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If I Had It My Way I'd Dump Half Of New York City's Teachers « CBS New York
newyork.cbslocal.com - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (credit: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It’s a jaw-dropping prescription for fixing city schools. “Professor” Michael Bloomberg said Thursday he would ac...
Problems With Credits at School in the Bronx
nytimes.com - The chances that a student at Jane Addams High School for Academic Careers in the Bronx would graduate in four years were already poor, but seniors there said this week that they had been told of a...
The Rise and Fall of Stand For Children
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Edelman's unsolicited confession A Chicago News Cooperative story in today's NY Times, "Education Group Tries to Rebound After Diatribe," documents the crash-and-burn of the corporate reform group,...
Harold Meyerson on the GOP's war on labor unions
dailykos.com - Let's look at the next, penultimate paragraph: There’s another reason, too. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis reports that in the third quarter, wages as a share of gross dome...
Working America
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If I Had It My Way I'd Dump Half Of New York City's Teachers « CBS New York
newyork.cbslocal.com - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (credit: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It’s a jaw-dropping prescription for fixing city schools. “Professor” Michael Bloomberg said Thursday he would ac...
The latest Bloomberg idiocy about class size; why wasn't I surprised?
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - So Mayor Bloomberg stepped in it again, when at a speech at MIT this week, he said that if he could redesign our public school system, he would fire half the teachers, double the class size, and ...
statewideonline.org - If you have questions, email us here or call us at (315)-463-1904 The Statewide School Finance Consortium (SSFC) is an organization of nearly 360 New York public school districts whose mission is t...
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5 questions with Dr. Cornel West on Occupy Wall Street - Under God
washingtonpost.com - The following is excerpted from a recent interview between On Faith’s Sally Quinn and Dr. Cornel West. A full transcript of the interview is available here.Princeton University Professor Cornel Wes...
Newt Gingrich’s disgusting remarks about ‘really poor children’ - PostPartisan
washingtonpost.com - Newt Gingrich, the know-it-all former Speaker of the House who now rides atop the polls for the Republican nomination for president, has been shooting his mouth off lately. He called himself a cele...
Gov. Walker’s Latest Genius IdeaTruthdig
truthdig.com - As if the idea of designated “free speech zones” isn’t a skin-crawlingly bad enough test of the bounds of free speech, here comes Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to up the creepy ante: Why not char...
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The Rebirth of Social Darwinism
readersupportednews.org - Reich begins: "What kind of society, exactly, do modern Republicans want? I've been listening to Republican candidates in an effort to discern an overall philosophy, a broadly-shared vision, an ide...
Assembly Told To Prepare For Three-Day Session
capitaltonight.com - Members of the Assembly are being given a heads up this morning that a tentative three-day special session in Albany next week is possible, a highly placed Democratic source said. The potential ses...
Transparent moments
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Every once in a while, a bit of truth comes seeping through the pores of the corporate media. Corporate moguls, media tycoons or politicians become a little remorseful or a little drunk and let us ...
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Brooklyn School Is Contest Finalist, But Experts Question Corporate Motives
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. Education experts are concerned about a growing ...
All Education Matters: Seriously Subversive: Wearing Hundreds of Hats and Loving Every Minute of It #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - All Education Matters: Seriously Subversive: Wearing Hundreds of Hats and Loving Every Minute of It:Seriously Subversive: Wearing Hundreds of Hats and Loving Every Minute of Itby Cryn JohannsenIf y...
"breaking down cultural barriers" - The Educator's PLN
edupln.com - Sophie Goldwasser Skyping with the South African students in Mr. Gatoux’s class (11/28) On the Monday following Thanksgiving break, my Spanish class had the rare opportunity to video chat with st...
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"Hugo" named best picture by National Board of Review - Celebrity Circuit
cbsnews.com - Asa Butterfield and Chloe Grace Moretz in "Hugo." (Credit: Paramount Pictures) (CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" is the year's best film, according to the National Board of Review. The g...
News Host Is Scrutinized for Her Ties to Candidate
nytimes.com - Greta Van Susteren, the Fox News host, faced questions on Wednesday about whether she should have disclosed the friendship between her husband, a noted Washington lawyer, and Herman Cain, whose wif...
Don Francisco To be Inducted to TV Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 5:09 pm, December 2, 2011 Photo Credits: Don Francisco For Mario Kreutzberger, the popular Don Francisco of Spanish-language television, to enter the Academy of Television Arts & Scien...
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The Recession Is 4 Years Old, Guess Which Industry Is Suffering the Most? - Jordan Weissmann - Business
theatlantic.com - On the Fourth Anniversary of the downturn, two industries account for an outsized share of total job lossesReutersFour years ago this month, the United States entered the great recession. As Friday...
Ouch! « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - Moms and dads are working hard to make this a joyous holiday season and year. Every cent counts when it comes to the basics, like putting food on the table and buying winter clothes and shoes for g...
Don't Break Out the Champagne)
robertreich.org - In brief: The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ household survey shows unemployment at 8.6 percent, and the payroll survey shows 120,000 new jobs in November (140,000 from the private sector, and a loss ...
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5 questions with Dr. Cornel West on Occupy Wall Street - Under God
washingtonpost.com - The following is excerpted from a recent interview between On Faith’s Sally Quinn and Dr. Cornel West. A full transcript of the interview is available here.Princeton University Professor Cornel Wes...
Most Occupy L.A. arrestees to be released Friday
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Most of the nearly 200 Occupy L.A. protesters who remained in jail are expected to be released Friday because they have clean criminal records, according to the city attorney's office. A couple ...
White Men Make at Least 36% More Than Other Groups on Wall Street - Business
theatlanticwire.com - A CUNY sociologist has found that white males working in finance make significantly more money than those who aren't white or aren't male, according to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journa...
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The Recession Is 4 Years Old, Guess Which Industry Is Suffering the Most? - Jordan Weissmann - Business
theatlantic.com - On the Fourth Anniversary of the downturn, two industries account for an outsized share of total job lossesReutersFour years ago this month, the United States entered the great recession. As Friday...