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Elite Club or Catalyst for Change?

edweek.org - Published Online: October 18, 2011Published in Print: October 19, 2011, as Broad Prize: Do the Successes Spread?When the Broad Prize for Urban Education was created in 2002, billionaire philanthrop...

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Chinese Students Lose as U.S. Schools Exploit Need

bloomberg.com - Enlarge image China Students Paying $52,000 Say Boarding Schools Misled Guan Wang, a freshman at the University of California, Davis, from China, uses a laptop computer as she studies in her dorm r...

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Tata's choice plan passes 6-2; Hill, Sutton vote no

indyweek.com - Kevin Hill (right, in yellow shirt) at Wake school board work session. Tony Tata is seated at left; James Overman, Tata's task force leader, is standing. Effective in the 2012-13 school year, unles...

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Readin’ > ‘Rithmetic | Gary Rubinstein's TFA Blog

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - Something that nearly every adult has wondered about, but is scared to say it out loud is “Is knowing math really that important?” They don’t say it out loud because they fear that someone, possibl...

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Republicans jump into non-partisan school board races

9news.com - JEFFERSON COUNTY - Across Colorado, there is a changing landscape when it comes to school board races. Once thought to be "mom and pop," elections have now turned into coordinated, professional cam...

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Senate Saves the Potato on School Lunch Menus

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — The Senate stood up Tuesday for the humble white potato and rebuffed an effort by President Obama to limit its consumption by millions of schoolchildren around the country. ...

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Burke Questions Emanuel Water Fee Plan

chicagonewscoop.org - As the City Council held its first hearing on Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposed 2012 budget Wednesday, its longest-serving member questioned the plan to end water fee exemptions for non-profit institut...

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Operative Scores in Court - WSJ.com

online.wsj.com - BY MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL A Manhattan judge on Monday dismissed some of the charges against a Queens political worker accused of stealing more than $1 million from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a victory f...

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Denise McGregor Armbrister to resign from SRC

thenotebook.org - Another member of the School Reform Commission has resigned. In a statement, Secretary of Education Ronald Tomalis accepted the resignation and thanked Denise McGregor Armbrister for her service. M...

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Zuccotti Park Is Not A Nightclub - National

theatlanticwire.com - Zuccotti Park is not a restaurant, night club, art gallery or fashion show, but that won't stop culture writers from trying to convince us otherwise. In today's New York Times, for instance, nightl...

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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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