<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - joel-klein</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/joel-klein</link><description>Newsvine - joel-klein</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:08:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:41:10 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>&quot;Won't Back Down&quot; Film Pushes ALEC Parent Trigger Proposal | PR Watch</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Well-funded advocates of privatizing the nation's education system are employing a new strategy this fall to enlist support for the cause. The emotionally engaging Hollywood film "Won't Back Down" -- set for release September 28 -- portrays so-called "Parent Trigger" laws as an&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Plantsmantx]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Plantsmantx]]></source><link>http://plantsmantx.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/23/14051076-wont-back-down-film-pushes-alec-parent-trigger-proposal-pr-watch</link><guid>http://plantsmantx.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/23/14051076-wont-back-down-film-pushes-alec-parent-trigger-proposal-pr-watch</guid><category>film</category><category>politics</category><category>joel-klein</category><category>charter-schools</category><category>heartland-institute</category><category>diane-ravitch</category><category>alec-exposed</category><pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:07:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Former NYC schools chief touts News Corp. venture</title>
<description><![CDATA[Former New York City schools chief Joel Klein left to run News Corp.'s education division but spent much of the past year defending boss Rupert Murdoch in the phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the British media.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Matthews]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Karen Matthews]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/13/13260086-former-nyc-schools-chief-touts-news-corp-venture</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/13/13260086-former-nyc-schools-chief-touts-news-corp-venture</guid><category>us</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>news-corp</category><category>us-news</category><category>former-new-york-city</category><category>joel-klein</category><category>amplify</category><pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:25:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=dd67ba25-dfd7-4246-8f15-93c7e513ee3a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="269" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=dd67ba25-dfd7-4246-8f15-93c7e513ee3a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this July 31, 2012 photo, Joel Klein, CEO of Amplify, speaks during an interview in his New York office. Klein, former New York City schools chief, left to run News Corp.'s education division but spent much of the past year defending boss Rupert Murdoch in the phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the British media. The investigation into the use of information taken from stolen phones is continuing, but Klein is back in New York to launch Amplify, News Corp.'s entry into the burgeoning field of digital learning. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=dc15811e-5d14-4173-b295-f75079331de6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=dc15811e-5d14-4173-b295-f75079331de6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this July 31, 2012 photo, Joel Klein, CEO of Amplify, speaks during an interview in his New York office. Klein, former New York City schools chief, left to run News Corp.'s education division but spent much of the past year defending boss Rupert Murdoch in the phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the British media. The investigation into the use of information taken from stolen phones is continuing, but Klein is back in New York to launch Amplify, News Corp.'s entry into the burgeoning field of digital learning. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=30633d51-0ffd-48ab-a9aa-0ccf25449c47.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="287" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=30633d51-0ffd-48ab-a9aa-0ccf25449c47.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this July 31, 2012 photo, Joel Klein, CEO of Amplify, speaks during an interview in his New York office. Klein, former New York City schools chief, left to run News Corp.'s education division but spent much of the past year defending boss Rupert Murdoch in the phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the British media. The investigation into the use of information taken from stolen phones is continuing, but Klein is back in New York to launch Amplify, News Corp.'s entry into the burgeoning field of digital learning. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0d279e72-1570-45aa-afc6-6dab45c58385.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0d279e72-1570-45aa-afc6-6dab45c58385.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this July 31, 2012 photo, Joel Klein, CEO of Amplify, speaks during an interview in his New York office. Klein, former New York City schools chief, left to run News Corp.'s education division but spent much of the past year defending boss Rupert Murdoch in the phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the British media. The investigation into the use of information taken from stolen phones is continuing, but Klein is back in New York to launch Amplify, News Corp.'s entry into the burgeoning field of digital learning. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Klein gives up role in News Corp hacking probe</title>
<description><![CDATA[Former U.S. assistant attorney general Joel Klein is relinquishing his role as head of News Corp.'s internal probe into phone hacking at its British newspaper unit. He is surrendering the duties to Gerson Zweifach, a company lawyer.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/18/12283519-klein-gives-up-role-in-news-corp-hacking-probe</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/18/12283519-klein-gives-up-role-in-news-corp-hacking-probe</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>news-corp</category><category>hacking</category><category>joel-klein</category><category>phone-hacking</category><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:07:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Education woes linked to national security</title>
<description><![CDATA[The nation's security and economic prosperity are at risk if America's schools don't improve, warns a task force led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Joel Klein, the former chancellor of New York City's school system.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimberly Hefling]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Kimberly Hefling]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/19/10762319-education-woes-linked-to-national-security</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/19/10762319-education-woes-linked-to-national-security</guid><category>us</category><category>new-york</category><category>security</category><category>politics</category><category>education</category><category>state-condoleezza-rice</category><category>new-york-city</category><category>national-security</category><category>joel-klein</category><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:02:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a4aecd71-6a29-4b5a-9a13-1cbf445f321e.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a4aecd71-6a29-4b5a-9a13-1cbf445f321e.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2010 file photo, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks at the National Press Club in Washington.  The US economic prosperity, global position and physical safety is at risk if America's schools don't improve, warns a task force led by Rice and Joel Klein, the former chancellor of New York City's school system. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/8258a830-1b97-4921-9b84-0bd0611d3440.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/8258a830-1b97-4921-9b84-0bd0611d3440.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2010 file photo, outgoing New York City Public Schools Chancellor Joel Klein listens during a news conference at City Hall in New York.  The US economic prosperity, global position and physical safety is at risk if America's schools don't improve, warns a task force led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Klein. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>News Corp., After Hiring Klein, Buys Technology Partner in a City Schools Projec</title>
<description><![CDATA[Chalk up another one for Rupert Murdoch. He scooped up New York City's outgoing Chancellor Joel Klein then bought a company that "tailors lessons plans to students' progress" for the Education Department that Klein oversaw.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[NC Slim]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[NC Slim]]></source><link>http://ncnc.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/24/5523514-news-corp-after-hiring-klein-buys-technology-partner-in-a-city-schools-projec</link><guid>http://ncnc.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/24/5523514-news-corp-after-hiring-klein-buys-technology-partner-in-a-city-schools-projec</guid><category>nyc</category><category>education</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>conflict-of-interest</category><category>joel-klein</category><category>news-corpations</category><pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:54:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Correction: Alcoholic Energy Drinks story</title>
<description><![CDATA[In a Nov. 14 story about the maker of caffeinated alcoholic drinks agreeing to stop shipments to New York state, The Associated Press erroneously identified a state senator who said the drinks are too easy for teens to buy and too dangerous for them to consume. He is state Sen. Jeffrey Klein, not Joel Klein.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/15/5470023-correction-alcoholic-energy-drinks-story</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/15/5470023-correction-alcoholic-energy-drinks-story</guid><category>us</category><category>energy</category><category>new-york</category><category>corrective</category><category>drinks</category><category>associated-press</category><category>us-news</category><category>alcoholic</category><category>joel-klein</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:57:20 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Open Left:: Left Ed: Behind the Washington Consesus on School Reform Is the Washington Consensus on Poverty</title>
<description><![CDATA[
 
In this weekly diary, I've written often about the Washington Consensus on school reform - how both Republican and Democratic leaders have colluded to make public schools a brunt of political rhetoric focused on "what's wrong" with America while, in the meantime, these leade&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[wayne b-1247232]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[wayne b-1247232]]></source><link>http://wayneb-1247232.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/25/5346234-open-left-left-ed-behind-the-washington-consesus-on-school-reform-is-the-washington-consensus-on-poverty</link><guid>http://wayneb-1247232.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/25/5346234-open-left-left-ed-behind-the-washington-consesus-on-school-reform-is-the-washington-consensus-on-poverty</guid><category>us-news</category><category>larry-ellison</category><category>joel-klein</category><category>economic-policy-institute</category><category>us-chamber</category><category>schools-matter</category><category>washington-consesus</category><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:37:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Economic Effect of Poor Schools Exceeds Recession, Study Says</title>
<description><![CDATA[The New York City schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, who introduced the findings at the National Press Club in Washington, said the study vindicated the idea that the root cause of test-score disparities was not poverty or family circumstances, but subpar teachers and principals.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Dude N.O.]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Dude N.O.]]></source><link>http://gnichols.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/27/2738759-economic-effect-of-poor-schools-exceeds-recession-study-says</link><guid>http://gnichols.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/27/2738759-economic-effect-of-poor-schools-exceeds-recession-study-says</guid><category>economy</category><category>race</category><category>education</category><category>poverty</category><category>new-york-city</category><category>joel-klein</category><category>achievement-gap</category><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:44:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Mayoral Control Makes the Grade</title>
<description><![CDATA[Why keeping the Mayor in charge of New York's school system makes sense - instead why returning control to the unions does not.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[CopenhagenDK]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[CopenhagenDK]]></source><link>http://copenhagendk.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/06/2513172-mayoral-control-makes-the-grade</link><guid>http://copenhagendk.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/06/2513172-mayoral-control-makes-the-grade</guid><category>new-york</category><category>education</category><category>unions</category><category>bloomberg</category><category>school-choice</category><category>joel-klein</category><category>charter-schools</category><category>sheldon-silver</category><category>united-federation-of-teachers</category><category>eva-moskowitz</category><pubDate>Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:10:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Greg Palast: Obama's &quot;Way-to-Go, Brownie!&quot; Moment?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Has Barack Obama forgotten, "Way-to-go, Brownie"? Michael Brown was that guy from the Arabian Horse Association appointed by George Bush to run the Federal Emergency Management Agency.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aine MacDermot]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Aine MacDermot]]></source><link>http://aine.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/13/2210149-greg-palast-obamas-way-to-go-brownie-moment</link><guid>http://aine.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/13/2210149-greg-palast-obamas-way-to-go-brownie-moment</guid><category>politics</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>joel-klein</category><category>secretary-of-education</category><category>linda-darling-hammond</category><category>arne-duncan</category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:32:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>