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Thursday, November 10, 2011

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New York schools enter the iZone

bbc.co.uk - 25 October 2011 Last updated at 19:34 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Uncertain horizons: New York's economic fortunes are now linked to education After the iPhone and the iPad...

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SINI.2011.

oms.nysed.gov - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 10, 2011For More Information Contact: Tom Dunn, Jonathan Burman or Jane Briggs (518) 474-1201www.nysed.gov 1325 SCHOOLS AND 123 DISTRICTS STATEWIDE IDENTIFIED FOR IMP...

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Things Fall Apart

comingofageinthemiddle.blogspot.com - I don't say this out loud very often, but I love my job. I love going to work every morning, I look forward to seeing my students, I love the subjects I teach. I know. I'm so lucky. I took a twisty...

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Wanted: Creative Resistance - Bridging Differences

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,Like you, I was immensely cheered to read that my colleagues were speaking truth to power! Yes, I agree with virtually every word that those Long Island administrators said. The sad fact...

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Thomas B. Fordham Institute: Email

support.edexcellence.net - Opinion and News AnalysisOpinion: You’d be crazy to see SB5’s defeat as rejection of Ohio school reformBy Terry Ryan Ohio’s electorate soundly rejected Issue 2 (the referendum on Senate Bill 5) on ...

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Coalition head: Let voters have say | Home

theadvocate.com - The leader of a coalition of public school groups Wednesday criticized what he labeled as outside interference in three Nov. 19 runoffs for the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.Jac...

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Is Steve Bowen a friend to education?

mindsofkids.blogspot.com - Steve Bowen, Maine's Commissioner of Education under our dear darling Governor Paul LePage, is a smart man by all accounts. Friends in Camden say good things about him from the time he was a teach...

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Jessica Lahey « The Core Knowledge Blog

blog.coreknowledge.org - Some lessons take a while to germinate. I know that. I have been at this teaching thing for a while now – long enough that a few of my students have become teachers themselves – but I am still amaz...

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The kindness of strangers

dangerouslyirrelevant.org - I was supposed to do a webinar. Scheduled on Tuesday evening, the webinar was for school board members in Iowa and was the second of four scheduled online events for the Iowa Association of School ...

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Alabama's Jefferson County OKs bankruptcy filing

reuters.com - By Melinda Dickinson BIRMINGHAM, Alabama | Wed Nov 9, 2011 5:51pm EST BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Legislators in Alabama's Jefferson County on Wednesday voted 4 to 1 to file for bankruptcy cour...

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News from California Independent Grocers Association

campaign.r20.constantcontact.com - George Wong, a founder of Bel Air Supermarkets who led the chain as president for 40 years, died Sunday after recent weeks of failing health, his family said. He was 87. As the only president in...

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Event: IPCC 34th Session - Climate Change Policy & Practice

climate-l.iisd.org - The 34th session of the IPCC will be held back to back with the first joint Sessions of IPCC Working Groups I and II to approve and accept the IPCC Special Report on “Managing the Risks of Extreme ...

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Blog posts on this issue

whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011I support the State Department's announcement today regarding the need to seek additional info...

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Wild scene at Sotheby's

teamsternation.blogspot.com - If you haven't seen it yet, we thought we'd share it with you. And while we're at it, we thought we'd mention that Sotheyb's former chief executive, Dede Brooks, committed felonies but spent no ti...

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