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jonathanpelto.com - Apr 16 jonpeltoAchievement First/ConnCAN, Education, Malloy, Michelle Rhee, Stefan Pryor, StudentsFirst Achievement First, Malloy, Michelle Rhee, Stefan Pryor, StudentsFirst Earlier today, Students...
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Move Along! Nothing to See here!

slekar.blogspot.com - I am close to the edge! And from here the picture is perfectly clear. The American public system of education is being systematically, and purposely destroyed. This is not a statement from someo...
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NCLB Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)

susanohanian.org - Testing: How to Stop the Reign NOTE: NCLB testing begins tomorrow in New York, when 1.2 million kids begin to take the ELA and math tests in grades 3 - 8. This year the tests contain embedded multi...
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Schools chief to set rules  for subsidies | Home

theadvocate.com - Louisiana’s state superintendent of education will decide what tests and other scrutiny private and parochial schools face if they accept students who get state subsidies.The issue stems from the L...
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Tending Our Gardens « Cooperative Catalyst

coopcatalyst.wordpress.com - Ah, Spring. Now is the time where my family and I roll up our sleeves and dig into the dirt, preparing the soil for herbs, vegetables and flowers– up-rooting weeds, churning through the sun hardene...
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On Love and Autism: Our Favorite Student Comments

learning.blogs.nytimes.com - Love on the Spectrum: In the video above, Jack Robison and Kirsten Lindsmith, two college students living in Greenfield, Mass., discuss how autism affects their lives and relationship.In mid-March,...
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Why Do People Go To Yoga Classes?

slate.com - And I assume that some people do this. Back in the VCR days, I seem to recall a vogue for selling exercise tapes of various kinds. But it seems to me that rather than improved video distribution te...
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Americas Meeting Ends With Discord Over Cuba

nytimes.com - CARTAGENA, Colombia — A summit meeting of Western Hemisphere nations ended without a final statement of consensus on Sunday, after the United States and some Latin American nations remained sharply...
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Our no-bid, win-win, Rahmadier

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Marc Boucher, from left, Bombardier vice president of operations; CTA President Forrest Claypool; and Mayor Rahm Emanuel check out a new rail car in November. The cars were later taken out of servi...
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Tepco’s Cheapskate Tactics Put World at Risk

dissidentvoice.org - Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. – Henry David Thoreau The system of nature, of which m...
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Why Congress is Putting Mark Twain on a Coin

democraticunderground.com - Here's a Twain story which most Congressmen have never read. Unpublished in his lifetime; it concerns the First Battle of Bud Dajo, sometimes referred to as the Moro Crater Massacre. Not coincident...
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Jersey politicians & burning buildings

bluejersey.com - Some of us rush into a burning building when we know a neighbor is in need. And some of us don't. Two images in New Jersey politics piqued the interest of our friend cartoonist Rob Tornoe this week...
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