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Why Is He Bi? (Sigh)

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON HE was born this way. Bi. Not bisexual. Not even bipartisan. Just binary. Our president likes to be on both sides at once. In Afghanistan, he ...

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Record Salaries for CPS Leaders

chicagonewscoop.org - A week after Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s hand-picked Board of Education voted against granting teachers a 4 percent contractual pay raise, the panel approved raises for CEO Jean Claude Brizard and other...

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Timothy D. Slekar: Deforming the Graduate Degree

huffingtonpost.com - "I actually don't want qualified teachers [ones with graduate degrees] in the classroom. I want highly effective teachers [test score manipulators] in the classroom." -- John Deasy, LAUSD Superinte...

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Young D.C. principal quits and tells why

washingtonpost.com - Bill Kerlina won a plum assignment when he was hired away from Montgomery County in July 2009 to become a principal in Northwest Washington. Phoebe Hearst Elementary was a small, high-performing sc...

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Education Reform: Tragedy and Farce | Dissident Voice

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Education Reform: Tragedy and Farce | Dissident VoiceEducation Reform: Tragedy and Farceby Joseph GrossoWho has spent a good portion of their childhood in a classroom and been able to shake the que...

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Wisconsin Judge Said to Have Attacked Colleague

nytimes.com - CHICAGO — That the members of the Wisconsin Supreme Court were deeply divided has hardly been a secret of late. When the justices this month decided a law curtailing collective bargaining rights fo...

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Prosser grabs female justice by neck

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Whoa! Walker clone Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser grabbed another justice -- a woman -- by the neck during an argument over the law to destroy collective bargaining rights. Accordin...

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Gay Manners Get an Update

baycitizen.org - As gay people and issues have become more visible on the American landscape, social etiquette has been scrambling to catch up. People may differ on the issue of gay marriage, but who wants to argue...

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Jersey Jazzman: Not Getting What You Paid For

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Not Getting What You Paid ForNot Getting What You Paid Forby Duke(Cross-posted from Blue Jersey)The members of the Democratic Hall of Shame just voted to stick it to public workers:...

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Kansas Abortion Battles: New Clinic, New Anti-Regs

womensenews.org - Dr. Mila Means, a family practitioner, is planning to establish an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kan.(WOMENSENEWS)-- CheersDr. Mila Means, a family practitioner, is planning to establish an abortion ...

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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blogSaturday coffee.by Fred KlonskyWhat a beautiful morning! Kind temperature. Blue sky.We had coffee outside. Back at Letizia’s on Division Street in West Town. O...

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Nato admits civilians died in Tripoli bombing raid

telegraph.co.uk - Defence sources said a number of factors could be responsible for a missed target. The bomb could have been laser-guided, and the laser malfunctioned; it could have been a GPS bomb with the wrong g...

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Education Reform: Tragedy and Farce | Dissident Voice

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Education Reform: Tragedy and Farce | Dissident VoiceEducation Reform: Tragedy and Farceby Joseph GrossoWho has spent a good portion of their childhood in a classroom and been able to shake the que...

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