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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How Bloomberg could still win missing millions for failing schools
thenewyorkworld.com - Mayor Michael Bloomberg in Albany last week for the State of the State address. Gov. Cuomo and the state legislature could help New York City release frozen federal school funds. AP Photo/Mike Grol...
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Long-struggling schools in Chester, Pa., running out of money, may not be able to make payroll
therepublic.com - CHESTER, Pa. — Nearly two decades after being declared financially distressed, the school system in this struggling Philadelphia suburb faces a new and even more daunting crisis: It may run out of ...
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 ...
A state legislative task force calls for a moratorium on school closings
articles.chicagotribune.com - State Rep. Cynthia Soto, D-Chicago, on the House floor in May 2010. (E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune)January 13, 2012|By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune reporterA state legislative task ...
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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...
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...
Human Rights Petition: Mayor of Chicago: Stop Restrictions on Public Protests
change.org - Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed changes to the city’s parade ordinance that severely limit our right to peaceable assembly and free speech. His proposal criminalizes the act of expressing dissen...
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New York State faces losing $1 billion in federal education funds over teacher evaluation issue
nydailynews.com - Albany — New York is on notice: The feds are threatening to yank nearly $1 billion in education funding unless the state adopts a new teacher evaluation system.Senior members of U.S. Education Secr...
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...
In flap over S. Carolina law, old tensions and a campaign issue
news.yahoo.com - COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - The state that fired the first shot in the Civil War is once again battling the government in a racially charged conflict that is drawing heated rhetoric from R...
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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 ...
The Innovative Educator: A Dream to Be Free At Last From State Standardized Tests
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Innovative Educator: A Dream to Be Free At Last From State Standardized Tests:A Dream to Be Free At Last From State Standardized Testsby noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Nielsen)Parents across the nat...
What’s a college degree worth these days? Depends on your major
boston.com - A degree is the entry ticket to many jobs. Nonetheless, the lack of career planning before a school is chosen, a major is selected, and debt is borrowed is shocking.For more from BostonGlobe.com, s...
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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 ...
Confederate Civil War Submarine H.L. Hunley Able To Be Viewed For First Time « CAFFEINATED POLITICS
dekerivers.wordpress.com - Civil War buffs have something else to marvel over. Considered the Confederacy’s stealth weapon, the Hunley sank the Union warship Housatonic in winter 1864, and then disappeared with all eight Con...
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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...
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...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Early Afternoon Posts 1-15 #ows #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Cruel Hoax of “Choice” With Charter Schools | Seattle Education Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 48 minutes ago The Cruel Hoax of “Choice” With Charter Schools | Seattle Educat...