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BOYCOTTING ALEC
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Meet the Three ALEC Supporting Corporate Giants Who Dare You to Boycott Them As the ALEC boycott continues to grow some corporations are not getting the message. Executives from Pfizer, Reynolds ...
Oakland charter school head Ben Chavis rips audit
sfgate.com - Carlos Avila Gonzalez / SFC Ben Chavis Ben Chavis is a controversial figure who has preached the merits of hard work and intense discipline in pursuit of academic excellence since taking over the A...
Press Release of the New Coalition for Louisiana Public Education
geauxteacher.com - For immediate releaseNew Public Education Coalition WorkingTo Make Louisiana First in Education Covington, LA – The new state-wide Coalition for Louisiana Public Education, consisting of major educ...
Lessons From Louisiana: Go Big or Go Home
freedomworks.org - Yesterday, after months of hard work, FreedomWorks activists celebrated as the Senate finally voted to bring expansive reform to Louisiana’s failing school system. Two bills, HB976 and HB974 passed...
Desert Trails parents won’t let adults’ deceit deny their kids a great school
toped.svefoundation.org - By The parents of Desert Trails Elementary want what all parents want: a great school for their children. Over the past few years they started a PTA chapter at their school, they joined the officia...
The in box. “The new reality.” « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Fred, Welcome to the “New Reality” where those who serve the public, are trusted with our state’s children every day, and never missed their payments are the ones to blame and on who’s backs soluti...
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Is Louisiana about to allow discrimination of gays in charter schools? - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - If a bill that passed a Lousiania Senate committee becomes law, charter schools in the state will be able to refuse to accept students based on sexual orientation or English language skills. Here’s...
The Good and Bad News About Arts Education in U.S. Schools
neatoday.org - You are here: Home / Featured News / The Good and Bad News About Arts Education in U.S. Schools By Tim Walker The U.S. Department of Education painted a somewhat bleak picture of the state of arts ...
Cuomo, Common Core and Pearson-for-Profit
huffingtonpost.com - It will probably take more than a billion dollars in the bank to run for President of the United States in 2016. It looks like New York State Governor is already lining up corporate support. My con...
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For black parents in Pasadena, shootings give fresh relevance to 'The Talk'
latimes.com - When Martin A. Gordon talks to his 19-year-old son about the history of race relations in America, he invokes the Black Panthers, Martin Luther King Jr.and the watershed moments of the civil rights...
The Talk: Nonblack Version
takimag.com - There is much talk about “the talk.”“Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons,” Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (NJ) Record tell...
Conservatives, ALEC, and Vouchers Lose—Temporarily—in Arizona
nepc.colorado.edu - Governor Brewer (R-AZ) caused a bill to be killed that would have greatly expanded the Arizona voucher program. Enacted a few years ago, the program gave vouchers, pegged at 90% of the average per ...
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Robert Reich (The Fable of the Century)
robertreich.org - Imagine a country in which the very richest people get all the economic gains. They eventually accumulate so much of the nation’s total income and wealth that the middle class no longer has the pur...
New Bush-Era Torture Memo Released, Raises Questions About What Has Changed And What Hasn't
democraticunderground.com - Source: Huffington PostWASHINGTON -- A six-year-old memo from within the George W. Bush administration that came to light this week acknowledges that White House-approved interrogation techniques a...
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul draws crowd at UC Berkeley
mercurynews.com - Click photo to enlarge Republican presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul speaks at Memorial Glade at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., on Thursday, April 5, 2012. UC Berkeley student organizati...
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Behind the push for online learning
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - There's a reason Gates and the power philanthropists are pushing online education so hard and it has less to do with teaching and learning as it does with super profits. The Boston Consulting Group...
As the Bay Area Struggles, Texas Booms
baycitizen.org - Scott James/The Bay Citizen San Francisco residents may like to turn up their nose at the Lone Star State's conservative politics and run-away sprawl, but recently released statistics from the fede...
Intuit Is Now The Fourth Company To Drop Voter Suppression Group ALEC
democraticunderground.com - Source: Think ProgressSoftware company Intuit, the makers of programs such as Turbo Tax and Quicken, announced today that they will join Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Kraft as the fourth company to end th...
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Meet the Three ALEC Supporting Corporate Giants Who Dare You to Boycott Them
politicususa.com - By: Jason EasleyApril 5, 2012see more posts by Jason EasleyAs the ALEC boycott continues to grow some corporations are not getting the message. Executives from Pfizer, Reynolds American, and Procte...
Modern School: If You Sleep After You Study, You'll Remember More—Duh?
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: If You Sleep After You Study, You'll Remember More—Duh?: If You Sleep After You Study, You'll Remember More—Duh?by Michael DunnEffective Studying in Action (Image from Flickr, by Mre...
Consumer priorities and recognition programs can lead to healthier nail salons. « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - Take the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (Collaborative) consumer survey, and enter the raffle for a $50 gift certificate! The Collaborative knows that consumers consider a variety of f...
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San Onofre to remain closed indefinitely, NRC chief says
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko, who toured the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant Friday, assured reporters that the plant would not restart until officials understand the ro...
Anti-nuke protesters gather outside shuttered San Onofre
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Ahead of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman's tour of the shuttered San Onofre power plant, a group of anti-nuclear activists called on officials to keep the plant out of service. Commissio...
Abandonados durante décadas, las comunidades no incorporadas carecen de los servicios públicos básicos
californiawatch.org - Max Whittaker/PrimeArleen Hernández con frecuencia tiene que destapar su ducha obstruÃda por causa de la antigua fosa séptica donde vive en Parklawn.Casi todos los dÃas Arlen Hernandez, una estudia...
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'Soft Science' & Less Certainty - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,Passing the playground at 77th and Amsterdam in 1995 I overheard a child in the sandbox say: "I have an idea!" with such enthusiasm that I stopped to watch and listen. Over the next few ...
Spotlight Hits ALEC After Trayvon Martin Shooting - State EdWatch
blogs.edweek.org - Readers may be familiar with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative nonprofit group which writes model legislation for state lawmakers on a variety of issues. Veteran Education W...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 4-6 #soschat #EDReform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Bully Politics of Education Reform | Dailycensored.com Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 20 minutes ago The Bully Politics of Education Reform | Dailycensored.com: The Bully Pol...
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School Tech Connect: Advice For Jean-Claude Brizard
schooltechconnect.com - Lemme just tell you something. When you increase the length of the school day to 7.5 hours, without funding it--meaning, without hiring the music teachers, art teachers, PE teachers, librarians-- t...
