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Was Sec. Duncan playing ball with the hedge-funders?
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - EismanSen. Grassley's investigation of the DOE Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley is investigating whether Education Department officials, including Arne Ducan himself, disclosed confidential go...
mikeklonskyOversight problems prompt freeze of school reform funds
californiawatch.org - This year's payout of a three-year $416 million federal grant to struggling schools has been delayed for several California schools after monitoring teams found the state Department of Education an...
DianeRavitchCharter schools score big on maintenance funding - South Florida Sun
sun-sentinel.com - Gov. Rick Scott and the state Legislature do an outstanding job of talking a good game about improving education in Florida. Too bad the lofty talk isn't backed up by action.The latest slap toward ...
DianeRavitchThe Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education || Information Age Publishing
infoagepub.com - A volume in the series: Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society. Series Editor: Curry Stephenson Malott, West Chester University Published 2011Who should read this book? Anyone who...
DianeRavitchAlbany charter cash cow: Big banks making a bundle on new construction as schools bear the cost
articles.nydailynews.com - BY JUAN GONZALEZ - NEWSDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERFriday, May 07, 2010Wealthy investors and major banks have been making windfall profits by using a little-known federal tax break to finance new charte...
DianeRavitchTilson vs. Rubinstein Round I
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - One problem in the current ed reform debate is that there is not enough genuine debating. Really, there’s no communication at all between the two sides who I see as the ‘corporate reformers’ (Dunc...
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CPS begins negotiations with unions; Duncan calls for $60K starting salary for teachers
catalyst-chicago.org - In the News: CPS begins negotiations with unions; Duncan calls for $60K starting salary for teachersPosted By Cassandra West On Tuesday, August 2, 2011 In In the News Negotiations began Monday betw...
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Superintendent John Kuhn Turns Failure On Its Head
teacherleaders.typepad.com - Some may be put off by Superintendant John Kuhn of Texas calling out politicians directly, and flipping the notion of "failure" on its head. But he is right, and his conviction is inspiring. (See ...
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Quotable: Linda Darling-Hammond
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Linda was a featured speaker at Saturday SOS rally in D.C."We have produced a larger and more costly prison system than any country in the world — we have 5% of the world’s population and 25% of it...
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UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: How The Debt Deal Could Hurt The Wisconsin Recalls
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - Even as Democrats in Washington struggle with what many progressives see as one of the biggest losses their side has suffered in years, liberals in the Midwest are preparing to hand the left one of...
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New Arrest in British Hacking Scandal
nytimes.com - LONDON — The uproar enveloping Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper subsidiary in Britain took a new turn on Tuesday with another arrest, the 11th in recent months, in the police inquiry into alleged phone h...
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Protester jailed for throwing foam pie at Rupert Murdoch | UK news
guardian.co.uk - Jonathan May-Bowles has been sentenced to six weeks in jail. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/REUTERS The protester who threw a foam pie at Rupert Murdoch has been jailed for six weeks.Jonathan May-Bow...
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Bronx Catholic school principal Frank Borzellieri fired over ties to white supremacist group
nydailynews.com - Andrew Theodorakis/News Frank Borzellieri was named principal at a mostly black and Latino school two years ago and had pushed in the past to ban a biography of martyred civil rights leader Dr. Mar...
leoniehaimsonGandhi on how to end injustice: Speak the truth because Truth is God
dailycensored.com - “It is more correct to say that Truth is God than to say God is truth. …we must speak the Truth.” - Gandhi on Truth (and here, pg. 20)US injustice in major policies will end when enough Americans s...
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The Failure of the American Prison System is a Failure of Justice - E.D. Kain - American Times
blogs.forbes.com - Aug. 2 2011 - 2:38 pm | 0 views | 0 recommendations | By E.D. KAIN After the horrendous mass-slaying of youth in Norway by the Norwegian rightwing gunman, Anders Breivik, a number of news stories o...
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Grassley Questions Education Agency's Ties to Wall Street
dealbook.nytimes.com - Senator Charles E. Grassley is examining whether Department of Education officials disclosed secret government information to hedge fund managers, including Steve Eisman.The inquiry stems from the ...
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Apple has more cash right now than the US Treasury – Boing Boing
boingboing.net - Matt Hartley at the Financial Post was the first to point this one out: As Republicans and Democrats continue to work towards a compromise to the country’s debt ceiling crisis, the U.S. Treasury De...
mikeklonskyAmericans cut spending for first time in 20 months
northjersey.com - WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans cut back on their spending in June for the first time in nearly two years and their incomes grew by the smallest amount in nine months, a troubling sign for an economy t...
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Bronx School Hires White Supremacist as Principal
gawker.com - When the 200-student Bronx primary school Our Lady of Mount Carmel needed a new principal, its pastor, Rev. Eric Rapaglia, knew exactly who to hire: White supremacist author Frank Borzellieri. Borz...
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U.N. Agencies Duck Taking Stand on Safe Abortion
womensenews.org - A woman's right to safe abortion is increasingly recognized as both a human right and a means to reduce maternal mortality. U.N. agencies--including UN Women in its new strategic plan--are sidestep...
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Racial Wealth Gap Largest on Record as General Inequality Grows
dailycensored.com - The median wealth of white households is 20 times larger than that of Black households, and 18 times larger than that of Latino families, a report published by the Pew Research Center shows. This i...
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The Annotated Frank Rich - Aaron Sorkin Imagines a Conversation Between Rupert Murdoch and Joel Klein -
nymag.com - Int. Rupert Murdoch’s office; day. Rupert Murdoch sits behind his desk as Joel Klein knocks on the door and steps in. Klein: Mr. Murdoch? Murdoch: Well, if it isn’t Lady Macbeth. Klein: Is that wha...
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Home - Inside Higher Ed
insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...
coopmike48Another Special Edition Of “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t”
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Aug 02 2011 Larry Ferlazzo(NOTE: I usually publish this kind of post once-a-week. However, even more links than usual accumulated during this last week of school”) I have a huge backlog of resource...
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New Arrest in British Hacking Scandal
nytimes.com - LONDON — The uproar enveloping Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper subsidiary in Britain took a new turn on Tuesday with another arrest, the 11th in recent months, in the police inquiry into alleged phone h...
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New Arrest in British Hacking Scandal
nytimes.com - LONDON — The uproar enveloping Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper subsidiary in Britain took a new turn on Tuesday with another arrest, the 11th in recent months, in the police inquiry into alleged phone h...