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Pepper Spray’s Fallout, From Crowd Control to Mocking Images

nytimes.com - Some women carry it in their purses in a pink, lipstick-shaped container. Hikers use it to deter bears. People in most states can buy a small canister of it on a quick-release key ring on Amazon.co...

DianeRavitch

It's the substance & the stress (not the salary), stupid.

allthingsedu.blogspot.com - As some of you know, I am starting to look for, ahem, a job, including positions that would put me back in the classroom. The position of "unpaid writer" isn't exactly putting food on the table and...

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America's Education Reform Lobby Makes Its Presence Known At The Voting Booth

huffingtonpost.com - Meet the new education lobby. It's ambitious, expansive and, in some cases, modeling itself after sprawling single-issue lobbying organizations like the National Rifle Association and AARP. The gro...

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Oliver Sicat. The Closer. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Oliver Sicat is 32 years old. He has been a teacher and a principal. This is one of the screwy things that has occurred in recent years. Some guy gets his teaching certification. He teaches in a cl...

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Is Illinois broke? And if so, why? « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Ty Fahner and the Civic Committee spent a million and a half dollars to spread lies like this billboard. My friend Glen Brown, retired teacher, blogger, and wonderful poet, raises the question: Is ...

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Community groups offer plan to counter school closings

wbez.org - Nine community groups from Albany Park to Roseland Tuesday presented a “Neighborhoods Agenda for Schools,” a wide-ranging plan that calls for significant investment in struggling neighborhood schoo...

mikeklonsky

America's Education Reform Lobby Makes Its Presence Known At The Voting Booth

huffingtonpost.com - Meet the new education lobby.It's ambitious, expansive and, in some cases, modeling itself after sprawling single-issue lobbying organizations like the National Rifle Association and AARP. The grou...

leoniehaimson

School Tech Connect: Multiple Measures

schooltechconnect.com - I've seen some Twitter traffic lately on multiple measures. Duncan is always blathering on about multiple measures, and how he's in favor of them. The trouble is that multiple measures is an empty ...

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A closer look at Gingrich’s ‘Red Card’ immigration plan

washingtonpost.com - Urging compassion on illegal immigration, Newt Gingrich offered a specific idea of how to reform the broken system during the Republican primary debate Tuesday night: the Red Card Solution.(REUTERS...

mikeklonsky

Obama Campaign, Hispanic Dems Blast Romney On Immigration Debate

2012.talkingpointsmemo.com - Eric Kleefeld November 23, 2011, 1:25 PM The Obama campaign is keeping its sights aimed at Mitt Romney, with a conference call with reporters Wednesday slamming Romney for attacking Newt Gingrich’s...

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Left Agents of the 1% | Dissident Voice

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Left Agents of the 1% | Dissident Voice:Left Agents of the 1%by Frank Scott / November 23rd, 2011As the Occupy Wall Street movement spread across the nation, mistakes and setbacks occurred which ar...

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Nov. 15: Clinton, Duncan, Gingrich, Sharpton - Meet the Press

msnbc.msn.com - MR. GREGORY: Let me move on to another big issue, and that's Afghanistan. When we are going to hear the president's decision about whether to send more troops? SEC'Y CLINTON: I mean, the president ...

mikeklonsky

A Misconception About Asian Schooling

nytimes.com - Nicholas Kristof (“When school comes first,” Views, Nov. 11) is right when he says Americans should care more about education, like people do in Asia. However, the key to building human capital is ...

leoniehaimson

Emanuel picks fights with unions - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - Letters to the Editor November 22, 2011 10:04PM Updated: November 23, 2011 2:18AM Unfortunately, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s claim in the Nov. 20 Sun-Times that he is “working well with Chicago’s unions” ...

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StoriesSee all

Raindrops on Roses, and Whiskers on Kittens...

edupln.ning.com - … EdTech and iPads, and Tools for the Teacher! ….These are a few of my favorite things! Two days into owning an iPad and I’ve become obsessed, so I figured I could share a f...

coopmike48

"What's Love Got to do With It?" Ask Your Students!

edupln.ning.com - Once upon a time there was a little 2nd grade boy. He was new to a school, and he brought with him, all his problems and issues. Sent to live with dad after mom "couldn't take it any more", a...

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My First Entry - The Educator's PLN

edupln.ning.com - The day before Thanksgiving and I have been cooped up all day in the house. This past weekend I attended NYSCATE and am still trying to digest all of the information taken in. Since last night, I h...

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Occupy Wall Street Prepares 5,000 Thanksgiving Meals « CBS New York

newyork.cbslocal.com - Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park – New York, NY – Nov 21, 2011 (credit: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)NEW YORK (AP) - Occupy Wall Street protesters say they’re getting ready to cel...

leoniehaimson

Occupy Fort Collins: Cast out into the Darkness

my.firedoglake.com - Packing Up & Down The Road (Photo: mejuan, flickr) What city along the base of Colorado’s Front Range is home to a large state educational institution of higher learning, supplies electricity and w...

coopmike48

Thanksgiving: 248 million turkeys and other fun facts - The Answer Sheet

washingtonpost.com - Here are some facts and figures about Thanksgiving, assembled by our friendly U.S. Census Bureau:TURKEYS248 millionThe number of turkeys expected to be raised in the United States in 2011. That’s u...

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School Tech Connect: Multiple Measures

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Multiple Measures:Multiple Measuresby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)I've seen some Twitter traffic lately on multiple measures. Duncan is always blathering on about multiple measure...

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Kids’ health researchers talk turkey « MomsRising Blog

momsrising.org - At an all-day seminar last week, I listened to university researchers discuss this startling question: Are we poisoning our children? Quite a provocative topic — some might even say alarmist. Yet s...

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Arsenic, Antibiotics and Asthma Drugs in Your Turkey? Yes!

dissidentvoice.org - So far, 2011 has not been a great year for turkey producers. In May, an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases reported that half of U.S. meat from major grocery chains–turkey, beef, chicken and p...

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Occupy Fort Collins: Cast out into the Darkness

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UC Berkeley Students To File Lawsuit Against University, Police

democraticunderground.com - Source: Huffington PostOn Wednesday, 20 students -- along with a civil rights group, BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) -- will file a lawsuit against UC Berkeley administrators, the UC Police Departmen...

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Mayor's office says Occupy L.A. encampment will end next week

democraticunderground.com - Source: LA TimesMayor's office says Occupy L.A. encampment will end next weekNovember 23, 2011 | 5:48 pmAn aide to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa office has confirmed that Occupy L.A. protesters will h...

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Big Education Ape: 11-24-11 AM It's the substance & the stress (not the salary), stupid EDition #OWS #EDreform

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