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Friday, October 14, 2011

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Chicago Schools Slow to Embrace Longer School Days

edweek.org - Published Online: October 13, 2011 ByJulie RasicotAn initiative by the Chicago public schools to expand the school day by 90 minutes is off to a slow start, garnering participation from less than 3...

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Webcast: 2011 U.S-India Higher Education Summit

georgetown.edu - Thursday, October 13, 2011 8:00 a.m. ETThe live video stream for this event will begin at 7:45 a.m. ET (11:45 a.m. GMT) at this location The U.S.-India Higher Education Summit will provide a platfo...

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Geoffrey Canada asks for leniency for convicted Wall St. crook

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Another hedge-funder is going to prison for insider trading. Only this time, the imprisonment of convicted Wall Street crook Raj Rajaratnam could be costly to some corporate school reforms and char...

mikeklonsky

The Drugs? They Came From the Police

nytimes.com - The first time he saw the chewing tobacco can, Steve Anderson, a former undercover police officer, testified, it was in a book bag on the floor of a car that he and other undercover officers were u...

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Jeb Bush's Cyber Attack on Public Schools

motherjones.com - After that, parents are supposed to read the student Make Way for Ducklings. Parents are told to ask, "Why did Mrs. Mallard decide not to hatch her eggs in the public gardens?" Then, K12 instructs ...

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School Tech Connect: Dear Toni Preckwinkle

schooltechconnect.com - You've lost my vote. Whoever runs against you, even if it is a Tea Party lunatic, I will vote for that person. I hadn't really read the background of the suburban/county attack on Chicago's elected...

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Occupy Wall Street Vows to Prevent City Clean-Up

abcnews.go.com - Oct 13, 2011 2:10pm Occupy Wall Street put out a call on Facebook and Twitter today for people to “donate or purchase brooms, mops, squeegees, dust pans, garbage bags, power washers and any other ...

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PoliticsSee all

Charts: Who Are the One Percent?

motherjones.com - Occupy Wall Street has focused national attention on the vast majority of Americans who have been left behind by the economic growth of the past few decades. But if OWS is the voice of the 99 perce...

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Old art. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - We have this long – almost 40-year-long – tradition in our school. Every year the art teacher selects three or four pieces of student artwork and we have it professionally matted and framed. A litt...

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Are Girls and Boys Really All That Different (Part I)?

modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/10/are-girls-and-boys-really-all-that.html"; In honor of the one-year anniversary of Modern School, I'm reposting some of my favorite articles from ...

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School Tech Connect: Dear Toni Preckwinkle

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Dear Toni Preckwinkle:Dear Toni Preckwinkleby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)You've lost my vote. Whoever runs against you, even if it is a Tea Party lunatic, I will vote for that pe...

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The Drugs? They Came From the Police

nytimes.com - The first time he saw the chewing-tobacco can, Steve Anderson, a former undercover police officer, testified, it was in a book bag on the floor of a car that he and other undercover officers were u...

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Students claim Hispanic bias in interrogation

abclocal.go.com - GLENDALE, Calif. (KABC) -- Dozens of students are suing Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale and the city's police department, alleging they were victims of racial profiling. The students claim t...

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Economy, Expirations Lead to TIF Revenue Drop

chicagonewscoop.org - Tax-increment financing districts, which have been the subject of criticism by Mayor Rahm Emanuel in recent weeks, generated $807 million in revenues in 2010, 3.8 percent less than the year before,...

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MoveOn.org Civic Action: Defend Occupy Wall Street

civic.moveon.org - Defend Occupy Wall StreetAt 7am tomorrow morning Mayor Bloomberg will effectively evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters from their home in Zuccotti Park.We have less than 24 hours to stop it.We n...

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MoveOn.org Civic Action: Defend Occupy Wall Street

civic.moveon.org - Defend Occupy Wall StreetAt 7am tomorrow morning Mayor Bloomberg will effectively evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters from their home in Zuccotti Park.We have less than 24 hours to stop it.We n...

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