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Romney's Advice To Students: Borrow Money From Your Parents

thinkprogress.org - If you’re young and you want to start your own business, Mitt Romney’s has some advice from you: Borrow money from your parents. At a “lecture” for students at Otterbein University in Ohio today, M...
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The Obama Record in Education

ed.gov - Thank you, Mark.Good morning and welcome to Washington, delegates.This is the third Mom Congress, and I've been honored to be at all three of them. I'm even more honored to have partners like you w...
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A Really Cool Event « Diane Ravitch's blog

dianeravitch.net - Back when I was writing The Death and Life of the Great American School System, I was looking for a way to characterize Race to the Top. It sounded so familiar to me because its main ideas came dir...
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National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing

timeoutfromtesting.org - WHEREAS, our nation's future well-being relies on a high-quality public education system that prepares all students for college, careers, citizenship and lifelong learning, and strengthens the nati...
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Kenneth Cole. Is it the shoes? « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - H/T NYC Educator The picture of the billboard showed up on lots of Facebook and blog sites this weekend. Kenneth Cole, shoe monger and brother-in-law of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, put up the b...
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more errors in 2012 Mathematics Tests Scoring Materials

groups.yahoo.com - For this we're paying $32 Million? ________________________________ > > From: NYSED EXAMREQUEST [mailto:EXAMREQUEST@...] > Sent: Mon 4/30/2012 9:44 AM > Subject: Notice to Test Scoring Coordinators...
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Dogs In Cars: It Only Takes 10 Minutes!

rosemont.patch.com - This blog was originally written 6/28/09, however, every summer we still respond to hundreds of calls for dogs in vehicles! The news stations are already reporting about dogs being found in vehicle...
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Former Israeli Premier Assails Netanyahu on Iran

nytimes.com - Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of Israel, plunged on Sunday into the country’s growing debate over Iran policy with harsh criticism of his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu. As seve...
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Why Hakeem Jeffries may be Cuomo's guy in the House

capitalnewyork.com - Andrew Cuomo may soon have a new ally in the New York congressional delegation.Last month, when the governor was aggressively pushing for expansion of the state's DNA database to include informatio...
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Scandal and Scrutiny Hem In Murdoch’s Empire

nytimes.com - In the months after a phone-hacking scandal erupted in Britain last summer, Rupert Murdoch told people within News Corporation that he wanted to revisit his media company’s discontinued $12 billion...
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Roads closed, traffic gridlock likely for May Day protests

latimesblogs.latimes.com - April 30, 2012 |  6:44 pm Numerous streets in downtown Los Angeles and beyond will be closed Tuesday as various May Day marches move through the city. According to the Los Angeles Police Department...
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Opry owner, Wisconsin company sue over Nashville floods

cnn.com - By the CNN Wire Staff updated 8:38 PM EDT, Mon April 30, 2012In May of 2010 more than 13 inches of rain fell over two days, causing the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee, to flood.(CNN) -- T...
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US May Day protests planned, may disrupt commutes

northjersey.com - May Day protests may disrupt the morning commute in major U.S. cities Tuesday as labor, immigration and Occupy activists rally support on the international workers' holiday. Demonstrations, strikes...
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more errors in 2012 Mathematics Tests Scoring Materials

groups.yahoo.com - For this we're paying $32 Million? ________________________________ > > From: NYSED EXAMREQUEST [mailto:EXAMREQUEST@...] > Sent: Mon 4/30/2012 9:44 AM > Subject: Notice to Test Scoring Coordinators...
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