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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - Education Action Group’s Ben Velderman strikes again. Thanks goodness for Saturday coffee. This has been a lousy week. Wednesday’s murder of an innocent man, Troy Davis, by the state of Georgia cre...

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A New Approach to Teacher Education Reform and Improvement

educationsector.org - Over the next five years, more than a million new teachers will enter public school classrooms. But the system in place to prepare these teachers—supported by an ever-expanding set of federal finan...

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Assessments of Schools Are Flawed, Report Says

nytimes.com - In 20 years of near-constant reform efforts, Chicago’s elementary school students have made few gains, high school students have advanced, and the achievement gap between poor and rich areas has wi...

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wbez.org - We used to be afraid that President George W. Bush, pushed by his nefarious warmongering VP and a Department of Justice that justified medieval tortures, was going to expand executive branch powers...

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October to be turning point for progressives | Raw Replay

rawstory.com - Civil rights activist and attorney Van Jones said Thursday night on MSNBC that he planned to build a “progressive counterbalance” to the tea party movement. “I think everybody should hold on to you...

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insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...

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What’s a Teacher Worth?

movies.nytimes.com - “American Teacher” doesn’t come close to doing what it sets out to do, but it does end up as a heartfelt, bittersweet portrait of several teachers as they make the difficult decision of whether to ...

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