Lots more.
Susan
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Closing The Expectations Gap: States Make Strides To Implement College- And Career-Ready Policies
No Author
Huffington Post
2012-09-13
http://susanohanian.org/core.
This is a press release from Achieve traveling as a news item. This sort of thing is why I no longer write for Huffington.
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All public high school juniors would take ACT in 2014-15 under Evers proposal
Matthew DeFour
Wisconsin State Journal
2012-09-13
http://susanohanian.org/core.
Wisconsin politicos propose plan to increase testing under the name of college and career readiness.
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Common Core Thrusts Librarians Into Leadership Role
Catherine Gewertz
Education Week
2012-09-12
http://susanohanian.org/core.
The president-elect of the American Library Association loves the Common Core.
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Chicago School Strike is Against Obama 'Race To The Top' Agenda of School Privatization and Corporate Education Reform
Bruce A. Dixon
2012-09-13
http://susanohanian.org/show_
This is, by far, the best commentary on the Chicago strike.
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How Much Do Teacher Strikes Hurt Kids?
Doug Henwood
2012-09-12
http://susanohanian.org/show_
Doug Henwood concludes, 'The CTU's strike, led by a vigorous reform leadership, is quite explicitly about lots more than the wages and working conditions of teachers. It's about fighting the privatization and union-busting agenda of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel--which he shares with other big-city mayors like Michael Bloomberg, as well as his comrade Barack Obama.'
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Teacher Evaluation Dispute Echoes Beyond Chicago
All Things Considered
National Public Radio
2012-09-13
http://susanohanian.org/
This was a really really irritating story that purported to be about the heart of the Chicago teacher strike. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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Tennessee's K12, Inc. Virtual School Receives Lowest Score Possible and $16,000,000 a Year to Pay for It
Jim Horn
Schools Matter
2012-09-13
http://susanohanian.org/
K12 is failing in Tennessee but not many people seem to pay any attention.
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Great Hearts ends push for Nashville charter school
Joey Garrison
The City Paper
2012-09-12
http://susanohanian.org/
The Nashville school board defied the mayor and the state commissioner of ed and refused to authorize Great Hearts Academies authorization as a charter school.
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2012 McGraw Prize in Education Winners Named; 25th Anniversary Honors Education 'Game Changers'
Press Release
McGraw-Hill
2012-09-10
http://susanohanian.org/
If you can stand it, here's some puffery surrounding the current winners of the McGraw Prize.
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School libraries hit hard by budget cuts
Neal J. Riley
San Francisco Chronicle
2012-09-10
http://susanohanian.org/
Californians want libraries but they don't want to pay for them.
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Analysis: Striking Chicago teachers take on national education reform
Stephanie Simon and James B. Kelleher
Reuters
2012-09-10
http://susanohanian.org/
A much better analysis than what most mainstream media have provided.
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Director of Private School Where Rahm Sends His Kids Opposes Using Testing for Teacher Evaluations
Mike Elk
In These Times
2012-09-11
http://susanohanian.org/
Chicago Teacher Union president wants all Chicago kids to have the kind of education afforded to the mayor's children.
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Chicago Teacher
Rebel Diaz
Rap
2012-09-12
http://susanohanian.org/show_
Rapper Rebel Diaz understands and articulates the issues of the Chicago teacher strike far better than most media.
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Flash mob against No Child Left Behind
John Young
blog
2012-09-11
http://susanohanian.org/show_
Yes, it's good news when people oppose NCLB, but Texas--and everybody else--had better read that small print in the waiver very very carefully.
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