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What Made Michelle Obama Anxious and Nervous
politicsdaily.com - First Lady Michelle Obama revisited a stressful period of her youth on Monday, opening up to teen girls at a Denver mentoring event when asked about her views of standardized testing.Mrs. Obama use...
DianeRavitch
Lessons From New Orleans
nytimes.com - Before Hurricane Katrina, more than 60 percent of children in New Orleans attended a failing school. Now, only about 18 percent do. Five years ago, less than a quarter of the children i...
leoniehaimson
Daily Kos: Starving America's Public Schools - financially
dailykos.com - I am not going to explore the entire report. It is not that long - the PDF, including covers and footnotes, is only 48 pages. You can get a good sense of it from the piece at Our Future.org from...
DianeRavitch
Frank is trending again. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - In November, 2008 Frank Cieciorka died. Frank was a 60s activist, member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and a people’s graphic artist. His drawing of the clenched fist became ico...
fklonsky
Ohio Wages Fierce Fight on Collective Bargaining
nytimes.com - COLUMBUS, Ohio — “Hi, Teresa,” said Phil Hayes, a high school social studies teacher. “I’m voting no on Senate Bill 5 because it can make my class size larger and can make it harder for me to be a ...
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Starving America’s Public Schools | OurFuture.org
ourfuture.org - Read full report » VIDEOS School Cuts Hurt Kids. . . . . . By Increasing Class Size . . . By Eliminating Critical Classes . . . By Eliminating Great Teachers RESOURCESCOMMENTARYCritics of America’...
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A cautionary charter school tale - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - Some public charter schools do wonderful work. Some don’t. This is what can happen when officials who allow charter schools to open don’t pay enough attention to what happens after the doors open t...
mikeklonsky
News Corp. and the Business of Education
care2.com - Not only did Rupert Murdoch give the keynote speech at the education summit held under the aegis of Jeb Bush the past two days in San Francisco. His News Corporation is seeking to make its way into...
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Protesters 'Occupy' Times Square - WSJ.com
online.wsj.com - BY MIKE VILENSKY, JESSICA FIRGER AND ALISON FOX Hundreds of anti-corporate protesters marched Saturday from New York City's Financial District to Times Square in one of the Occupy Wall Street movem...
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Part of Alabama Immigrant Law Blocked
nytimes.com - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal appeals court in Atlanta temporarily blocked two provisions of Alabama’s far-reaching immigration enforcement law on Friday, but left much of it in effect as the state ...
mikeklonsky
Hundreds join Occupy O.C. protest while others scoff
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Resting on his bicycle between two fellow riders, Newport Beach resident Jeff Yeargain waited and watched with apparent contempt as more than 500 people marched across his path toward a major Irvin...
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Romney Beating Obama in a Fight for Wall St. Cash
nytimes.com - It is no secret that the relationship between President Obama and Wall Street has chilled. A striking measure of that is the latest campaign finance reports. Mitt Romney has raised far ...
mikeklonsky
☢ MP3 Fukushima Report with Jeff Rense and Yoichi Shimatsu 10 Oct 2011 ☢
radioactivechat.blogspot.com - This Jeff Rense interview with Yoichi Shimatsu he talks about the Tokyo water situation, because there have now been done radiation readings showing that radiation is found around the mountain area...
mikeklonsky
Rupert Murdoch | Occupy Sesame Street Protest Video
mediaite.com - video Not even the wealthiest 1% is safe from the wrath of Socially Conscious Elmo. News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch was delivering a speech on technology and public education in San Francisco (of cour...
mikeklonsky
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Wall St protesters march through New York Reuters
reuters.com - By Edith Honan and Ed McAllister NEW YORK | Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:39pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-Wall Street protesters rallied in Times Square on Saturday, buoyed by a global day of ...
mikeklonsky
Wall Street Protests Spread to Four Continents, Arrests Mount
news.businessweek.com - Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Protesters opposed to economic inequality gathered on four continents over the weekend, camping out from Hong Kong to London, as a Rome rally turned violent and police in New...
coopmike48
Police: Assault (punching two protesters) unrelated to (OWS) protest
democraticunderground.com - Source: Omaha World Herald-APDES MOINES, Iowa — Police say an assault at an Occupy Iowa camp-out in Des Moines was a random act unrelated to the nationwide protest movement.Sgt. Jeff Phillips says ...
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Queries on Global Change from FWCC
dailykos.com - Friends World Committee for Consultation is the major point at which Quaker groups around the world come together. We Friends have a practice of offering Queries - questions - to which we respond...
coopmike48
Engaging Parents In School… - The Best Examples Of Parent Engagement Through Community Organizing
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Engaging Parents In School… - The Best Examples Of Parent Engagement Through Community Organizing:The Best Examples Of Parent Engagement Through Community Organizingby Larry FerlazzoI was a communi...
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Do we really want a lifeline of all our time?
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - Petrified. Do I really want my entire life online? A friend started posting college pics on Facebook. (this is one of them- can you pick me out? Polka dots!)If you are filled with dread at the thou...
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Zuccotti Park Owners Have Pulled In Nearly $700K In Government Funds Since 9/11
nydailynews.com - The owners of Zuccotti Park - Occupy Wall Street's home base - have pocketed nearly $700,000 in government handouts since the 9/11 terror attacks. Our Greg B. Smith brings us an exclusive report: B...
leoniehaimson
live streaming video powered by Livestream
livestream.com - This channel will feature live streams from global non violent revolution spreading across the globe, with the first broadcasts from Wall Street Occupation in NYC that will start on Saturday, Septe...
mikeklonsky
US student debt impact likened to subprime crisis
democraticunderground.com - Source: Financial TimesUS university students and graduates are facing a double whammy of ballooning debt loads and high unemployment, raising worries that a potential delinquency crisis could blee...
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Hundreds join Occupy O.C. protest while others scoff
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Resting on his bicycle between two fellow riders, Newport Beach resident Jeff Yeargain waited and watched with apparent contempt as more than 500 people marched across his path toward a major Irvin...
coopmike48
Dr. Cornel West and 14 others Arrested Protesting Corporate Power at U.S. Supreme Court
october2011.org - Dr. Cornel West and 14 others Arrested Protesting Corporate Power at U.S. Supreme CourtOctober2011.org Movement Denounces the Pollution of Money from Concentrated WealthWashington, DC: The October...
coopmike48
Cornel West, Hundreds Of Others Arrested In Occupy Protests Across Nation: Gothamist
gothamist.com - The Occupy Wall Street protests which began in NYC just over a month ago went global this weekend—and across the nation, hundreds of protesters were arrested as cops clashed with demonstrators in C...
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Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRank #OCCUPYTOGETHER #ows #OCCUPYWALLSTREET #sosmarch #p2 #1u
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRank Hide7.9 Revisiting the legacy of busing, hoping to close old wounds - The Bosto...
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"Occupy" protests go global Pictures - CBS News
cbsnews.com - A man dressed as an "evil banker" stands outside Saint Paul's Cathedral in central London as protestors gather on October 15, 2011. Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, people began taking ...
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