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Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives beyond acad...

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Escaping the constraints of ‘No Child Left Behind’

washingtonpost.com - Arne Duncan is U.S. secretary of education. Ten years ago today, President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act. The law has improved American education in some ways, but it also still has flaw...

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The ‘three great teacher’ study — finally laid to rest

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - In today’s New York Times there was a story about a research study which supposedly proved that students who had teachers with good value-added scores were more successful in life. This inspired me...

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Voucher Program Student Performance | Educate Now!

educatenow.net - In 2008, the Louisiana Legislature passed the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program to provide tuition vouchers to low-income students in Orleans Parish to attend private and paro...

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California Dream Act foes' petition drive falls short

latimes.com - Jonathan Luna, left, and Yohana Hinojosa participate in a rally supporting the California Dream Act last year. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) By Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times January 7,...

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The G.O.P.’s ‘Black People’ Platform

nytimes.com - That didn’t take long. As we’ve gotten around to casting votes to select a Republican presidential nominee, the antiblack rhetoric has taken center stage. You just have to love ...

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Reining in Chicago protesters - Chicago Tribune

articles.chicagotribune.com - Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s planned limits on protests, ahead of the G-8… (Nancy Stone, Chicago Tribune)January 06, 2012|By Marilyn KatzUsing May's G-8 and NATO summits as the trigger, Mayor Rahm Emanuel ...

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Book Reveals Friction Between Rahm Emanuel, Michelle Obama

huffingtonpost.com - Then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel offered his resignation to President Barack Obama in February 2010 after a series of columns appeared depicting him as the lone element keeping the Obam...

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Mayor Emanuel: Money for CME, cuts for public libraries

chicagoreader.com - Mayor Emanuel must have got lots of rest on his South American vacation, cause he marched back into town last week supercharged and ready to kick ass—specifically, librarian's ass. Not really sure ...

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Goals for 2012 | Just Gabe

justgabe.com - Posted by Gabe on January 5, 2012 under Kids are Heroes |Many people set New Year’s resolutions. I’ve never been a big fan of them. I just try and improve things on a daily basis no matter what tim...

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Time is Nothing // Around The World Time Lapse

edupln.com - 17 Countries. 343 Days. 6237 Photographs. One incredible journey. After I quit my job last year, I packed a bag, grabbed my camera and bought a one way ticket to London. 17 countries later, I put t...

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10 wounded, 2 killed in shootings since Friday night

nola.com - At least 10 people were injured, and two killed, in a spate of unrelated shootings Friday night and Saturday morning.Five of those wounded were children, including four teenagers shot after a high ...

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Charter Schools’ New Cheerleaders: Financiers

nytimes.com - When Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo wanted to meet certain members of the hedge fund crowd, seeking donors for his all-but-certain run for governor, what he heard was this: Talk to Joe. ...

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Can Cuomo become the next education governor?

edexcellence.net - yes Peter Meyer / January 6, 2012 Having proved himself the “steamroller” governor that his defrocked predecessor Eliot Spitzer had promised to be, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo strode into a pa...

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