Saturday, October 29, 2011

Big Education Ape: 10-29-11 PM Michelle Rhee, darling of far-right EDition

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Rhee has become the darling of the far-right

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Paul Scott, left, and Michelle Rhee. Michelle Rhee rose to prominence during her days as D.C. school chancellor, with a big boost from the power philanthropists. Her tough accountability policies, ...

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America’s Exploding Pipe Dream

nytimes.com - We are slowly — and painfully — being forced to realize that we are no longer the America of our imaginations. Our greatness was not enshrined. Being a world leader is less about destiny than focus...

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Imagine schools' real estate deals fuel company growth

stltoday.com - ST. LOUIS • When students first entered Imagine Academy of Academic Success four years ago, their school was already entangled in a complex series of real estate deals — ones that would divert doll...

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America’s Exploding Pipe Dream

nytimes.com - We are slowly — and painfully — being forced to realize that we are no longer the America of our imaginations. Our greatness was not enshrined. Being a world leader is less about destiny than focus...

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are we ashamed yet of being Americans?

dailykos.com - in America's Exploding Pipe Dream Charles blow offers a link to this chart from the Bertelsmann Stiftung foundation of Germany report entitled “Social Justice in the OECD — How Do the Member State...

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Wall Street's criminals aren't camping in Zuccotti Park

teamsternation.blogspot.com - The corporate-owned media is doing its best to discredit the Occupy Wall Street movement -- obviously, because it's a threat to the corporate-owned media. Smear after smear has been reported by Rup...

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Obama cites income gap to push stalled jobs bill

democraticunderground.com - Source: Associated PressPresident Barack Obama on Saturday used a new report on the income gap between the richest Americans and everyone else to continue pushing for passage of his stalled $447 bi...

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Bill Maher Acid | Bill Maher Prescription Drugs | Video

mediaite.com - video In what was perhaps one of the least political New Rules he’s ever done, Bill Maher took a look at the value of tripping the lights fantastic on acid, and why it’s one of the least harmful dr...

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‘We Are the 99 Percent’ Photo of the Day

dissenter.firedoglake.com - This man has the economy to blame for what I will characterize as a midlife crisis: I am a 50 yr old owner of a Local Moving Co. My business has dropped 75% since 2008. I have sole custody of an 11...

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This Is The Best Lesson Plan On Punctuation I’ve Ever Read

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Oct 29 2011 Larry FerlazzoPatterns and Punctuation by Elizabeth Schlessman appears in the most recent issue of Rethinking Schools. It is clearly the best lesson plan I’ve ever heard about for teach...

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Sarah Silverman | Rachel Maddow | Live From Niggerhead

mediaite.com - video It only took a few weeks for Rick Perry to commit a whole new set of gaffes to make the media forget about “N*ggerhead,” the name painted on a rock in a ranch he used to hunt at. Not everyone...

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Teamsters + Occupy Museums = Occupy Sotheby's

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Yesterday in front of Sotheby's.Paddy Johnson offers this report about last evening's Occupy Museums action against Sotheby's, in solidarity with our locked-out brothers from Local 814:Rain did not...

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Real Time with Bill Maher: Homepage

hbo.com - Please update your flash player... Watch This Week's "Overtime" October 29, 2010 Bill and his roundtable guests - Margaret Hoover, Lawrence O'Donnell, Reihan Salam and Zach Galifianakis - answer fa...

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Qantas Airlines grounds flights in labor dispute

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Australia-based Qantas Airlines grounded flights across the globe Saturday amid an intensifying labor dispute that is disrupting international travel for thousands of passengers.The company’s domes...

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A Visual Timeline of Occupy Oakland

baycitizen.org - Since Occupy Oakland set up camp more than two weeks ago in Frank Ogawa Plaza, it’s been through several changes. On Oct. 11, the camp's first full day, the fledging tent city already boasted 50 te...

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Occupy San Fernando Valley set for Saturday morning

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Organizers say they are launching a new protest against corporate greed in front of the Van Nuys Courthouse on Saturday called Occupy San Fernando Valley. The group has a march planned up Van Nuys ...

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‘We Are the 99 Percent’ Photo of the Day

dissenter.firedoglake.com - This man has the economy to blame for what I will characterize as a midlife crisis: I am a 50 yr old owner of a Local Moving Co. My business has dropped 75% since 2008. I have sole custody of an 11...

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Wall Street's criminals aren't camping in Zuccotti Park

teamsternation.blogspot.com - The corporate-owned media is doing its best to discredit the Occupy Wall Street movement -- obviously, because it's a threat to the corporate-owned media. Smear after smear has been reported by Rup...

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