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It Starts by Making Education a National Mission

ed.gov - President Barack Obama delivers remarks in Osawatomie, Kansas, White House Photo, Pete Souza, 12/6/11 “The world is shifting to an innovation economy and nobody does innovation better than America,...

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Some New York City Scores Drop in U.S. Student Tests

nytimes.com - New York City students scored slightly lower on federal math tests this year compared with 2009, according to scores released Wednesday morning, even as scores of their counterparts in other big ci...

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NCLB Waivers: Montana Says No Thanks - Politics K-12

blogs.edweek.org - Montana is formally rejecting the U.S. Department of Education's offer for more flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act, declaring that it doesn't make "educational or financial" sense to ap...

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Execution Case Dropped Against Abu-Jamal

nytimes.com - Prosecutors in Philadelphia announced Wednesday that they had dropped their attempts to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal, the death row inmate convicted of killing a police officer 30 years ago and whose su...

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Congressman Kimble Protects Americans with Patti's Law

kimbleforcongress.blogspot.com - Protecting our nation has been a priority of Jack Kimble since his election to Congress in 2006. With terrorism threatening to bring America to it's knees at any moment, Jack Kimble has team with ...

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Obama's Osawatomie speech

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - "Here, finally, is the Barack Obama many of us thought we had elected in 2008." -- Robert ReichIf you had any doubts that the Occupy Movement was impacting the presidential elections, check out Pre...

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FL gov most hated in US

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Even widely hated politicians can usually get a third of the voters to stick with them. Not Florida Gov. Pink Slip Rick Scott, who ought to be in jail but instead got voted into office. A new poll ...

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Phys Ed: A New Worry for Soccer Parents

well.blogs.nytimes.com - PhotoAlto via Getty ImagesWhat happens inside the skull of a soccer player who repeatedly heads a soccer ball? That question motivated a provocative new study of the brains of experienced players t...

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HHS says no to over-the-counter morning-after pill

northjersey.com - WASHINGTON— The nation's health secretary says young teenagers cannot buy the Plan B morning-after pill without a prescription — a surprise move overruling her own experts, who were preparing to le...

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Fox Business Attacks Liberalism of Muppet Movie

loyalopposition.blogs.nytimes.com - Valerie Macon/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesKermit attends the Premiere Of Walt Disney Pictures’ ‘The Muppets’ at the El Capitan Theatre, in Hollywood, California, on November 12, 2011.There’s...

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ACLU settles lesbian yearbook flap in Mississippi

boston.com - JACKSON, Miss.—The ACLU says a Mississippi school district will require students to wear caps and gowns in senior pictures after a lesbian student was left out of the yearbook for wearing a tuxedo....

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Tyler Clementi's family interviewed in People

northjersey.com - The family of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi speaks out in an interview with People magazine, according to a report on People.com. Tyler Clementi Clementi, of Ridgewood, jumped to his de...

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Occupy SF Protesters Re-Enter Plaza

baycitizen.org - Adithya Sambamurthy/The Bay Citizen A row of police helmets at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco on Dec. 7, 2011, the morning after Occupy San Francisco protesters were evicted from their encamp...

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