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What Counts As Rape in the CDC's Survey?

reason.com - According to survey data released yesterday by the CDC, "nearly 1 in 5 women" in the United States "have been raped at some point in their lives." If that figure seems surprisingly high, it might b...

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Charter schools enrolling low numbers of poor students

dailykos.com - At Waterstone, about 32 percent of students in 2010 qualified for free or reduced-price lunches, an indicator of poverty, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics. At Cam...

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The Top Five Regrets of the Dying

mariashriver.com - The Top Five Regrets of the Dying By Bronnie Ware As a new year approaches, we tend to reflect on the decisions we have made and resolve to make changes for the year to come. With that in mind, we ...

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Giving Peace of Mind to Parents and Empowering Young Adults

mariashriver.com - Giving Peace of Mind to Parents and Empowering Young Adults By Kathleen Sebelius Photo caption above: Secretary Sebelius’ husband Gary and her two sonsWe all want our children to be safe, happy, an...

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Whom We Admit, What We Deny

alfiekohn.org - INDEPENDENT SCHOOL Winter 2012Whom We Admit, What We Deny The Meaning of Selective Admissions By Alfie Kohn “Send us winners and we’ll make winners out of...

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Pundits 0! (The shifting roles of practitioners and state education agencies) « School Finance 101

schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Professionals, Pundits and Evidence Based Decision Making In Ed Schools housed within research universities, and in programs in educational leadership which are primarily charged with the training ...

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Bridging Differences - Education Week

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,It would be interesting to know what influenced the change of heart among those civil rights organizations, Diane. I've been exploring in my head—while I do my daily laps in the pond—wha...

DebMeier

The education of Earl Kim *93

paw.princeton.edu - Ricardo BarrosEarl Kim *93 It’s been a busy and bruising few years for Earl Kim *93, the superintendent of schools in Montgomery Township, just north of Princeton. Like other schools chiefs during ...

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I'm Sue Thorn and I'm running for Congress (WV-01)

dailykos.com - West Virginia District 1 West Virginia is different from most of the country. This is an area where people have long memories and deep roots, and it has been solidly Democratic since the New Deal. ...

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School outs gay teen; civil rights groups outraged - Nation Wires

miamiherald.com - SALT LAKE CITY -- Administrators at a Utah middle school outed a gay teenage boy to his parents because they feared he would be bullied, but the move has outraged civil rights groups that claim the...

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For Hitchens, In Life And Death, An Unaware Cosmos : NPR

npr.org - Enlarge David Levenson/Getty Images Christopher Hitchens, shown here in 2010, began a lifelong battle with a God he didn't believe in when he was just 9 years old. David Levenson/Getty Images Chris...

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Holiday Gift Guide by Bloggers of Children with Special Needs

abilitypath.org - The holiday season is upon us, and for many parents, that means searching for the perfect toys for their children. AbilityPath.org reached out to bloggers of children with special needs looking for...

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How Short Can A Very Short Story Be? : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR

npr.org - The other day, a book arrived here called The Tiny Book Of Tiny Stories and I thought, "Oooh, how tiny will they be?" Very short stories can get very, very short and still be good. The most famous ...

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The 50 Funniest Tweets Of 2011

happyplace.com - The 50 funniest tweets of 2011.posted 15 minutes ago50.Having sifted through our Twitter feed every weekday to gather our daily Tweet Picks, we've assembled a pretty comprehensive document of the y...

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The 10 Biggest Ideas of the Year - Derek Thompson - National

theatlantic.com - Three years after the peak of the Great Recession, 2011 was a year of Great Confrontation. The "Arab Street" against the despots. Weak Europe against strong Europe. The House of Representatives aga...

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BP receives $5.1 billion is settlements. RECEIVES? « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - This morning’s paper reports that BP will receive $25o million in a settlement with Cameron International. Cameron made the faulty blowout preventer. This will be put in the pot of $5.1 billion tha...

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Political Animal - Jobless-claims data improves significantly

washingtonmonthly.com - December 16, 2011 4:20 PM Jobless-claims data improves significantly By Steve Benen Jonathan had a good post about this yesterday, but I have a chart to publish, so I hope readers won’t mind two it...

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Four NRC Commisioners Conspire with Republicans in Coup Attempt

dailykos.com - Four commissioners of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission attempted to delay the Commission's response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear emergency, to cover up the severity of the incident and to weak...

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At a Meeting Spot for Occupiers, Signs Prohibit Signs

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - Robert Stolarik for The New York TimesNo signs inside, please: the atrium at 60 Wall Street.Updated, 1:45 p.m. | Soon after the Occupy Wall Street protesters built an encampment in the financial d...

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Group Clears Path for a Third-Party Ticket

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - To those who bemoan the lack of better choices in presidential elections, third-party fantasies come easily at this stage in a campaign. End hyper-partisanship and Washington dysfunction: Vote Bloo...

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Edie Stevenson Dies at 81; Wrote ‘Let’s Get Mikey’ Ad

nytimes.com - In 1973, a little boy named Mikey, a notoriously picky eater, dug enthusiastically into a bowl of a new, healthy cereal called Life. “He likes it!” his stunned older brother exclaimed in a memorabl...

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Dear Men’s Health Magazine, Your List Sucks

awesomelyluvvie.com - The other night on Twitter, I saw folks slandering Jennifer Aniston heavily and wondered why. They informed me that in a list that Men’s Health Magazine released, rating the Hottest Women of All Ti...

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Holidays at the White House

mediagallery.usatoday.com - Holidays at the White House President Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia attend a lighting ceremony at the National Christmas Tree. Presiden Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia an...

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We won’t invest in struggling schools

pureparents.org - They say that if they tell us what they’re doing, we’ll get upset. What are they doing? Here’s what CPS Chief Operating Officer Tim Cawley told reporters over the phone yesterday: “If we think ther...

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A great charter school hustle

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - RichmondI've got to hand it to charter school authorizer and former lobbyist, Greg Richmond for coming up with this great hustle. A law recently pass by the Illinois state legislature created his n...

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Why Does the Foundation Fund Them, And Also Them?

impatientoptimists.org - Over the past couple of weeks, a fair amount of attention has been paid and criticism offered in response to a recent foundation grant of $350,000 to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC...