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Our Demands for Public Education
unitedoptout.com - We, administrators of United Opt Out National, wish to collaborate with the Occupy Wall Street Movement and offer our vision for CORPORATE-FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. We believe that QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCAT...
Occupy Wall Street - California Teachers Association #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Occupy Wall Street - California Teachers Association: OCCUPY WALL STREETGet more postersGet Involved!Find a protest in your area. Share your photos & videos on Facebook. Join #occupywallstreet on T...
Losing Their Immunity
nytimes.com - As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow, the response from the movement’s targets has gradually changed: contemptuous dismissal has been replaced by whining. (A reader of my blog sugge...
On the Upper West Side, an "F" Parents Won't Accept – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Oct. 14, 2011, 6:08 p.m. It seemed to Virgil de Voldere that with each passing year his son attended the P.S. 84 Lillian Weber School, it only became more popular. On the tours he organized for pro...
Civil Rights Groups Press for Truly Qualified Teachers - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - As Congress wrestles with the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), they have a chance to address the issue of teacher quality once again. The Coalition for Teaching...
A Teacher’s Response to Mike Petrilli’s Article, Accountability’s End? : Education Next
educationnext.org - By Guest Blogger Roxanna Elden 10/17/2011 Mike Petrilli’s article was probably my favorite article ever about accountability. To be fair, it doesn’t have much competition. Many articles about the s...
Money pouring in for charter supporters
chron.com - NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The votes won't be cast and counted for weeks but several candidates for Louisiana's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education already hold big leads when it comes to raising m...
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Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Diane Ravitch: Reforming the "Reformers"
huffingtonpost.com - In the latest issue of the New York Review of Books, Diane Ravitch, who has been writing critically and incisively for the last five years about the inadequacies of the "School Reform" movement, wr...
If You Believe in Miracles, Don't Read This - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah, Last June, I wrote an op-ed for The New York Times disputing the idea of "miracle schools." With the assistance of two volunteer researchers, Gary Rubinstein and Noel Hammatt, I learn...
Times slings the manure on New Orleans charters
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Echoing Duncan's comments on Katrina Not since Arne Duncan claimed that Hurricane Katrina was "the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans" have I heard more b.s. about char...
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Contract Killer
cityhallnews.com - By Andrew J. Hawkins The City Council hopes a new bill approved this month will shine a brighter spotlight on the billions of dollars New York City spends hiring outside contractors for city agenci...
Bloomberg Says ‘Tent City’ Goes Beyond Free Speech
nytimes.com - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, speaking Monday as Occupy Wall Street protesters celebrated the passage of a month encamped in Zuccotti Park, said he was trying to strike a balance between protecting p...
What do we do best as teachers?
teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com - We inspire others. We influence and move people to action. We take a person’s potentiality and make it an actuality. We offer our help to others because of our compassion and our empathy, because o...
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Despite Protests, Cuomo Says He Will Not Extend a Tax Surcharge on Top Earners
nytimes.com - ALBANY — Even as Occupy Wall Street stokes debate over income inequality, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo dug in his heels on Monday against extending a so-called millionaires’ tax on high-earning New Yorkers...
G.O.P. Freshman’s Fiscal Message Clashes With His Finances
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — There is Representative Joe Walsh, a freshman from Illinois, deriding his colleagues once again for their poor stewardship of the economy. During the debt ceiling debate, Mr. Walsh too...
The Great Restoration
nytimes.com - If, in the 1960s, you had tried to judge America by looking at the sit-ins and Woodstock, you would have had a very distorted picture of where the country was heading. You wouldn’t have been able t...
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The shameless scare tactics of Ty Fahner and Chicago’s 1%. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Ty Fahner, the Civic Committee and the corporate funders of his front group, Illinois is Broke, should be ashamed of themselves. They should be. But they’re not. Yesterday Illinois is Broke started...
Confessions of a Partially Proficient Parent: Parenting in the moment
ednewsparent.org - At first I thought the article about raising a terminally ill child might support some of my laissez-faire parenting techniques – you know, the ones where I’m always trying to avoid conflict with m...
Lemony Snickett's Take on Occupy Wall Street
saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - Not to start an argument about financial institutions or who is 99% and who is 1% but one of my favorite children's authors, Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events), has written Thirteen Ob...
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promote legislation to prevent public schools from starting earlier than 8 a.m.
wwws.whitehouse.gov - creator Terra S Severna Park, MD October 03, 2011 Signature # 1 Janalyn G Luray, VA October 17, 2011 Signature # 275 Curtis W Lake Stevens, WA October 17, 2011 Signature # 274 Gwen G Severna Park, ...
asian americans and pacific islanders at occupy la, october 21
blog.angryasianman.com - If you're in Southern California, and you want to stand in solidarity with other Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on behalf of the 99 percent, you should know that there is indeed an AAPI cont...
How McDonald's Advertises in the Middle East
forbes.com - This is an interesting spot. The ad agency behind the commercial is Leo Burnett. The emphasis here is on family time, with a horde of adorable children invading the pristine office buildings of the...
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Bank of America Notches $6.2 Billion Profit
dealbook.nytimes.com - Bank of America reported a $6.2 billion profit for the third quarter as gains from the sale of assets like its stake in China Construction Bank and positive accounting changes outweighed weaker res...
US central banks may need to burst bubbles: Bernanke
democraticunderground.com - Source: Reuters19 Oct, 2011, 01.17AM IST, Reuters BOSTON: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday that central banks may need to resort to monetary policy to combat asset bubbles, alt...
Credit Union Deposits Surge amid Wall Street Protests
baycitizen.org - Aaron Glantz/The Bay Citizen Alli Panelas opens an account at Patelco Credit Union Alli Panelas considers herself part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. But on this Monday afternoon, the 21-year-...
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Bloomberg Says ‘Tent City’ Goes Beyond Free Speech
nytimes.com - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, speaking Monday as Occupy Wall Street protesters celebrated the passage of a month encamped in Zuccotti Park, said he was trying to strike a balance between protecting p...
asian americans and pacific islanders at occupy la, october 21
blog.angryasianman.com - If you're in Southern California, and you want to stand in solidarity with other Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on behalf of the 99 percent, you should know that there is indeed an AAPI cont...
Students visit Occupy L.A. for lesson in democracy
latimesblogs.latimes.com - About 30 schoolchildren took a field trip Tuesday afternoon – not to the aquarium – but rather to City Hall, the epicenter of Occupy Los Angeles. The fifth- through eighth-grade students from Sequo...
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