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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Big Education Ape: 11-24-11 PM Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation EDition #OWS #EDreform

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Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation

seattleducation2010.wordpress.com - Last year Sue and I discovered that a lot of money from Bill Gates and the Broad Foundation was being funneled into several organizations in Seattle to push the ideas of ed reform. See The Lines of...

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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 ...

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TCRecord: Article

tcrecord.org - This summer I had the pleasure of visiting DC Prep, a charter school in Washington, D.C. whose most recent class of eighth graders scored 100% proficiency in reading and math, as measured by standa...

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Video game taps into Occupy Wall Street

in.reuters.com - By Liana B. Baker NEW YORK | Thu Nov 24, 2011 3:14am IST NEW YORK (Reuters) - When gamers take the wraps off the new "BioShock" video game next year, they should not be surprised if parts of the ga...

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Generals Offer Apology for Violent Clashes in Egypt

nytimes.com - CAIRO — Egyptian generals offered an unusual apology on Thursday for the killings of protesters in Tahrir Square, the iconic landmark of Egypt’s revolution, as violence around the huge plaza was re...

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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...

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Use of pepper spray by UC Davis police generates debate

latimesblogs.latimes.com - The use of pepper spray on protesters at UC Davis has raised a larger question about when police departments use that level of force on protesters -- and exposes inconsistencies in rules. Besides t...

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Talking turkey about LGBT civil rights over the holidays

pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com - Equal Rights Washington is asking supporters to “Talk turkey with your legislators about why marriage matters” over the Thanksgiving Day holiday by e-mailing their legislators a note and by forward...

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Occupy movements nationwide celebrate holiday

northjersey.com - Thursday, November 24, 2011 Last updated: Thursday November 24, 2011, 2:18 PM SAN FRANCISCO — Most Americans spent Thanksgiving snug inside homes with families and football. Others used the holi...

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Everyone Loves A Parade...

sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com - I have this thing where brass and pipe bands and parades and crowds at sports arenas seriously freak me out... I'm pulled into the energy and the excitement and at the same time, there's an overwh...

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Occupied Albany | MyFDL

my.firedoglake.com - (photo: Kevin Gosztola) When the blogosphere doesn’t see Jane for a time, I’ve learned to wonder what she’s up to. Once, it was the Firedoglake.com membership program. Great! FDL got me through t...

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State loses out on Race to the Top funds

mercurynews.com - California is out of the money yet again.Federal officials Wednesday announced that California was bounced out of the competition for a share of $200 million in Race to the Top funds because it sub...

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Scott Walker's 'reforms': Fail

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Wisconsin led the nation in job loss last month. Here's Sho Chandra at Bloomberg: Wisconsin posted the nation's biggest payroll losses, with employment dropping by 9,700 jobs in October compared wi...

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ONLINE - International News Network

onlinenews.com.pk - LONDON: Public opinion in many countries with nuclear power programmes has become more opposed to the technology since 2005, with most people believing conservation and renewable energy can meet fu...

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TEPCO: Radioactive substances belong to landowners, not us

democraticunderground.com - Source: Asahi Shimbun Weekly AERADuring court proceedings concerning a radioactive golf course, Tokyo Electric Power Co. stunned lawyers by saying the utility was not responsible for decontaminatio...

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OccupySupply – What We Need | Firedoglake #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - OccupySupply – What We Need | Firedoglake:OccupySupply – What We Needby Jane HamsherIt’s not easy finding “American made” anything these days, let alone made by union workers. We simply don’t manuf...

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OccupySupply – What We Need | Firedoglake #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - OccupySupply – What We Need | Firedoglake:OccupySupply – What We Needby Jane HamsherIt’s not easy finding “American made” anything these days, let alone made by union workers. We simply don’t manuf...

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