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BREAKING: Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith Resigns
nydailynews.com - One of Mayor Bloomberg’s top aides -- and the man many held responsible for the city’s botched response to the December blizzard -- announced his resignation Thursday after just more than a year on...
DianeRavitchDissent Magazine - Arguing The World - Web Letter: Taking Sides on Education Reform? An Exchange Between Joanne Barkan and Claire Robertson-Kraft
dissentmagazine.org - Editor - August 4, 2011 9:00 am To the editors:In “Firing Line: The Grand Coalition against Teachers,” Joanne Barkan makes a compelling case for why we should be concerned about the direction of th...
DianeRavitchMatt Damon, Arne Duncan and the Divisive Teacher Quality Debate
thenation.com - Last weekend, two very different speeches on the future of the teaching profession made news. About the AuthorDana Goldstein is a Puffin Foundation writing fellow at The Nation Institute and a Schw...
DianeRavitchThe schools–and the deficits–we deserve
educationgadfly.net - The latest Education Next poll results are packed-full of interesting findings on topics ranging from choice to merit pay, from NCLB to tenure reform. But particularly timely, in this era of fiscal...
DianeRavitch'No' vote would repeal SB 5 | WTVN Local News
610wtvn.com - COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio voters opposed to a new collective bargaining law that limits public employee unions will get to vote "no" at the ballot box this fall, following a decision Wednesday by...
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Review Aims to Avert Cheating on State Tests
nytimes.com - New York State education officials announced Monday that they had begun to review the way they detect and prevent cheating on standardized tests, taking a step to avoid the cheating scandals that h...
DianeRavitchIEA President attempts to explain Soglin’s role on anti-union group’s board of advisors. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Jerry Mulvihill is a colleague in my Local. He sent an email to new IEA President Cinda Klickna asking why IEA Executive Director Audrey Soglin had joined the Board of Advisors of the anti-union Na...
fklonskyMayor Emanuel does the TIF reform dance | Ben Joravsky on Politics
chicagoreader.com - In the last few weeks city officials have been doing the old Chicago two-step—one step forward, one step back—on the tax increment financing front.First, the step forward: a report recently release...
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Autocrat Bloomberg's Golden Rule: He who's got the gold makes the rules
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - According to a story in today's New York Times, Mayor Bloomberg "cajoled" five of his impossibly wealthy peers to help him foot the cost of the midyear Regents examination. The mayor put $30 milli...
mikeklonskyGoverning New York by Writing a Check
nytimes.com - It began years ago as a toss-off laugh line in City Hall’s marble halls: Hizzoner, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, might consider solving his most intractable problems with a quick tap-tap-tap on his p...
leoniehaimsonAn Incoherent Protest Against Education Reform, Brought To You By Matt Damon
tnr.com - By the time Matt Damon got to the microphone at the Save Our Schools rally last weekend, the few thousand public school teachers in attendance had been standing not far from the White House in the ...
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FBI widens News Corp inquiry after alleged computer hacking by subsidiary | Media
guardian.co.uk - Pedestrians walk past a News Corporation sign outside the company’s New York headquarters. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters The FBI is widening its investigation of News Corporation's activities w...
mikeklonskyObama gets a lucrative birthday gift
latimes.com - Reporting from Chicago— One day after wrapping up a tense budget deal that will impose severe spending cuts, President Obama returned home to Chicago on Wednesday night to pick up campaign cash and...
mikeklonskyMurdoch's axing of unions led to scandal in the media - Eamon McCann, Columnists
belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Michael Delaney (19), died after being run over by a lorry in east London on a Saturday night in January 1987. An inquest jury found that he had been a victim of unlawful killing. But nobody has ev...
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Mayor mustn’t forget city’s ‘invisible’ poor - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - By Susan Klonsky August 4, 2011 9:44PM Updated: August 5, 2011 2:15AM Living close to two expressway overpasses, I often notice carefully stashed bundles, shopping carts, sleeping bags and cardboar...
mikeklonskyMayor mustn’t forget city’s ‘invisible’ poor - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - By Susan Klonsky August 4, 2011 9:44PM Updated: August 5, 2011 2:15AM Living close to two expressway overpasses, I often notice carefully stashed bundles, shopping carts, sleeping bags and cardboar...
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SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Whitney Tilson Attempts To Defile Matt Damon
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Whitney Tilson Attempts To Defile Matt DamonWhitney Tilson Attempts To Defile Matt Damonby noreply@blogger.com (Bronx Teacher)Looking back, I had noticed that the name Whitney T...
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500-point Dow plunge is worst since 2008
napervillesun.suntimes.com - There were few places for money to hide Thursday as stock prices came hurtling down. The steepest drop since the meltdown era of 2008 spared no sector in the stock market. Commodities were no good ...
leoniehaimsonMore on Murdoch's $27M no-bid contract from NY Dept. of Ed
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Leveraged with Duncan's Race To The Top $$$The Daily News reports: More than a dozen private firms wanted to work on a project like the one the state Education Department is set to award to a Ruper...
mikeklonskyHow many schools are failing under NCLB? - Related Stories
smartbrief.com - Earlier this year Education Secretary Arne Duncan predicted as many as 82% of the country's schools could be labeled failing under No Child Left Behind if the law is not reformed. However, accordin...
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Kids in the Kitchen: Food Obsession Hits the Next Generation - The Bay Citizen
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Kids in the Kitchen: Food Obsession Hits the Next Generation - The Bay CitizenKids in the Kitchen: Food Obsession Hits the Next Generationby Jesse HirschOn a recent Tuesday afternoon, Thomas McNaug...
coopmike48Unity in the Community – Mural Project
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Residents of the Back of the Yards neighborhood are invited to honor the fallen officers Thomas E. Wortham and Alejandro Valadez, and Christopher Wheatley, Edward Stringer, and Corey Ankum from the...
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School board hears debate about new charter school - Latest News - sacbee.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School board hears debate about new charter school - Latest News - sacbee.comSchool board hears debate about new charter schoolShare By Melody Gutierrezmgutierrez@sacbee.comPublished: Thursday, Aug...
coopmike48Kids in the Kitchen: Food Obsession Hits the Next Generation - The Bay Citizen
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Kids in the Kitchen: Food Obsession Hits the Next Generation - The Bay CitizenKids in the Kitchen: Food Obsession Hits the Next Generationby Jesse HirschOn a recent Tuesday afternoon, Thomas McNaug...
coopmike48SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Whitney Tilson Attempts To Defile Matt Damon
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Whitney Tilson Attempts To Defile Matt DamonWhitney Tilson Attempts To Defile Matt Damonby noreply@blogger.com (Bronx Teacher)Looking back, I had noticed that the name Whitney T...
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Slides from the #140edu Conference « Chalkdust101
chalkdust101.wordpress.com - #140edu, buzzbooks, reading, slideshare In change on August 4, 2011 at 8:19 pm My role, other than being a learner, at the #140edu Conference, was to share our work with summer reading and the chan...
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