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Duncan Calls for Urgency in Lowering College Costs

nytimes.com - Education Secretary Arne Duncan in a speech Tuesday pushed higher education officials to “think more creatively — and with much greater urgency — about how to contain the spiraling costs of college...

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Why Rich Kids Cheat On The SAT

forbes.com - Shortly before Thanksgiving, The New York Times reported that criminal charges have been filed against 20 students in an affluent New York suburb for allegedly cheating on the SAT. Some of those ch...

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Best and Worst in American Education, 2011

hoover.org - This was truly harmful for standards-based education reform, particularly because of how thoroughly it has been misinterpreted and misrepresented. What the public should have learned from the Atlan...

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K12 Inc.: Public Online Schools, Private Profits

kunc.org - At a time when public schools are seeing deep cuts in funding, there’s a growing market for companies running online elementary, middle and high schools. The largest for-profit company overseeing t...

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Occupy Durban! | Abahlali baseMjondolo

abahlali.org - 27 November 2011 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Occupy Durban!Occupations Currently Underway in Hillary, KwaMashu and Pinetown We are human beings, not dogs, and every human being has a righ...

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Teacher Arrested Protesting for Education Funding in Olympia

seattleducation2010.wordpress.com - Jesse Hagopian, teacher in the Seattle Public School System and Founding Member of Seattle Equality Educators (SEE) was arrested on Monday for standing up for his students. Jesse Hagopian standing ...

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Rick Perry Forgets The Legal Voting Age

2012.talkingpointsmemo.com - Thomas Lane November 29, 2011, 3:26 PM Oops, there he goes again. Fresh from forgetting which government agency he would abolish and in which century the American Revolution took place, Texas Gover...

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Teen tweeter 1, Kansas governor 0

latimes.com - Ending a battle that could only have taken place in the brave new world of social media, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback on Monday apologized for an incident involving a teen who had maligned him on Twit...

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'Spreading the Wealth' in Democrats' Favor

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Fighting from behind in the final days of the 2008 presidential election, Senator John McCain found a weapon in an unscripted encounter between his opponent, Senator Barack Obama, and ...

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2 Occupy Demonstrations Face Eviction

nytimes.com - In center city Philadelphia, hundreds gathered outside City Hall in a show of solidarity ahead of a city-imposed Sunday evening deadline to clear a campsite there. The protesters braced for a polic...

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Iran Students Storm British Embassy in Tehran - Global

theatlanticwire.com - Students in Tehran stormed the British embassy there on Tuesday, forcing their way inside, where they threw papers from the windows and took down the British flag. The attack started with dozens pr...

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das racist performs "michael jackson" on conan

blog.angryasianman.com - If you tuned in to Conan last night, you might have been treated to the television debut of Brooklyn alternative hip hop trio Das Racist, performing their single "Michael Jackson." The whole thing ...

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The "Shock Doctrine" Comes to Your Neighborhood Classroom

commondreams.org - "Let's hope the fiscal crisis doesn't get better too soon. It'll slow down reform." -- Tom Watkins, a consultant, summarizes the corporate education reform movement's current strategy to the Sunday...

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