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STRIKE BEGINS ! « Teachers Fight Back
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - STRIKE BEGINS ! « Teachers Fight Back: STRIKE BEGINS !by alkleenHere we go! The Rockford teachers’ strike is officially under way. Late night negotiations failed to reach any settlement. The tel...
Variety of Models Fuels Hybrid Charter Growth
edweek.org - Published Online: March 5, 2012Published in Print: March 7, 2012, as Variety of Models Fuel Hybrid Charter GrowthIn innovation-friendly pockets across the country, the number of hybrid charter scho...
Eureka College maintains spot on honor roll - Peoria, IL
pjstar.com - For the second consecutive year, Eureka College has been named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary community service.This year, Eureka College moved up in...
Behind Every Harassed Child? A Lot of Clueless Adults
movies.nytimes.com - “Bully,” Lee Hirsch’s moving and troubling documentary about the misery some children inflict upon others, arrives at a moment when bullying, long tolerated as a fact of life, is being redefined as...
Adrienne Rich, Feminist Poet, Dies at 82
nytimes.com - Adrienne Rich, a poet of towering reputation and towering rage, whose work — distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity — brought the oppression of women an...
Flipping the Script on Turnarounds: Why not Retain Teachers instead of Reject Them? - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - Follow me on Twitter at @AnthonyCodyAt the Education Writers Association conference on School Improvement last Saturday, I was a bit of a contrarian. Many speakers suggested we need to "break the c...
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Dissent Magazine - Spring 2012 Issue
dissentmagazine.org - For Barkan’s other writing on the self-proclaimed “education reform movement,” click here, here, and here. If you want to change government policy, change the politicians who make it. The implicati...
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mcall.com - The top administrator of a troubled Bethlehem charter school resigned Wednesday, alleging that school officials continue to mismanage tax dollars even as two local school districts investigate its ...
PARCC Assessments: “To exploit us, they measure us. To control us, they measure us.” (Subcommandante Marcos of the Zapatistas),
mets2006.wordpress.com - He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts– for support rather than illumination. – Andrew Lang, With the State tests in grades 3-8 looming schools are in full test prep mode. Test results...
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RITA KRAMER: A DARK PASSOVER | MIDEAST OUTPOST
mideastoutpost.com - When families gather around the Seder table, many recall the dark Passover of 1943 and the climax of the months-long battle in which the small number of men and women remaining in the Warsaw Ghetto...
Arkansas high court overturns teacher-sex law
boston.com - LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the state's law banning sexual contact between teachers and students, finding that people 18 or older have a constitutional righ...
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Education - The Key Issue in the Governor's Race
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Seattle Schools Community Forum: Education - The Key Issue in the Governor's Race: Education - The Key Issue in the Governor's Race by Melissa Westbrook Went to the Alliance for Education break...
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Storobin Leads by 10 As Ballots Are Contested on Both Sides
politicker.com - Councilman Fidler (Photo: Facebook) Things are getting tense at the Board of Elections office in Brooklyn today where the count of absentee and provisional ballots from last week’s State Senate spe...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 29, 2012 The President proposed the Buffett Rule to ensure a very basic principle of fairness: millionaires shouldn’t pay l...
Participatory Democracy: From the Port Huron Statement to Occupy Wall Street
tomhayden.com - This article appeared in the April 16, 2012 edition of The Nation. This is the fiftieth anniversary year of the Port Huron Statement, the founding declaration of Students for a Democratic Society, ...
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Early morning Fox. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - WGN’s early morning sport reporter, Pat Tomasulo. I’m getting ready to fly off to Brooklyn this morning to see my daughters, their partners, my grand kids and the rest of my New York family. I neve...
Early morning Fox. « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Early morning Fox. « Fred Klonsky: Early morning Fox.by Fred KlonskyWGN’s early morning sport reporter, Pat Tomasulo. I’m getting ready to fly off to Brooklyn this morning to see my daughters, thei...
High school expels student for tweeting f-word | Games Blog
games.yahoo.com - (Credit: Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) An Indiana high school expels a student for a silly, profane tweet, even though it seems to have been sent at 2:30 a.m. The school suggests that it may t...
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Rockford out. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - After negotiating for over a year, members of the Rockford Education Association walked off the job this morning. District 205, one of the largest in the state, is known for being among the most to...
Age, sex, race, education and credit cards
foxbusiness.com - Rugged individualism. It's part of our national ethos, and we all like to believe that we make our own choices and determine our own destinies. But in reality, most of us are products of our enviro...
Google's Alternative to Paywalls: Customer Surveys - Technology
theatlanticwire.com - Google is rolling out a new product, “Google Consumer Surveys,” that lets publishers monetize content through “microsurveys” created by companies that want to carry out inexpensive market research....
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coming soon to a theater near you: in the family
blog.angryasianman.com - Film fans, take note. After picking up several accolades on the film festival circuit, including an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature, writer/director/producer/star Patrick...
Illinois Celebrates Whole Child Month! — Whole Child Education
whatworks.wholechildeducation.org - Select MonthMarch, 2012February, 2012January, 2012December, 2011November, 2011October, 2011September, 2011August, 2011July, 2011June, 2011May, 2011April, 2011March, 2011February, 2011January, 2011D...
Culinary competition continues to grow
northjersey.com - WAYNE - Participants in Wayne Valley High School's sixth annual culinary competition outdid themselves this year as a record eight teams vied to win over the hearts, and stomachs, of over 550 atten...
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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Education - The Key Issue in the Governor's Race
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Seattle Schools Community Forum: Education - The Key Issue in the Governor's Race: Education - The Key Issue in the Governor's Race by Melissa Westbrook Went to the Alliance for Education break...
School Board Rejects Latest Adelanto Parent Trigger Petition; Parent Revolution Promises Lawsuit | Scathing Purple Musings
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Board Rejects Latest Adelanto Parent Trigger Petition; Parent Revolution Promises Lawsuit | Scathing Purple Musings: School Board Rejects Latest Adelanto Parent Trigger Petition; Parent Revo...
All Education Matters: MonyCrashers.com - "What Happens If You Default On Federal Loans?"
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - All Education Matters: MonyCrashers.com - "What Happens If You Default On Federal Loans?": MonyCrashers.com - "What Happens If You Default On Federal Loans?"by Cryn JohannsenI am now a contributing...
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Treasury's class size comments refuted by expert - National
nzherald.co.nz - An education expert has dismissed Treasury's call to rethink classroom sizes so more money can be pumped into improving teacher quality, saying New Zealand teachers are already among the highest pe...
