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It Starts by Making Education a National Mission
ed.gov - President Barack Obama delivers remarks in Osawatomie, Kansas, White House Photo, Pete Souza, 12/6/11 “The world is shifting to an innovation economy and nobody does innovation better than America,...
Diane Ravitch and the History That "Reformers" Do Not Know
huffingtonpost.com - Diane Ravitch has again done the seemingly impossible. She prompted Education Sector's Kevin Carey to take a glance at the history of education. Even so, Carey's piece in The New Republic, "The Dis...
Shanker Blog » Education Advocacy Organizations: An Overview
shankerblog.org - Our guest author today is Ken Libby, a graduate student studying educational foundations, policy and practice at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Education advocacy organizations (EAOs) come ...
Nation's report card shows NYC scores flat
online.wsj.com - Associated Press NEW YORK — Test scores for New York City's fourth- and eighth-graders were flat between 2009 and 2011 and the racial achievement gap hardly budged between 2003 and 2011, according ...
Are half of New York’s teachers really ‘not effective?’ - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by Carol Corbett Burris, principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New...
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Susan Ohanian's Testing Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)
susanohanian.org - We're being steamrolled into one-size-fits-all NOTE: I am one of six "experts" commenting on the Common Core, the only one criticizing them, at the Learning Matters blog. I was an invited contribut...
What's Good for Mayor Bloomberg's Kids Is Good Enough for Ours
huffingtonpost.com - Cartoonist Al Capp added the character General Bullmoose to his Li'l Abner comic strip in 1953. Bullmoose epitomized "the ruthless capitalist." His motto was "What's good for General Bullmoose is g...
A Generation Of 20-Somethings Airs Its Grievances, Its Frustrations
huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- Since graduating a year and a half ago from the Rhode Island School of Design, Nate Barchus hasn't shaken a nagging feeling: that he's aimless.During college, the 23-year-old illustrati...
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Biopsy of a Free-Lance Writer’s Attack on Teachers
teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com - Recently, I received an email about someone who had attempted to satirically criticize a few questions that I had about progressive tax reform as a solution to the state’s budget deficits, but his ...
Wisconsin Gov. Walker Wants To Charge Fees To Protest The Capitol: Chicagoist
chicagoist.com - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File) Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wants to charge demonstrators to protest at the Capitol, plus hold them liable to cover costs for cleanup and pol...
SC education chief says he won’t report to board - Today's News
thesunnews.com - COLUMBIA -- The state education board wants Superintendent Mick Zais to report monthly on federal grants available to South Carolina schools, but the elected schools chief doesn't answer to the boa...
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Statement of PEF President Ken Brynien on tax rate reform
pef.org - Albany - We applaud the Governor’s and Legislature’s effort to address the growing income inequality in New York. The agreement announced today on tax reform is a step in the right direction but u...
Obama's Osawatomie speech
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - "Here, finally, is the Barack Obama many of us thought we had elected in 2008." -- Robert ReichIf you had any doubts that the Occupy Movement was impacting the presidential elections, check out Pre...
FL gov most hated in US
teamsternation.blogspot.com - Even widely hated politicians can usually get a third of the voters to stick with them. Not Florida Gov. Pink Slip Rick Scott, who ought to be in jail but instead got voted into office. A new poll ...
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New Series — Margaret Mead and James Baldwin’s “A Rap on Race” « Student Activism
studentactivism.net - In August 1970 James Baldwin and Margaret Mead sat down to talk about race, culture, history, and the United States of America. Mead, 68 years old, white, and liberal, was the most famous anthropol...
sidwell friend school is serving "asian" food today. so what? | angry asian man
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - sidwell friend school is serving "asian" food today. so what? | angry asian man:sidwell friend school is serving "asian" food today. so what?Wow. I guess things are pretty slow in the WUSA 9 news r...
Why Did Hundreds Of Thousands Of Women Leave The Workplace Last Month? | The Jane Dough
thejanedough.com - 12:32 pm, December 7th | by Hillary Reinsberg Last week’s U.S. jobs report seemed to offer a glimmer of hope: the unemployment rate is down! But behind the numbers, it’s not for a good reason. In ...
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Fox Business Attacks Liberalism of Muppet Movie
loyalopposition.blogs.nytimes.com - Valerie Macon/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesKermit attends the Premiere Of Walt Disney Pictures’ ‘The Muppets’ at the El Capitan Theatre, in Hollywood, California, on November 12, 2011.There’s...
ACLU settles lesbian yearbook flap in Mississippi
boston.com - JACKSON, Miss.—The ACLU says a Mississippi school district will require students to wear caps and gowns in senior pictures after a lesbian student was left out of the yearbook for wearing a tuxedo....
Tyler Clementi's family interviewed in People
northjersey.com - The family of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi speaks out in an interview with People magazine, according to a report on People.com. Tyler Clementi Clementi, of Ridgewood, jumped to his de...
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City fines teacher $10K for conflict of interest, “other conduct”
gothamschools.org - A $35 business proposition — among other offenses — cost a city teacher $10,000. Fay Inovlotska paid two students $35 earlier this year to hand out flyers promoting a daycare center with which she ...
Donald Graham Determined to Drive Washington Post into a Ditch
dailycensored.com - Written by Danny Weil Business, Media Dec 6, 2011 The Wall Street Journal reported on Dec 3 2011 , in the article “Post’s Graham Digs In Amid Pressure” by By RUSSELL ADAMS And CHRISTOPHER S. STEWAR...
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: SAN DIEGO SCHOOL EMPLOYEES WARNED OF CUTS, LAYOFFS: Superintendent sends letter to 14,000 outlining financial problems SAN DIEGO SCHOOL EMPLOYEES WARNED OF CUTS, LAYOFFS: Superintendent sends letter to 14,000 o
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: SAN DIEGO SCHOOL EMPLOYEES WARNED OF CUTS, LAYOFFS: Superintendent sends letter to 14,000 outlining financial problems:SAN DIEGO SCHOOL EMPLOYEES WARNED...
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Susan Ohanian's Testing Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)
susanohanian.org - We're being steamrolled into one-size-fits-all NOTE: I am one of six "experts" commenting on the Common Core, the only one criticizing them, at the Learning Matters blog. I was an invited contribut...
