Monday, November 28, 2011

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Peabody lecture on educational change in Finland | News

news.vanderbilt.edu - by Jennifer Wetzel | Posted on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 — 2:03 PMPasi Sahlberg, director general of CIMO, an organization for international mobility and cooperation under the Finnish Ministry of Educ...

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Jefferson charter school budget has $87,500 per student

nola.com - As Jefferson Parish public school officials consider opening more charter schools, they are questioning whether the system's first charter is doing enough to help at-risk students. Jefferson Commun...

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APPR Paper - New York Principals

newyorkprincipals.org - In May 2010, the New York State Legislature—in an effort to secure federal Race to the Top funds—approved an amendment to Educational Law 3012-c regarding the Annual Professional Performance Review...

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fklonsky Daily Kos: The Truth Comes Out: The Mackinac Center lies about lobbying efforts. dailykos.com/story/2011/11/… via@dailykos16 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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coopmike48 U.S. Education Secretary Duncan and Assistant Secretary Posny to Hold Roundtable Discussion at Wilde Lake High Schoo goo.gl/Y1IjO38 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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Principals Protest Role of Testing

nytimes.com - Rockville Centre, N.Y. Through the years there have been many bitter teacher strikes and too many student protests to count. But a principals’ revolt? “Principals don’t revolt,”...

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DOE officials promise swift changes for Queens high school

gothamschools.org - Department of Education officials have promised to resolve scheduling problems this week at Queens Metropolitan High School — and to keep a closer eye on the school in the future. Officials from th...

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Wall of Separation

au.org - Students in the Brownsville, Texas, Independent School District have been told by school officials that they should tuck religious symbols, such as rosaries and crosses, inside their clothing.An “u...

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Steve Lopez: Will tonight mark the end for Occupy L.A.?

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Will police make their move on Occupy L.A. tonight? They won't say, so it's cat and mouse out there, and more than a little surreal at what to this point has been one of the friendliest, most well-...

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2.6M expected to strike on 11.30.11 in the UK

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Our brothers and sisters in the TUC are planning a ginormous strike on Wednesday to protest the Tory government's plan to slash their pensions. Led by National Nurses United, Americans will hold n...

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Occupy LA campers brace for midnight eviction deadline

reuters.com - By Mary Slosson LOS ANGELES | Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:39am EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters who have camped outside Los Angeles City Hall for weeks braced on Sunday fo...

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Occupy L.A.: Religious leaders meet with Villaraigosa, Beck

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Interfaith leaders who have recently become involved in the Occupy movement held a meeting with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck on Monday morning as city official...

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Gryphon: New and Selected Stories

barbarasbookstore.com - DescriptionEver since the publication of The Harmony of the World in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America’s finest short-story writers. Each subsequent collection—T...

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Of Spinning & Weaving...

sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com - Words that speak what I feel in my heart from Sarah Alexander, via my Facebook friend Meryl Steinberg: "We are being called to raise our consciousness, to each take our place at the table around ...

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Are we the teachable species? | The Loom

blogs.discovermagazine.com - We know that our species is unique, but it can be surprisingly hard to pinpoint what exactly makes us so. The fact that we have DNA is not much of a mark of distinction. Several million other speci...

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SFPUC Refuses Public Hearing on Hetch Hetchy Restoration

californiaprogressreport.com - Printer-friendly versionSend to friendBy Dan Aiello In a letter to Restore Hetch Hetchy’s executive director, Mike Marshall, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) has rejected a req...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 28, 2011 1. We, the leaders of the United States and the European Union, met today at the White House to affirm our clo...

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nypost.com - Opponents of Success Academy Cobble Hill recently created perhaps the most apropos hashtag in the brief history of Twitter: “#nosuccess.”Some might find it rather odd that, in a city suffering from...

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