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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Engaging Parents In School…Check out: Engaging Parents In School…Surprise! Obama shows up at Sasha’s parent-teacher conference Behind the scenes Monday, presidential advisers focused on US policy...

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maryannreilly.blogspot.com - p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Guest Blog: This blog post was written by Mis...

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truthout.org - A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and...

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gothamschools.org - Dennis Walcott at Teachers College. In his first speech since being named chancellor, Dennis Walcott poured on the charm, asking everyone to “dial down the rhetoric” and giving no hints of any new ...

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dailymail.co.uk - By Daniel Bates Last updated at 7:46 PM on 15th April 2011Under scrutiny: A new lawsuit accuses New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg of running a 'boy's club' at his media company Michael Bloomber...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Tuesday, April 19th Vigil at Sac State: "The Death of Education, the Rebirth of Our Movement"Tuesday, April 19th Vigil at Sac State: "The Death of Education, the Re...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Nieman Watchdog ; Ask This: Miracle schools, vouchers and all that educational flim-flamMiracle schools, vouchers and all that educational flim-flamASK THIS | April 13, 2011Former Assistant Secret...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky's blogSunday links.by Fred KlonskyWhat a great time to be rich says Charles Blow in the NY Times. Poor? Not so much.I’m confused by NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. In ...

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wnyc.org - The city is having trouble finding enough parents to run for seats on local Community Education Councils. As of Friday, only 341 applied for a total of 425 seats, according to the Department of Ed...

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accountabletalk.com - Dennis Walcott, the new cookie cutter choice for NYC schools chancellor, recently said something that rivaled even Cathie Black for inanity and insensitivity, yet it got virtually no press at all. ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - John Thompson: KIPP and Its Critics Are Both RightKIPP and Its Critics Are Both RightI was a social scientist before I became a teacher so I was excited to read that Mathematica had analyzed "late ...

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latimesblogs.latimes.com - In the latest developments in Bahrain's ongoing crackdown on the country's political opposition and human-rights activists, more than two dozen uniformed and plainclothes security officers stormed ...

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news.yahoo.com - By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER, Associated Press Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press – 25 mins ago LOS ANGELES – A Southern California Republican Party official is under fire after allegedly sending an...

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millermps.wordpress.com - Gov. Scott Walker Reportedly Planning Financial Martial Law In Wisconsin Apr. 16 2011 By RICK UNGAR Forbes Magazine Reports are surfacing that Scott Walker is now preparing his next assault on the ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mud Wrestling with Marshall McLuhan | Lefty ParentMud Wrestling with Marshall McLuhanby Cooper ZaleWell… mud wrestling in a sort of metaphorical way. My latest attempt to embrace and wrestle to the...

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larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Apr 17 2011 Larry Ferlazzo I really am surprised to see so many ordinarily thoughtful national columnists — ones who I generally like — show such poor judgment when they write about schools. The on...

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huffingtonpost.com - Aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is a natural occurring phenomenon that lights up the sky in northern latitudes' polar region. The aurora borealis most often occurs around the eq...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Hi Ya! Karate and Autistic KidsHi Ya! Karate and Autistic Kidsby California FatherThanks to Autism Key for the vid. I love the woman’s comment about wanting to expose her child to something other t...

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34years.tumblr.com - 1 note April 17, 2011 Yong Zhao of Michigan State tells of the potential harm that may come from putting all your eggs in one basket, in this case high-stakes testing. Citing the story of the destr...

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firedoglake.com - Republican Budgeteers (photo: photobunny) The latest Republican PR creation, the Brilliant Seriousness of Paul Ryan, wants to abolish Medicare and replace it with markets for insurance for old peop...

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globalresearch.ca - On the first day of the Fukushima disaster, Tepco reported that reactors 1, 2 and 6 were operating at the time of the quake and tsunami, and that the other 3 reactors were empty of fuel rods for pe...

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abc.net.au - Posted April 17, 2011 18:22:00 TEPCO plans to cover the damaged reactor buildings at the Fukushima nuclear plant. (AFP: Air Photo Service) The operator of Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear plant aims to ...

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online.wsj.com - BY DAVID J. BRENNER As the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant drags on, how worried should people living near the plant, further away in Japan, or here in America be about the radiat...

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capitolhillblue.com - By Doug ThompsonIn today’s “oh really” department, the Internal Revenue Service tells us that the rich pay less taxes than they used to and about half of all American households pay no income taxes...

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alternet.org - How do they make so much money? Where does it come from? How can hedge fund firms with fewer than 100 employees make as much profit as firms with thousands of employees? April 11, 2011 | L...

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democraticunderground.com - Source: Yahoo! NewsWASHINGTON – As millions of procrastinators scramble to meet Monday's tax filing deadline, ponder this: The super rich pay a lot less taxes than they did a couple of decades ago,...

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hrw.org - (Manama) - More than two dozen uniformed and plainclothes security officers, most of whom were masked, raided the home of prominent defense lawyer Mohammed al-Tajer on the evening of April 15, 2011...

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