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Biggs and Richwine: Public School Teachers Aren't Underpaid

online.wsj.com - A common story line in American education policy is that public school teachers are underpaid—"desperately underpaid," according to Education Secretary Arne Duncan in a recent speech. As former fir...

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CT News Junkie | OP-ED

ctnewsjunkie.com - by Dianne Kaplan deVries | Nov 7, 2011 10:54pm(0) Comments | Log in to Post a Comment Posted to: Education, Opinion “Singing to the choir because the choir needs support,” that’s what Diane Ravitch...

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Additonal costs? Springfield Journal story is bad news for pension-killer bill. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - The Springfield State-Journal Register is the paper of record for Illinois legislators. That’s why it isn’t great news for the Civic Committee, Ty Fahner and GOP House leader Tom Cross that today t...

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Following the money: who wants Paul Scott's recall to fail - the anti-teacher/anti-public school wing of the GOP

eclectablog.com - You can tell a great deal about a given situation, as they say, by following the money. As anti-union, anti-teacher Republican state Rep. Paul Scott faces the voters of his district in a recall ele...

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U.S. young-old wealth gap worse than ever - Newsroom: Bernie Sanders

sanders.senate.gov - November 7, 2011 WASHINGTON - The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunitie...

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New Charter Study by Mathematica With More Bad News for Corporate Ed Reform

schoolsmatter.info - The first national charter school study was conducted in 2009 by CREDO at Stanford, and the co-funders of the study (the Walton Foundation and Pearson) were not enamored by the results. So bad were...

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Paul Karrer: Bean counters and educational compliance

montereyherald.com - About 4,000 schools in California are in "failing" status. And of those, a measly 85 have managed to "unfail" themselves. That is just a squeak over 2 percent. What gets schools and even entire dis...

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Teachers, Children's Advocates Chant Schooling Demands On DOE's Doorstep

ny1.com - To view our videos, you need toenable JavaScript. Learn how.install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. A couple hundred activists belonging to a group ...

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Federal Program Blamed For Long Island City High School Scheduling Chaos

ny1.com - To view our videos, you need toenable JavaScript. Learn how.install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. Students at Long Island City High School in Quee...

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Mike Vanderboegh: Right-Wing Threatens American’s

dailycensored.com - Don’t look now, but the radical right-wing is planning an attack on your life. In fact, they are planning multiple attacks on U.S. government employees and liberal groups. And if you get caught in ...

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Male Bodies Now Treated as Political Objects Too

womensenews.org - Men's bodies are making political news these days; Chris Christie's girth, Scott Brown's nudity. Caryl Rivers says that's changing the body politic and giving guys a taste of what women have long e...

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ABC News Poll: Americans Angry, Election Up For Grabs - Boston News Story

thebostonchannel.com - POSTED: 6:58 am EST November 7, 2011UPDATED: 8:40 am EST November 7, 2011 BOSTON -- It is exactly one year away from the next presidential election, and a new ABC News poll shows voters are angry a...

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Gilded Blinders to the Reality of a Collapse

nytimes.com - Our mayor encompasses multitudes. Michael R. Bloomberg can be subtle and passionate on government’s role in promoting health and building subways and parks. And just as quickly, he can ...

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The myth of the progressive city

salon.com - If you’ve listened to a political pundit predict any election in the last 50 years, you’ve been told that there are Republican small towns whose politics are organized around the three G’s (guns, G...

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How Elisabeth Murdoch Is Trying to Finally Get Her Due -- New York Magazine

nymag.com - Matthew Freud and Elisabeth Murdoch at a London benefit dinner last November. (Photo: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images) A few weeks after the Telegraph report, Liz announced she was turning down Rupert...

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Sharon Bialek, Herman Cain Accuser, Speaks Alongside Attorney Gloria Allred At Press Conference

huffingtonpost.com - Sharon Bialek, the fourth woman to come out and make sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain, appeared alongside her attorney Gloria Allred at a press conference on Monday.According to Bi...

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Former Heavyweight Boxing Champ Frazier Dies - KCRA 3 Sports News Story

kcra.com - POSTED: 8:19 pm PST November 7, 2011UPDATED: 8:48 pm PST November 7, 2011(CNN) -- Former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier died Monday, after he was diagnosed with liver cancer, his family sa...

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Atlanta police arrest 5 people following protest

sfgate.com - David Goldman / AP A protestor tries to get away as he's arrested by police after Occupy Atlanta protestors and an officer clashed as he was driving through the crowd on a motorcycle Saturday, Nov....

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Ortega Wins Nicaragua Elections, Otto Pérez Wins in Guatemala

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 5:13 pm, November 7, 2011 Photo Credits: Daniel Ortega and Otto Pérez Former Army General Otto Pérez Molina won some 54% of the Guatemalan vote, while Ortega garnered 67% of the votes ...

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NYC Occupy Wall Street protesters erect military tents for winter

northjersey.com - NEW YORK — For those who've been asking whether the Occupy Wall Street protests can last through the winter, the New York City protesters have an answer. On Monday, they began erecting what they d...

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Wall Street Traders Have Profited More Under Obama Than In Eight Years Under Bush

thinkprogress.org - As protesters around the country take to the streets to protest the excesses of Wall Street banks that benefited from a federal bailout and quickly returned to profitability, new data from the fina...

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Bay Area Customers Flood Credit Unions on 'Bank Transfer Day'

baycitizen.org - Aaron Glantz/The Bay Citizen Alli Panelas opens an account at Patelco Credit Union It was 3 p.m. and the people kept coming. At the San Francisco Fire Credit Union Saturday, workers locked the door...

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Financial Cancer: Our Financial System Is Intrinsically Fraudulent and Unstable

owsnews.org - Our financial system is like a fast-mutating cancer that evades any control and is still perfecting its ability to game and loot.Two frequent contributors to oftwominds.com provided fresh insights ...

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Occupy SF Has a Favorite Candidate — and Few Votes

baycitizen.org - Erik Verduzco/The Bay Citizen State Sen. Leland Yee at OccupySF Encampment on Oct. 25, 2011. On Oct. 17, San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos served as late-night mediator between protesters and po...

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The Situationists and the Occupation Movements (1968/2011)

dailycensored.com - This puts the media in an awkward and unaccustomed position. They are used to relating with leaders. Since they have not been able to find any, they are forced to look a little deeper, to investiga...

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Tonight: A Dialogue with Occupy El Bario & OWS

occupywallst.org - A Dialogue with Occupy El Barrio & OWS “Dignity is an Echo in the Heartbeat of the People” (Unanimously Endorsed by the General Assembly of Occupy Wall St, The People of Color working group (POCCUP...

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