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Smiley & West featuring Pasi Sahlberg

smileyandwest.com - West:               From PRI, Public Radio International in Princeton I’m Cornel West and this is Smiley & West. Duncan:  All of us have to move outside our comfort zone.  All of us have to change....
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LAUSD Should Fund Schools in Need, Not District Offices

huffingtonpost.com - Dear LAUSD School Board Members, Superintendent Deasy, Secretary Duncan, and President Obama,We all want to provide the educational opportunities for children and our communities. Please help me re...
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The Rich Get Even Richer

nytimes.com - NEW statistics show an ever-more-startling divergence between the fortunes of the wealthy and everybody else — and the desperate need to address this wrenching problem. Even in a country that somet...
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Momentum Builds for Dual-Language Learning

edweek.org - After reading a story about a Mexican hat dance, 1st grader Ethan Wheeler tries out the dance himself at the Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy in Houston, one of the oldest schoolwide dual-language...
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Pilot Districts | slcedu.org

slcedu.org - To develop and launch the services, the SLC is working with school districts in several states that have holistic plans to improve student achievement by addressing curriculum, content, assessments...
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Lobbyists, Guns and Money

nytimes.com - Florida’s now-infamous Stand Your Ground law, which lets you shoot someone you consider threatening without facing arrest, let alone prosecution, sounds crazy — and it is. And it’s tempting to dism...
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No Limits On Teacher Evaluation Info, Skelos Says

nydailynews.com - State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said Monday there will be no restrictions on the public release of teacher evaluations. Our Ken Lovett reports: The Daily News reported today that the issue...
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All Kids To Keep Providing For Undocumented Children

progressillinois.com - An idea for reducing Illinois' health care costs is off the table for now. An Illinois Senate subcommittee rejected last week Sen. Carole Pankau's (R-Itasca) plan to bar undocumented immigrant chil...
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State budget framework takes shape as final deal nears

gothamschools.org - With a final deal on the 2012-2013 state budget imminent, legislators were racing to hash out the last of several education rifts in a series of closed door negotiations on Monday. State Senate Maj...
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All Our Problems Solved…Or Not « MomsRising Blog

momsrising.org - From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Journalist Liza Mundy sees a time, in the very near future, when women will earn more th...
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The Best Fun Videos About Books & Reading

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org -   I’m sure there are plenty of fun videos out there about books and reading, and I hope readers will point me in the direction of others besides the ones on this list. You might also be interested ...
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Practice Makes Perfect (maybe) - The Educator's PLN

edupln.ning.com - So I find myself a bit anxious, asking myself, "What am I doing here?"  As a brand new blogger, I am embarrassed that I don't know how to do it properly.  This has long been a failing of mine and s...
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India shows concerns to US over rejection of H1B, L1 visas

democraticunderground.com - 4 Mar, 2012, 10.00PM IST, Ishani Duttagupta,ET Bureau Alexandra Patargia is a 26-year-old civil engineer from Greece. After an engineering degree from Athens, she completed her master's degree in d...
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Murdoch firm used hacker site to target pay-TV rival

democraticunderground.com - News Corp owned 49% of NDS at point of sale. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/15/us-nds-cisco-idUSBRE82E0C120120315 Issue affecting ITV Digital was publicised almost exactly 10 years ago. Det...
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A Mother’s Grace and Grieving

nytimes.com - Miami Gardens, Fla. “They called him Slimm.” That is what Sybrina Fulton, the mother of the slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, told me people called her son because he was s...
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