Sunday, May 6, 2012

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Are Test Scores the Point? « Diane Ravitch's blog

dianeravitch.net - We have reached a point in our public life where the only way to demonstrate the success of a school is to say it has higher test scores than some other school. But we all know–or should know–that ...
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PENCILS DOWN - End High Stake Testing

us2.campaign-archive1.com - Hello all,   Testing Season is at hand.  We’re fighting back. Our slogan for the campaign is "Pencils Down! End High Stakes Testing."  We have events on Tuesday and Friday this week. Please join us...
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Slogans That Didn't Quite Make the Cut :: Frederick M. Hess

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Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Cairo, Egypt. May 4th. John Dillon’s Pension Vocabulary Word of the Week: Misinformation. “Working as a hand puppet for the Illinois Policy Institute, ABC’s Chuck Goudie, the crack investigative re...
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The Powers of New York

nytimes.com - By CLYDE HABERMAN Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Clockwise from top left: the officials Patricia E. Harris, Raymond W. Kelly and Merryl H. Tisch; and the newer faces Masamichi Udagawa, Sigi Moesl...
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600 US Troops Occupying Honduras, Two Years After Coup

tomhayden.com - Six hundred US army troops have invaded Honduras in an escalation of the 2009 intervention, in which the State Department stood by during a military coup against Honduras’ elected president, Manuel...
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Learning That Works - TIME

time.com - Mark Peterman / Getty Images for TIME Clyde McBride is one of those everyday saints who, without much fanfare, go about the work of changing, and sometimes saving, the lives of children. He teaches...
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Children First…..Always? | Protect Portelos

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German center-right coalition poised to lose state

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our MAY FESTIVAL OF PROTEST !

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Around the World with the Supermoon - Global

theatlanticwire.com - On Friday we reported that there's no reason to be afraid of the supermoon. It wouldn't make you crazy. It wasn't going to sink any ships. It wasn't going to signal the end of the world. If any of ...
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4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - Twenty former Miramonte Elementary students say they were victims of abuse and that the district did not do enough to protect students who lodged complaints. By Nicole Santa Cruz, Los Angeles Time...
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DeKalb must take an unflinching look at cronyism

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Dear Charlie. « Fred Klonsky

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