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International Socialist Review
isreview.org - Back to home pageISR Issue 62, November–December 2008 Charter schools and the attack on public educationBy SARAH KNOPPIn a stock market prospectus uncovered by education author Jonathan Kozol, the ...
The Quiz: Test yourself on education in 2011 - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - The year 2011 was monumental in education — monumentally good or monumentally bad, depending on your view. School reformers who believe in using business principles to run public schools had a bann...
Law turns kids into commodities - Fred Grimm
miamiherald.com - Compared to modern school kids, I was a downright worthless student.I don’t mean worthless as a pejorative. (My father would have used a more colorful term to characterize my scholarly pursuits.) B...
Daily Kos: Social Context Reform: Where to Start
dailykos.com - Social Reform: Choosing Evidence over Cultural Myths "For more than two centuries," explains Sawhill and Morton, "economic opportunity and the prospect of upward mobility have formed the bedrock up...
When Lessons From Education 'Reform' Go Unlearned
ourfuture.org - One good thing you can say about 2011 is that it is a year in which lots of wrong-headed undertakings finally came to their ignominious conclusions -- including, among others, the Iraq War, the Gad...
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Chapter 23: The Instructional Run-Around
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Charter schools are not the solution: The widow of famed UFT leader Albert Shanker blasts ‘reformers’
nydailynews.com - Are charter schools the answer for public education? If what you know about charters comes from last year’s ballyhooed film “Waiting for Superman,” you probably think so. But the answer is, in fact...
What to expect in January from the corporate privatizers in the state of Washington
seattleducation2010.wordpress.com - Remember: There is nothing “public” about charter schools except the funding of these franchises by our tax dollars. This began as a memorandum to a group of political and education activists in th...
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A Tax to Narrow the Rich-Poor Gap
nytimes.com - To the Editor: Re “Don’t Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself,” by Ian Ayres and Aaron S. Edlin (Op-Ed, Dec. 19), proposing an extra tax limiting the incomes of the top 1 percent of earn...
Rick Perry's Security Costs Texas Taxpayers up to $400,000 a Month
news.yahoo.com - (Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo)Rick Perry's security costs have risen since he entered the presidential campaign in August, costing Texas taxpayers as much as $400,000 a month, according to a report ...
Cops Ready for War - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com - Nestled amid plains so flat the locals joke you can watch your dog run away for miles, Fargo treasures its placid lifestyle, seldom pierced by the mayhem and violence common in other urban communit...
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NYPD Keeps Occupiers from Bringing Holiday Cookies into Zuccotti Park
alternet.org - If you gathered together the world's finest minds and tasked them with making NYPD appear to be as wantonly disdainful of the 1st Amendment as humanly possible, they'd never do a better job than Mi...
Ben Falik: We Bought a School
huffingtonpost.com - After news this week that Governor Snyder lifted the limits on the number of charter schools operating in Michigan, you may be asking yourself, "What's stopping me from opening my own charter schoo...
Missouri Education Watchdog: What did your kids (or kids you know) receive for Christmas? Will those Gifts Make them Creators or Consumers?
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Missouri Education Watchdog: What did your kids (or kids you know) receive for Christmas? Will those Gifts Make them Creators or Consumers?:What did your kids (or kids you know) receive for Christm...
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Dick Cheney appeared in a military courtroom. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - When former Vice President Dick Cheney appeared in a military courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland, last week, it was his first public appearance in more than 19 months. Cheney has been held without t...
Wisconsin Set to Throw the Republicans Out |
bluecheddar.net - According to Andrew Feldman’s Christmas Eve opinion piece in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, “Despite Democrats’ massive protests and their success at gathering recall signatures, most Wisconsinite...
Unemployment System at Stake in Conference Committee Negotiations
news.firedoglake.com - As Charlie Pierce writes, one reason why should hold back on the celebration over the two-month extension on the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance is that the conference committee has yet ...
EnvironmentSee all
Springtime for Toxics
nytimes.com - Here’s what I wanted for Christmas: something that would make us both healthier and richer. And since I was just making a wish, why not ask that Americans get smarter, too? Surprise: I ...
#OccupySupply: Erie Still Strong After 7 Raids!
my.firedoglake.com - Occupy Supply is making a difference. Occupy Erie has faced 7 devastating raids but refuses to quit, thanks in-part to the tireless support of the Firedoglake community. Our liaison Mark H. wrote i...
One More Reason to Hate Wal-Mart (and Football)
modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/12/one-more-reason-to-hate-wal-mart-and.html"; What do Wal-Mart and football have in common, aside from being huge and tedious? Apparently they ar...
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Police Block Protesters From Bringing Food To Zuccotti Park For Christmas Celebration
thinkprogress.org - NEWS FLASH Police Block Protesters From Bringing Food To Zuccotti Park For Christmas Celebration | Occupy Wall Street protesters convened for a Christmas celebration at their old campsite in Zuccot...
Photo Galleries Of The Week
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Obviously, photos can be great educational tools with English Language Learners and with any students (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons). I post about many photo galleries, also called sl...
The “F-Word” – Editorial: A FAILED EXPERIMENT WITH HEALTHY SCHOOL MEALS = FARCE²
4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - Las Vegas Review-Journal Editorial | http://bit.ly/uHmDDI O.K. - The LVR-J is hardly the The New York or even The LA Times – and 4LAKids is being either foolhardy or brave in re...
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Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1% | Labor Notes #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1% | Labor Notes:Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1%Howard Ryan| December 26, 2011Rahm Emanuel, whom Occupy Chicago has dubbed Mayor 1%, fired another shot at the city’s...
Missouri Education Watchdog: What did your kids (or kids you know) receive for Christmas? Will those Gifts Make them Creators or Consumers?
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Missouri Education Watchdog: What did your kids (or kids you know) receive for Christmas? Will those Gifts Make them Creators or Consumers?:What did your kids (or kids you know) receive for Christm...
2011 Lesson #3 – “Do then think”: take risks | Connected Principals
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 2011 Lesson #3 – “Do then think”: take risks | Connected Principals:2011 Lesson #3 – “Do then think”: take risksby sharrisAvalon learning space in action - kids love the ideas wall Okay … this less...
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Cops Ready for War - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com - Nestled amid plains so flat the locals joke you can watch your dog run away for miles, Fargo treasures its placid lifestyle, seldom pierced by the mayhem and violence common in other urban communit...
Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1% | Labor Notes #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1% | Labor Notes:Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1%Howard Ryan| December 26, 2011Rahm Emanuel, whom Occupy Chicago has dubbed Mayor 1%, fired another shot at the city’s...
#OccupySupply: Erie Still Strong After 7 Raids!
my.firedoglake.com - Occupy Supply is making a difference. Occupy Erie has faced 7 devastating raids but refuses to quit, thanks in-part to the tireless support of the Firedoglake community. Our liaison Mark H. wrote i...
