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America's Teachers See Growing Poverty Up Close

readersupportednews.org - Naison writes: "We have a President who holds an 'education summit' that includes the nation’s top business leaders and foundation heads, but no teachers; we have billionaires lobbying to privatize...

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CT News Junkie | OP-ED

ctnewsjunkie.com - by Sarah Darer Littman | Jan 13, 2012 10:33am(4) Comments | Log in to Post a Comment Posted to: Opinion A few months back I got into an interesting discussion with my high school friends on Faceboo...

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Matt Damon’s mother is wrong - Class Struggle

washingtonpost.com - Almost all of us say that as a nation we should work out our differences and unite to solve our problems. But we don’t mean it. Exhibit A is the bad blood between the National Education Association...

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Education reform draws praise, doubt | The Argus Leader

argusleader.com - Daugaard’s education plan Phase out teacher tenure by not awarding it to any teacher who doesn’t have it by July 1. “Administrators will have a strong foundation to make informed decisions about th...

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Stephen Colbert | South Carolina | Mitt Romney

dailycaller.com - Jamie Weinstein is Senior Editor of The Daily Caller. His work has appeared in The Weekly Standard, the New York Daily News and The Washington Examiner, among many other publications. He also worke...

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coopmike48 Big Education Ape: Modern School: Jerry Brown Wants to Kill Transitional Kindergarten - goo.gl/LSC8C46 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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coopmike48 Big Education Ape: The Real Mr. Fitz: A Teacher's Letter to Obama: A Lesson in Irony - goo.gl/lfhPV46 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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coopmike48 Big Education Ape: Seattle Schools Community Forum: Randy Dorn Comes Out Against Charter Legislation -goo.gl/rTsqn46 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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coopmike48 MLK on Commitment - Are you making a difference? | MyFDL -goo.gl/8kYpr #ows2 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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leoniehaimson Duncan piles on & threatens take $1 billion fr NYS in fed funds over teacher eval & lack of data system issue goo.gl/txhuv41 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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DianeRavitch Sign at SOS March last July (just heard about it): Woman in wheelchair: "I don't mind you being rich. I mind you buying our government."34 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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tbfurman Every time I fall back in love with Obama (after each GOP debate, for example), Arne Duncan says or does another incredibly stupid thing.23 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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coopmike48 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: GRAPHIC: if a picture is worth a thousand words - goo.gl/j5TZi19 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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Chicago Teachers Union | MLK Day Marches

ctunet.com - They stood together then.It's our turn now.Monday, Jan. 16 Dr. King and the families who marched with him were clear on what dream they fought for. They marched for desegregated schools. They knew ...

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Peace activist Marv Davidov dies

startribune.com - Marv Davidov, an iconic figure in the Minnesota peace movement who founded and led the Honeywell Project in a decades-long campaign to halt the production of anti-personnel weapons by the Honeywell...

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In Romney's Campaign, What's Race Got to Do With It?

campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com - Jon Moe/Associated PressMitt Romney, a Republican presidential candidate, with his extended family in 2007.Mitt Romney may not have officially clinched the Republican nomination, but his victory ha...

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Men at War | The Weekly Standard

weeklystandard.com - We’ll stipulate that of course the Marines who urinated on the bodies of dead Taliban in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, last year should be appropriately disciplined, assuming things are as they ap...

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My dinner with Rahm. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Nothing captures the change that has taken place in my neighborhood over the past four decades than the restaurant Lula. We think of it as our neighborhood place. You can get the world’s best BLT ...

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Is Walmart the Answer to 'Food Deserts"?

motherjones.com - Walmart and other mega-retailers hold the key to bringing fresh, healthy food into low-income urban areas where grocery options are severely limited. At least, that's what some prominent observers ...

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Latinas the Main Victims of Cervical Cancer in California

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Enjoy this story by Maria Luisa Arredonod for New America Media.For more than six years, Lilia Fuentes did not get a Pap test. Lilia, whose name has been changed, didn’t think it was necessary sinc...

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Schools Matter: It's the Socioeconomic Segregation, Stupid

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: It's the Socioeconomic Segregation, Stupid:It's the Socioeconomic Segregation, Stupidby Jim HornIt’s theSocioeconomic Segregation, Stupid Jim HornIna piece for The Nation by a fewda...

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Jersey Jazzman: High School Sr. Speaks Out on Charters

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: High School Sr. Speaks Out on Charters:High School Sr. Speaks Out on Chartersby DukeA reader at my Facebook page (you "like" me, don't you?) pointed me to this great letter in the C...

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