Saturday, September 17, 2011

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Vito Perrone Sr., Who Fought Standardized Tests, Dies at 78

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Harvard Public Affairs & Communications OfficeVito Perrone Sr., in 1997 with students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he taught. He advocated for flexible teaching methods that...

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Making a Digital Promise to our Students

whitehouse.gov - Posted by Arne Duncan on September 16, 2011 at 09:07 AM EDT Over the past two decades, technology has dramatically transformed the way we live and work. Yet despite this progress, technology has ye...

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Short school day is time-honored Chicago tradition

articles.chicagotribune.com - Contrary to what many believe, school days in Chicago were actually shorter… (Chicago Tribune archive photo)September 13, 2011|By Monica Eng, Tribune reporterFor Chicago Public School kids of my vi...

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Newark Is Betting on a Wave of New Principals

nytimes.com - NEWARK — There is Sonn Sam, a Rhode Island transplant who could be mistaken for one of the students at his alternative high school, with his shaven head, sneakers and tattooed left arm. ...

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GOP Senators Introduce Own ESEA Renewal Bills

edweek.org - WashingtonA group of key U.S. Senate Republicans—led by Sen. Lamar Alexander, of Tennessee, a former U.S. secretary of education—are going their own way on reauthorization of the No Child Left Behi...

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For or Against Children

rethinkingschools.org - Fall 2011 By Ken Libby & Adam Sanchez Last October, a friend called with a question: “What do you know about Stand for Children?” The advocacy organization, based in our hometown of Portland, Ore.,...

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Free to Die

nytimes.com - Back in 1980, just as America was making its political turn to the right, Milton Friedman lent his voice to the change with the famous TV series “Free to Choose.” In episode after episode, the geni...

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Alarmism: You’re Doing It Wrong

firedoglake.com - No no no, Mayor Bloomberg! It’s the national debt that will destroy America, not unemployment! You’re supposed to be trying to terrify Congress and the White House into cutting spending, not creat...

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Perry Repeats Socialist Charge Against Obama Policies

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - September 15, 2011, 7:20 pm By SARAH WHEATONIn an interview with Time magazine, Gov. Rick Perry showed that he had no intention of softening the cactus-thorned rhetoric he developed during his deca...

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Hillary Clinton at APEC: Women the key to economic growth

northjersey.com - SAN FRANCISCO — Women are the great untapped resource that can help the global economy recover and expand, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday as the U.S. and 20 other nations ple...

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Soaring Poverty Casts Spotlight on ‘Lost Decade’

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Another 2.6 million people slipped into poverty in the United States last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, and the number of Americans living below the official poverty line, ...

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Comcast offers discount Internet access for low-income youth

democraticunderground.com - Source: Detroit NewsLast Updated: September 16. 2011 4:52PMComcast offers discount Internet access for low-income youthJosh Katzenstein/ The Detroit NewsDetroit— Hoping to bridge the technological ...

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Texas: U.S. Supreme Court Halts Execution

nytimes.com - The United States Supreme Court Thursday halted the execution of a black man convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago after his lawyers contended his sentence was unfair because of a ques...

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Girls allegedly threaten violence at Mass. school

boston.com - PLYMOUTH, Mass.—Four girls at a Plymouth high school are being investigated for allegedly referencing the Columbine killings in online threats.A student and a parent brought the alleged Facebook th...

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Supreme Court Stops Texas Execution

news.firedoglake.com - The Supreme Court made the rare decision to step in and order a stay of execution for Duane Edward Buck in Texas, hours before he was to die, because the jury sentencing him to death was told that ...

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Racial Bias Seen in Study of Lead Dust and Children

nytimes.com - A class-action lawsuit was filed Thursday against a prominent Baltimore medical institute, accusing it of knowingly exposing black children as young as a year old to lead poisoning in the 1990s as ...

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