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Low poverty rates = high scores on int'l tests

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - An email from a colleague in California caused me to reflect once again on the results of the 2009 PISA exams. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide evaluation o...

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Global Effort to Recruit Teachers Expands

nytimes.com - Teach for All, an international network of educational nonprofit groups modeled on Teach for America, has grown rapidly since its founding four years ago and now has some 1,500 teachers heading cla...

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TODAYonline | Singapore | Taking the stress out of school

todayonline.com - Taking the stress out of school MOE will review practices to give kids 'holistic, balanced' education: Education Minister Heng by Tan Weizhen 12:54 PM Sep 22, 2011 SINGAPORE - In a move to steer sc...

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Fischer Interview on New Orleans Charter Schools - Video

bloomberg.com - Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Kelly Fischer, one of the plaintiffs in a special-education discrimination lawsuit against the state of Louisiana, says last year she was discouraged by a number of charter ...

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Santorum Google | Santorum Definition | What Is Santorum

mediaite.com - GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has, for a while now, had to contend with a rather unique PR problem: Dealing with columnist Dan Savage‘s overwhelmingly successful campaign to introduce a ne...

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Blog U.: Long Distance Mom: Not Even Past - Mama PhD

insidehighered.com - By Elizabeth Coffman September 21, 2011 7:18 pm EDT I’ve seen two films recently that reflect on the lives of women who work away from their children for jobs, opportunity and money. The Help, base...

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Rupert Murdoch giving keynote at Jeb Bush’s ed reform summit

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - “We were motivated to invite Mr. Murdoch after reading his eloquent speech before G8 Summit on leveraging the power of technology to improve education.” -- Jaryn Emhof, communications director fo...

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‘Unfailing’ ignorance - NYPOST.com

nypost.com - On the scale of dumb and dumber, it is hard to top this one: a football player, his team losing by 50 points, scores a TD and spikes the ball in the end zone in macho triumph. Or this one: New York...

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Bronx DA seek indictments for 17 cops

nydailynews.com - Getty "It's going to be the biggest scandal this department has seen in a long time," said one source said of the ticket-fixing investigation. Prosecutors will ask a grand jury Tuesday to indict 17...

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A Day of Shame for Georgia

readersupportednews.org - Bianca Jagger writes: "The execution of Troy Davis is nothing less than state-sanctioned murder. Today, the 20th of September 2011, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles refused clemency t...

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Troy Davis wants polygraph ahead of execution

reuters.com - ATLANTA | Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:59am EDT ATLANTA (Reuters) - A condemned man set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for killing a Georgia police officer in a high-profile case wants a pol...

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Hot News & Views | AlterNet

alternet.org - It's bedtime, children, so put on your jammies, scootch under the covers, and I'll tell you another "Perry Tale."Once again, the Texas-governor-who-wants-to-be-your-president is flitting hither, th...

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Home - Inside Higher Ed

insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...

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