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Why are we following the US into a schools policy disaster? | Education
guardian.co.uk - President Barack Obama at the Capital City public charter school in Washington, DC. What is the impact of these schools on the system as a whole, asks Melissa Benn. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty...
Peabody lecture on educational change in Finland | News
news.vanderbilt.edu - by Jennifer Wetzel | Posted on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 — 2:03 PMPasi Sahlberg, director general of CIMO, an organization for international mobility and cooperation under the Finnish Ministry of Educ...
Texas School Finance Fix Eludes Perry as Students Do Without Art
businessweek.com - November 28, 2011, 12:32 AM EST By David Mildenberg Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Students at elementary schools in Amarillo, Texas, don’t get drawing lessons as a five-year-old finance plan from Republic...
Jefferson charter school budget has $87,500 per student
nola.com - As Jefferson Parish public school officials consider opening more charter schools, they are questioning whether the system's first charter is doing enough to help at-risk students. Jefferson Commun...
APPR Paper - New York Principals
newyorkprincipals.org - In May 2010, the New York State Legislature—in an effort to secure federal Race to the Top funds—approved an amendment to Educational Law 3012-c regarding the Annual Professional Performance Review...
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Principals Protest Role of Testing
nytimes.com - Rockville Centre, N.Y. Through the years there have been many bitter teacher strikes and too many student protests to count. But a principals’ revolt? “Principals don’t revolt,”...
Tennessee Treasurer, David Lillard, Undercuts Local Decisions to Rein In Corporate Charter Schools
schoolsmatter.info - Following the blueprint from Gates and the other Business Roundtable education reform scammers, the Tennessee General Assembly passed laws last year that uncapped segregated corporate charter schoo...
DOE officials promise swift changes for Queens high school
gothamschools.org - Department of Education officials have promised to resolve scheduling problems this week at Queens Metropolitan High School — and to keep a closer eye on the school in the future. Officials from th...
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Protesters face eviction in L.A., Philadelphia – USATODAY.com
usatoday.com - By Donna Leinwand Leger, USA TODAY Updated Occupy protesters in Los Angeles and Philadelphia faced eviction from their encampments Sunday as frustrated city officials complained that two months of ...
Wall of Separation
au.org - Students in the Brownsville, Texas, Independent School District have been told by school officials that they should tuck religious symbols, such as rosaries and crosses, inside their clothing.An “u...
All is calm as deadline passes for Occupy Philadelphia | Philadelphia Inquirer
philly.com - About 100 Occupy Philly protesters sat down on the cold concrete of Dilworth Plaza at 5 p.m. Sunday and waited to be rousted for violating a deadline Mayor Nutter had set for the group to leave. Bu...
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Steve Lopez: Will tonight mark the end for Occupy L.A.?
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Will police make their move on Occupy L.A. tonight? They won't say, so it's cat and mouse out there, and more than a little surreal at what to this point has been one of the friendliest, most well-...
2.6M expected to strike on 11.30.11 in the UK
teamsternation.blogspot.com - Our brothers and sisters in the TUC are planning a ginormous strike on Wednesday to protest the Tory government's plan to slash their pensions. Led by National Nurses United, Americans will hold n...
High-School Sam Brownback Twitter Critic Emma Sullivan Responds To Governor’s Apology
mediaite.com - video Republican Governor of Kansas Sam Brownback got into an unwinnable fight with an 18 year-old Twitter critic last week when his staff ratted out Emma Sullivan for tweeting her disapproval of B...
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Occupy LA campers brace for midnight eviction deadline
reuters.com - By Mary Slosson LOS ANGELES | Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:39am EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters who have camped outside Los Angeles City Hall for weeks braced on Sunday fo...
Occupy L.A.: Police corral protesters back toward City Hall park
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Occupy L.A. protesters who had swarmed onto downtown streets faced off with police early Monday morning as a skirmish line of officers with batons slowly moved protesters back toward their now-ille...
Occupy L.A.: Religious leaders meet with Villaraigosa, Beck
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Interfaith leaders who have recently become involved in the Occupy movement held a meeting with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck on Monday morning as city official...
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Gryphon: New and Selected Stories
barbarasbookstore.com - DescriptionEver since the publication of The Harmony of the World in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America’s finest short-story writers. Each subsequent collection—T...
All Education Matters: Hypervocal: Education Archives Back to all stories Washington Post - “Forgive Us Our Student Loan Debt?” No Thanks! #OWS
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - All Education Matters: Hypervocal: Education Archives Back to all stories Washington Post - “Forgive Us Our Student Loan Debt?” No Thanks!:Hypervocal: Education Archives Back to all stories Washing...
Of Spinning & Weaving...
sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com - Words that speak what I feel in my heart from Sarah Alexander, via my Facebook friend Meryl Steinberg: "We are being called to raise our consciousness, to each take our place at the table around ...
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Are we the teachable species? | The Loom
blogs.discovermagazine.com - We know that our species is unique, but it can be surprisingly hard to pinpoint what exactly makes us so. The fact that we have DNA is not much of a mark of distinction. Several million other speci...
SFPUC Refuses Public Hearing on Hetch Hetchy Restoration
californiaprogressreport.com - Printer-friendly versionSend to friendBy Dan Aiello In a letter to Restore Hetch Hetchy’s executive director, Mike Marshall, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) has rejected a req...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 28, 2011 1. We, the leaders of the United States and the European Union, met today at the White House to affirm our clo...
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WATCH LIVE Occupy L A Protesters to be Evicted at Midnight
ktla.com - WATCH LIVE: Occupy L.A. protesters at City Hall are being asked to leave park grounds at 12:01 a.m.
#OccupyLA Refuses To Leave, Police Attempting To Evict Now | OccupyWallSt.org
occupywallst.org - More Information: http://occupylosangeles.org/ https://twitter.com/#!/OccupyLA
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nypost.com - Opponents of Success Academy Cobble Hill recently created perhaps the most apropos hashtag in the brief history of Twitter: “#nosuccess.”Some might find it rather odd that, in a city suffering from...
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