Saturday, September 10, 2011

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Saturday, Sep. 10, 2011

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The Lingering Injustice of Attica

nytimes.com - Philadelphia FORTY years ago today, more than 1,000 inmates at Attica Correctional Facility began a major civil and human rights protest — an uprising that is barely mentioned in textbo...

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9/11/11 is a Good Time to Consider a Career in Public Service or Social Services

mariashriver.com - 9/11/11 is a Good Time to Consider a Career in Public Service or Social Services By Terry Grace Sears Today, 10 years ago seems like yesterday, with all the media coverage that forces us to re-live...

mariashriver

Master of Myth: What Arne Duncan Says and Does

zhaolearning.com - Master of Myth: What Arne Duncan Says and Does The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. —Jo...

Thanks2Teachers

Bridging Differences - Education Week

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,It would be interesting to know what influenced the change of heart among those civil rights organizations, Diane. I've been exploring in my head—while I do my daily laps in the pond—wha...

DebMeier

Whatever Happened to GBN News?

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - As I was reading recently about the “retirement” of one of my favorite bloggers, I realized that I’ve been in kind of a “semi-retirement” from blogging myself. It’s been a few months since my last ...

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Daily Kos: Two songs for Sunday

dailykos.com - Add keywords that describe this diary. Separate multiple keywords with commas.Tagging tips - Search For Tags - Browse For Tags ? More Tagging tips: A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someo...

teacherken

DON'T MISS THESE

sun-sentinel.com - By Marc Freeman, Sun Sentinel 6:40 p.m. EDT, September 8, 2011 Enrollment in the Palm Beach County School District reached a record high of 174,004 kindergarten-12th grade students, officials annou...

ritacolleen

Formative, Summative, Punitive? « My Island View

tomwhitby.wordpress.com - September 8, 2011 by tomwhitby For the first time since I have been supervising student teachers, I have a group at the start of the year, as opposed to my usual assignment at the latter half of th...

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Assembly throws in towel on public pension reform -- for now

blogs.sacbee.com - What You Should Know About Comments on Sacbee.comSacbee.com is happy to provide a forum for reader interaction, discussion, feedback and reaction to our stories. However, we reserve the right to de...

jfenster

Desperate Guatemalans Embrace an ‘Iron Fist’

nytimes.com - COBÁN, Guatemala — They burned villages, killed children and, just a winding road away from here in 1982, the Guatemalan military also massacred hundreds of Mayan peasants, after torturing old men ...

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Deal Reached on Dialysis for Immigrants

nytimes.com - ATLANTA — Twenty-one illegal immigrants will continue to receive regular dialysis at no cost for three years under an agreement disclosed Friday by Atlanta’s public hospital, Grady Memorial, and th...

Larryferlazzo

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The Book Collection That Devoured My Life

online.wsj.com - I have a large library by most normal standards. Seemingly I've arranged my life in order to acquire as many books as possible. I worked for three years right out of college in a large secondhand b...

Larryferlazzo

The End Of Books: Ikea Is Changing Shelves To Reflect Changing Demand

techcrunch.com - Biggs is the editor of TechCrunch Gadgets.Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wr...

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InvisiblePeople.tv

invisiblepeople.tv - Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010“CAUTION some content may be offensive.” Well, Ka’e k’e's interview from St Paul, Minnesota, is exactly why I h...

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Seniors Head to Capitol Hill to Protect Social Security, Medicare | AFL

blog.aflcio.org - by James Parks, Sep 8, 2011The congressional Super Committee formally begins its work today and hundreds of seniors are fanning out over Capitol Hill to deliver a message to their members of Cong...

mikeklonsky

Quinn Hires Pollster Tied to President for 2013 Race

nytimes.com - Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, has added a big political name to her campaign team as she prepares for an expected mayoral bid in 2013: Joel Benenson, the pollster for President Obam...

leoniehaimson

Bill Boyarsky: Flaming Hypocrisy Bill Boyarsky's ColumnsTruthdig

truthdig.com - Posted on Sep 8, 2011AP / Erich SchlegelFirefighters in Texas make due with significantly less funding than other states, thanks to the stingy administration of Gov. Rick Perry and a Republican-con...

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The 20 most useful iPhone apps of 2011

zdnet.com - Mobile apps have become an embarrassment of riches for iPhone and Android. In a world with over 500,000 iPhone apps and over 250,000 Android apps, the toughest part is finding the most useful stuff...

Larryferlazzo

Spanish accents

lingolex.com - Note: This page is now a bit out of date. It is now very easy to change keyboards on most computers. However, we have left this page because it is still useful. Intro: We often get emails asking us...

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