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Bill Gates Goes to Community College
dailycensored.com - Taxpayers are down on their luck Vegas gamblers, who have made a “bad bet” on the community college students across the country who have dropped out as freshmen, according to the opening lines of a...
Re-Learning What We 'Know' - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,I loved Nancy Creech's piece from Valerie Strauss's Washington Post blog last summer. Thanks, Diane, for sending it along. It's a vital reminder as the nation faces a new federal Race to...
No! Not another education commission! - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by George Wood, superintendent and secondary school principal at the Federal Hocking Local School District in Stewart, Ohio. He is also the executive director of the Forum for Edu...
Smart Selection vs. Dumb Selection « School Finance 101
schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - I had a twitter argument the other day about a blog posting that compared the current debate around “de-selection” of bad teachers to eugenics. It is perhaps a bit harsh to compare Hanushek (cited...
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...
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razoo.com - $0 Raised 0 Donors $10k matching grant provided by the Pierce Family Foundation Mark Horvath Dear Friends, I need your help to continue telling these stories and reaching out into the streets, un...
Is This the Future of Punctuation
online.wsj.com - Punctuation arouses strong feelings. You have probably come across the pen-wielding vigilantes who skulk around defacing movie posters and amending handwritten signs that advertise "Rest Room's" or...
Can Teachers Be Friends With Students? - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo
blogs.edweek.org - This week's question comes from Brad Patterson, who asks:Can we be friends with our students? Where do we create barriers? How about social-media wise? I'm interested to hear about your experience,...
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Senate Fails to Allow Debate on Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act
feminist.org - Feminist News All | National News | Global News October-21-11 Senate Fails to Allow Debate on Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act Yesterday the Senate, voting 50 to 50, fell short of t...
Missouri Repeals Law Restricting Teacher-Student Internet And Facebook Interaction
huffingtonpost.com - JEFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed legislation Friday repealing a contentious law that had limited online discussions between teachers and students and caused a judge to raise conc...
Do You Know How Your Senator Voted on Putting Teachers Back to Work - and How Many Jobs Are at Stake in Your State?
nwlc.org - Posted on October 21, 2011 | Last night, a Republican-led filibuster blocked debate on the Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act. The Act would have provided funding to keep about 400,000...
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News from The Associated Press
hosted.ap.org - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite a campaign-style push this week by President Barack Obama, the Senate on Thursday scuttled pared-back jobs legislation aimed at helping state and local governments avoid ...
Arne Duncan drives, shoots and scores - Jennifer Epstein
politico.com - Arne Duncan grabbed headlines from the moment he arrived in Washington as President Barack Obama’s basketball-playing friend in the Cabinet.Nearly three years later, Washington insiders are paying ...
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 ...
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Google Now Lets Businesses & Schools Buy Chromebooks Without Subscriptions
techcrunch.com - Google announced today that its business and educational customers now have a second option for purchasing its new Chrome OS-powered laptops: upfront pricing, sans subscription. Previously, Chromeb...
The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Animations
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - I think having English Language Learners create short online animations is a great benefit the Web provides. Students can work individually or in a group very methodically by making well-thought-ou...
10 Mac Tools That Every Student Should Make Use Of
makeuseof.com - posted on October 19, 2011 by Bakari Chavanu It’s next to impossible these days to attend school and not use a desktop or laptop computer. While all Mac computers provide essential tools or applica...
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50% of All Workers Made Less than $26,000 in 2010
dailykos.com - The Social Security table is interesting to examine. The table is organized by net compensation, which for the nation totaled 6,009,831,055,912.11, of which some 210 billion was not Social Securit...
Senate Kills Pared-Back $35 Billion Jobs Bill : NPR
npr.org - President Obama first called on Congress to pass his whole jobs bill. When that failed, he started calling on lawmakers to pass it piece by piece. The measure rejected by the Senate Thursday night ...
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David Sirota: The Choice Between Democracy and AutocracyTruthdig
truthdig.com - Posted on Oct 21, 2011By David Sirota Hear ye, hear ye! Let it be known that in this 10th month of the first year of His Majesty King John Hickenlooper’s reign, the sovereign governor of the Kingdo...
Yes I teach about #Occupy. No, it is not earthshattering. Calm down.
ukiahcoachbrown.blogspot.com - It started with a simple question on the #sschat feed on Twitter from a teacher in Washington D.C. I think we at #sschat should be just as fired up about #OccupyWallStreet & #Occupy in general ...
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