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Sun-Times Editorial Board Disses Joe Berrios: Chicagoist

chicagoist.com - Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios "He said, she said" stories rarely land on the editorial pages. And it is pretty unusual to see newspaper opinion editors make personal attacks on a powerful citize...

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BronxNet - Perspectives | Nov. 2011 (Episode 1)

bronxnet.org - BronxNet | Perspectives, an award-winning show, is a live half-hour interactive call-in television program geared to discussing contemporary topics affecting the African-American community on both ...

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The New Teacher Project's weird & crazy teacher survey

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - The New Teacher Project, an organization which Michelle Rhee once ran, is closely aligned with DOE, and which strongly advocates against seniority protections and for merit pay and evaluations link...

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Gryphon: New and Selected Stories

barbarasbookstore.com - DescriptionEver since the publication of The Harmony of the World in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America’s finest short-story writers. Each subsequent collection—T...

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WEEKEND QUOTABLES

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Students from Cleveland High visit the Occupy L.A. site at City Hall to ask questions for their civics class. Occupy L.A."It fits in with everything we're doing," said Rebecca Williams, an Englis...

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Finnish educational safety net is wide, strong

jsonline.com - Eastern Helsinki - If it weren't tucked into a forest more than 4,000 miles from Wisconsin, Vesala Comprehensive School could stand in for a public school in Milwaukee. The industrial-looking build...

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NYPD Orders Officers Not To Interfere With Press

huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- The New York Police Department's commissioner on Wednesday sent an internal message to officers ordering them not to unreasonably interfere with media access during news coverage and wa...

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Am I...

sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com - ... a naive visionary, idealist, dreamer unable to accept "reality" and navigate/manage worldly affairs? ... a fanatical revolutionary living/dying for the cause?... a truth-teller, having to live ...

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Life Is Full...

sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com - ... of such delicious ironies...Was told a few hours ago, in no uncertain terms, to leave as soon as possible from where we are staying because our presence is causing friction between the husban...

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Talkin’ Protest Song Blues | Firedoglake

firedoglake.com - Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Makana didn’t exactly put his life on the line when he sang his protest song, “We are the Many,” to President Obama and other leaders at the Asian-Pacific Economic Conf...

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Power philanthropy: 'Influence peddling writ large'

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Political reporter Nicholas Confessore has an important piece in today's Times, "Policy Making Billionaires" which reveals the disproportional power over public policy and institutions held by and ...

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Condi Rice: U.S. will never be "race blind"

cbsnews.com - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on "Face the Nation," November 27, 2011. (CBS) (CBS News) Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said America has come a long way in confronting raci...

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INEFFICIENT USE OF A TEACHER’S TIME « Teachers Fight Back

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - INEFFICIENT USE OF A TEACHER’S TIME « Teachers Fight Back:INEFFICIENT USE OF A TEACHER’S TIMEby alkleenI would like to see education reformers insist that school districts make efficient use of a ...

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First Amendment hijacked by moneyed interests #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - First Amendment hijacked by moneyed interests:First Amendment hijacked by moneyed interestsRobert ReichSunday, November 27, 2011PrintE-mailShareComments (65)Font | Size: 405Thomas K. Fowler / APA U...

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