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This Week In Education


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Prospects Fade for NCLB Bill in 2007 EdWeek Efforts to revise the law are mired in backroom negotiations in both the House and the Senate and show no signs of gaining the momentum necessary to...

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Tags: daily news
Ed Week Blogger Moves On

Rumor has it that non-employee edweek.org blogger Alexander Russo, in search of fame and fortune, has moved kit and kaboodle over to scholastic. com. It's been great fun working with Alexander...

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So Long, Farewell -- I'm Off To Harry Potter Land

After nine mostly blissful months blogging at EdWeek.org, I'm off to try out a new home at Scholastic. Yes, Scholastic. Me and Harry Potter. I know. As of Monday, I'll start as a contributing...

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Tags: site news
The Week In Review (October 29-November 4)

Best Of The Week Funders "Heart" TFA A Pack Of Dogs, A Fire Hydrant, And A Powerful Lobby Urban Education  Unionized Charter Schools Headed East A "National"...

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A Pack Of Dogs, A Fire Hydrant, And A Powerful Lobby

Lots of takes from the blogs on the NEA letter from yesterday, which, ironically, is signed by none other than Diane Shust, the NEA lobbyist who used to work for Miller. Joe Williams of DFER who...

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Tags: campaign '08
No Crony Left Behind

Over at the Huffington Post, comedian Bill Maher rips on President Bush for always making sure that his policy ideas benefit his friends and allies financially: "In the next fifteen months,...

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Tags: best of the blogs
Like Imus, Edison Schools Is Coming Back

If disgraced shock jock Don Imus can make a comeback, why not somewhat disgraced school management company Edison? That's exactly the plan, according to the SF Schools Blog, which has come across...

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Tags: the business of education
Brittanic Blogs

The folks at Encyclopedia Brittanic are taking a shot at a blog that includes several names you may already know: Karin Chenowith (of "It's Being Done"), Joanne Jacobs, etc. As with the...

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Tags: best of the blogs
Comply, Or Perish, Says NEA To Congress

The newsiest of recent blog posts is Joe Williams' revelation that the NEA wants politicos to sign a pledge against NCLB (NEA to Congress: Comply or Perish). Nice. Overwhelmed with all the...

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Wisconsin NCLB Protest Teacher Gets Reprimand Letter

Google Images says that this might be Madison middle school teacher David Wasserman, who refused to administer a test to his students in protest against NCLB and sat in the teachers lounge. No...

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Tags: nclb news