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The Obama Record in Education

ed.gov - Thank you, Mark.Good morning and welcome to Washington, delegates.This is the third Mom Congress, and I've been honored to be at all three of them. I'm even more honored to have partners like you w...
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National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing

timeoutfromtesting.org - WHEREAS, our nation's future well-being relies on a high-quality public education system that prepares all students for college, careers, citizenship and lifelong learning, and strengthens the nati...
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Kenneth Cole. Is it the shoes? « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - H/T NYC Educator The picture of the billboard showed up on lots of Facebook and blog sites this weekend. Kenneth Cole, shoe monger and brother-in-law of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, put up the b...
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4 children, 4 the public, 4 social justice, 4 the future

ipetitions.com - The Petition        We are education scholars, students, teachers, and citizens who support worldwide democratic efforts that demand economic and social justice.        Access to decent education i...
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Kenneth Cole gets schooled - Salon.com

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Kenneth Cole gets schooled - Salon.com: Kenneth Cole gets schooled Updated: The fashion mogul has backed off his assault on schoolteachers after a public outcry BY DAVID SIROTA [UPDATE BELOW] It...
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Romney's Advice To Students: Borrow Money From Your Parents

thinkprogress.org - If you’re young and you want to start your own business, Mitt Romney’s has some advice from you: Borrow money from your parents. At a “lecture” for students at Otterbein University in Ohio today, M...
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more errors in 2012 Mathematics Tests Scoring Materials

groups.yahoo.com - For this we're paying $32 Million? ________________________________ > > From: NYSED EXAMREQUEST [mailto:EXAMREQUEST@...] > Sent: Mon 4/30/2012 9:44 AM > Subject: Notice to Test Scoring Coordinators...
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Why Hakeem Jeffries may be Cuomo's guy in the House

capitalnewyork.com - Andrew Cuomo may soon have a new ally in the New York congressional delegation.Last month, when the governor was aggressively pushing for expansion of the state's DNA database to include informatio...
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Former Israeli Premier Assails Netanyahu on Iran

nytimes.com - Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of Israel, plunged on Sunday into the country’s growing debate over Iran policy with harsh criticism of his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu. As seve...
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Scandal and Scrutiny Hem In Murdoch’s Empire

nytimes.com - In the months after a phone-hacking scandal erupted in Britain last summer, Rupert Murdoch told people within News Corporation that he wanted to revisit his media company’s discontinued $12 billion...
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US May Day protests planned, may disrupt commutes

northjersey.com - May Day protests may disrupt the morning commute in major U.S. cities Tuesday as labor, immigration and Occupy activists rally support on the international workers' holiday. Demonstrations, strikes...
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Occupy SF, Oakland plan May Day rallies, pickets

sfgate.com - Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle Christy Wong of San Jose protests Wells Fargo's shareholders meeting Tuesday outside S.F.'s Merchants Exchange Building. Commuters who use the Golden Gate Bridge or take ...
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NJ nuclear plant declares 'unusual event' and shuts down

northjersey.com - LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK TOWNSHIP  — The operators of the Salem I nuclear power plant are investigating what caused a reactor at the southern New Jersey facility to unexpectedly shut down, triggering f...
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more errors in 2012 Mathematics Tests Scoring Materials

groups.yahoo.com - For this we're paying $32 Million? ________________________________ > > From: NYSED EXAMREQUEST [mailto:EXAMREQUEST@...] > Sent: Mon 4/30/2012 9:44 AM > Subject: Notice to Test Scoring Coordinators...
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Fly My Pretties | Gary Rubinstein's Blog

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - The original purpose of TFA was to encourage the ‘best and brightest’ to learn, first hand, about what is going on in the American education system, and then use this knowledge to help improve it. ...
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