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Cuts to K-12 Expected in Wake of Debt Deal

edweek.org - Education advocates are bracing for the fallout from the eleventh-hour congressional vote to lift the federal debt ceiling—and the significant belt-tightening that comes along with it.But how deepl...

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nypost.com - Four city high schools have been under investigation since as far back as January 2010 for alleged Regents tampering or scoring inflation that could have fraudulently boosted their graduation rates...

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How Corporate Education Types Roll

bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com - There’s little doubt that the billionaire driven corporate education reform movement desires to sift taxpayer money into contractual relationships for it’s cronies. New York Times reporter Jim Dwey...

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The Hijacked Crisis

nytimes.com - Has market turmoil left you feeling afraid? Well, it should. Clearly, the economic crisis that began in 2008 is by no means over. But there’s another emotion you should feel: anger. For...

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Britain looks to U.S. for anti-gang strategy

cbsnews.com - (CBS/AP) LONDON - Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday that Britain would look to the United States for solutions to gang violence after nights of riots and looting, and promised authorities...

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Anti-Union and Anti-Women | LFA: Join The Conversation

learningfirst.org - A recent Salon article by Natasha Lennard discusses the central role of women’s issues in the current Wisconsin political saga, including this week’s recall elections. For six months, since Govern...

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The Duncan Precedent, 2013 Edition :: Frederick M. Hess

frederickhess.org - by Frederick M. Hess • Aug 11, 2011 at 7:59 amCross-posted from Education Weekhttp://www.frederickhess.org/2011/08/the-duncan-precedent-2013-editionThe Obama administration steadfastly refuses to...

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Judge Weighs Request To Block Indiana Voucher Program

huffingtonpost.com - INDIANAPOLIS -- Students who have signed up for Indiana's broad new school voucher program could be jerked out of private schools midsemester or forced to scramble to re-enroll in public school unl...

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Rick Perry and the Myth of the ‘Texas Miracle’

thefiscaltimes.com - Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who ends his shadow run for the White House this weekend by announcing his bid for the GOP presidential nomination, has been touting the success of the Lone Star State’s econ...

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How Corporate Education Types Roll

bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com - There’s little doubt that the billionaire driven corporate education reform movement desires to sift taxpayer money into contractual relationships for it’s cronies. New York Times reporter Jim Dwey...

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How Corporate Education Types Roll

bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com - There’s little doubt that the billionaire driven corporate education reform movement desires to sift taxpayer money into contractual relationships for it’s cronies. New York Times reporter Jim Dwey...

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You Can't Waive The Reality Of Our Public Schools

dailykos.com - Cross posted from Campaign for America's Future ourfuture.org So much for the "New Washington Consensus on Education". Education policy, we were told by conservative leaders merely six months ago, ...

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    Daily Kos: Video of the Richard Clarke interview - and more

    Daily Kos: Video of the Richard Clarke interview - and more

    Video of the Richard Clarke interview - and more

    by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

    Some of you may have read Richard Clarke alleges CIA Coverup in run-up to 9-11, which I posted yesterday afternoon.

    This afternoon I received the following email:

    Mr. Bernstein,
    Sorry to email you this way but the DailyKos message system wasn't working for me. I wanted you to know the 13-minute edited interview with Richard Clarke, conducted by documentarian-journalist John Duffy and myself in Oct 2009 and provided pre-release to Phil Shenon at Daily Beast to allow their "scoop" yesterday, is now available in full at our new transparency advocacy
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    Jersey Jazzman: When "Liberal" Elites Do Education Reform

    Jersey Jazzman: When "Liberal" Elites Do Education Reform

    When "Liberal" Elites Do Education Reform

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    This time, we hear from a guy I normally like a lot - Matt Yglesias. He's critiquing a post by Dana Goldstein, so let's start with the dead-on point she made:
    Although Brill, by the end of Class Warfare, comes to recognize the limits of the education reform movement he so admires, he somehow maintains his commitment to the idea that teachers can completely overcome poverty. There’s a reason, I think, why this ideology is so attractive to many of the wealthy charter school founders and donors Brill profiles, from hedge funder Whitney Tilson to investment manager and banking heir Boykin Curry. If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then
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    2011 Legal Defense Fund Scholars | The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights Blog

    2011 Legal Defense Fund Scholars | The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights Blog

    2011 Legal Defense Fund Scholars

    Posted By | August 12th, 2011 (2 hours ago) | Category: Education | No Comments » Print This Post Print This Post

    In 1954—following more than twenty years of litigation—the United States Supreme Court declared the doctrine of “separate but equal” unconstitutional. Shortly thereafter, previously segregated public colleges and universities across the nation began admitting African-American students eager to pursue their academic dreams.

    LDF ScholarIn order to secure the hard won gains of its watershed legal precedent, LDF created the Herbert Lehman Education Fund (the “Lehman Fund”) and the Legal Internship and Fellowship Program (the “Fellowship Program”) in 1964 to provide financial assistance to those who had been denied access to higher education for generations. Through their scholarship awards,

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    My Take on "Gloria," the New Documentary about Steinem's Life - Dana Goldstein

    My Take on "Gloria," the New Documentary about Steinem's Life - Dana Goldstein

    My Take on "Gloria," the New Documentary about Steinem's Life

    by Dana Goldstein

    "Gloria: In Her Own Words" is airing on HBO Monday evening. I found the documentary pretty problematic. It refused to explicitly tackle race issues, either during the height of the Second Wave or more recently, when Steinem made a number of controversial statements about the relationship between race and gender during the 2008 Democratic primary.

    Though there are interviews in Gloria about how upper-middle class, straight feminists came to embrace lesbian rights and economic justice for poor women, there is no explicit discussion of an equally enduring and arguably more fraught issue: the relationship between feminism and struggles for racial equality. The film does feature archival footage of 1970s white feminists arguing that men’s only bars are the equivalent of

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    California's Parent Trigger Isn't About Schools. It's About Power Power to the Parents | NBC Bay Area

    Power to the Parents | NBC Bay Area

    California's Parent Trigger Isn't About Schools. It's About Power

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    John Cadiz Klemack

    One hot topic in education policy here in California is the so-called "parent trigger," which allows parents to demand changes in failing schools if a majority of them sign petitions.

    The trigger has been touted as a bid for education reform, allowing parents to change a school's administration or turn it into a charter.

    The trouble with this as school policy is that no one knows if it work.

    Parents may be just as myopic and wrong-headed as teachers and

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