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Protesters Wreak Havoc As Ten Arrested

huffingtonpost.com - A class meets in the auditorium building at Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, Calif., Friday, March 18, 2011. Oakland, Calif. (AP) -- Oakland's school board is planning to resume a meeting ...
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Eureka College maintains spot on honor roll - Peoria, IL

pjstar.com - For the second consecutive year, Eureka College has been named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary community service.This year, Eureka College moved up in...
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Behind Every Harassed Child? A Lot of Clueless Adults

movies.nytimes.com - “Bully,” Lee Hirsch’s moving and troubling documentary about the misery some children inflict upon others, arrives at a moment when bullying, long tolerated as a fact of life, is being redefined as...
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Duval to challenge state Board of Education

jacksonville.com - The Duval County School Board will challenge the state Board of Education’s decision approving an online-only charter school’s application to open in Jacksonville. The School Board told its attorne...
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Harlem charter school teachers unionize

columbiaspectator.com - Teachers at a bilingual elementary school in West Harlem are relieved to have won a fight with the school board to unionize—a rare move for a charter school. Faculty and staff at the New York Frenc...
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RITA KRAMER: A DARK PASSOVER | MIDEAST OUTPOST

mideastoutpost.com - When families gather around the Seder table, many recall the dark Passover of 1943 and the climax of the months-long battle in which the small number of men and women remaining in the Warsaw Ghetto...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 29, 2012 The President proposed the Buffett Rule to ensure a very basic principle of fairness: millionaires shouldn’t pay l...
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Another 'Parent Trigger' Effort Ends in Defeat

kcrw.com - Subscribe to this Podcast:Listen to/Watch entire show: First in Compton, now in Adelanto — out in the Mojave Desert — elected school boards have rejected petitions by parents to reform failing scho...
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Whale freed from fishing net off Palos Verdes

latimesblogs.latimes.com - A team of volunteers Thursday cut a gray whale loose from fishing gear it was tangled in off the coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, the second such rescue operation in Southern California in five...
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Rockford out. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - After negotiating for over a year, members of the Rockford Education Association walked off the job this morning. District 205, one of the largest in the state, is known for being among the most to...
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Age, sex, race, education and credit cards

foxbusiness.com - Rugged individualism. It's part of our national ethos, and we all like to believe that we make our own choices and determine our own destinies. But in reality, most of us are products of our enviro...
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Early morning Fox. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - WGN’s early morning sport reporter, Pat Tomasulo. I’m getting ready to fly off to Brooklyn this morning to see my daughters, their partners, my grand kids and the rest of my New York family. I neve...
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Early morning Fox. « Fred Klonsky

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Early morning Fox. « Fred Klonsky: Early morning Fox.by Fred KlonskyWGN’s early morning sport reporter, Pat Tomasulo. I’m getting ready to fly off to Brooklyn this morning to see my daughters, thei...
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Challenging Corporate Ed Reform

rethinkingschools.org - Spring 2012Illustration: Michael Duffy By Stan Karp This is a revised version of a speech given at the Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference in Seattle, October 2011. Corporate school re...
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