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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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USA Science & Engineering Festival

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - USA Science & Engineering Festival: Don’t miss the largest celebration of science in the US: the 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival will feature over 3,000 fun, interactive exhibits, more than ...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 06, 2012 Today, at the White House Forum on Women and the Economy, the President will discuss the importance of restoring t...
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Charter schools deserved to lose

kingfish1935.blogspot.com - I'm going to say it: we deserved to get beat on the charter school bill last week. No sugar-coating or spinning. The other side earned their victory. They did what they had to do, they showed up fo...
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USC prez lets loose with reformy cliches. Not much else.

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Looking through the April 4th issue of EdWeek, I found this back page commentary piece, "Reaching Beyond the Ivory Tower Into the Classroom" co-written by C.L. Max Nikias, the president of USC and ...
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- Wait, What?

jonathanpelto.com - Apr 09 jonpeltoEducation Education Reform Photo courtesy of CTNewsjunkie (Michael Lee-Murphy) Last week, Karissa Niehoff, the Executive Director of the Connecticut Association of Schools participat...
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Roll Call Lobbying & Influence

rollcall.com - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today became the latest backer to withdraw financial support for the American Legislative Exchange Council.A foundation spokesman told Roll Call that it does n...
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A Tale of Two Crows (Guest Voice)

themoderatevoice.com - A Tale of Two Crows by Catherine Tanguis As if the Stand Your Ground law and the current efforts to restrict voter registration hadn’t reminded us that discrimination is alive and well in the 21st ...
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Guzzardi Asks For Recount

nbcchicago.com - advertisement Will Guzzardi isn’t giving up in his quest to unseat the Boss’s Daughter. With all precincts reporting, Guzzardi, a former Huffington Post editor, was trailing state Rep. Toni Berrios...
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Occupy Mancos, CO: The Importance of Small Occupies

my.firedoglake.com - ("I believe the town in the valley is Mancos, CO" by SFAntti, courtesy of flickr.com) We’ve been Occupying this tiny town in the Four Corners area since last October to beneficial effect, imo.  I i...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Flexibility | Inside Higher Ed

insidehighered.com - Last week I wrote about my day, as part of the larger #dayofhighered project of documenting what we academics do. When I left off, I still had about four hours of work to do, and I figured I’d be a...
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Trayvon Martin: Protesters march to L.A. City Hall

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Marchers were moving through the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Monday evening to protest the shooting of black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. The Los Angeles Police Department warned that so...
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Vt. teachers union strike entering 4th day

boston.com - POULTNEY, Vt.—Teachers in a striking Vermont school district and school administrators are headed back to the bargaining table.Representatives of the 70 teachers and the five schools are going to m...
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yul kwon hosts pbs' america revealed

blog.angryasianman.com - He found the Immunity Idol. He outwitted, outplayed and outlasted the other Cook Islands castaways. And perhaps most importantly, he ran around half-naked on national television for 39 days. So wha...
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Caricatura: Vía Crucis | Zambombazo

zachary-jones.com - 9/04/2012 • 10:00 amEsta caricatura hondureña se llama “Vía Crucis”. ¿Qué perspectivas revela sobre el precio de la gasolina, particularmente durante la Semana Santa? ¿Qué consecuencias ha tenido p...
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