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Schools flunked inquiries into suspicious scores in 2011

usatoday.com - By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY Posted A decade ago, Hopeville Elementary School was one of the worst-performing schools in Waterbury, Conn., 30 miles west of Hartford. So when Michael Puffer, an educatio...

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Fighting back against mandatory school testing

sdcitybeat.com - The red pillow takes the least space. The yellow pillow takes more space than the blue pillow. Which of the following is not true:The red pillow takes more space than the blue pillow.The yellow ...

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NAACP resolution on charter schools

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - In a process established by the NAACP Constitution, this resolution was adopted by the delegates to the 101st Annual Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, during the legislative session in July, 201...

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leoniehaimson Public School Advocates (including me) Skeptical of Cuomo Education Commission Plan | PolitickerNY - goo.gl/bdTfK30 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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coopmike48 Portland schools' defense in lawsuit: Incompetence, not discrimination, got Diana Fernandez fired - goo.gl/vkM342 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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mikeklonsky Excellent piece by special ed teacher Pam Emerson in Jay Mathews column in WaPo. wapo.st/tsynXd Don't miss.47 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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How Pearson wins their testing contracts

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Steven Paine and Patricia Wright, superintendents in West Virginia and Virginia, with Mark Nieker, right, of the Pearson Foundation, in London in June 2010. Michael Wi...

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How Paul Krugman found politics : The New Yorker

newyorker.com - These days when Krugman criticizes Obama, commenters on his blog tend to agree with him. He has regained his credibility with the left. There are even some songs about him on YouTube. “Hey, Paul Kr...

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NEW YEAR QUOTABLES

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Barack Obama "I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists." -- CNNLu You...

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World News: America’s secret political power

thestar.com - Occupy Phoenix protesters came to protest to the American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization that brings together large corporations and conservative state lawmakers to draft model bills...

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Russian Art Group Claims Attack on Police Van

nytimes.com - MOSCOW — A spokesman for the radical art collective Voina on Monday announced that its members had broken into a St. Petersburg police station on New Year’s Eve and used Molotov cocktails to incine...

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You Have No Idea What To Count, So Shut Up

thejosevilson.com - Ira Socol, the unabashed scholar he is, dropped my first favorite quote of 2012 in his meme on December 30th: Things I don’t want to hear in 2012: (3) “Accountability” – you have no idea what to co...

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Yes we can. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - I want to talk about Obama voting this morning. It sort of started back last July at the NEA convention. IEA President Dennis Van Roekel, in his infinite wisdom, decided we should endorse the guy t...

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Governor Cuomo Announces A New Education Committee

southbronxschool.com - We here at SBSB wish to take the time and congratulate Governor Cuomo on his call in tomorrow's state of the state address tomorrow night in calling for an education committee to look at education ...

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AP: Officials Say Fracking Caused Ohio Earthquake

readersupportednews.org - Intro: "Officials said Saturday they believe the latest earthquake activity in northeast Ohio is related to the injection of wastewater into the ground near a fault line, creating enough pressure t...

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Union Line Says “Bah Humbug” to Occupiers

fdlaction.firedoglake.com - Occupy Memphis in Union Line jackets Occupy Supply has spent literally tens of thousands of dollars on union made Union Line goods over the course of the past few months. Their quilt lined work ja...

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Occupy Iowa Could Get Messy - Politics

theatlanticwire.com - As Iowa's Republicans gear up for tomorrow's caucuses, party officials are making tense plans to deal with potential protesters from the Occupy movement. Politico's Edward-Isaac Dovere reports that...

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