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• Final Race to the Top guidelines keep rule that may exclude NY

  
  GothamSchools Newsroom — Authority: 622
  The U.S. Department of Education released final guidelines for its $4.3 billion Race to the Top grant program this evening, leaving a provision that could ban New York State from applying for the funds still intact. States that bar districts from using test scores to evaluate teachers and principals are ineligible ...
  10 hours ago

• TFA GULF COAST REGIONAL CONSORTIUM

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 130
  The following is the text of an e-mail from a TFA director and copied shamelessly for the blog: What can you do about declining salaries, lost benefits, administrative battles, and attacks on tenure, in a right to work state ?Here’s how! The Texas Faculty Association will be holding a regional meeting in Houston ...
  18 hours ago

• Chiefs release controversial Johnson (CBC.ca)

  
  TotalBroncos — Authority: 160
  Larry Johnsons seven-year tenure with the Kansas City Chiefs appears to be coming to an end.
  2 days ago

• $48 million dollar Referendum : What Readers are saying

  
  The Ridgewood Blog — Authority: 486
  Recent Ridgewood Blog Poll Results Can Ridgewood Really afford a $48 million School Referendum? Yes (27%) No (72%) Do you follow Any High School sports on a regular basis ? Yes (44%) No (55%) Should Teachers Be Granted Tenure? Yes (38%) No (61%)
  3 days ago

• Suppliers providing journal subscriptions on the Internet

  
  The Article Blog — Authority: 142
  Taking out a subscription of a magazine is a convenient way to read your favorite periodical continuously. In the Internet age it is possible to purchase newspapers and magazines at mail order shops via Internet. Doing so will help the shoppers to receive their magazine right after it has been publicized. What are ...
  3 days ago

• Impact Factors Adjusted for Reality

  
  ACRLog — Authority: 518
  An interesting study forthcoming in the September issue of C&RL tackles the question of how our scholarship is evaluated by tenure and promotion committees. As a tenured librarian in a department in which half of the faculty are currently working toward tenure, this question intrigues me. Fortunately, my ...
  4 days ago

• Tenure to land and other natural resources (AfricaFiles / all Africa / FAO)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : AfricaFileshttp://www.africafiles.org/afgeneral.asp Two FAO land initiatives Author: various, CapetownDate Written: 30 October 2009Primary Category: Africa General Document Origin: AllAfrica.comSecondary Category: -none-Source URL: http://allafrica.com/ Key Words: FAO, land initiatives, food ...
  4 days ago

• Legal expert: Haslett can take action against drunk-shaming teachers

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 669
  While officials of the Haslett Public Schools continue to claim they are unable to take any action against teachers involved in a June 2007 drunk-shaming incident , a Michigan State University law professor, who is also a Haslett parent, disagrees. Constitutional law professor Frank Ravitch said in a recent ...
  1 week ago

• New York City Transit President Howard Roberts Jr Resigns

  
  New York Politics | NYPolitics.com — Authority: 134
  Howard H. Roberts Jr., the avuncular boss of New York City’s buses and subways, resigned Wednesday after a tenure of two and a half years. His departure raised few eyebrows inside the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, where officials had been speculating about Mr. Roberts’s fate for weeks, according to ...
  1 week ago

• Gender discrimination, law and the fight for tenure at DePaul University

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 127
  By Rachael Liberman Academia has never been immune to charges of elitism, sexism, or racism. From the use of socially questionable theories as “objective truth” to the absorption of meritocracy, academia does not necessarily evoke thoughts of “fairness” or “transparency.” As a doctoral student myself, I ...
  1 week ago

• The New Haven Teacher Contract: A Closer Look

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  All eyes were on New Haven, Conn. last week when the teachers’ union, in a 21-1 vote , overwhelmingly approved a new contract to go into effect next year. The contract, which includes changes typically eschewed by unions such as performance pay for teachers and the option to shut down and reorganize failing ...
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• David Colander: US Economic Models are Flawed

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 436
  This is a guest contribution by Damien Hoffman , editor of the very popular Wall St Cheat Sheet blog. This may sound like common sense to investors and traders, but most people - including policy makers - do not readily accept the flawed nature of economic models. Thank goodness we have professor David ...
  1 week ago

• Idaho State Fires A Tenured Professor.

  
  Perverse Egalitarianism — Authority: 491
  Apparently not even being tenured and being supported by the faculty  can help you keep your job in Idaho : The Idaho State Journal reports Habib Sadid confirmed Friday that university president Arthur Vailas had terminated his employment. In a statement, Vailas said his decision was in the best interests of the ...
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• Daily Gut: Tenure

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 814
  So over at Depaul University – allegedly a college – students and faculty are up in hairy arms over the denial of tenure to Melissa Bradshaw, a professor of “women’s and gender studies.” In case you don’t know what tenure is, it’s a guaranteed lifetime job. And in case you don’t know what “women’s ...
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• Mulgrew tells Assem. Hoyt to go back to school on edu reforms

  
  GothamSchools Newsroom — Authority: 622
  Teachers union president Michael Mulgrew dismissed proposed legislation that would overhaul New York State’s teacher tenure and charter cap laws. Mulgrew criticized Assemblyman Sam Hoyt’s bill in an interview with GothamSchools on Saturday, after delivering an address to approximately 3,000 parents assembled ...
  1 week ago

• Guilty Pleasures Monday Luke Wilson

  
  Caridad Pineiro Blog — Authority: 124
  This morning’s Guilty Pleasure is for my friend Irene Peterson who suggested the boyishly cute Luke Wilson. Luke has been in several movies and television shows. I first remember seeing Luke on The X-Files when he caught Agent Scully’s eye as a local sheriff. He caught my eye as well! Look for Luke this year ...
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• A weekend interview with St. Petersburg mayor Rick Baker

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 152
  Earlier this week, outgoing St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker gave out his 1,001st Doorways Scholarship at an annual celebration at the Coliseum. It was the last ceremony for Baker, who has made education a key part of his platform during his nine years in office. Each year, the mayor gave out 100 to 125 Doorways ...
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• France’s Chirac To Face Corruption Trial

  
  Blogger — Authority: 164
  Former French President Jacques Chirac has been ordered to stand trial in an alleged corruption scandal dating back to his tenure as Paris mayor, a judicial official said Friday. A magistrate has ordered Chirac to stand trial on charges of “embezzlement” and “breach of trust,” the official said.
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• What’s the Best Thing About Being Single?

  
  Living Single — Authority: 407
  Theres a great, relatively new website called single-woman TV . The actress who is the Executive Producer of the site, Kim Kuhteubl, asked whether I would answer 18 questions about myself. Of course, my favorite of the questions was the one that asked, " Whats the best thing about being single? " Heres how I answered ...
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• Academic Freedom

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 414
  The notion most of us have when thinking about the University (read that with a deep and important voice, please) is of a well-architectured limbo-land full of higher thought, in-depth learning, and forward motion steeped nicely in tradition. The University isn’t (or didn’t used to be) as susceptible to the rules ...
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