyes, perpetually shadowed in dark circles. He gets up often in the middle of the night to check his e-mail and is...

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The Wrong Worries

nytimes.com - In case you had any doubts, Thursday’s more than 500-point plunge in the Dow Jones industrial average and the drop in interest rates to near-record lows confirmed it: The economy isn’t recovering, ...

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Deborah Meier Homepage

deborahmeier.com - July 2011 [to comment on this column click here to go to the blog site] It's only a week before the various events in Washington D.C. I'm hoping, mostly, to have fun and for a sufficient size to no...

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Lillie and the Snakes "Brick by brick, callused hand by callused hand...." And We are Left Crestfallen. The Common Core Crime Test Data vs. Report Card Grades...and the Winner is.... The Great MOVE HUNGRY?? This Week: Bubble-Torture for the Kiddies

americasfutureinsidestory.blogspot.com - Usually my blog is focused on the students. Today my focus is on an 80 year old NYC teacher by the name of Ms. Lillie Leon. Below is a link to an article which discusses the firing of Ms. Leon:http...

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Google, Microsoft goes public with patent spat

denverpost.com - NEW YORK—Tech heavyweights Microsoft and Google are acting like a couple of feuding starlets in a public online spat over—wait for it—patents. It's not the first time Microsoft and Google have gone...

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Fill Up That Infrastructure Bank with Untaxed Money

firedoglake.com - Wrecker, Photo by Ruin Raider The very rich don’t pay taxes any more, and as Matt Damon says, they don’t use those unpaid taxes to create jobs either. Instead, they buy and sell existing financial ...

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Chile: 874 Students Arrested at Education Protests

foxnews.com - Published August 05, 2011 | Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile-- Chilean police have arrested nearly 900 people in a crackdown on students protesting for better public education. Government spokesman...

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After school reform march, teachers question what's next

cnn.com - How teachers would reform schoolsSTORY HIGHLIGHTSAbout 5,000 people joined in the Save Our Schools MarchOne former teacher says she was told to cater to tests, not to students' needsThe U.S. Educat...

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