Sunday, September 25, 2011

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Sunday, Sep. 25, 2011

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Gov. Rick Scott Brags About Laying Off 15,000 Government Workers After Decrying Florida’s High Unemployment

thinkprogress.org - The GOP presidential candidates and other prominent conservatives spoke today at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida. This afternoon, Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) took to the s...

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Is Twitter Blocking Troy Davis from Trending Topics? Nope. « Student Activism

studentactivism.net - Short answer? No. For starters, Twitter has denied that they’ve blocked “Troy Davis” (or #TroyDavis, or any other variant) from trending. Different topics relating to the story have been trending l...

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Study Assails Merits of Single-Sex Education

nytimes.com - There is no scientific evidence to support single-sex education, which may actually increase gender stereotyping, according to a strongly-worded report to be published Friday. The rep...

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Education Nation 2011: Experience

educationnation.com - The Experience is Education Nation’s public exhibition designed to inform visitors about the state of education in America, and inspire action. The state-of-the-art exhibit is created to engage sch...

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Cop Throws Wall St. Protester to the Ground for No Obvious Reason

gawker.com - Looks like the ongoing #OccupyWallSt protest against corporations got a bit tense on its eighth day, with lots of cops present for today's march to Union Square and the official protest home page r...

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The School Closure List - The Education Report

ibabuzz.com - By Katy Murphy Saturday, September 24th, 2011 at 5:12 pm in school closures. Oakland’s school closure recommendations are posted. Oakland Superintendent Tony Smith and his staff are proposing the d...

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Insult of insults from Third Way – Baker, You… You… Status Quo…er! « School Finance 101

schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - I gotta admit that my favorite part of the Third Way memo responding to my critique of their “Middle Class” report is the end of the memo. Here are the two concluding paragraphs from the Third Way ...

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“Charter Schools Good, Public Schools Bad” « Living Behind the Gates

livingbehindthegates.wordpress.com - “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ~ George Orwell Today, like so many other authors are trying to do, I am exercising my liberty t...

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Police pen up and mace female ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters | Raw Replay

rawstory.com - In a disturbing scene from today’s “Occupy Wall Street” protests, a group of peaceful female protesters were rounded up in an orange-colored mesh pen by police and subsequently sprayed with mace wi...

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Mexico Turns to Social Media for Information and Survival

nytimes.com - MEXICO CITY — Before the police or news reporters had even arrived at the underpass outside Veracruz where gunmen held up traffic and dumped 35 bodies at rush hour last week, Twitter was already bu...

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State Says It Analyzed Test Erasures for Cheating; 62 Schools Proved Suspect

nytimes.com - Cheating scandals have been rolling up the East Coast like a hurricane this year, from Atlanta to Washington, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In New York State, however, education official...

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Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: NYPD’s Crackdown on the Protest

dissenter.firedoglake.com - Fifty to eighty people have been arrested in New York City as part of the Occupy Wall Street protest. The NYPD is cracking down on those involved in the action and the NYPD is surrounding Liberty P...

studentactivism

Is This A Good Video Clip On The Importance Of Goals?

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Sep 25 2011 Larry FerlazzoRegular readers know I’m a big believer and students setting their own goals, and I have a complete lesson plan about it in my book. I recently found a video clip that I’m...

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You Matter – Yes, You the Teacher — Cybrary Man

cybraryman.edublogs.org - September 23rd, 2011 | Administrators, Students, Teachers, Teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged administrators, Education, students, teaching, Twitter, youmatter This is the front door of @grade1 Aviv...

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A Lack of Critical Thinking

bengrey.com - I’m a bit frustrated and discouraged at the general lack of critical thinking taking place in educational technology today. I’ll give you a couple examples, and I’m sure some people will take the o...

tomwhitby

Yes, Google Drive Is Coming. For Real This Time.

techcrunch.com - MG Siegler has been writing for TechCrunch since 2009. He covers the web, mobile, social, big companies, small companies, essentially everything. And Apple. A lot.Prior to TechCrunch, he covered va...

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Child care costs are killing us - LaShonda Washington (1)

money.cnn.com - Price range Min$10,000$20,000$30,000$50,000$100,000$130,000$150,000$200,000$250,000$300,000$350,000$400,000$450,000$500,000$550,000$600,000$650,000$700,000$750,000$800,000$850,000$900,000$950,000$1...

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It is so class warfare Mr. President!

dailykos.com - Kohn reminds us of the Powell memorandum, the outline of the plan offered in 1971 by future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, that has served as the blueprint for the likes of the Koch Brothers a...

teacherken

All the President's Frenemies

prospect.org - It's a packed house at St. Sabina's Church on the South Side of Chicago. The pews are full, and attendees who didn't come early on this August Sunday must huddle in the back, though they don't have...

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Rupert Murdoch's entry into the education business

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - News Corp.'s entrance into the education sector raises broader education policy questions, says University of Arizona education professor Kenneth Goodman. Having a multinational corporation in char...

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Race To Top honcho involved in the Solyndra "green energy" scandal

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - George KaiserI'm following a brewing Enron-type scandal involving the White House and Solyndra, one of the many corporations getting in on the so-called green-energy (new meaning for that word gree...

mikeklonsky

Punching Back at Big Oil

huffingtonpost.com - When you challenge Big Oil in Houston, you can bet the industry is going to punch back. So when I wrote in the Houston Chronicle earlier this month that we should say no to the Keystone XL pipeline...

jeannewman

NASA Satellite Hits Earth, Space Agency Confirms

huffingtonpost.com - WASHINGTON — It's as big as a bus and weighs 6 tons, but officials probably will never be able to pinpoint exactly where a massive NASA satellite plummeted to Earth.NASA space junk scientists belie...

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Richard Lakin's Thanks2Teachers.com - A Wellspring of Teacher Appreciation and Teacher Inspiration > Home > The Book > Preview sample selections > When Teachers and Parents Listen to One Another

thanks2teachers.com - Building upon earned trustIn order to fully focus upon the needs of children, it is imperative that teachers and parents truly listen to each other with open minds and open hearts. This of course r...

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Can educators in the 21st Century be content experts, but media illiterate and still be relevant? « Rliberni's Blog – Radical language

rliberni.wordpress.com - #Edchat 09 – 20 – 2011 – 18:00 CET 12 PM EST Unfortunately I was unable to make this week’s edchat so I cannot speak from personal experience, but judging by this summary, it seems to have been ano...

tomwhitby

Ed-Tech Week-in-Review: YouTube/Teachers, Amazon Library Lending, Ning Acquisition

hackeducation.com - Politics and Policies The Missouri legislature has passed a law revising its now infamous SB 54, a bill ostensibly aimed to protect students from sexual misconduct in school that would have also pr...

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