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On the Real Dangers of Marguerite Roza’s Fake Graph « School Finance 101

schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - In my last post, I ranted about this absurd graph presented by Marguerite Roza to a symposium of the New York Regents on September 13, 2011. Since that presentation (but before my post), that graph...

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NYPD Arrests Woman For Closing Her Citibank Account (VIDEO)

wonkette.com - Be patient through the first 90 seconds — haha, attention span of a gnat! — because a remarkable little drama unfolds with protesters inside the Citibank branch communicating with protesters outsid...

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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...

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NJ School Funding Suburban Taxpayer Scam? « School Finance 101

schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - I hate wasting so much time countering completely absurd claims, like those that spill out on the E3 Cartel commercials. This is a short reply this time. At the end of one of the commercials, the s...

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Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread To Europe, Asia

huffingtonpost.com - ROME — Protesters in Rome smashed shop windows and torched cars as violence broke out during a demonstration in the Italian capital, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity...

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I Am the Ninety-Nine Percent, And Actually I’m Pissed « Cooperative Catalyst

coopcatalyst.wordpress.com - So, a few days back, I wrote about privilige and power. It might have come across as complacent or sanctimonious. However, I want to make this really clear: I’m pissed. I’m pissed that we continu...

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Fighting Hunger in my Community One Misunderstanding at a Time

dailykos.com - A food council is a way to bring the people who need food to the table to talk with people who produce food. In most communities, farmers are forced to sell to huge corporations, who then ship the ...

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How Florida Charter Schools Want to End Local Control

bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com - From the ever useful John O’Connor at State Impact Florida comes a story about local school boards rejecting charter school applications. Boards in Seminole , Polk and Clay counties have rejected c...

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Native American Youth: Are We Making Progress?

teenscreen.org - Sadly, a new report from the U.S. Inspector Generalâ€™s office on the mental health of Native Americans tells a troubling and all too familiar story.Â The adolescent suicide rate in tribal communi...

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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 ...

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Michael Moore Occupy Wall Street Interview

mediaite.com - video With the Occupy Wall Street protests nearly coming to a head this weekend as police attempted, then reneged on a plan to clean up Zuccotti Park, filmmaker and protest supporter Michael Moore ...

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Financial Services Authority chairman backs tax on 'socially useless' banks | Business

guardian.co.uk - Lord Turner said a tax on transactions in the Square Mile would cut banks' profits and reduce the pool of money available for bonuses. Photograph: David Gadd/Allstar The government's top financial ...

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America’s ‘Primal Scream’

nytimes.com - IT’S fascinating that many Americans intuitively understood the outrage and frustration that drove Egyptians to protest at Tahrir Square, but don’t comprehend similar resentments that drive disgrun...

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Ayman Mohyeldin: From Arab Spring to American Fall? | TIME Ideas

ideas.time.com - Spencer Platt / Getty ImagesProtesters convene a meeting Oct. 11, 2011 at Zuccotti Park where hundreds of activists affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have been rallying against ...

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Oprah to Atlantans: If you're not growing, you're not living

11alive.com - ATLANTA -- Five-thousand fans crowded the Georgia World Congress Center Saturday for O You!, a sold out motivational conference produced by Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine. Attendees paid $125 per tick...

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Why the A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work Video Is Ridiculous | GeekDad

wired.com - The latest “isn’t technology amazing how it changes children” video meme has been doing the round on the interwebs. If you haven’t seen it, you can check it out above. It is a video of a one-year-o...

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Street Medicine: Making House Calls to People Without Homes

hardlynormal.com - During last year’s road trip I was honored to be introduced to two great men, Robert Egger of DC Central Kitchen and James S. Withers, M.D. of Operation Safety Net. Both men quickly became my heroe...

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Video: Meet Kong And Wu, The Ping Pong Playing Robots From China

techcrunch.com - Dr. Serkan Toto currently works as the first and only Asia-based writer for the TechCrunch network, mainly covering Japan-related technology and web companies for TechCrunch, CrunchGear and MobileC...

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Siri voice command system ported from iPhone 4S to iPhone 4 (video) | 9to5Mac

9to5mac.com - October 14, 2011 at 8:35 pm Developer Steven Troughton-Smith has been working with 9to5Mac exclusively to port the iPhone 4S Siri voice command system to the iPhone 4. Troughton-Smith was able to g...

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Which iPhone is right for you?

abcnews.go.com - Consumers looking to buy a new iPhone now have three choices. Use this guide to help determine which phone fits best for your carrier, usage habits and budget:•iPhone 3GSSummary: Released in June 2...

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The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work

nber.org - NBER Working Paper No. 17508Issued in October 2011NBER Program(s): ED EFG LSWomen born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women’s labor force ...

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Daily Kos: 1 in 6 blogathon: Our children are unhealthy

dailykos.com - Our children are unhealthy. This is in part due to hunger and poverty. It is also due to poor diet and lack of exercise. Each day as I look at the students in our middle class school in the Mary...

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Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education

psi.sagepub.com - A Proposed Direction Forward Based on Psychological Science Rena F. Subotnik1⇓, Paula Olszewski-Kubilius2 and Frank C. Worrell3 1American Psychological Association, Washington, DC 2Northwestern Uni...

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Financial Services Authority chairman backs tax on 'socially useless' banks | Business

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Banker Salaries Compared To All Other Private Sector Salaries (Sit Down First)

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