Occupy Oakland demonstrators stand atop a railroad scaffold at the Port of Oakland on Wednesday.
I am going to start with an e-mail that my daughter sent me about her experiences during the General Strike in Oakland.
The day was wonderful, but the cops came in force at midnight; check out what I posted on your
"We have a parenting problem, not a poverty problem," Mike Petrilli writes at Flypaper. I agree that parenting matters greatly to a child's academic success or failure, and in fact may be the single largest determining factor. But Petrilli concludes that the best way to solve the "parenting problem" is through cultural messaging promoting marriage and stigmatizing divorce, so that kids benefit from growing up in two-income households. This ignores, I think, the concrete reality of life in many low-income neighborhoods, where women are making a rational choice when they remain single.
Here in New York, for example, only one of every four young black men has a job. The communities from which these men hail have also been decimated by the drug war; 17 percent of adult black males have been incarcerated, compared to 2.6 percent of white men. In addition, low-income women, regardless of race, are
To help expose the looming cash-for-immunity deal between the Obama administration and big banks, Occupy Wall Street on Saturday, November 5 will march from Liberty Square to the U.S. Court House Building at Foley Square.
The march will gather at 2:00pm on the east side steps at Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park), and will arrive at Foley Square at 3:00pm. Join the Facebook event page
President Obama is on the brink of cutting a backroom deal that would give bankers broad immunity for illegally throwing tens of thousands of Americans out of their homes. The Administration is pressuring state attorneys general to abandon an ongoing investigation into the massive "robo-signing" fraud, in exchange for a relatively small payoff by the banks.
Numerous investigations by state and federal authorities have demonstrated that banks used illegal procedures
ROCKFORD — Rockford’s charter schools were ranked near the bottom of the heap when local Illinois Standards Achievement Test scores were released earlier this week, and school leaders say it’ll take time to make gains.
All three public charter schools fell below the Rockford School District average and well below the state average in reading, math and science.
“That’s not where we want them to be,” said Michael Lane, CEO of Galapagos Charter Schools, which has a campus in Rockford and Chicago.
Of the district’s three charter schools, Galapagos scored lowest — 46.5
swampland.time.com - Lara Cerri / St. Petersburg Times / ZUMAPRESS.comShore Acres Elementary fourth grade teacher Telsha Marmash leads her students in a discussion about prefixes Nov. 1, 2011 in St. Petersburg, Florida...
letsmove.gov - Posted by Secretary Arne Duncan, U.S. Department of Education on November 03, 2011 In September, I opened the pilot year of the Green Ribbon Schools award to recognize the highest performing green ...
gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com - If you look at the tables that I posted on my blog, which I culled from the NAEP scores over the years, it is clear that no miracle occurred under Rhee’s reign. It is also clear that turning 40% of...
thenation.com - Nothing is so likely to cause a dinner party to turn violent. In Britain, the question of the type of school parents choose for their children ranks with international terrorism and global warming ...
eduwonk.com - Ed Note – All week Eric Hanushek and Diane Ravitch have discussed and debated the pros and cons of more assertive policies to deselect the lowest-performing teachers. Hanushek started on Monday, R...
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shankerblog.org - Direct observation is way of gathering data by watching behavior or events as they occur; for example, a teacher teaching a lesson. This methodology is important to teacher induction and profession...
portwashington.patch.com - Three top educators of the Port Washington School District joined hundreds of Long Island public school principals in challenging the state Education Department and criticizing new standards for ev...
keystonestateeducationcoalition.blogspot.com - No Vouchers for You! Independence Hall Tea Party Association Opposed Voucher Bill SB1 When your goal is to get rid of government schools, SB1 just won’t do...... From: Independence Hall Tea ...
suntimes.com - By ABDON M. PALLASCH Political Reporter / apallasch@suntimes.com November 3, 2011 9:00AM Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker | AP file photo Updated: November 3, 2011 9:56AM A speech by Wisconsin Gov. Scot...
theatlanticwire.com - Things aren't getting better yet: the number of Americans living far below the poverty line is growing larger, and increasingly the hardest hit areas are becoming suburbs. Today's census data shows...
camajorityreport.com - Steven Maviglio SACRAMENTO - Dozens of developmentally disabled residents, their families and others from the Developmental Services Network staged a demonstration Thursday at the California Depart...
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Protesters disguised as Republicans lay in wait for Walker inside Union League ClubWisconsin's union-busting governor tried to slip quietly into Chicago yesterday, to talk with supporters at the s...
huffingtonpost.com - BRACKTON, Mass. -- Moments into a speech before volunteers here Wednesday evening, Elizabeth Warren was interrupted by a Tea Party supporter who hurled a gender-based epithet at the Senate candidat...
preaprez.wordpress.com - Last March Anne and I would make weekend drives to Madison, Wisconsin to join the protests against Governor Scott Walker’s anti-union agenda. Thousands of other Chicagoans did the same. Wednesday, ...
edupln.com - Once upon a time there was a little 2nd grade boy. He was new to a school, and he brought with him, all his problems and issues. Sent to live with dad after mom "couldn't take it any more", a...
ibabuzz.com - By Katy Murphy Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 at 5:58 pm in strike, students.I’ve been holed up in the Tribune’s downtown `command center’ since before sunrise, taking information from reporters out...
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 1:41 pm, November 3, 2011 Photo Credits: Lumia, Nokia's Prostitute Phone Nokia’s first Windows Smart Phone will be called “Lumia,” which is an old Spanish word for “Prostitute.”Finnish...
nydailynews.com - Happy is the head that wears the crown. San Diego area high school senior and self-identified lesbian Rebeca Arellano has been voted homecoming king by her fellow Patrick Henry High school peers He...
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 3:46 pm, November 3, 2011 Photo Credits: Zoraida Sambolin and Soledad O'Brien soon-to-be the faces of CNN morning shows CNN is looking to change things up a bit and is doing so by reva...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The convicted extortionist William Cellini, Jim Thompson and Ty Fahner. Connect the dots and follow the arrows to TRS. « Fred Klonsky's blog:The convicted extortionist William Cellini, Jim Thompson...
nydailynews.com - Students at a Bronx elementary school suffered from ailments including headaches, nausea, vomiting, abnormal gaits and seizures before the building was closed because of toxic contamination, accord...
ourfuture.org - A proposal to increase the Medicare eligibility age, which the Super Committee is considering, would drive up health care costs to the point where they would consume almost half of the Social Secur...
sos-research-blog.com - Barbara Lester, LCSW, member of OUR Journey THRU Autism (OJTA), shared that she is often asked the importance of obtaining a “correct” diagnosis before determining treatment, since the symptoms of ...
theatlanticwire.com - Things aren't getting better yet: the number of Americans living far below the poverty line is growing larger, and increasingly the hardest hit areas are becoming suburbs. Today's census data shows...
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - November 2, 2011 (GBN News): NY City Mayor Michael Bloomberg believes he has found a sure-fire way of evicting those nettlesome Occupy Wall Street protesters, GBN News has learned. According to Cit...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Eviction Defense! | OccupyWallSt.org:Eviction Defense!by OccupyWallStSign up for the eviction defense text blast!Send a text to the number 23559, with the the message @occupyalertThis will be used ...
