Sunday, November 20, 2011

Big Education Ape: 11-20-11 PM An Explosion in Lobbying Around For-Profit K-12 Programs EDition #OWS #EDREFORM

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Congress Less Popular Than BP Oil Spill, Lawyers, Paris Hilton [Chart]

inquisitr.com - Do you approve of the job being done by congress? If you do, you are one of the few. Last month congress’ approval rating fell to a record low of 9 percent. In comparison, 11% of American believe t...

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An Explosion in Lobbying Around For-Profit K-12 Programs

thenation.com - My Nation colleague Lee Fang has published a really fascinating investigative piece about the explosion in lobbying around K-12 for-profit virtual education, particularly targeting charter schools....

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More Milwaukee County News

jsonline.com - Less than a week after being elected governor, Scott Walker and his wife met privately with one of the most powerful philanthropic forces behind America's conservative movement. It wasn't the Koch ...

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Massive Drum Circle for Bloomberg

yeslab.org - Massive 24-hour DRUM CIRCLE and JAM SESSION party starting tomorrow, Sunday at 2pm, outside Mayor Bloomberg's personal townhouse: 17 East 79th Street.Tie-dye, didgeridoo, hackeysack welcome! No shi...

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Shanker Blog » More On What "Superman" Left Out

shankerblog.org - Our guest author today is Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education at New York University and an historian of education. In addition, she is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Insti...

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Bradley Foundation: Sugar daddy for racism and right-wing school reform

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Mike De SistiFrom its headquarters at 1241 N. Franklin Place on Milwaukee's lower east side, the low-profile Bradley Foundation gives away millions of dollars every year, acting like a venture capi...

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Poet-Bashing Police

nytimes.com - Berkeley, Calif. LIFE, I found myself thinking as a line of Alameda County deputy sheriffs in Darth Vader riot gear formed a cordon in front of me on a recent night on the campus of the...

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How About Better Parents?

nytimes.com - IN recent years, we’ve been treated to reams of op-ed articles about how we need better teachers in our public schools and, if only the teachers’ unions would go away, our kids would score like Sin...

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From Gingrich, an Unconventional View of Education

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - November 19, 2011, 1:37 pm By TRIP GABRIELNewt Gingrich has some unconventional ideas about education reform. He wants every state to open a work-study college where students work 20 hours a week d...

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Ought We Crown Bloomberg King?

nyceducator.com - by special guest blogger Nicholas Azcona The suggestion merits consideration. "A military style raid on peaceful protesters camped out in the shadow of Wall Street, ordered by a cold ruthless billi...

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What's the real story behind the threatened bus strike: are the bus drivers the enemy or part of the 99%?

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - The real facts behind the threatened school bus strike are difficult to untangle. As the NY Times explained today, the mayor's position is a reversal of his previous one:The specter of a strike is...

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Ty Fahner and the scapegoating of public employees. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - The Civic Committee’s Ty Fahner. Glen Brown:The scapegoating of public employees in Illinois began when greed and corruption, particularly flagrant in the financial sector, exploded into the Great ...

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Occupy Wall Street: The secret $850k plan by lobbyists to undermine protests

dailymail.co.uk - By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 11:52 AM on 20th November 2011 A Washington lobbying firm with links to the financial industry has proposed an $850,000 plan to take on the Occupy Wall Street ...

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Democrats see minefield in Occupy protests

businessweek.com - By BETH FOUHY NEW YORK The Republican Party and the tea party seemed to be a natural political pairing. But what may have seemed like another politically beneficial alliance -- Democrats and Occupy...

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UC Davis officers placed on leave after pepper spray incident

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Two UC Davis campus police officers have been placed on paid administrative leave over their controversial use of pepper spray on student protesters, university officials announced Sunday. A video ...

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Annual march for transgender victims follows another death

latimesblogs.latimes.com - As police investigate the shooting death of one transgender person Thursday night and shots fired at another soon afterward, West Hollywood is preparing to observe the annual Transgender Day of Rem...

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Whitehouse to discuss Pell Grants in RI

boston.com - PROVIDENCE, R.I.—U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is planning to discuss Pell Grants with Rhode Island College students.Whitehouse's office says the Rhode Island Democrat will meet with students Monday...

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#ows Oakland Commune Assembles to Retake a Space « occupy california

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Oakland Commune Assembles to Retake a Space « occupy california:Oakland Commune Assembles to Retake a Spaceby *OAKLAND, California – The Oakland Commune’s general assembly called this past week for...

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NY Police Using LRAD Sound Cannons Against Protesters

commondreams.org - Demonstrators are reporting the NYPD's use of Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) against protesters during today's Occupy Wall Street "Day of Action." The machines are meant to send out "high inte...

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Briefly: EVERYONE AT THE TIMES JUMPS IN TO DECONSTRUCT EDUCATION POLL Briefly: EVERYONE AT THE TIMES JUMPS IN TO DECONSTRUCT EDUCATION POLL

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Briefly: EVERYONE AT THE TIMES JUMPS IN TO DECONSTRUCT EDUCATION POLL:Briefly: EVERYONE AT THE TIMES JUMPS IN TO DECONSTRUCT EDUCATION POLLTHE POLL RESU...

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Protesters Should 'Get A Job' And 'Take A Bath' (VIDEO)

huffingtonpost.com - Speaking to small crowd at a retirement community in Florida on Oct. 4, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney expressed an unsympathetic view of the Occupy Wall Street movement. "I think it...

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'Appalled' UC president vows to convene meeting of chancellors following campus protest response - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News

sacbee.com - University of California President Mark G. Yudof issued a statement today saying he is appalled by images he has seen of police actions at campuses this week, including at UC Davis where officers s...

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