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Occupy Wall Street Spills Into Classrooms

huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- While on Wall Street many protesters decry economic inequality, and in Washington, D.C. debates continue over federal education policy, teachers across the country are occupying their c...

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Noguera: School reform is community reform

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - BBA's project in Newark In the new issue of Kappan, Pedro Noguera describes the theory and practice behind a Broader, Bolder Approach (BBA) initiative in Newark which links community-based reform w...

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nypost.com - An administrator at a Brooklyn high school that saw an unusual surge in Regents test scores last year violated state grading policies by urging teachers to re-score exams that fell just shy of pass...

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Lawrence :: Federal visit could mean money for schools

6lawrence.com - By Theo Hayes on October 21, 2011 LAWRENCE - The U.S. Department of Education's Assistant Secretary of Special Education, Alexa Posney, promoted President Obama's Jobs Act on Friday during a tour o...

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nypost.com - Just one out of every four students who started high school in 2007 went on to graduate in 2011 prepared for college under a first-ever city measure aligned with City University of New York entranc...

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kdvr.com - DENVER -- A year after Colorado saw the most expensive U.S. Senate race in the entire country, an election that's seen more than $600,000 in campaign contributions might seem like a low budget affa...

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NCLB: End It, Don't Mend It - Bridging Differences

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,Have you been following the evolving story of the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind? I have, and it is disheartening. Instead of ditching this disastrous law, senators are trying...

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The Great Equalizer Or Business As Usual

shankerblog.org - Several weeks ago, a survey of college admission directors and enrollment managers conducted by Inside Higher Education sparked considerable media coverage about an issue that is not entirely new: ...

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All Current Investments - The Broad Foundation

broadeducation.org - ACHIEVEMENT FIRSTwww.achievementfirst.org The Broad Foundation supports the New York City expansion of Achievement First, which aims to deliver high-quality education for low-income and minority st...

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The Bonus Army – Zinn Education Project

zinnedproject.org - Article. History of the 1932 Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF) or Bonus Army. By Mickey Z. Bonus Army camp. July, 1932. Photo by Theodor Horydczak, Library of Congress. One little told story in Ameri...

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The grade-in at #OWS. Going viral. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - When we got back to where we were staying in Brooklyn after going to Occupy Wall Street on Sunday, I blogged a short post about the grade-in that was scheduled across the street from Liberty Park. ...

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Blog posts on this issue

whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the First Lady For Immediate Release October 25, 2011 Walgreens Store Chicago, Illinois 2:55 P.M. CDTMRS. OBAMA: Well, goodness. (Applause.) Keica, that was beautiful. ...

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Watchdogs take aim at MSNBC, Buchanan - On Media

politico.com - Main Content October 25, 2011 Both Media Matters for America and Color Of Change are petitioning MSNBC this week to either fire or sanction former GOP presidential candidate and MSNBC contributor P...

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Tanden will look to future at CAP - Ben Smith

politico.com - The new head of the Democratic Party’s think tank hub for politics and policy said the group will focus beyond the 2012 election, and attempt to renew the party’s economic policy appeal.“We have to...

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Smarter Kids and How They Got That Way

thedailybeast.com - What makes a genius? Even experts argue over whether IQ, EQ, executive function, and/or academic achievement matters most. Nature? Nurture? The role of genetics in intelligence—i.e., the extent to ...

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Cancer prevention - California Teachers Association

cta.org - By Dina Martin Jerilyn (Jeri) Harris. Jerilyn (Jeri) Harris was given six months to live when, as a teen-ager, she was diagnosed with stage IV melanoma. “It was a bad one,” the now-retired Ukiah Hi...

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Wal-Mart Cutting Health Benefits for Future Employees

wepartypatriots.com - Wal-Mart, America’s largest corporation, will be cutting health benefits for a large number of future employees in the upcoming year. According to an article from The New York Times, all future emp...

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The grade-in at #OWS. Going viral. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - When we got back to where we were staying in Brooklyn after going to Occupy Wall Street on Sunday, I blogged a short post about the grade-in that was scheduled across the street from Liberty Park. ...

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The Bonus Army – Zinn Education Project

zinnedproject.org - Article. History of the 1932 Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF) or Bonus Army. By Mickey Z. Bonus Army camp. July, 1932. Photo by Theodor Horydczak, Library of Congress. One little told story in Ameri...

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