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• Education Dept. Gives 3 More States Waivers On No Child Left Behind

  
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — Three more states have received permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind education law. The Education Department on Monday said Alaska, Hawaii and West Virginia schools qualified for exemptions. The decision now has given 37 states and the District of Columbia the OK to come ...
  3 days ago

• Redefining everything traditional is what the Left is all about

  
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  Chris Wysocki has the latest That special lady who gave birth to you? She’s no longer “mom.” According to the politically-correct bureaucrats at the Department of Education, you shall henceforth use the term “Parent 1.” Or, “Parent 2,” the choice is up to you. The 2014-2015 Free Application for Federal ...
  1 week ago

• Episode 239- Independent Underground Radio LIVE welcomes Tom Barrow, Candidate for Detroit Mayor 5/9 @ 11 AM

  
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  Photo Credit-Google ImagesTune into our show Thursday, May 9th -- IU Radio LIVE Program at 11:00 AM ET, as were pleased to welcome Candidate for Mayor of Detroit, Tom Barrow- C.P.A. to the... Visit "IU News & Talk" right now to read more of this story!
  2 weeks ago

• Destroying Public Education is a Bipartisan Affair

  
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  Just take a look at what education secretary Arne Duncan is doing, for example . He is gallivanting around Michigan hobnobbing with far right governor Rick Snyder to wage war on teachers and public schools in that state. The state is on the verge of disaster. Detroit is being used as a guinea pig for wholesale ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gov. Snyder reads Detroit schoolchildren The Rainbow Fish, a story said to promote socialism

  
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  Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, a Republican and capitalist, entered a Detroit preschool classroom at Thirkell Elementary and was handed a book to read along with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, a Barack Obama appointee.
  2 weeks ago

• Open Letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Governor Rick Snyder on visit Ypsilanti Public Schools Perry Child Development Center

  
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  Photo Credit - MLive.comIU News & Talk - Open Letter Op/EdOpen letters have became popular of late so today Independent Underground News & Talk will pen the below open letter to U.S.... Visit "IU News & Talk" right now to read more of this story!
  2 weeks ago

• Celebrating and Listening to Our Nation’s Teachers

  
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  Editors Note: This is a cross post from the official blog of the Department of Education . You can find the original post here . So many of America’s teachers are amazing. Each day, they take on the extraordinary responsibility and highly complex work of moving all students forward. As I visit schools across the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Afternoon Announcements: Arne Duncan Says Criticism Against Standardized Testing is "Merited"

  
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  Coursera, an online education platform, plans to offer massive open online courses (MOOCs) for teachers. The courses would aim to help teaches improve their technique and would have offerings from teaching experts and premier museums and universities. Washington Post Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Common Core: Subversive Threat to Education

  
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  Please watch this video regarding the Common Core education program coming out of the federal Department of Education.  If you are as concerned about this indoctrination of our children to teach them to be good global citizens, visit the Face Book page Parents and Educators Against Common Core Standards and join a ...
  3 weeks ago

• California DFER to National DFER: Butt Out of Our CORE Waiver

  
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  Two days ago, eight civil rights and disability groups sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urging him to reject the "CORE" waiver request for several California districts looking for their own version of flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act. That list of eight signers included ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Will Indianas Common Core Pause Affect Its NCLB Waiver?

  
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  To get a waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana attested that it had adopted the Common Core State Standards and joined a consortium developing common tests. Now, both are in doubt. The state legislature approved and sent to the governor a bill to "pause" common core implementation , which had started ...
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• Education Department Isnt Very Innovative, Study Finds

  
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  Top officials at the U.S. Department of Education have often bemoaned the lack of innovation in public education, which is one reason the Investing in Innovation program was launched back in 2009 to help spur new ideas to improve student achievement. Turns out that as a federal agency, the Education Department itself ...
  3 weeks ago

• Winning!

  
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  Parents and students are getting angry and getting the attention of state school officials.  Texas moms halt testing.  “We were not going to sit around and see our kids be potentially put at a competitive disadvantage,” said Dineen Majcher, whose daughter is in the first class affected by the new testing. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Civil Rights Groups to Arne Duncan: Reject Districts NCLB Waiver Bid

  
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  In a letter today to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan , eight civil rights groups are urging him to reject the petition by nine California districts that want their own tailor-made No Child Left Behind waiver. The "CORE" waiver request , submitted after California was unsuccessful in getting a statewide ...
  3 weeks ago

• Arne Duncan, Indirectly, on Indiana Common Core Pause

  
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  In a significant victory for common core foes, Indiana lawmakers have voted to "pause" implementation of the standards to give policymakers time to study them and conduct hearings, State EdWatch reports. The standards arent gone entirely, but this is a serious enough stalling tactic to confuse Hoosier school ...
  3 weeks ago

• President Obama Honors the 2013 National Teacher of the Year

  
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  President Barack Obama, with Education Secretary Arne Duncan, honors 2013 National Teacher of the Year Jeff Charbonneau, State Teachers of the Year, and Principals of the Year, in the Rose Garden of the White House, April 23, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete ...
  4 weeks ago

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