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Mayor Bloomberg Is a Spiteful Little Man 8 SoBronxSchool Oct 2012 Nov 2012 7 2900

Hurricane Attention Whoring With Educators4Excellence 1 SoBronxSchool Oct 2012 Nov 2012 1 1805

Spelman College chooses fitness over athletics 1 brer cat Nov 2012 Nov 2012 5 1776

Big Money Floods School Board Races in California 1 HiPointDem Nov 2012 Nov 2012 6 1914

It’s About Innovation, Not ‘Privatization’ 3 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 4 1893

The Exhaustion of the American Teacher 11 Reader Rabbit Sep 2012 Oct 2012 11 4724

Uncle Mike and the DOE Celebrate Failure 0 SoBronxSchool Oct 2012 Oct 2012 3 1639

$500,000 payout to charter principal sparks outrage, call for probe 4 Doctor_J Oct 2012 Oct 2012 8 3172

NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) hires Teach for America/Charter Shill as NY Education Deputy Secretary 5 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 7 2610

How Teachers Should Communicate 4 Smarmie Doofus Oct 2012 Oct 2012 9 2106

NC Teacher: “I Quit” 18 proud2BlibKansan Oct 2012 Oct 2012 37 5690

How Higher Education in the US Was Destroyed in 5 Basic Steps 7 xchrom Oct 2012 Oct 2012 18 3481

Los Angeles Times sues LAUSD over teacher performance data 14 Starry Messenger Oct 2012 Oct 2012 1 3056

When will they close the "Brooklyn Castle" school? 2 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 5 1704

Randi Weingarten answers “anything” 0 proud2BlibKansan Oct 2012 Oct 2012 1 1639

LAUSD loses appeal in settlement of teacher-layoff lawsuit (Unions 1 Ed Deformers 0) 0 Starry Messenger Oct 2012 Oct 2012 7 1644

Weingarten Praises Newark Merit Pay Scheme: "win-win-win" NEW Caucus calls for "No" vote 4 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 3 2530

My son was bullied today, but here is the difference. 9 RandySF Oct 2012 Oct 2012 26 3126

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 WhaTHellsgoingonhere Oct 2012 Oct 2012 0 1465

Goodbye to PS 154 in The Bronx? 1 SoBronxSchool Oct 2012 Oct 2012 3 1835

VAM a Disaster... 4 YvonneCa Oct 2012 Oct 2012 5 2281

Plato's Cave: My friend's video re. her NYC college students.... 1 Smarmie Doofus Aug 2012 Oct 2012 2 2039

NY DOE seeking permission to certify teachers (v. academic certification) 0 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 3 1657

Colman Chadam, California Boy, Ordered To Transfer Schools For Carrying Cystic Fibrosis Gene 1 eridani Oct 2012 Oct 2012 1 2056

SF Special ed teachers say administrator's e-mail broke law 10 RandySF Oct 2012 Oct 2012 3 2643

Hey, charterheads: let's make love, not war! (Chicago) 0 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 4 1559

Diane Ravitch is encouraging everyone with an interest in education to write a letter 5 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 7 2149

University of Phoenix closing 115 locations (AP/BloomburgBusinessWeek) 5 eppur_se_muova Oct 2012 Oct 2012 3 2899

Former NYC School Chancellor Joel Klein Is Not Telling the Whole Truth About His Personal History [View all] 50 xchrom Oct 2012 Oct 2012 12 21683

KUHN: The Exhaustion of the American Teacher... 3 YvonneCa Oct 2012 Oct 2012 6 2299

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NYC: Ground Zero for Edu-Hucksterism 0 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 7 1580

St. Louis public school district sheds 'unaccredited' label 0 proud2BlibKansan Oct 2012 Oct 2012 6 1634

Do you want Rupert Murdoch to have your child's personal & educational data? 2 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 2 1757

Cohen firings draw ire 1 Starry Messenger Oct 2012 Oct 2012 6 1911

Want to Ruin Teaching? Give Ratings 5 groovedaddy Oct 2012 Oct 2012 1 2499

The False Promises of “School Choice” by Barbara Miner 2 xchrom Oct 2012 Oct 2012 9 2071

Check out this picture of Matt Damon 22 proud2BlibKansan Oct 2012 Oct 2012 65 6692

Luckovich Toon: Hand us the keys 10 n2doc Oct 2012 Oct 2012 35 3854

Teachbad wrote a song! 0 proud2BlibKansan Oct 2012 Oct 2012 2 1707

The Real Audience for 'Won't Back Down' May Not Have Been Moviegoers 5 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 6 2097

"Race-based student goals prompt controversy in South Florida" 1 jody Oct 2012 Oct 2012 0 1997

20 school lunches from around the world. 12 RandySF Oct 2012 Oct 2012 2 6101

Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard out by ‘mutual agreement’ 4 proud2BlibKansan Oct 2012 Oct 2012 3 2332

Charter school: Enroll here, get a free Nintendo DSi 6 Starry Messenger Oct 2012 Oct 2012 2 2540

Many traditional public schools send special ed kids to continuation schools every day. 8 NYC_SKP Oct 2012 Oct 2012 2 2502

What do you think of Indistar? 1 RobertAustin Oct 2012 Oct 2012 0 1935

Got a question, 6 MadHound Oct 2012 Oct 2012 2 2294

Live From the Rubber Room! 0 Smarmie Doofus Oct 2012 Oct 2012 2 1764

How Gloria Romero (D-CA Ed Deformer) Became the Face of Proposition 32 3 Starry Messenger Oct 2012 Oct 2012 5 3410

Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School 5 groovedaddy Oct 2012 Oct 2012 2 2329

Teaching jobs come back after four years of layoffs 0 FBaggins Oct 2012 Oct 2012 3 1631

Education profiteering -Wall Street’s next big thing? 5 Starry Messenger Oct 2012 Oct 2012 11 2359

Hey NYC-Skip What subjects do you teach? Grade level 6 demtenjeep Oct 2012 Oct 2012 2 2427

This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] 105 NYC_SKP Sep 2012 Oct 2012 0 22536

Please help... 17 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 5 2876

I teach 1 ashling Oct 2012 Oct 2012 13 1951

How a Teacher Made $1 Million Selling Lesson Plans 4 ErikJ Sep 2012 Oct 2012 4 2621

One of the best Education videos I've seen... 4 YvonneCa Oct 2012 Oct 2012 7 2085

Help Write a Letter to President Obama 11 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 4 2547

AFT's endorsements for upcoming election 1 noamnety Oct 2012 Oct 2012 1 1879

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Wendy Kopp (Teach For America) to Jonathan Kozol: Your book didn't mention me once! 3 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 8 2350

Imagine where there is no chess team and this is the school... 1 littlemissmartypants Oct 2012 Oct 2012 2 1854

"Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team" 21 Starry Messenger Oct 2012 Oct 2012 32 8722

Today's lesson: charters do not outperform unionized schools 1 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 6 1766

Anti-teacher-union “Won’t Back Down” flunks at box office 19 Starry Messenger Oct 2012 Oct 2012 21 4281

Stuff (wealthy) white people like: Education reform. 6 HiPointDem Oct 2012 Oct 2012 7 2709

Questions about "Won't Back Down" movie 3 spedtr90 Oct 2012 Oct 2012 4 2303

Michelle Rhee’s Plan to Destroy Public Education 4 proud2BlibKansan Oct 2012 Oct 2012 13 2087

Seven Days that shook the Windy City: Reflections on a Chicago teachers strike 2 Starry Messenger Oct 2012 Oct 2012 12 1803

Governor Brown Signs Legislation to Create Free Open Textbooks 12 NYC_SKP Oct 2012 Oct 2012 3 3145

Don’t turn teachers into scapegoats 10 proud2BlibKansan Sep 2012 Oct 2012 8 2905

Oh, DISGUSTING! Private Sector "Sponsors" of State Sanctioned "Partnership Academies"!!!!11!!11 0 NYC_SKP Oct 2012 Oct 2012 2 1575

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 NYC_SKP Oct 2012 Oct 2012 0 1388

Petition to Congress to Cut the Pay of Administrators -- two more signatures needed from Illinois... 0 RobertAustin Oct 2012 Oct 2012 1 1788

Tellin’ Ain’t Teachin’: The Need for Frequent Processing by Spencer Kagan 8 proud2BlibKansan Sep 2012 Sep 2012 8 2889

Toon: Cheating Stops, Scores drop 0 n2doc Sep 2012 Sep 2012 7 2066

Now We Know Our ABCs. And Charter Schools Get an F. 2 eridani Sep 2012 Sep 2012 11 1995

Students, Experts Recoil at Alcohol Enema Case 1 struggle4progress Sep 2012 Sep 2012 0 2015

Contextual Accountability by John Kuhn 3 proud2BlibKansan Sep 2012 Sep 2012 8 2351

Teachers (and Friends): So who's running for Congress this year that "gets it"? 7 Smarmie Doofus Aug 2012 Sep 2012 3 3359

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