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Bill Gates: Popping Up with Compulsory Proactive Help
dailycensored.com - Remember the obnoxious, hyperactive paperclip that popped up in Word when you were trying write a letter? As soon as you typed “Dear,” up popped up Clippy:It looks like you’re writing a letter. Wou...
We Can't Wait to Help America's Graduates
whitehouse.gov - Posted by Arne Duncan and Melody Barnes on October 26, 2011 at 01:27 PM EDT In this globally competitive, knowledge-based economy, higher education has never been more important. Simply put, Americ...
Last night at the PEP we occupied the DOE!
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Last night was inspiring as, for once, the 99% had their say at a Panel for Educational Policy meeting. The meeting, supposed to be a presentation of the Common Core standards, was very quickly t...
School Choice For The ‘Feral Underclass’ -- In These Times
inthesetimes.com - Following the lead of U.S. charter schools, English “Free Schools” are now open for business. Governments have done their best to see that the children of the "feral underclass" remain that way--by...
Art Pope, Citizens United, and North Carolina Politics : The New Yorker
newyorker.com - In the spring of 2010, the conservative political strategist Ed Gillespie flew from Washington, D.C., to Raleigh, North Carolina, to spend a day laying the groundwork for REDMAP, a new project aime...
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Cleveland school board votes to cut preschool, sports and busing over shouts and boos from residents and teachers
blog.cleveland.com - CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland school board voted to cut preschool, spring sports and busing for high school students Tuesday over the howls and boos from residents and teachers who packed the Lin...
Charter Schools Turning Away Homeless, Disabled
edweek.org - Published Online: October 25, 2011Indianapolis The superintendent of the state's largest school district requested a state investigation Monday into his allegations that charter schools are turning...
Ravitch: Congress should ditch NCLB, not tinker with it - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education Week website. Ravitch and Meier exchange letters ab...
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NYPD inspector who pepper-sprayed Wall Street protester transferred to Staten Island
nydailynews.com - Jeff Rae via Twitter NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna was caught on video pepper-spraying protesters. The NYPD police inspector who pepper sprayed a fenced-in Occupy Wall Street protester has ...
NYC Educator: Governor One Percent
nyceducator.com - NY Governor Andrew Cuomo does not much care for those who'd occupy Albany. So he directed the police to arrest them. No namby-pamby tolerance of First Amendment tolerance for him. Oddly, the police...
Right-Wing Filmmaker Gives Away Bongs And Che Guevara Rolling Papers At #OWS
addictinginfo.org - Evan Coyne Maloney, who’s been called the conservative answer to Michael Moore, occupied Occupy Wall Street with his film crew, a bunch of ‘gotcha’ questions and some ‘hippie pothead’ bling. Malone...
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Lawmakers keep avoiding pension reform, but pain is inevitable | Blogs On Politics
chicagobusiness.com - With all respect to Simon & Garfunkel, the sounds of silence may make for great music, but it's lousy government. Unfortunately, the sounds of silence are about all we're hearing in Chicago and in ...
It’s Official: The Rich Are Getting Richer
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — The top 1 percent of earners more than doubled their share of the nation’s income over the last three decades, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, in a new report likely to f...
Michigan Unions and Poor Face 85 Hostile Laws
labornotes.org - An “emergency manager” bill allowing a state-appointed executive to unilaterally fire city councils and school boards and cancel union contracts has drawn the ire of Michigan’s labor movement for m...
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Daniel Pink - Full Interview
edupln.ning.com - When Google first appeared on the Internet, I, like many folks, googled myself. I was horrified to discover that someone else with my name had committed suicide and lived to write a book about i...
Remember
teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com - The child, bare foot on the dry plain And what she does not have The wolf that gnaws off its foot And the folly of staying in one place The blur of the hummingbird’s wings And the owl and its unans...
Oakland Police Love Kittens, Teargas
washingtoncitypaper.com - Last night I was following along with the #occupyoakland tweets from some folks who were at the protest in Northern California. One attendee—a journo-cartoonist (yes, that is a thing, yes, it is aw...
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Cops surrounding Occupy Oakland
sfgate.com - (10-25) 04:48 PDT OAKLAND -- Oakland police are arriving this morning in force, apparently preparing to remove hundreds of people from a plaza outside City Hall, two weeks after the protesters bega...
Oakland Police Critically Injure Iraq War Vet During Occupy March
huffingtonpost.com - WASHINGTON -- The Oakland Police Department fired tear gas on Occupy Oakland demonstrators Tuesday night as they marched through downtown, determined to reclaim the camp that officers destroyed tha...
Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesters in Oakland, Calif.
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com - October 26, 2011, 12:22 am By SARAH MASLIN NIRJim Wilson/The New York TimesProtesters fled after police deployed tear gas to disperse a large crowd in Oakland on Monday.Police officers shot tear ga...
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Insider trading: Ex-Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta pleads not guilty
csmonitor.com - Insider trading has been a target of both the Bush and Obama administrations. The case against Rajat Gupta, a former director of both Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble, is part of a major crackdow...
US cops tried to erase online evidence of brutality — RT
rt.com - The police block streets near the Oakland City Hall as the Occupy Oakland protesters march towards the city hall on October 25, 2011 in California (AFP Photo / Kimihiro Hoshino) Google has been ask...
A guide to Obama's student loan plan
boston.com - WASHINGTON—Recognizing that college students and recent graduates are facing rising tuition prices and burdensome student loan debt, President Barack Obama announced a plan that seeks to lessen the...
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Protesters Affiliated With Occupy Wall Street Disrupt Department Of Education Meeting
huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- When New York City schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott stood up to face a full Seward Park High School auditorium on the Lower East Side Tuesday evening, he found himself confronted by th...
Right-Wing Filmmaker Gives Away Bongs And Che Guevara Rolling Papers At #OWS
addictinginfo.org - Evan Coyne Maloney, who’s been called the conservative answer to Michael Moore, occupied Occupy Wall Street with his film crew, a bunch of ‘gotcha’ questions and some ‘hippie pothead’ bling. Malone...
Police Defy Orders To Arrest #OccupyAlbany Protesters
addictinginfo.org - In Albany, NY, police are refusing to arrest Occupy Albany protesters, despite orders from Governor Cuomo and Mayor Jennings. From the Albany Times Union: In a tense battle of wills, state troopers...
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Police Defy Orders To Arrest #OccupyAlbany Protesters
addictinginfo.org - In Albany, NY, police are refusing to arrest Occupy Albany protesters, despite orders from Governor Cuomo and Mayor Jennings. From the Albany Times Union: In a tense battle of wills, state troopers...
Police disobey orders to arrest Occupy Albany Protesters
economicvoice.com - Albany Police refused to enforce a curfew by Albany Mayor, Gerald Jennings and Governor Andrew Cuomo. The police have refused to interfere with the 700 peaceful protesters who moved to and assembl...