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5 Reasons Why Public School Teachers are Occupying Wall Street

huffingtonpost.com - The classroom and the boardroom are often seen as dissimilar spaces. In classrooms, there are students and teachers; two groups of people that have the most insight on the current debate about what...

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Inflating the Software Report Card

nytimes.com - The Web site of Carnegie Learning, a company started by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University that sells classroom software, trumpets this promise: “Revolutionary Math Curricula. Revolutionary R...

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Tempers Flare at Jobs Fair as Experienced Teachers Told No Jobs

nycityeye.blogspot.com - Memphis surplus teachers crisis instigated by policies of U.S. Education Secretary Arne DancanPublished verbatim from democraticunderground. Indents are article excerpts that the original post cit...

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Black 'Occupy' Protesters Start Occupy The Hood

loop21.com - Malik Rhasaan Malik Rhasaan Supporting Occupy Wall Street, Occupy The Hood seeks to recruit, educate blacks and Latinos The racial makeup of the Occupy Wall Street protests has been a curious, if n...

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The New York Times finds the protests “annoying.” « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - The execution of Marie Antoinette. Talk about being annoying. Some have claimed that the #occupywallstreet protests are unfocused in terms of issues. Others, like Mitt Romney, say the protesters ar...

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Testing, No Testing, Too Much Testing - On Special Education

blogs.edweek.org - Gretchen Herrera expected it would just be her and her son, who has Asperger syndrome and Type 1 diabetes, on the steps of the capitol building in Columbia, S.C., this Saturday, protesting standard...

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Sen. Patty Murray Introduces FOCUS Class Size Legislation

educationnews.org - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced the Facilitating Outstanding Classrooms Using Size Reduction (FOCUS) Act of 2011 [bill summary, PDF], which the Senator says would provide states with th...

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nypost.com - Mayor Bloomberg today accused the Wall Street demonstrators of trying to cripple the city's economy. "What they're trying to do is take the jobs away from people working in this city," the mayor de...

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For Some, Wall Street Is Main Street

nytimes.com - Panini and Company Cafe normally sells sandwiches to tourists in Lower Manhattan and the residents nearby, but in recent days its owner, Stacey Tzortzatos, has also become something of a restroom m...

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CA Dream Act Signed, Undocumented Students To Have Access To Public Financial Aid « CAFFEINATED POLITICS

dekerivers.wordpress.com - It was the right thing to do. Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Saturday allowing undocumented immigrant college students access to public financial aid, marking California’s relatively liberal g...

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Dumbest completely fabricated (but still serious?) graph ever! (so far) « School Finance 101

schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Okay. You all know that I like to call out dumb graphs. And I’ve addressed a few on this blog previously. Here are a few from the past: http://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/dumbest-real...

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Autism speech therapy – Zane 2 years before ASEA

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OCCUPY PORTLAND short documentary | MyFDL

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A challenge that fits 'Occupy Together' to a tea

blogs.chicagotribune.com - Part of my brief against the tea party movement, particularly early on, was that the angry right-wing activists who carried signs and shouted slogans at its protests seemed to have no idea exactly ...

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Elizabeth Warren: "The People on Wall Street Broke This Country"

blog.buzzflash.com - MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If there is a populist change afoot making the pragmatic case to rebalance economic income in America, Elizabeth Warren is its political voice. In a nas...

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Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen

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SFPD raids OccupySF camp, seizes gear, but protesters remain

sfbg.com - By Yael Chanoff Last night, San Francisco Police officers showed up at Occupy San Francisco for the first hostile altercation that the SF movement has had with cops so far, and among the first poli...

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Air and Space Museum closes after guards clash with protesters - Post Now

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Vt. union to ask teachers to consider strike

boston.com - BENNINGTON, Vt.—Union leaders of the Southwestern Vermont Education Association plan to ask teachers to consider a strike during a membership meeting next week.The Bennington Banner reports (http:/...

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Miserably low job growth | Economic Policy Institute

epi.org - Share this page:This morning’s release of the Employment Situation report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that 103,000 jobs were added in September. That number, however, includes around ...

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Missouri Education Watchdog: No Child Left Behind? How About "No Constituent Left Behind"?

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Missouri Education Watchdog: No Child Left Behind? How About "No Constituent Left Behind"?:No Child Left Behind? How About "No Constituent Left Behind"?by stlgretchenThis a clever take on the polit...

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SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Princess Sydney Morris Writes An Email To Los Angeles Teachers

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Princess Sydney Morris Writes An Email To Los Angeles Teachers:Princess Sydney Morris Writes An Email To Los Angeles Teachersby noreply@blogger.com (Bronx Teacher)As reported th...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Pepper-Sprayed for Peace | Dissident Voice:Pepper-Sprayed for Peaceby David SwansonI’ve been coughing and vomiting, and my head aches from pepper spray. I’ll post videos and photos of why atthis l...

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