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Data on income gains support 99ers’ gripes
epi.org - Economic snapshot | Jobs Wages and Living StandardsShare this page:The Occupy Wall Street protesters claiming to represent the “99 percent” of Americans left behind economically can back up their c...
Senate Panel Approves Bill That Rewrites Education Law
nytimes.com - Legislation rewriting the No Child Left Behind education law finally gained traction this week, and the Senate Democrat whose committee passed the bill said on Friday that progress became possible ...
Big Money, Bad Media, Secret Agendas: Welcome to America's Wildest School Board Race
thenation.com - School board elections are supposed to be quintessential America contests. Moms and Main Street small business owners and retired teachers campaign by knocking on doors, writing letters to the edit...
When Bad Progress Reports Happen To Good Schools — Change ‘em!
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - New York City’s Department of Education recently released their ‘progress reports’ for all the middle and elementary schools for the 2010-2011 school year. For each school they have a complicated f...
Are top students being shortchanged? - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by Paul Thomas, an associate professor of education at Furman University in South Carolina. A version of this was published on Daily Kos.By Paul Thomas One aspect of the education ...
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Larry Strauss: My Class Size Matters
huffingtonpost.com - My very first day as a full-time teacher, I arrived at what was then a chaotic and dysfunctional high school to discover that my first period class had 34 students, my second period had seven, and ...
Bill and Melinda Gates on Teacher Evaluation
online.wsj.com - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation English teacher Angela Haskell, above, in Tampa, Fla., has agreed to have her classroom performance evaluated. Most teachers say they would do the same. America's sc...
W. enters my wife's schoolboard race - Campaign Finance
salon.com - Emily knew it would be a tough race against her opponent, a deep-pocketed investment banker, but she felt confident she could run a solid campaign. She thought her experience as a social worker and...
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Remarks by the President on Ending the War in Iraq
tomhayden.com - President Obama announced that our troops will be home from Iraq by the end of 2011. THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. As a candidate for President, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to ...
Obama announces end of Iraq war, troops to return home by year end - Political Hotsheet
cbsnews.com - UPDATED 12:51 p.m. ET U.S. President Barack Obama walks to the podium at the White House in this file photo (Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images) After nearly a decade of fighting, President Obama on Fr...
Qaddafi Death to Ease Oil Flow Resumption, PBFBest’s Flynn Says
businessweek.com - October 20, 2011, 3:03 PM EDT By Gene Laverty Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Phil Flynn, vice president of research at PBFBest in Chicago, talks about the death of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi and the impact th...
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He Told Obama, 'You're Headed For One-Term Presidency'
huffingtonpost.com - In one of the most hotly-anticipated biographies of the year, "Steve Jobs," author Walter Isaacson reveals that the Apple CEO offered to design political ads for President Obama's 2012 campaign des...
My flight is delayed but there is just something in the air besides Fall. « Fred Klonsky's blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - My flight is delayed but there is just something in the air besides Fall. « Fred Klonsky's blog:My flight is delayed but there is just something in the air besides Fall.by Fred KlonskyAnne and I ar...
Rupert and Me | California Father
californiafather.com - As my seven-year-old son prepares for his first protest (against a proposed new Walmart in Burbank; he is very vehement about his position; “What if they put Target out of business?”) I think about...
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The Kill Team | Rolling Stone Politics
rollingstone.com - Cpl. Jeremy Morlock with Staff Sgt. David Bram By Mark Boal March 27, 2011 10:00 PM ET Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American infantrymen reached a mo...
W. enters my wife’s schoolboard race - Salon.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - W. enters my wife’s schoolboard race - Salon.com:W. enters my wife’s schoolboard raceOur family gets a close-up look of how big money has taken over politics -- even at the local levelBY DAVID SIRO...
This is exactly how Fox lies
teamsternation.blogspot.com - Occupy Wall Street Rally at Sotheby's: MyFoxNY.com Before you watch this, remember that Fox owner Rupert Murdoch is an ethically-challenged billionaire who's dead set on destroying the middle class...
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Movie Trailer: A documentary on New Orleans schools
learningmatters.tv - October 20th, 2011Produced by: Jane Renaud, Jessica Windt, David Wald and John Merrow / Duration: 9:00We spent years covering Paul Vallas in New Orleans, and now we’re dedicating an entire document...
Chicago Public Schools, Police Super, Automated Speed Enforcement
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Legislation would allow City to monitor speeding vehicles near schools and parks in an effort to increase student and pedestrian safety.Chicago Public School CEO Jean-Claude Brizard and Chicago Pol...
Blog posts on this issue
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 21, 2011 WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, at a ceremony at the White House, President Obama honored the recipients of the Nationa...
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Bill and Melinda Gates on Teacher Evaluation
online.wsj.com - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation English teacher Angela Haskell, above, in Tampa, Fla., has agreed to have her classroom performance evaluated. Most teachers say they would do the same. America's sc...
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No Child Left Behind Revision Passed By Senate Education Committee, Moves One Step Closer To Law
huffingtonpost.com - WASHINGTON -- The Senate education committee completed a bipartisan markup revising the No Child Left Behind Act on Thursday evening. After 13 hours of debate, the panel sent to the full Senate a b...
