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To Be Black at Stuyvesant High
nytimes.com - LIKE a city unto itself, Stuyvesant High School, in Lower Manhattan, is broken into neighborhoods, official and otherwise. The math department is on the 4th of its 10 floors; biology is on the 7th....
Amid a Federal Education Inquiry, an Unsettling Sight
nytimes.com - What was Arne Duncan doing sharing the stage with Michelle Rhee at a recent education conference? Mr. Duncan is the education secretary. Ms. Rhee was the chancellor of schools i...
Rog Lucido: Student Learning Can Only be Described, Not Measured - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - Guest post by Rog Lucido.Year after year, Mario takes district, state and national tests. Each year Mario's individual scores are combined with others in his class, school, district, and state. The...
NYC's release of teacher ratings could lead to disclosure statewide | The Journal News | LoHud.com
lohud.com - New York City’s release Friday of ratings for 18,000 public-school teachers may set the stage for the eventual release of ratings for all teachers in the state, a scenario that would surely heighte...
U.K.'s version of Duncan in bed with Murdoch, Klein
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Brit Ed Sec. Michael Gove "I'd expect in the next [few] months we'd be making some acquisitions," Klein told the Financial Times. "There's the willingness to put in significant capital." The mos...
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Diane Ravitch | Inside the Academy
insidetheacademy.asu.edu - DIANE RAVITCH is Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. She is also a nonresident senior research fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D....
An Open Letter to the Chiefs for Change :: Frederick M. Hess
frederickhess.org - by Frederick M. Hess • Feb 27, 2012 at 10:03 amCross-posted from Education Weekhttp://www.frederickhess.org/2012/02/an-open-letter-to-the-chiefs-for-changeHi All, You know I dig you, and that I'v...
He’s looked at life from both sides now – or has he? Arne Duncan claims the high ground, but school clinics still face needless obstacles
epi.org - A contentious debate in education policy concerns whether the low achievement of disadvantaged children is attributable primarily to social and economic conditions that bring them to school relativ...
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michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - “This is an amazing panel, so I’m thrilled to be part of it,” Mr. Duncan said in his opening comment. Investigator Richard Hyde “I’m shocked that the secretary of education would be fraternizing ...
The Maddow Blog - Santorum warns of higher ed 'indoctrination'
maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com - Associated PressSantorum's recent speech at an "indoctrination mill."When Rick Santorum argued recently against public education, he was largely referring to K-through-12 public schools. As it turn...
assembly.state.ny.us - S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________6100I N S E N A T E(PREFILED)January 4, 2012 ___________Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice a...
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The schools crusade that links Michael Gove to Rupert Murdoch | Politics
guardian.co.uk - On a freezing November day in 2010, the education secretary, Michael Gove, turned out in east London to inspect a desolate stretch of dockside ground near City airport, where Rupert Murdoch had off...
Defending the powerful. Attacking the humble. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - There is a scene at the end of the Robert Redford movie, Three Days of the Condor, where Redford confronts the CIA agent with the fact that he has sent incriminating secrets to the New York Times. ...
Billionaire Harold Simmons Donations Go Beyond Super PACs | CREW
citizensforethics.org - February 27, 2012By CREW staff Congress, Governance & Legislation, Citizens United, States, Texas, Super PACs, House Members, Eric Cantor, Jeb Hensarling, Kenny Marchant, Michele Bachmann, Mike Con...
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Sacha Baron Cohen Spills Ashes on Ryan Seacrest at the Oscars
theblemish.com - Somehow Sacha Baron Cohen made his way onto the Oscar red carpet on Sunday, despite being dis-invited unless he promised not to promote his movie, and did what everyone assumed he would do which wa...
Latinos and Spainards Go Home Empty Handed from 2012 Oscars
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 12:29 pm EST, February 27, 2012 Photo Credits: 2012 Oscar Winners Latin artists left the 84th Annual Academy Awards unrewarded, even as “The Artist,” a French silent film in black and ...
Pro-union lyrics in new Van Halen hit
teamsternation.blogspot.com - Cross-posted from American Rights at Work's Blog at Work: Van Halen has really got us going. The legendary rock band has reunited with original lead singer David Lee Roth and their first studio alb...
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Illinois' Budget Deficit: Raising More Revenue Is the Right Solution for Needed Services and Pension Stabilization
teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com - Can Illinois solve its budget problems without creating new revenue? The answer is no. If expenditures must at least equal revenues, then what needs to be done is to enhance the state’s sources ...
Move Our Money: New State Bank Bills Address Credit and Housing Crises
owsnews.org - Seventeen states have now introduced bills for state-owned banks, and others are in the works. Hawaii’s innovative state bank bill addresses the foreclosure mess. County-owned banks are being pro...
New State Bank Bills Address Credit and Housing Crises
dissidentvoice.org - Seventeen states have now introduced bills for state-owned banks, and others are in the works. Hawaii’s innovative state bank bill addresses the foreclosure mess. County-owned banks are being pro...
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Deaths triple among football players
educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩMorning temperatures thought to play a role Heat-related deaths among football players across the country tripled to nearly three per year between 1994 and 2009 after averaging about one per year ...
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nypost.com - The city’s top-performing teachers have one thing in common: They’re almost all women.Ratings released by the Department of Education of more than 12,000 fourth- through eighth-grade teachers show ...
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Exposing ROADS Charter School Invasion of Schomburg Satellite Academy ROADS Charter School: The plans are hidden, but the consequences are pefectly clear. How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other NYC Educator: A Fine
ednotesonline.blogspot.com - I know the publication of TDRs is causing much anguish but the charter school invasion is as big a menace. Thank goodness teachers are still fighting the good fight. More skulduggery from the part...
