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Saturday, April 26, 2014

4-26-14 With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All Week



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With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All Week






Time to BREAK THE CHAINS! School Reform is Not Civil Rights
All over the country, inner city parents and teachers are being deprived of their rights to have community input into management of public schools, while their children are moved from pillar to post by school closings, and then pushed into charter schools which often impose zero tolerance discipline policies.That this is promoted as Civil Rights is a travesty. It is in fact the opposite. Here are

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Join "Heal for America!" Coming to Your Campus This Spring!
It's time to announce the amazing new program " Heal for America" coming from the folks who brought you TFA. Starting this spring, recruiters for HFA are going to be scouring the nation's top colleges for brilliant, idealistic students who are willing to go through a rigorous five week summer program to prepare them to be doctors in inner city health clinics starting September. Mayors an

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Game On!!! How Common Core Changed the Face of Education Activism in the US
Teachers never were treated with much respect in the United States, but until recently they weren't demonized or singled out as responsible for the nation's problems and weaknesses. What has changed? That public education is now viewed as a major opportunity for profitable investment if it can be privatized or reorganized to allow for continuous testing and assessment. When the housing market tank