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Monday, March 5, 2012

Big Education Ape: 3-5-12 PM Bronx Students Release 10-Point List of Demands EDition #OWS #soschat

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act.credoaction.com - When Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law School student, testified before Congress to protest rightwing attacks to limit women's access to birth control, Rush Limbaugh called her a "slut" and a "prostit...

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Governor Quinn’s Proposal Will Somersault TRIP

teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com - Sure, let’s take away $87 million from the retired teachers of Illinois, and then let’s give that money away perhaps to more corporations as a gift from the governor. a retired teacher pays a tota...

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Shanker Blog » Revisiting The "5-10 Percent Solution"

shankerblog.org - In a post over a year ago, I discussed the common argument that dismissing the “bottom 5-10 percent” of teachers would increase U.S. test scores to the level of high-performing nations. This argume...

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WEEKEND QUOTABLES

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - 31 were arrested at Virginia protest against law requiring women to have an ultrasound before getting an abortion. Rep. Delores McQuinn "The men and women who marched on Capitol Square have a rig...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the First Lady For Immediate Release March 05, 2012 American Jazz Museum Kansas City, Missouri1:30 P.M. CSTMRS. OBAMA: Oh, my goodness! (Applause.) Well, thank you all ...

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STUDENTS’ BALLOON SOARS AND TRANSMITS

utsandiego.com - A high-altitude weather balloon jammed with cameras rose far, far higher than jets fly, traveling to the edge of space during a journey that thrilled its “pilots” back at San Diego’s Mt. Carmel Hig...

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Pearson's edu-testing profits soar

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - London-based Pearson Publishing, the standardized testing giant, reports a 72% "surge" in profits during 2011. But the profit picture in the U.S. is not as rosy as it looks. Most of the profits are...

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Map: Fannie and Freddie's Bay Area Properties

baycitizen.org - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have quietly become major residential landowners in the Bay Area’s hardest hit neighborhoods, thanks to the mortgage crisis. According to records provided by ForeclosureR...

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LIVE FEED: Thousands Protest Rising Tuition at Capitol

davis.patch.com - Occupiers arrived at UC Davis Sunday night in anticipation of a rally at the capitol on Monday, in which thousands poured into downtown Sacramento. They are protesting the rising costs of tuition ...

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Occupy marchers | Davis Enterprise

davisenterprise.com - About 65 Occupy protesters are on the home stretch Sunday afternoon in their 99-mile trek from Oakland to Sacramento. Here, they're on Pedrick Road in Dixon, on their way to camp Sunday evening on ...

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