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An International Diane Ravitch Moment?

lilysblackboard.org - There is hope on the horizon, my dears. For more than ten long, empty, intellectually dry and dishonest years, we’ve lived under the insanity of No Child Left Untested. (Someone told me not to be s...
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Proposed charter law changes unlikely to improve schools

thenotebook.org - The state house rejected a voucher bill last night, but concerns remain about the charter law changes Governor Corbett proposed as part of the bill. In this guest blog post, Susan DeJarnatt and The...
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coopmike48 Big Education Ape: SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: A Bronx Student Thanks Mayor Bloomberg For The Education He Has Received - goo.gl/ACjRE5 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite
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The education of Earl Kim *93

paw.princeton.edu - Ricardo BarrosEarl Kim *93 It’s been a busy and bruising few years for Earl Kim *93, the superintendent of schools in Montgomery Township, just north of Princeton. Like other schools chiefs during ...
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2011 UNITY NewU Startup Funds

landing.k12newsnetwork.com - BIOCynthia Liu, PhD, is CEO/Founder of the online organizing and education news site K12NewsNetwork.com, a "MoveOn" for supporters of public education.In 2011, she received the BlogHer.com / HTC 20...
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“Tiger Moms” Now Usurped by “Wolf Dads”

k12newsnetwork.com - Corporal punishment is the unspoken dark side of Asian and Asian Pacific American parenting, and if the whirlwind created by Amy Chua’s sardonic Tiger Mom memoir wasn’t enough to roil the interwebs...
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At a Meeting Spot for Occupiers, Signs Prohibit Signs

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - Robert Stolarik for The New York TimesNo signs inside, please:  the atrium at 60 Wall Street.Updated, 1:45 p.m. | Soon after the Occupy Wall Street protesters built an encampment in the financial d...
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Group Clears Path for a Third-Party Ticket

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - To those who bemoan the lack of better choices in presidential elections, third-party fantasies come easily at this stage in a campaign. End hyper-partisanship and Washington dysfunction: Vote Bloo...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 16, 2011 The President said that Congress cannot go home without preventing a tax increase on 160 million hardworking Am...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 16, 2011 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Obama nominated Judge John Thomas Fowlkes, Jr. and Mr. Kevin McNulty to serve...
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Feds: 'Excessive force' by Seattle cops must stop

democraticunderground.com - Source: KOMO 4 News SeattleSEATTLE - An 11-month investigation by the U.S. Justice Department has found the Seattle Police Department "engages in a pattern of unnecessary and excessive force" in "v...
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This week's healthy schools highlights

ednewsparent.org - Hungry for local in Dolores schools Fresh and local is the new trend at the cafeteria in Dolores schools. Dolores School District Food Service Director Chuck Soukup told school board members recent...
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DAC gives LAUSD A Wack - District Advisory Committees

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Central and Local District Advisory Committees: Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Parent Group Files Lawsuit Charging LAUSD With Misuse of $2.5 Billion in Federal Title I FundsP_R_E_S_S_...
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Map: Where the Jobless Are

baycitizen.org - California's unemployment rate fell for the fourth straight month in November to 11.3 percent, down from a peak of 12.5 percent in December 2010. The numbers were slightly better in the Bay Area, w...
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We won’t invest in struggling schools

pureparents.org - They say that if they tell us what they’re doing, we’ll get upset. What are they doing? Here’s what CPS Chief Operating Officer Tim Cawley told reporters over the phone yesterday: “If we think ther...
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A great charter school hustle

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - RichmondI've got to hand it to charter school authorizer and former lobbyist, Greg Richmond for coming up with this great hustle. A law recently pass by the Illinois state legislature created his n...
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School Tech Connect: Heather Steans' Corrupt Commission

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Heather Steans' Corrupt Commission: Heather Steans' Corrupt Commission by noreply@blogger.com (Tim) Mike Klonsky has more details about the corrupt charter sc...
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At a Meeting Spot for Occupiers, Signs Prohibit Signs

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - Robert Stolarik for The New York TimesNo signs inside, please:  the atrium at 60 Wall Street.Updated, 1:45 p.m. | Soon after the Occupy Wall Street protesters built an encampment in the financial d...
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Letter from Council of Elders to Trinity Church

occupywallst.org - December 16, 2011 Dear Rev. Dr. James Cooper, We are veterans of the Civil Rights, Women’s, Peace, Environmental, LGBTQ, Immigrant Justice, labor rights and other movements of the last 60 years. Ma...
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D17 ReOccupy Schedule | OccupyWallSt.org

occupywallst.org - Saturday December 17th  Occupy 2.0!Posted 24 minutes ago on Dec. 16, 2011, 7:48 p.m. EST by anonymous What: Block Party and Re-Occupation Where: Sixth Avenue and Canal St. When: Saturday Dec. 17, 1...
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