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Support for Early Education

nytimes.com - To the Editor: “Occupy the Classroom,” by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, Oct. 20), made a powerful case for early education programs, including Head Start. We agree, and that is why Pre...

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Education According to Mike Milken

businessweek.com - With K12, the largest U.S. operator of taxpayer-funded online schools, the former junk-bond king has figured out how to make money in education. Is that a good thing?By John HechingerTen-year-old A...

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Shanker Blog » NAEP Shifting

shankerblog.org - Tomorrow, the education world will get the results of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred to as the “nation’s report card.” The findings – reading and math s...

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Tennessee Teachers Find It Hard To Make The Grade : NPR

npr.org - Enlarge Blake Farmer for NPR Janna Beth Hunt, a first-grade teacher at Nashville's Norman Binkley Elementary, is disappointed with how she scored on her first observation under the new system. Blak...

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Why I did TFA, and why you shouldn’t

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - There was a time, not very long ago, when I was an active volunteer alumni recruiter for TFA. And, as you might expect, I was great at it. One year, I think it was 1998, I did a recruitment session...

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Is This the Weirdest Rick Perry Speech Ever?

motherjones.com - Jon Ward flags this video of Texas Governor Rick Perry speaking at an event in New Hampshire on Friday, and politely calls it "unusually expressive." I will go a few steps further and say it is the...

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Check Out My Blog’s New Look!

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Boy, my blog sure looks different. Ronnie Burt at Edublogs just used this blog as a guinea pig to try out Edublogs’ new “responsive themes.” They’re designed to look good on the web, tablets and on...

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Love your Library -- Come to City Hall Monday, Oct. 31

afscme31.org - 10/22/2011AFSCME members who work in the Chicago Public Libraries are fighting back against Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposed budget, which would slash 363 library staff positions and reduce library ho...

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Pension overhaul on hold in Illinois

qctimes.com - SPRINGFIELD — The clock will be ticking on efforts to overhaul the state’s pension systems when lawmakers return to the Capitol next month for the final three days of the fall veto session. Althoug...

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Repair and modernize America’s crumbling public schools.

wwws.whitehouse.gov - creator Hailey S Washington, DC October 31, 2011 Signature # 1 Eun Kyeong C Durham, NH October 31, 2011 Signature # 523 Janet R Austin, TX October 31, 2011 Signature # 522 Tonya C Forney, TX Octobe...

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Occupy San Diego’s Halloween Monster March

obrag.org - Group to march from Balboa Park to the Gaslamp to highlight frightening facts about corruption in America’s financial and political systemsSAN DIEGO, Calif. – On October 31, 2011, Occupy San Dieg...

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Protesters Arrested in Denver and Portland

nytimes.com - Confrontations between police and protesters of the Occupy Wall Street movement led to arrests in two Western cities overnight while demonstrators in Nashville defied a curfew into the early hours ...

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Teamsters strike produce co. for firing 10 workers

teamsternation.blogspot.com - This just in from the Associated Press: Teamsters pickets are marching outside the Port of Hueneme to protest the firings of 10 truck drivers by an Oxnard produce company. There are about 20 people...

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