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John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - John Lennon -"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"Lyrics(Happy Xmas KyokoHappy Xmas Julian) So this is XmasAnd what have you doneAnother year overAnd a new one just begunAnd so this is XmasI hope you have fun...

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Person of the Year | Lefty Parent

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Person of the Year | Lefty Parent:Person of the Yearby Cooper ZaleI caught the cover art of the recent Time magazine piececalling out the “Protester” as its “Person of the Year” and thought it was ...

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Jindal's School Of Louisiana Ethics Gold Standards Rules

bayoubuzz.com - Written byDATE_FORMAT_LC2Here’s a news flash: if you are Chas Roemer and you never inquire into the propriety of voting on issues that directly affect the financial well-being of your sister, you w...

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2011: Best and worst in education - The Answer Sheet

washingtonpost.com - My guest is Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, a nonprofit public policy research organization, writes about education, equal opportunity and civil rights. This appea...

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Schools Look to Donors - WSJ.com

online.wsj.com - Wealthy donors have created a fund to pay the salary of a new Bridgeport school superintendent, ushering in hopes of a new era of private money for reform efforts in Connecticut's most troubled sch...

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When single-issue advocacy causes multiple-issue empowerment

allthingsedu.blogspot.com - Education journalist Joy Removits recently wrote this article on the education "reform" lobby. The article was not particularly remarkable, but I did discern a bit of pivoting on the part of some o...

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What the Mayor Wants, the Mayor Gets

nbcchicago.com - Nicholas Sposato | 36th Ward A true David versus Goliath victory, Sposato defeated John Rice, a man who had been appointed to the 36th ward by former Mayor Daley, as well as endorsed by Mayor Emanu...

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The Mix Tape Metaphor - Teacher in a Strange Land

blogs.edweek.org - When I was growing up, my family's (exceedingly modest) Christmas record collection was composed of LP compilations, the kind you get at the Marathon station--ONLY 99 CENTS WITH FILL-UP!! I loved t...

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Dairy Christmas, and a happy moo year!

davisenterprise.com - Dairy Barn resident Katie Helland visits with her favorite cow, Kaylee. "She was born during my freshman year at UC Davis. Last year, I halter-broke her and showed her in the Young Cattleman's Asso...

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Why the ProPublica Remap Yarn is Nonsense « Calbuzz

calbuzz.com - The pseudo investigation by Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson of New York-based ProPublica, purporting to expose “How Democrats Fooled California’s Redistricting Commission,” is misleading at best, disho...

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The Post-Truth Campaign

nytimes.com - Suppose that President Obama were to say the following: “Mitt Romney believes that corporations are people, and he believes that only corporations and the wealthy should have any rights. He wants t...

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Parent Advocates - ParentAdvocates.org

parentadvocates.org - December 22, 2011Hearing in Soldier’s WikiLeaks Case EndsBy GINGER THOMPSON, NY TIMESLINKFORT MEADE, Md. — The military hearing against Pfc. Bradley Manning closed on Thursday, with lawyers and...

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Protesters, police tussle as tents fall

timesunion.com - ALBANY — The lengthy detente between the city and Occupy Albany ended Thursday evening when police used pepper spray on demonstrators in a struggle to dismantle their last remaining tent. The Occup...

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Peace Corps cites safety in pullout from Honduras

sfgate.com - (12-23) 09:42 PST TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- Honduran officials are lamenting a U.S. decision to pull 158 Peace Corps volunteers out of the country for safety reasons. Foreign Minister Arturo Co...

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San Diego D.A. probes school construction contracts

latimesblogs.latimes.com - December 23, 2011 | 10:49 am The San Diego district attorney's office raided the homes of several school officials and construction company employees this week as part of a months-long corruption p...

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Dutch Helping Nicaraguan Famers Reduce Greenhouse Emissions

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 8:27 am, December 23, 2011 The Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) and two Dutch non-governmental organizations, Hivos and SNV, are launching a $6.3 m...

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The Mix Tape Metaphor - Teacher in a Strange Land

blogs.edweek.org - When I was growing up, my family's (exceedingly modest) Christmas record collection was composed of LP compilations, the kind you get at the Marathon station--ONLY 99 CENTS WITH FILL-UP!! I loved t...

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Occupy LA: “Let’s OK Property Damage!”

lafiga.firedoglake.com - Factions within Occupy LA are calling for the removal of “property” from the Occupy Statement of Principles of Non-Violence or to have the statement non-violence be modified to precisely define...

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