Saturday, December 3, 2011

Big Education Ape: 12-3-11 AM SUPPORT COMMUNITIES, NOT WALL STREET EDITION #OWS #edreform

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Working America

ninedemands.com - Support education for all. Reduce class sizes, ensure access to early childhood education and enrichment courses, keep educators in the classroom, support local school construction and modernizatio...

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Newt’s War on Poor Children

nytimes.com - Newt Gingrich has reached a new low, and that is hard for him to do. Nearly two weeks after claiming that child labor laws are “truly stupid” and implying that poor children should be p...

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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...

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Voices of the Occupation: What they'll take away

opinion.latimes.com - On Tuesday, in the hours before Occupy L.A. was ejected from the grounds of City Hall, Margot Roosevelt photographed participants and interviewed them about what had brought them to the protest and...

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Give schools support, not pink slips - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - Letters to the Editor December 1, 2011 5:58PM Updated: December 2, 2011 2:21AM When an area of the city has an increase in crime, the local police station isn’t closed, and the police and people wh...

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Mayor Hits Nerve in Remarks on Class Sizes and Teachers

nytimes.com - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg faced tough questions for a second day Friday on comments he made about two of the most sensitive issues in New York City education: teacher quality and class sizes. ...

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Virtually Educated

nytimes.com - It’s weird how you can lose track of our ever-changing world. For instance, until recently I thought “reality TV” meant games about people who were stuck on an island or locked in a house together ...

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Newt’s War on Poor Children

nytimes.com - Newt Gingrich has reached a new low, and that is hard for him to do. Nearly two weeks after claiming that child labor laws are “truly stupid” and implying that poor children should be p...

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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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Exam Cheating on Long Island Hardly a Secret

nytimes.com - GREAT NECK, N.Y. — The suspected test takers came from prominent, respected families, some of them in financial distress — among the five facing felony charges were the sons of a well-known lawyer,...

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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...

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Greek Workers Walk Out in Protest for 7th Time

nytimes.com - ATHENS — Thousands of Greek workers walked off the job on Thursday in the seventh general strike this year to protest government austerity policies after a year and a half of cutbacks. ...

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Homeless woman, pet dog find a way to weather windstorm

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Without the Internet or television, and not having read a newspaper or listened to the radio, Joanne had no idea what she was heading toward Wednesday night as she drove into town with her life's b...

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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...

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U.S. Adds 120,000 Jobs; Unemployment Drops to 8.6%

nytimes.com - The United States logged yet another month of mediocre job growth in November. The Labor Department said Friday that the nation’s employers added 120,000 jobs last month, after adding 1...

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