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Union Leaders Target Bullying

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.11.2012

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WASHINGTON - The heads of the nation's two largest teachers' unions stressed Tuesday night the need for government leaders to continue to focus on bul...

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Joy Resmovits

Harkin, Ryan Spar Over Littlest Learners

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.29.2012

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Even as a growing body of research attests to the importance of early childhood education as an antidote to poverty, the House is preparing to pass a ...

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California School Board Blocks Parent Takeover Bid

Reuters | Posted 05.28.2012

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By Troy Anderson ADELANTO, Calif., March 28 (Reuters) - A group of activist parents in this impoverished community were thwarted again...

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Hostile Takeover: Parents Seek Control Of Failing School In High-Stakes U.S. Education Reform

Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012

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(Corrects information about the founding of Parent Revolution, adds that union backed anti-trigger activist in Florida, clarifies proposed structure...

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Matt Damon And Mom Reject Award Nomination

Posted 01.05.2012

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Matt Damon and his mother, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, have declined a nomination for the Friend of Education award from the National Education Association'...

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The NEA's 'New Professionalism'

Richard Lee Colvin | Posted 02.13.2012

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Richard Lee Colvin

An NEA commission report released last Thursday appears to depart from union positions on seniority; tenure; performance pay; student achievement as a factor in evaluations; and the role of teachers in evaluating their colleagues.

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Joy Resmovits

How Should Tests Measure Teachers?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.03.2011

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When Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presented the Obama administration's reforms to teacher training programs before the D.C.-based think tank Edu...

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Dennis Van Roekel: The NEA Plan For Teacher Accountability

| Dennis Van Roekel | Posted 11.20.2011

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This piece comes to us courtesy of Education Nation’s The Learning Curve blog. Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, w...

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Joy Resmovits

Arne Duncan: Obama's Jobs Bill Would Save 280,000 Teaching Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.08.2011

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CHICAGO -- America's two largest teachers unions, which have often clashed with the Obama administration on education policies, praised the president ...

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Joy Resmovits

What's In A Resolution: NEA's Van Roekel Says Language Shift Does Not Signal Policy Change

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.06.2011

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When the National Education Association held its membership conference over Independence Day weekend, it made headlines for endorsing Barack Obama ear...

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Should Teachers Be Laid Off By Seniority?

Richard Whitmire | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard Whitmire

Are the freshest-hired teachers on this list at their neighborhood schools really the ones you want to see disappear?

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"Reinvest, Don't Disinvest" in Education: Randi Weingarten Takes the National Stage

Dan Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Brown

Weingarten's speech was an impassioned call to spare the hatchet -- or scalpel -- in federal funding for education.

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