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Keeping the Beat | ED.gov Blog

ed.gov - School districts are straining to deliver a quality education to all their students in this difficult economy, and things can be especially tough on music teachers. Across the country, shrinking s...

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C. M. Rubin: How Will We Read: In Public Libraries?

huffingtonpost.com - "When asked to support local library funding measures, communities have done so, voting in favor of 87% of operating funding measures last year." -- Molly RaphaelLibraries across the United States ...

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Students Pass Classes They Never Took

myfoxdfw.com - DALLAS, Tx - The controversy involves students at Tom Field Elementary receiving fabricated grades for courses they alledgedly were never taught so teachers, who were being pressured, could spend a...

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A Framing Memo for Occupy Wall Street

huffingtonpost.com - I was asked weeks ago by some in the Occupy Wall Street movement to make suggestions for how to frame the movement. I have hesitated so far, because I think the movement should be framing itself. I...

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*** Painting the Wall St "Occupiers" as dirty hippies, etc.

dakotatoday.typepad.com - The rightwing of US press coverage is working hard to diminish the issues raised by the Wall St "occupiers" by attacking the occupiers. The "mainstream" press has generally ignored the protestors ...

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Occupy: Ditch tents, get savvy - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - LAURA WASHINGTON LauraSWashington@aol.com November 20, 2011 6:48PM Laura Washington Updated: November 20, 2011 6:48PM Michael Bloomberg has handed the Occupy movement a golden opportunity. Last Tue...

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Boring Cruel Romantics

nytimes.com - There’s a word I keep hearing lately: “technocrat.” Sometimes it’s used as a term of scorn — the creators of the euro, we’re told, were technocrats who failed to take human and cultural factors int...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 21, 2011 AUTHORIZING THE IMPOSITION OF CERTAIN SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE PROVISION OF GOODS, SERVICES, TECHNOLOGY, O...

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A Framing Memo for Occupy Wall Street

huffingtonpost.com - I was asked weeks ago by some in the Occupy Wall Street movement to make suggestions for how to frame the movement. I have hesitated so far, because I think the movement should be framing itself. I...

DianeRavitch

*** Painting the Wall St "Occupiers" as dirty hippies, etc.

dakotatoday.typepad.com - The rightwing of US press coverage is working hard to diminish the issues raised by the Wall St "occupiers" by attacking the occupiers. The "mainstream" press has generally ignored the protestors ...

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Occupy: Ditch tents, get savvy - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - LAURA WASHINGTON LauraSWashington@aol.com November 20, 2011 6:48PM Laura Washington Updated: November 20, 2011 6:48PM Michael Bloomberg has handed the Occupy movement a golden opportunity. Last Tue...

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