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Does Value-Added Correlate With Principal Evaluations?

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - Perhaps the most controversial issue in Ed Reform is whether or not it is fair to tie teacher evaluation to their ‘performance’ as defined by reformers as how their students do on standardized exam...

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The Common Core Will Be The Common Cure

laststand4children.blogspot.com - Back in 1979 when they used to actually make family movies, I remember seeing a wonderful movie called The Great Santini. The movie was about a Marine Lieutenant Colonel who is raising a family. ...

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A history of failed reform - The Answer Sheet

washingtonpost.com - This was written by Marc Epstein, who was a history teacher at Jamaica High School in Queens, N.Y., for the past 15 years, and a former dean of students. Since the “phasing out” of Jamaica began th...

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Mr. Governor, Shut This School District Down!

plunderbund.com - Today’s story is about the 21st largest school district in the state of Ohio and how district leaders are working to attain financial success while being under attack on multiple fronts. I will no...

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Chicago News, Food, Arts & Events

mobile.chicagoist.com - Chicago Department of Family and Support Services Commissioner Evelyn Diaz. Evelyn Diaz, Commissioner of the City's Department of Family and Support Services, had what can be sincerely described as...

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Oligarchy Is the Problem | Firedoglake

firedoglake.com - John Pierpont Morgan, American Oligarch (photo: Images of American Political History, public domain) We have a society in which money is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people, and ...

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The New York Times Still Has Not Heard About the Recession

my.firedoglake.com - It is sometimes hard to get news about the economy over in the middle of New York City. Communications ain’t what they used to be. That is what readers of David Leonhardt’s piece telling us that ou...

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14,000 Coloradans move $100M into credit unions

coloradoindependent.com - As the social media-sparked Bank Transfer Day approaches, the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) reports that over 650,000 people have joined credit unions in the last four weeks. In Colorado...

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Diabetes-themed health fair draws crowds in downtown L.A.

latimesblogs.latimes.com - November 6, 2011 | 1:10 pm A few thousand people were expected at a health fair Sunday at La Placita Olvera in downtown Los Angeles, where attendees were offered diabetes education and free medica...

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Pa. warehouse workers tell paper they endured cold

democraticunderground.com - Source: AP NewsA report says workers at an Amazon.com warehouse in Pennsylvania who were subjected to sweltering conditions last summer also say they endured frigid wintertime conditions a year ago...

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Muhammad Ali: "I'm pulling" for Frazier

cbsnews.com - Muhammad Ali, left, throws a punch at Joe Frazier during their Jan. 28, 1974 bout at Madison Square Garden in New York. (AP Photo/File) (CBS/AP) Muhammad Ali is pulling for a former boxing foe who...

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Huge Crowd Circles White House to Protest XL Pipeline

fdlaction.firedoglake.com - Today I was down by the White House to witness the massive protest against the new Keystone XL pipeline that would bring tar sands oil from Canada down to American refineries on the Gulf of Mexico....

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