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Idea: Give Prostitutes Amnesty to Catch a Serial Killer - Culture

good.is - The photo above is of Megan Waterman with her daughter, Lily. Waterman was 22 last year when, after going out one night to work as a prostitute, she was killed. Her body was dumped along with three...

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Britain to abolish rule of male succession to throne

latimes.com - Reporting from London— Good news for the daughter of Britain's Prince William and Catherine Middleton (if they have one): One day she can be queen. Leaders of the 16 countries that recognize the Br...

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Hit on a teacher. Buy her drinks. Call her a racist. Try to get her fired. IT’S JOURNALISM! « Student Activism

studentactivism.net - You remember James O’Keefe — the guy behind the fake prostitute scam that took down ACORN, the guy who got an anti-racist government official fired by pretending she was a racist, the guy who plott...

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Why I don’t think BYOD is a money issue, Why one size never fits all, and other ramblings… « The Spicy Learning Blog

spicylearning.wordpress.com - Posted: October 28, 2011 | Author: Royan Lee | Filed under: Learning | Tags: 21st century learning, blogging, byod, education, ramblings, reflections, schools, technology | It’s been great for me t...

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Berkeley Now Pricier Than Harvard For Nearly a Third of Entering Students « Student Activism

studentactivism.net - If you enrolled in the University of California at Berkeley this fall, and you weren’t a California resident, you paid more than you would have if you had gone to Harvard. That’s not a joke, or a m...

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The Crocodile in the Common Core Standards

dailycensored.com - “[A]s you grow up in this world you realize people really don’t give a shit about what you feel or what you think.” Thus, Common Core Standards architect David Coleman delivered[1] the core pedago...

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School Resources and Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Review of the Literature from 1990 to 2010

nber.org - NBER Working Paper No. 17554Issued in October 2011NBER Program(s): ED LS PEDeveloping countries spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year on schools, educational materials and teachers,...

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If Only the Billionaire Reformers Cared about THIS Data - Living in Dialogue

blogs.edweek.org - Billionaire Bill Gates was in the news again this week, bemoaning the sorry state of America's schools, insisting that business leaders like him have a lot to teach us about measuring performance.M...

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The Best Images Taken In Space

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - This “The Best…” list is a companion to The Best Sites For Learning About Planets & Space and The Best Sites To Learn About The Hubble Telescope.I’ve put it together pretty quickly because I wanted...

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» The Rules of Effortless Parenting :zenhabits

zenhabits.net - I often get asked how I can do so much while having six kids. My short answer, and all you really need to know, is my wife Eva is awesome. I couldn’t do half what I do without her. She is the reaso...

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Easier vs. Better

ed-intersect.blogspot.com - In his latest Tumblr post, "Easier vs. Better", Will Richardson reminds us of how we came to the heavy, and often-times bureaucratic system of brick and mortar schools, bells, rows of chairs, etc. ...

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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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Imagine Schools executive named in contractor's bank payments

stltoday.com - JEFFERSON CITY • Buried in state files related to the construction of Imagine charter schools are bank records with three unexplained transactions. The records raise questions about the relationshi...

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Rhee sets up shop downtown - Sacramento Business, Housing Market News

sacbee.com - An education reform group headed by Sacramento's first lady is making K Street Mall the center of its national operations.StudentsFirst, the group founded last year by Michelle Rhee, recently signe...

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House plans only 109 workdays in 2012 - Political Hotsheet

cbsnews.com - House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, listen as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., center, speaks during a news conference on Cap...

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Four GOP Presidential Candidates Call For Diminished Federal Role In Schools

huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- The desire for a lighter federal hand in the nation's schools ruled the discussions at an education forum Thursday night with four of the GOP presidential hopefuls."I believe that the f...

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Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed

truth-out.org - It is class warfare.It was not begun, however, by the tear-gassed, rain-soaked protesters asserting their constitutionally guaranteed right of peaceful assembly. Rather, this war was sparked by the...

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13 Now Hiring Job Stories

dryerbuzz.com - Follow the buzz with recent job news this week. In honor of Halloween falling on Monday, one of these 13 could make Halloween your lucky day. Level One Now Hiring In The UpstateWSPA Spartanburg – ...

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Obama Student Loan Relief Is Modest But Could Prove Politically Smart - Stacy Kaper

nationaljournal.com - The student loan relief plan President Obama announced on Wednesday as part of his “we can’t wait” for Congress tour rings a lot like the refinancing plan he announced on Monday for underwater home...

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An Honest Look at State Budgets After ARRA Expires

theccfblog.org - Yesterday, three timely releases from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured show that state budgets are beginning to turn around. The 11th annual 50-state survey of Medicaid budgets...

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Day After Day, Her Voice Takes Listeners to the Stars

nytimes.com - SAN ANTONIO — On a clear, cool night in the early 1960s, a father drove his young, pajama-clad daughter to one of the T-head piers on Corpus Christi Bay to marvel at an object in the sky. ...

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The Best Sites For Learning About Mount Everest

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Apr 16 2011 Larry Ferlazzo The final year of the year in our ninth-grade English classes is on Mount Everest. I thought it would be useful to our school’s teachers and to this blog’s readers (and t...

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Thank You, Elizabeth Warren!

act.credoaction.com - Finally, a progressive who knows how to fight back hard against the ridiculous "class warfare" charges from the GOP. In one fell swoop, Elizabeth Warren, candidate for the US Senate from Massachuse...

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Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed

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What the Costumes Reveal

nytimes.com - On Friday, the law firm of Steven J. Baum threw a Halloween party. The firm, which is located near Buffalo, is what is commonly referred to as a “foreclosure mill” firm, meaning it represents banks...

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The Crocodile in the Common Core Standards

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THE CLOSING OF THE CREATIVE MIND - Baltimore Education reform

examiner.com - , Baltimore Education Reform Examiner Baltimore Education Reform ExaminerMorna McDermott is an associate professor at Towson University, where she teaches various theory and methods courses in the ...

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