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MCS mistakes prove costly » The Commercial Appeal

commercialappeal.com - I am one of the many Memphis City Schools teachers whose official status is "surplus teacher." Supt. Kriner Cash derisively refers to us as "lemons." For him, it may be a joke. For cash-strapped ta...
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Students Weigh In on Character

6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com - October 10, 2011, 1:55 pm By VERA TITUNIKPaul Tough’s article ‘‘What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?’’ received a tremendous response from readers when it appeared in the Education Issue last ...
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Youth movement in a culture of hopelessness - Features

english.aljazeera.net - 'Occupy' protests quickly spread from New York to cities across the United States [GALLO/GETTY] A protest encampment near the heart of the United States' financial capital in New York City started ...
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Teachers Union march | Occupy Chicago

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Back Home, and Homeless - NYTimes.com

atwar.blogs.nytimes.com - Courtesy of Matt FarwellThe author on deployment in Afghanistan.Mid-June, 2011: I find myself alone in a dark wooded park tucked between million-dollar houses south of Stanford University, looking ...
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Stop Junk Food Marketing to Kids « MomsRising Blog

momsrising.org - On Wednesday morning, a faceoff between kids’ health and the food industry will reach a months-long culmination. CEOs from some of the biggest food companies in the world will show up to say they s...
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Designing Schools to Engage and Drive Learning

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Costs rise as Wall Street protests continue

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Newspaper CEO resigns with $37 million payout

tucsonsentinel.com - Posted Oct 6, 2011, 4:49 pm Dylan Smith TucsonSentinel.comThe head of the parent company of the Arizona Republic, the shuttered Tucson Citizen - and part owner of the Arizona Daily Star operation -...
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Median U.S. Incomes Shrank Further After Recession

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UC and its largest union ratify labor agreement

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Japan Studies Radiation Effects on Children

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    Diane Ravitch to Offer Keynote Address at First-Ever Bronx Education Summit

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    Sen. Patty Murray Introduces FOCUS Class Size Legislation | Education News

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    Sen. Patty Murray Introduces FOCUS Class Size Legislation | Education News:Sen. Patty Murray Introduces FOCUS Class Size LegislationUS Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) has introduced legislation that would limit class sizes and push recruitment for better teachers.U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced the Facilitating Outstanding Classrooms Using Size Reduction (FOCUS) Act of 2011 [bill summary, PDF], which the Senator says would provide states with the resources they need to reduce class sizes across the early grade levels in order to provide ... more »

    Digital Learning Claims Don't Always Match Results – SchoolBook

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    Digital Learning Claims Don't Always Match Results – SchoolBook:Digital Learning Claims Don't Always Match ResultsStephen Nessen for SchoolBookFACEBOOKTWITTEROct. 10, 2011, 7:31 a.m.By MARY ANN GIORDANOHappy Columbus Day. There is no school today, but education was very much in the news over the weekend, with extra attention paid to education-related businesses.Trying to find the digital solution that will help students pick up math and reading as quickly as they do the latest online game, districts and schools are spending $2.2 billion ... more »

    Low-income students score lower on AP tests, analysis finds | California Watch

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    Why merit pay for teachers sounds good — but isn’t - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

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    Brown saves ed bills for last | Thoughts on Public Education

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    Brown saves ed bills for last | Thoughts on Public Education:Brown saves ed bills for last - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guessby John Fensterwald - Educated GuessKathryn Baron contributed to this article Signatures and vetoes went flying out of the State Capitol over the weekend as Gov. Brown raced to meet the October 9 deadline to take action on all the bills passed during the 2011-12 legislative session. He signed three bills that will lead to significant changes in ... more »

    Daily Kos: The Myth of Voter Fraud

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    Daily Kos: The Myth of Voter Fraud:The Myth of Voter Fraudby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)There is almost no voting fraud in America. And none of the lawmakers who claim there is have ever been able to document any but the most isolated cases. The only reason Republicans are passing these laws is to give themselves a political edge by suppressing Democratic votes.So says the New York Times in its lead editorial this morning, whose title I have used for this post. The ... more »
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    CA: Gov Brown signs bill restricting library privatization - PrivatizationWatch.Org

    October 10, 2011 - PrivatizationWatch.Org:

    OCTOBER 10, 2011

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    CA: Gov Brown signs bill restricting library privatization
    CA: Alarms about ambulance contract went unheeded
    TX: Texans remain vigilant against Interstate 69
    IL: City mulls privatizing recycling; some fear union-busting agenda
    FL: Private prison deal has caught FBI and U.S. attorney attention
    FL: Lawmaker defends prison privatization effort
    FL: With prison privatization on hold, GEO still vying for contract
    ​MI: Lansing still looking into privatizing cemeteries
    Company refuses rescue of South Pole stroke victim

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    CA: Gov Brown signs bill restricting library privatization
    Under a bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, private companies would be
    required to prove that they would save taxpayers money should they
    take over a public library. San Jose Mercury News

    CA: Alarms about ambulance contract went unheeded
    San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders and the City Council were warned of
    possible financial irregularities with San Diego’s public-private
    ambulance partnership in 2007 yet took little action until earlier this
    year. In the meantime, according to allegations the city has now made,
    the city was losing millions in taxpayer dollars. In the meantime,
    according to allegations the city has now made, the city was losing
    millions in taxpayer dollars...The April report accused the city’s
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