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The BLOB! Scream Now While You Can Still Breathe! « Living Behind the Gates
livingbehindthegates.wordpress.com - TERROR HAS NO SHAPE! Henry Martin: “Well then, young lady, do you mind telling me where you’ve been spending the evening?” Jane Martin: “Daddy, it’s all right.” Henry Martin: [sarcastically] “Oh,...
leoniehaimsonPoverty and Education in SC and the US
wrestlingwithwriting.blogspot.com- Op-Eds in The State and The Greenville News:As children across South Carolina re-enter our schools across the state, two recent reports on childhood well-being are worth considering—the State of Am...
DianeRavitchOne small win for humankind: Comptroller rejected $27 M no bid Wireless contract
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - One small but significant victory: public outrage has managed to stop the state contract with Wireless Generation, owned by Rupert Murdoch and run by Joel Klein. As reported in today's Daily New...
leoniehaimsonDoes Hurricane Katrina Have an Effect on Post-K Children? « Education Talk New Orleans
edutalknola.com - The premise of this story is that the disaster of Hurricane Katrina was the weather event and that 5-year old children are unaffected today. Not surprisingly they use the example of an uptown resid...
DianeRavitchPeople Are Awesome: This Superintendant Took an $800,000 Pay Cut to Offset Budget Cuts - Culture
good.is - Times are tough at school districts across the country, but they're especially bad in California, where a multibillion-dollar budget deficit has educators protesting and scrambling for ways to avoi...
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Retired teacher Lee Barrios of Abita springs will run for Louisiana education board
nola.com - Lee Barrios, a retired middle school teacher from Abita Springs and an outspoken critic of state education reforms, announced her candidacy Wednesday for the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Seco...
DianeRavitchShifting Talking Points among School Choice Advocates
dailykos.com - The evolution of the school choice advocacy talking points has included the following, in roughly the order in which they surfaced in the advocacy reports by think tanks and the media from the 1980...
mikeklonskyWhy I Hate Teach for America — Feministe
feministe.us - Like many English majors who have reached their senior year of college and are unsure of what kind of job they can get with that specialized B.A. in interwar period lesbian literature, five years a...
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What Did You Learn in School Today? (The Texas Version)
commondreams.org - Millions of Texas students head back to school this week confronted by a dramatically altered, state-mandated social studies curriculum. The contentious hearings of the Texas State Board of Educati...
DianeRavitchProtestors greet Ariz. sheriff in Kendall Co.: ‘Go home, Joe!’ - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY MAUREEN O’DONNELL Staff Reporter/modonnell@suntimes.com August 27, 2011 9:36PM Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa, Ari., front, hears comments Saturday from demonstrators opposing his appearance at ...
mikeklonskyFailing Forward
nytimes.com - Sometimes I push back on my heels, look at this country and wonder aloud: “What on earth are we doing?” We have a growing crisis among the nation’s children, yet our policies ignore tha...
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Do We Really Need A National Weather Service?
foxnews.com - As Hurricane Irene bears down on the East Coast, news stations bombard our televisions with constant updates from the National Hurricane Center. While Americans ought to prepare for the coming sto...
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Ron Paul on hurricane response: "We should be like 1900" - War Room
salon.com - AP Ron Paul has a hurricane response plan: After a lunch speech today, Ron Paul slammed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, and said that no national response to Hurricane Irene is ne...
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Survival Tips After a Hurricane Strikes, Hurricane Irene
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 6:59 pm, August 27, 2011 Photo Credits: Post Hurricane The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) are warning residents in hurricane-impacte...
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Examining a Labor Hero’s Death
nytimes.com - At Woodstock, Joan Baez sang a famous folk ballad celebrating Joe Hill, the itinerant miner, songwriter and union activist who was executed by a Utah firing squad in 1915. “I never died, said he” i...
mikeklonskyExamining a Labor Hero’s Death
nytimes.com - At Woodstock, Joan Baez sang a famous folk ballad celebrating Joe Hill, the itinerant miner, songwriter and union activist who was executed by a Utah firing squad in 1915. “I never died, said he” i...
fklonskyMusic Legend Gilberto Santa Rosa to Perform at CHCI\'s Awards Gala
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 9:14 am, August 27, 2011 Photo Credits: Gilberto Santa Rosa Billboard Magazine’s Tropical Artist of the Decade and GRAMMY®-award winning Gilberto Santa Rosa will take center stage to p...
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Judge won't drop Beverly Hills schools corruption case
latimesblogs.latimes.com - A judge on Friday denied a request to drop the felony criminal charges filed against a former Beverly Hills schools chief. An attorney for Supt. Jeffrey Hubbard had argued that Hubbard was only fol...
coopmike48Nine candidates make ballot for Nov. 1 DPS board election
denverpost.com - There will be nine names on the Nov. 1 ballot for Denver Public School's board election. The deadline to submit 50 signatures in order to secure a spot on the ballot was 5 p.m. today. A 10th hopefu...
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Top City Colleges official resigns after sham move to city - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY ROBERT HERGUTH Better Government Association August 26, 2011 7:16PM Cheryl Hyman, named by Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel at Olive-Harvey College 10001 S. Woodlawn Ave., to Chancellor, City Colleges o...
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Dick Ingram: Some truths about state pensions - Springfield, IL - The State Journal
sj-r.com - Throughout Illinois, public pension systems have been a central topic of discussion for months as state government grapples with an uncertain economy. State legislators and organized labor continue...
fklonskyBefore Jobs, Sam Walton and Bill Gates took exits
boston.com - NEW YORK—As CEOs, Sam Walton, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs possessed common traits. They were tireless workers, demanding bosses and sticklers for detail. They were visionaries, too, who reshaped thei...
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Radical Scholarship: Poverty and Education in SC and the US
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Radical Scholarship: Poverty and Education in SC and the US: Poverty and Education in SC and the USby P. L. ThomasOp-Eds in The State and The Greenville News: As children across South Carolina re-...
coopmike48Daily Kos: The answer is yes, Mr. Kristof
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: The answer is yes, Mr. Kristof: The answer is yes, Mr. Kristofby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)whose column for tomorrow asks Did We Drop the Ball on Unemployment?He acknowledges being pa...
coopmike48Democrats for Education Reform Back Out of Chicago Rally | Scathing Purple Musings
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Democrats for Education Reform Back Out of Chicago Rally | Scathing Purple Musings: Democrats for Education Reform Back Out of Chicago Rallyby Bob SikesFrom Fred Klonsky’s blog:Funny story.A few ye...
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