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Monday, December 12, 2011

Big Education Ape: 12-12-11 AM Ravitch: Billionaires (and millionaires) for education reform EDition #edreform

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2011 UNITY NewU Startup Funds

landing.k12newsnetwork.com - BIOCynthia Liu, PhD, is CEO/Founder of the online organizing and education news site K12NewsNetwork.com, a "MoveOn" for supporters of public education.In 2011, she received the BlogHer.com / HTC 20...

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Growing Push in Newark to Retake School Reins

nytimes.com - NEWARK — For a generation of Newark students, every education decision, including choices on curriculum, spending and superintendent, has been made by state officials in Trenton. That l...

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Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Photo: CAJLA Time Magazine’s Judith Warner asks, “Why are the rich so interested in public school reform?” She says, “Let’s hope that the time to reform this business-modeled mindset has finally co...

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America's Best Judge

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - The honorable Judge Sheila Rappaport from the great state of Colorado:In declaring Colorado's school finance system "significantly underfunded," Denver District Judge Sheila Rappaport rejected virt...

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'I Don't Care About That'

huffingtonpost.com - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry says he wants a huge tax break for the rich, and he doesn't care what it means for income inequality.Rick Perry announced on Tuesday that if elected pre...

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Mitt Romney & Chris Christie Redux

bluejersey.com - Mitt Romney is going to be at the Parsippany Hilton tomorrow night, sharing a stage with his #1 stand-in, Chris Christie. Got $500? That'll get you in. They'll rake in big bucks; $500 gets you in t...

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Are Girls Really Alright? - THE DAILY RIFF

thedailyriff.com - "Now in this country, girls outpace boys in test scores, high school and college enrollment and grad rates, and leadership positions in high school, and YET. . . it all depends on WHAT you are mea...

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blog.angryasianman.com - George Takei is the Broker of Star Peace: Our elder statesman George Takei, best known as Sulu on Star Trek, steps in to broker the peace between warring internet supporters of the Star Trek and St...

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Sofia Vergara, George Lopez to be Part of CCN Heroes Tonight

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 2:28 pm, December 11, 2011 Photo Credits: George Lopez & Sofia Vergara on CNN Heroes Tribute CNN, the worldwide leader in news, announced new show details and additions to the line-up ...

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America’s Greediest: The 2011 Top Ten Edition

ourfuture.org - One puts on football pageants. Another makes millions on a virtual farm. From Too Much, the Institute for Policy Studies inequality weekly, we present the year's ten most avaricious. All ten remind...

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The Few, the Proud, the Very Rich

californiaprogressreport.com - Printer-friendly versionSend to friendBy Sylvia Allegretto UC Berkeley Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics Much of the current political and popular discourse has focused on inequalities that ex...

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