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• Seib & Wessel: What We’re Reading Tuesday

  
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  The Syrian conflict, a testy legal battle over the final stages of the largest services contract in American military history, and more recommended reading from around the web.
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• Its Official - Im Running in the WTU elections!

  
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  Liz & Candi Written By Candi Peterson "Together, We Are Better!" Liz Davis/Candi Peterson Good afternoon to all of you. Its official on April 30, 2013- I declared my candidacy for Washington Teachers Union (WTU) General Vice President again. This time, I am running on the Elizabeth Davis (known ...
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• Knoxville News: Dont Say Gay lawmaker irked at renewed attention, defends bill

  
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  News coverage of a student protest Tennessee Equality Project organized as Tennessees "Dont Say Gay" bill advanced in the legislature in February of 2012. The man in the center of an educational firestorm, Tennessees Rep. John Ragan, spoke to the Knoxville News . NASHVILLE — State Rep. John Ragan says the ...
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• Walmart heirs invest in Rhees Students First

  
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  Laura Clawson. StudentsFirst has been having a rough week, what with the bad publicity around their choice of one of the authors of Tennessees "Dont Say Gay" bill as "reformer of the year." The organization repudiated the bill in response, but didnt disown the legislator. In the meantime theyve ...
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• Diane Ravitch At Education Week: ‘Why Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty Lost’

  
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  Full post here . ‘Rhee believed that mayoral control gave her the power to work her will and to ignore dissenters or brush them off as defenders of the status quo. Mayoral control bred arrogance and indifference to dialogue. She didn’t need to listen to anyone because she had the mayor’s unquestioning ...
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• Rhee strikes again - in California

  
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  This mornings Sacramento  Bee has a full page ad directed at the California Senate Education Committee.  It claims to be in favor of improving teacher quality.  The ad is signed by a group SupportCAteachers.com Well, if you follow the link, you end up at Rhees own Student First an advocacy organization recently ...
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• Michelle Rhees group endorses anti-gay legislator

  
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  Michelle Rhees StudentsFirst is putting together quite the record as far as legislators it selects as "reformer of the year." Last year, StudentsFirst came under fire from immigrant groups angry that Georgia state Sen. Chip Rogers, author of several  harshly anti-immigrant  bills, including one that would have ...
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• Of Interest

  
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  I had heard of this but never checked it out before - the online Visual Dictionary .   It could be helpful (and fun) for kids who are visual learners.  If only we had known this sooner about Michelle Rhee .  Interesting article from John Merrow- Who Created Michelle Rhee?  Turns out, all of us.  From Ed ...
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• Union Suppression Movement- Part 2

  
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  America’s Union Suppression Movement (And Its Apologists), Part Two Leo Casey on April 18, 2013 This is part two of a two-part post. The first part can be found below. As the war against American unions reached a fever pitch in recent years, there emerged a small group of right-wing academics and think tanks ...
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• Short Notes: Pearson Makes Money, Whether You Like It Or Not

  
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  Chris Rock as Rufus in Dogma on Ideas A few notes: William J. Reese lets the world know that none of this testing business is new . Good read. [New York Times] Pearson apologized for errors on the gifted and talented test. They get a stern warning , and get to sit in the corner for millions of dollars. ...
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• Hey, Michelle Rhee, I Want Answers!

  
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  Hey, Michelle Rhee, Ive just about had it with your ill-conceived, unfounded, poorly-researched rhetoric, which the likes of CNN, Time Magazine and many other opportunistic media are all to happy to promote. You are the former chancellor of Washington D.C. Schools. You demand 50K for public appearances, and you ...
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• The Fight Against Teachers Unions

  
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  by Leo Casey Michelle Rhee and others, on teacher unions. How does that compare to the resources and spending of the leading education reform actors? In a matter of days after she publicly announced the formation of StudentsFirst , an explicitly anti-union political lobbying organization, Michelle Rhee had ...
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• MichelleRhee is the fault of the teacher unions. Just ask John Merrow.

  
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  John Merrow is freakin’ unbelievable. The guy once was in love with MichelleRhee.* While I don’t think my reporting for the NewsHour was puffery, we did produce twelve (!) pieces about her efforts over the 40 months — about two hours of primetime coverage. That’s an awful lot of attention. Did anyone ...
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• All About the Recent Cheating Scandals

  
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  Good report I saw on YouTube:
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• Rheeism in One Quote

  
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  Like most elite supporters of destroying public eduction unions and handing the future of education over to capitalists and flawed testing systems that make or break people’s careers, Michelle Rhee is a total hypocrite when it comes to her own kids . In the interview, Rhee also confirmed that one of her two ...
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• D.C. test cheating: Time to move on?

  
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  Can the Districts standardized testing regime be trusted? That question gets a public airing today at the D.C. Council, where David A. Catania (I-At Large) will hold a hearing on a bill he has introduced that would make cheating on high-stakes tests illegal for the first time. The Post editorial board argues that ...
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• Ca. Democratic Party criticizes Rhee, Romero, Students First, and dubious school reform

  
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  Much of the fiery rhetoric during Sundays general session was focused on StudentsFirst, the education policy advocacy group founded by  Michelle Rhee,  and Democrats for Education Reform, which has backing from former Democratic state Sen.  Gloria Romero. "They sound like good names, but lets be perfectly clear. ...
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• New calls to probe cheating allegations in Washington under Rhee

  
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  PBS’s John Merrow recently revealed a 2009 confidential memo pointing out troubling test answer erasures in Washington, D.C., schools, which were led at the time by Michelle Rhee, now the head of  the national advocacy group StudentsFirst. Merrow reported that the erasure concerns raised in the memo by ...
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• WEEKEND QUOTABLES

  
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  Susan Ohanian.org John Merrow The erasures stayed buried for years. The official who had spotted the problem and urged Rhee to investigate has kept her mouth shut. Five months after she had informed Rhee of the widespread erasures, Deborah Gist resigned to become State Superintendent in Rhode Island. --  ...
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• Being Reformy Means Never Having to Say Youre Sorry

  
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  Reformy Rhee is besieged by suggestions Erase to the Top was bigger and badder than shed ever acknowledged. The smoking memo has been released, and shes all Scarlett OHara: "What? Little old me? Well I never saw any blessed memo. Let them look at it tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is another day." Apparently, her ...
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