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40 T/D/Y #27: Papers and Zines and Blogs
15 hours ago ago from Pilcrow
Back in fifth grade, near the end of the school year, we had a special kickball game event pitting our classroom against one of the other fifth-grade classrooms, complete with the teachers themselves participating not the typical recess-time game. When our class was up to kick and I had a lot of downtime waiting my turn, I started to amuse myself by pretending to be a news reporter interviewing others about the big game. In talking with my ...
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10 hours ago ago from Education WA
Today the NAPLAN results were released for 2009. They show the major reason students in low socio - economic regions do not do as well as other regions. As has been suggested on many occasions , it has little to do with teachers, but more to do with geographical locations and real estate values. It is well known that more people with higher levels of education live in affluent areas. Now we can see the results of these accumulations of ...
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19 hours ago ago from Heron Bay News and Updates | Golf & Country Club in Henry County GA
Heron Bay Academy received the news it had hoped for earlier this week when it got approval from the Georgia Charter School Commission to begin construction on the charter school that will be located on the beautiful grounds of Heron Bay Golf & Country Club in Locust Grove. The tuition-free school will open in the fall of 2011 and will initially serve 400 students grades K-6 in Henry and Spalding County in its first year, although plans ...
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21 hours ago ago from Togs\'s Place.Com.
RAMON CORTINES, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), has a message for thousands of LA teachers: Enjoy the holidays while you can, because many of you will be fired before the coming new year ends. Due to yet another multibillion-dollar budget deficit in California, Cortines is demanding that all LAUSD employees take a 12 percent pay cut, or the district will slash 8,000 jobs next year. This ultimatum comes on ...
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3 hours ago ago from Larry Miller's Blog
Included in this posting is a New York Times article on charter schools in New York City. It is followed by a blog posting from Daniel Wolff. This is a quote from that posting about the hedge fund managers in New York City. New York City’s charter school network is the new country club. It’s where the elite meet, where potential business connections are made. And even if these Masters of the Universe don’t “get any” from the schools ...
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