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The Global Leadership Summit 2011

willowcreek.com - The Summit experience is planned to be identical whether at the originating campus or a satellite location. Premier Host Sites are preferred by some attendees for convenience, affordability, and co...

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America’s Premiere Teachers: Demoralized, Infantilized, and Fearful? | LFA: Join The Conversation

learningfirst.org - Last week I had the chance to attend the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) annual conference. For those who don’t know, National Board Certification is an advanced teaching ...

TeacherSabrina

Darling-Hammond: The mess we are in - The Answer Sheet

washingtonpost.com - Stanford University Education Professor Linda Darling-Hammond helped Barack Obama draft his educational plan when he was a presidential candidate, and advised him on education issues during the tra...

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Mike Sragow Gets Reel: Matt Damon peps up Anderson Cooper's 'RidicuList' - Movie and DVD reviews, Maryland Film Festival news and film technology by reporter Michael Sragow

weblogs.baltimoresun.com - Matt Damon is a terrific movie actor who has also developed a media persona as an All-American guy for a wised-up age: go-getting and idealistic, but with a hip, wry streak and an iconoclastic atti...

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Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action

saveourschoolsmarch.org - This collection will continue to grow– stay tuned! July 30th Rally & March in DC:Highlights: From 3rd Grade Teacher Thom Ryder, Roanoke County, VA: From the Hastings Teachers Association, Hastings-...

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Two Thoughts on Education This Week: Matt Damon's Wrong Identity

dropoutnation.net - August 3, 2011 by RiShawn Biddle Photo courtesy of Fame Pictures This is No Action Film — Or What Teacher Compensation Must Be for Kids and Taxpayers: As a son with a mom of my own (and a husband w...

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Matt Damon’s clear-headed speech to teachers rally - The Answer Sheet

washingtonpost.com - Here is the speech that actor Matt Damon gave today to thousands of teachers, parents and others who attended the Save Our Schools march on the Ellipse near the White House to protest the Obama adm...

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The Good Fight - Lily's Blackboard – Lily's Blackboard

lilysblackboard.org - It was a powerful thing to see thousands of us on the Ellipse of Mall with the White House in the background and the Capitol down the road. It was powerful for the very fact that it started as the ...

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Now That The March Is Over…. « Hello Family

tdanyelonline.wordpress.com - Hey Family, How is everyone doing? Those following me on Twitter saw my tweet earlier today about having to do lesson plans for a class I got late notice that I will be teaching beginning tomorrow....

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Our Brave New Word

carlanderson.blogspot.com - tweetmeme_url = 'http://carlanderson.blogspot.com/2011/08/our-brave-new-word.html'; Inspired by the countless references by Neil Postman and others I have decided to read Huxley's (1932) Brave Ne...

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Matt Damon to Teachers: “We Will Always Have Your Back”

edwize.org - An actor you may have heard of, who is the son of a teacher and a product of public schools, headlined the Save Our Schools march in Washington this past weekend. He had a message for teachers, esp...

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What We Missed

feministing.com - How do you like them apples? Want to know how to become an abortion doula? Miriam breaks it down at Radical Doula. The Justice Department has filed suit against Alabama’s despicable new immigration...

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The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor

thenation.com - This article is part of a Nation series exposing the American Legislative Exchange Council, in collaboration with the Center For Media and Democracy. John Nichols introduces the series. About the A...

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Pew Study: Minorities Suffer Most with Wealth Gap at Record High

orangeblanket.wordpress.com - Based on government data from 2009, the non-partisan Pew Research Center found that, on average, white families were 20 times more wealthy than black families and 18 times more wealthy than Hispani...

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Matt Damon - Lawrence O'Donnell - Teachers Unions | Mediaite #SOSMarch

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Matt Damon - Lawrence O'Donnell - Teachers Unions | MediaiteLawrence O’Donnell: Why Do Conservatives Go After Teachers’ Unions And Not Police?by Frances MartelMatt Damon’s appearance at a pro-teach...

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Susan Ohanian's Testing Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)

susanohanian.org - Ruin-Nation: The Obama Catastrophe Ohanian Comment: Barack Obama's team operating out of the US Department of Education has wreaked incredible havoc on public schools across America, and yet teache...

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Drunken Ben Bernanke Tells Everyone At Neighborhood Bar How Screwed U.S. Economy Really Is

theonion.com - SEWARD, NE—Claiming he wasn't afraid to let everyone in attendance know about "the real mess we're in," Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke reportedly got drunk Tuesday and told everyone at Elwoo...

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Matt Damon Continues Defending Teachers, Makes Libertarians Look Silly

alternet.org - It wasn't enough that actor Matt Damon gave a passionate speech in defense of public school teachers at a rally last weekend. No, the Bourne Identity star (and Oscar winner for the screenplay of G...

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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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The Annotated Frank Rich - The Real Transgressions of the Murdoch Empire -

nymag.com - Illustration by Eddie Guy When I was offered a job as a film critic for the New York Post in 1975, it had just been labeled “a terrible newspaper” by Nora Ephron in her media column for Esquire. ...

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Research | The Fault Line

orangeblanket.wordpress.com - Poverty (US Census) For those who were in poverty for two or more consecutive months from 2004 to 2006, the median length of a poverty spell was 4.5 months. Almost half of such spells ended within ...

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Insight: Microsoft use of low

reuters.com - By Lynnley Browning FAIRFIELD, Connecticut | Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:14pm EDT FAIRFIELD, Connecticut (Reuters) - If you want to know why tax from surging corporate profits isn't making much of a dent in...

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Central Falls Bankruptcy Driven by Pensions Casts Shadow Over Rhode Island

bloomberg.com - Central Falls, Rhode Island, whose motto is “a city with a bright future,” cast a shadow across the rest of the state yesterday by entering bankruptcy. Rhode Island’s poorest city sought court prot...