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Protesters vow to ‘save’ school from take over by ‘politically connected’ operator - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter rrossi@suntimes.com January 16, 2012 8:21PM Parents and teachers marched on the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday to try to save Marquette School from closing down...
How to a Spot a Manufactured Crisis - Gapers Block Mechanics
gapersblock.com - by Katie OsgoodI recently discovered that my alma mater, New Trier High School, did not make AYP (Annual Yearly Progress) mandated by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act this year. (See here for th...
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National
theatlantic.com - The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence.Sergey Ivanov/FlickrEveryone agrees the United States needs to improve its education system drama...
Who speaks for the children? The Governor, the Mayor, or their parents?
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Mayor Bloomberg said today that “The teachers' union represents the employees and the city represents the students." This comment reflects tremendous chutzpah. He and the Governor in recent days h...
Our schools are in a world of hurt, and it's our fault — NewsWorks
newsworks.org - There seems to be an error with the player ! Download Audio File »Listen to audio commentary.What are we doing? The Philadelphia schools just laid off another 1,400 people, on top of more than 1,80...
See how well your school district pays its teachers, superintendent - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News
sacbee.com - The average teacher salary last year was $67,871, a decrease of 0.1 percent from 2010, according to new state figures. The average superintendent salary last year was roughly $159,000, also essenti...
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Stand for Children launches campaign on school turnarounds | catalyst
catalyst-chicago.org - After scoring a legislative win with a recently-enacted state law limiting teacher tenure and strike rights, the well-heeled education advocacy group Stand for Children is turning its attention to ...
Ted Horrell, Germantown High School Principal, Apologizes For Presentation On Race, Test Scores
huffingtonpost.com - A Tennessee high school principal has issued a letter of apology to parents and students for saying the school's black students are "less smart," as evidenced by a state report card issued this mon...
School Tech Connect: On Data, and Fundamentalism
schooltechconnect.com - I stopped teaching kids English at the end of the of the 2004-2005 school year to become a testing coordinator and media specialist, and then administrator and finally, a computer guy. I'm trying t...
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Wisconsin recallers get 1.9M signatures
winonadailynews.com - Organizers of the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday filed what they said were more than a million signatures, a number that nearly matches Walker’s vote total from 2010 and almost doubl...
Rahm's retreat
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Eric Ruder from the Coalition Against NATO/G8 Agenda of War and Poverty (CANGATE) speaks on Mayor Emanuel's new ordinances concerning protests in the City of Chicago. Tuesday, January 17, 2012 | Br...
For God So Loved the 1 Percent ...
campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com - Princeton, N.J.IN recent weeks Mitt Romney has become the poster child for unchecked capitalism, a role he seems to embrace with relish. Concerns about economic equality, he told Matt Lauer of NBC,...
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Livewire | TPM
livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com - President Barack Obama’s approval rating is positive in a new CBS News/New York Times national poll, showing Obama with a 47 percent approval rating versus a 45 percent disapproval. The President’s...
The 50 Most Powerful People in Washington D.C.: Politics: GQ
gq.com - 1. Eric CantorVirginia Representative, House Majority LeaderThe Republican whom Democrats—especially Obama—hate most. The Virginia Congressman masterminded, and then masterfully carried out, the GO...
Event Costs Questioned By Union, Residents
huffingtonpost.com - When President Obama announced that Chicago would be the first U.S. city outside of Washington, D.C. to ever host a NATO summit, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said this was Chicago's chance to "showcase what ...
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Some more thoughts on Romney and Bain
dailykos.com - Interesting to see that ABC had picked up on the line from "When Mitt Romney Came to Town" (the Gingrich superpac-run video) about Romney/Bain parking large amount of funds in the Cayman Islands Th...
Geaux Teacher!: REFORM OR BUST - JINDAL STYLE!!!
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Geaux Teacher!: REFORM OR BUST - JINDAL STYLE!!!:REFORM OR BUST - JINDAL STYLE!!!by noreply@blogger.com (Lee Barrios, M.Ed., NBCT)http://theadvocate.com/newsletters/breakingnewsnewsletter/1826105-7...
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Fight (with apologies to Dylan Thomas) |
bluecheddar.net - By Steven P. Senski Do not go gentle into that good fight Our hearts should burn and rage at come what may Rage, rage against the lying of the Right Tho Walker at his end knows of our might He’ll u...
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Obama to visit Denver next week
blogs.denverpost.com - Hyoung Chang/Denver PostPresident Barack Obama will visit Denver Jan. 26, White House officials told The Denver Post. President Obama will take his State of the Union message out to five critical s...
Widespread snowstorm wallops Pacific Northwest
boston.com - SEATTLE—A winter storm blasted the Pacific Northwest Wednesday, dumping near-record snow in some areas, hammering parts of Oregon with winds as high as 110 mph and bringing much of the region to a ...
From US private school student to al-Qaida agent
boston.com - Moeed Abdul Salam didn't descend into radical Islam for lack of other options. He grew up in a well-off Texas household, attended a pricey boarding school and graduated from one of the state's most...
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How Wall Street plundered Philly schools
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Interest-rate swaps Philadelphia, like many cities, has faced serious financial difficulties in recent years. These difficulties have forced the city government to make ends meet by cutting agen...
Markets Love the IMF's $500 Billion Request - Business
theatlanticwire.com - Just about every financial measure shot up on Wednesday's news that the International Monetary Fund was looking for an extra half a trillion dollars to lend to its members in need. The extra money ...
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 01/18/2012
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - Skype exec confirms that Windows Phone product is 'coming soon' - Engadget Skype Windows Phone product coming soon (no surprise since Microsoft owns Skype) - what will be interesting is ...
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Duncan, Rhee starring at our-hearts-belong-to-data summit - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - The king and queen of data-driven education reform — Education Secretary Arne Duncan and former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee — are starring at the National Data Summit that starts on Wedne...
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Duncan, Rhee starring at our-hearts-belong-to-data summit - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - The king and queen of data-driven education reform — Education Secretary Arne Duncan and former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee — are starring at the National Data Summit that starts on Wedne...
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