Sunday, December 18, 2011

Big Education Ape: 12-18-11 AM Inconvenient Income Inequality EDition #OWS #EDREFORM

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Inconvenient Income Inequality

nytimes.com - Is income inequality becoming the new global warming? In other words, is this another case where the facts of an existential threat lose traction among a weary American public as deniers attempt to...

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Selling Schools Out | Corporate Accountability

theinvestigativefund.org - If the national movement to "reform" public education through vouchers, charters and privatization has a laboratory, it is Florida. It was one of the first states to undertake a program of "virtual...

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SOAPBOX: Be wary of charter schools

stuff.co.nz - DAN SEARLE REGIONAL CHAIRMAN PPTA & TEACHER AT MBCOPINION:The charter schools controversy reminds us all that the New Zealand Government still blindly follows United States' educational policies, r...

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Charter-school agency’s funding raises questions

wbez.org - A new government agency could boost the number of charter schools in Illinois. But the way the agency is financing itself raises questions.The Illinois State Charter School Commission, created by a...

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Arrests as Occupy Protest Turns to Church

nytimes.com - From his spot at the center of Duarte Square in Lower Manhattan, Matt Sky watched on Saturday as hundreds of protesters streamed into the public areas of the triangle-shaped space at the center of ...

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for me an unusual Saturday morning

dailykos.com - I am totally disconnected from my normal tasks - grading papers, planning, doing house work. Went to sleep at around 8 for 3.5 hours, then headed to Union Station to catch a 3:15 AM train to NYC ...

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Our schools exam system is no longer fit for purpose | Mehdi Hasan | Comment is free

guardian.co.uk - It was a sorry sight. On Thursday, the heads of England's four exam boards, as well as three of their examiners, filed into the Thatcher Room of Portcullis House to be quizzed by MPs on the educati...

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First Arts Education Census Shows Arizona Schools Delivering Arts Education Programs with Few Dedicated Resources « Arizona Commission on the Arts

azarts.gov - By Arizona Commission on the Arts on August 3rd, 2010Compelling New Research Reveals Arts Classes Not Weighted Equally With Other Academic Subjects PHOENIX, AZ (July 29, 2010) – The first statewide...

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Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Announces Investigation of K12, Inc.

marketwatch.com - NEW YORK, Dec 16, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential securities fraud at K12, Inc. ("K12" or the "Company") /quotes/zig...

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Suffer the Little Children | NationofChange

nationofchange.org - Newt Gingrich, who recently admitted that his own childhood was comfortable, seems to have a problem with youth — poor youth, that is. Back in 1994, the Gingrich master plan to shrink the welfare r...

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Justice Department reports pattern of civil rights abuses in Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Maricopa County

latimes.com - Reporting from Washington and Las Vegas— Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Phoenix-based department repeatedly arrested Latinos illegally, abused them in the county jails and failed to investigate hundreds of s...

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Poll: Negatives up for NYC Schools Chancellor

nydailynews.com - Voters have gotten to know city schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott since he assumed the important post last spring, but a new poll shows many haven’t liked what they’ve seen. The Quinnipiac Universi...

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Poll: Negatives up for NYC Schools Chancellor

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Education Tour Partner Al Sharpton Doesn’t Back Newt Gingrich’s Reforms

thedailybeast.com - Of all Newt Gingrich’s liaisons, there’s the one relationship with a significant other—a controversial figure who’s shown the ability to capitalize on presidential-primary debate time, draw attenti...

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Daily Kos: I'm not sure how to title this

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: I'm not sure how to title this: I'm not sure how to title this by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken) I am sitting in the waiting area at Penn Station in NYC, waiting for an ...

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Forgive & Forget...

sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com - "Forgiveness, the first step and binding obligation of non-violence, hangs by a silver cord of love, high in the vault of the cosmos. Slender and fine that thread, and woven of four sacred action...

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To Tweet Or Not To Tweet

edupln.com - One of the most enjoyable parts of my job as an administrator is visiting classes. Today I was so impressed with what I saw and learned, that I wrote a note to the class. I share that note below....

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At Least 10 Die in Rare Violence in Kazakhstan

nytimes.com - MOSCOW — At least 10 people were killed on Friday in clashes with the police in Kazakhstan just days after a strike by oil workers shifted its focus to political demands, including the right to for...

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Protesters occupy Department of Ed lobby, demand charter school reform - NorthJersey.com #OWS #EDREFORM

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Protesters occupy Department of Ed lobby, demand charter school reform - NorthJersey.com:Protesters occupy Department of Ed lobby, demand charter school reformFRIDAY DECEMBER 16, 2011, 12:53 PMBY C...

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Occupy Supply Teams Up with Occupy San Antonio

my.firedoglake.com - Occupy Supply and Occupy San Antonio (OSA) are working together to keep occupiers going through the winter season. Base-layers, hats, scarves, blankets and duck coats have now been delivered and ...

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Poll: Negatives up for NYC Schools Chancellor

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Poll: Negatives up for NYC Schools Chancellor

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NYC protesters scale fence at vacant lot

davisenterprise.com - NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Saturday after they scaled a chain-link fence or crawled under it to get to a church-owned lot they want to use for a new camp ...