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Many charter schools not measuring up in new report card data

articles.chicagotribune.com - Teacher Stephanie Licker works on arithmetic problems with fifth-graders… (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune)November 30, 2011|By Joel Hood and Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune reportersMayor Ra...

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Getting From Here to There - Bridging Differences

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,The hope that there is a fast route to solving big problems is alluring. And, it might even be true if only I were smart enough. But it's unlikely. I spent many years of my happy youth b...

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Fred Smith on David Abrams' resignation: No Mas!

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Fred Smith is a former senior analyst for the NYC Board of Education and an expert on testing. Here he comments on the sudden resignation of David Abrams, who led the NY State Education Dept. testi...

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Chicago Charter Schools Return Erratic State Test Results

huffingtonpost.com - After being touted as the solution to low-performing Chicago public schools, state achievement test data released Wednesday showed erratic student performance at Chicago's charter schools, even bet...

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Newt Gingrich: Child labor laws 'truly stupid' [Video]

latimes.com - Promising “extraordinarily radical proposals to fundamentally change the culture of poverty in America,” Newt Gingrich said Friday that he would fire school janitors and pay students to clean schoo...

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Britons Strike as Government Extends Austerity Measures

nytimes.com - LONDON — Hundreds of thousands of public employees walked off their jobs in schools, hospitals, airports, courtrooms, libraries, museums and government offices on Wednesday, as British workers beca...

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Who Would Actually Use Siri to Find an Abortion Provider?

danagoldstein.net - Amanda Marcotte, Jill Filipovic, and lots of other folks are calling attention to the fact that Siri, the new iPhone voice-recognition software, can find Viagra, prostitutes, breast implants, and a...

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A Banker Speaks, With Regret

nytimes.com - If you want to understand why the Occupy movement has found such traction, it helps to listen to a former banker like James Theckston. He fully acknowledges that he and other bankers are mostly res...

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Judy Lewis, Secret Daughter of Hollywood, Dies at 76

nytimes.com - Her mother was Loretta Young. Her father was Clark Gable. Yet Judy Lewis spent her first 19 months in hideaways and orphanages, and the rest of her early life untangling a web of lies s...

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