Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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Taxpayers Pay for Wealthy Kids at Charter School

bloomberg.com - Enlarge image Bullis Charter School A student walks past portable classrooms at the Bullis Charter School in Los Altos, California, on Nov. 9, 2011. A student walks past portable classrooms at the ...

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Reporters Say Police Denied Access to Protest Site

mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com- As New York City police cleared the Occupy Wall Street campsite in Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning, many journalists were blocked from observing and interviewing protesters. Some called it a “m...

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Billionaires for Education Reform - Bridging Differences

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,We have often discussed the problems of establishing democratic practices in our schools today. This is something you have written about extensively, and it is integral to your pedagog...

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Engaging Parents In School… - Parent Trigger R.I.P.

engagingparentsinschool.edublogs.org - November 14th, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo Today, The Los Angeles Times published an editorial reflecting on the parent trigger’s lack of success, and described Parent Revolution’s retooling effort: Ins...

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This year's class size data released today; unforgivable!

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - The DOE released this year's class size data today here.Class sizes increased citywide this year again for the 4th year in a row. In the early grades, the increase was sharper than in any year sin...

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Asking Arne

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Arne Duncan kicks off American Education Week today with a live #AskArne Q&A session on Twitter. I'm anticipating Arne's usual repetitive speed-rapping (speed tweeting?) evasive answers to any diff...

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Naming him.

goldietaylor.com - Pat Sullivan. I will never forget his name. He was my abuser. Somewhere inside, I feel a deep sense of shame, regret. Not for what he did to me, but for never telling anyone. There were other victi...

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Hundreds Protest Tuition, Brutality on UC Davis Quad

davis.patch.com - Hundreds have gathered on the quad at UC Davis to protest against police brutality and tuition hikes. “Solidarity with brutalized students and faculty at Cal,” it says on the flier. Here’s more inf...

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Campain Kicks Off To Recall Scott Walker

thinkprogress.org - NEWS FLASH Campain Kicks Off To Recall Scott Walker | More than 100 events planned across Wisconsin last night marked the beginning of a campaign to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R). Activists have six...

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The Torture Candidates

nytimes.com - As hard as it is to believe, the Republican candidates for president seem to have learned very little from the moral calamities of the administration of George W. Bush. Three of the contenders for ...

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Trespass and Occupy, And Why It Is Important

addictinginfo.org - Bonus Army Attacked 1936 tekwala-com.jpgOccupy Oakland Routed 2011 from CBS NewsOne of the strategies that Occupy Wall Street has used to bring media and political attention to their movement is c...

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Duncan accepts Chicago union president's apology

boston.com - CHICAGO—Education Secretary Arne Duncan has accepted an apology from the president of the Chicago Teachers Union for a joke she made about him having a lisp.Karen Lewis said at a union event in Sea...

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Movie Trailer: A documentary on New Orleans schools

learningmatters.tv - October 20th, 2011Produced by: Jane Renaud, Jessica Windt, David Wald and John Merrow / Duration: 9:00We spent years covering Paul Vallas in New Orleans, and now we’re dedicating an entire document...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 15, 2011 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATIONAs Americans, we have a responsibility to ensure...

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Bronze artifact found on Alaska's Seward Peninsula

boston.com - ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A research team is attempting to discover the origin of a cast bronze artifact excavated from an Inupiat Eskimo home site believed to be about 1,000 years old.The artifact resembl...

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A Call to #Occupy | OWSnews.org

owsnews.org - New York, NY — We are a global movement that is reclaiming our humanity and our future. We have stepped into a revitalizing civic process, realizing that we cannot fix our crises isolated from one ...

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