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High-profile Troy Davis nears Georgia execution despite protests
northjersey.com - ATLANTA — With less than half a day left to live, Troy Davis faced execution Wednesday despite a furious campaign in the U.S. and Europe to win clemency for the 1989 slaying of a Georgia policeman...
coopmike48Troy Davis Execution Incites Twitter Outrage, Protests Worldwide - ABC News
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Troy Davis Execution Incites Twitter Outrage, Protests Worldwide - ABC News:Troy Davis Execution Incites Twitter Outrage, Protests in Black CommunityMichael Henry and other protesters for Troy Davi...
coopmike48US death row inmate's appeal fails - Americas
english.aljazeera.net - Georgia's board of pardons has rejected a last-ditch clemency bid from Troy Davis, a day before his scheduled execution in a racially charged case where his supporters claim he was wrongly convicte...
mikeklonskyA Day of Shame for Georgia
readersupportednews.org - Bianca Jagger writes: "The execution of Troy Davis is nothing less than state-sanctioned murder. Today, the 20th of September 2011, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles refused clemency t...
mikeklonskyOprah-Backed Charter School Denying Disabled
bloomberg.com - Enlarge image Charter School Accused of Shunning Disabled Lawrence Melrose, 16, left, and his guardian and great uncle, Shelton Joseph, in their New Orleans home. A lawsuit said Lawrence was left o...
DianeRavitchMixed Feelings about CMS’s Broad Prize « Parents Across America
parentsacrossamerica.org - Sep 21, 2011 pagrundy PAA co-founder Pamela Grundy has a son in fifth grade in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. So we finally won the Broad Prize. After two stints as a finalist, Charlotte-Mecklenbur...
DianeRavitchOprah-Backed Charter School Denying Disabled Collides With Law
news.businessweek.com - (PHOTO: Lawrence Melrose, 16, and his great uncle, Shelton Joseph, in their New Orleans home. Photographer: John Hechinger.) Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- When talk-show host Oprah Winfrey handed a $1 mi...
leoniehaimsonHot News & Views | AlterNet
alternet.org - It's bedtime, children, so put on your jammies, scootch under the covers, and I'll tell you another "Perry Tale."Once again, the Texas-governor-who-wants-to-be-your-president is flitting hither, th...
mikeklonskyNew Focus on Middle Schools
online.wsj.com - Soon after he gained control of the city's public schools, Mayor Michael Bloomberg pushed to shut down enormous high schools and replace them with smaller schools. Now, his administration is pledgi...
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Low poverty rates = high scores on int'l tests
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - An email from a colleague in California caused me to reflect once again on the results of the 2009 PISA exams. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide evaluation o...
mikeklonskyWhat I Did Last Summer, Part Two - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,Okay, I promise, this is the last time I will give you a report on what I did last summer. But this event was so remarkable that I couldn't help but tell you about it. You would have e...
mikeklonskyDo Teachers Have it Made? Hardly, a New Film Says – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Sept. 20, 2011, 3:24 p.m. Like many teachers, Jamie Fidler does not end her day when her students go home, mainly because she cannot afford to, she says. At 3:30 p.m., when the last class ends, Ms....
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Fischer Interview on New Orleans Charter Schools - Video
bloomberg.com - Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Kelly Fischer, one of the plaintiffs in a special-education discrimination lawsuit against the state of Louisiana, says last year she was discouraged by a number of charter ...
leoniehaimsonGeorgia Dems call for prison strike to block execution of Troy Davis
rawstory.com - With the final hope of clemency now lost, Georgia death-row inmate Troy Davis faces execution tomorrow night -- unless, of course, prison staff refuse to carry out his sentence. That's precisely wh...
fklonskyBeverly Hills Unified School District Demands Metro Come Clean with Facts on Westside Subway Extension - PR Newswire
sacbee.com - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Sept. 21, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- The Beverly Hills Unified School District (BHUSD) today called on the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) to ma...
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‘Unfailing’ ignorance - NYPOST.com
nypost.com - On the scale of dumb and dumber, it is hard to top this one: a football player, his team losing by 50 points, scores a TD and spikes the ball in the end zone in macho triumph. Or this one: New York...
leoniehaimsonRupert Murdoch giving keynote at Jeb Bush’s ed reform summit
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - “We were motivated to invite Mr. Murdoch after reading his eloquent speech before G8 Summit on leveraging the power of technology to improve education.” -- Jaryn Emhof, communications director fo...
mikeklonskyWhen 2,000 protesters are, or aren't, a big deal
uppitywis.org - Progressive blogger Amy Goodman at Truthdig makes a trenchant observation about the way the mainstream media sometimes cover right-wing versus left-wing events. The "nut" graph: If 2,000 Tea Party ...
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New blog resource on Illinois pension fight. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - From Glen Brown: Dear Colleagues, Please forward this link to everyone! Please tell others to forward it to as many people as possible, especially Illinois teachers. Though this website will be a c...
fklonskyTHE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Elizabeth Warren on class warfare, etc.
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Elizabeth Warren on class warfare, etc.:Elizabeth Warren on class warfare, etc.by The Perimeter PrimateA breath of fresh air.“There is nobody in this country who got rich on ...
coopmike48Liberal Hero of the Day: Elizabeth Warren 9-21-2011
addictinginfo.org - It’s official: I’m an Elizabeth Warren groupie! If you don’t know why the Corporate Right hates her so much, this video really should clear it up:Not only is she passionate, intelligent and articul...
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Troy Davis wants polygraph ahead of execution
reuters.com - ATLANTA | Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:59am EDT ATLANTA (Reuters) - A condemned man set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for killing a Georgia police officer in a high-profile case wants a pol...
leoniehaimsonTroy Davis asks Supreme Court to stop execution
denverpost.com - JACKSON, Ga.—Troy Davis, the condemned inmate who convinced hundreds of thousands of people but not the justice system of his innocence, filed an eleventh-hour plea Wednesday asking the U.S. Suprem...
coopmike48Troy Davis wants polygraph ahead of execution | Reuters
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Troy Davis wants polygraph ahead of execution | Reuters: Troy Davis wants polygraph ahead of executionChris Brown of Atlanta holds a placard as protesters show their support for death row inmate Tr...
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Jon Stewart on Just How Ridiculous 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Was - Entertainment
theatlanticwire.com - Last night, Jon Stewart managed to mark the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and tout his Emmy award win in same kick-off segment (before the extended interview with Confidence Men author Ron Suskind)....
coopmike48Home - 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 ...
coopmike48North Hills school to be named after 10-time Grammy winner Carlos Santana
dailynews.com - Valley Region Elementary School No. 12 in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of North Hills will be officially called Carlos Santana Arts Academy. LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Board of Educatio...
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Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: Day Five, 99 Percenters Rise Up
dissenter.firedoglake.com - Support for Occupy Wall Street is growing by the hour. Solidarity actions in Chicago, Phoenix and Paris, France, are all getting off the ground. In Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Atlanta, actions are ...
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