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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Michael Moore: The Smug Wealthy Have Gone Too Far -- And We're Finally Fighting Back | Economy | AlterNetMichael Moore: The Smug Wealthy Have Gone Too Far -- And We're Finally Fighting BackBy tryin...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Celebrate the end of Koch-fueled Americans for Austerity Bus Tour | Solidarity WisconsinCelebrate the end of Koch-fueled Americans for Austerity Bus Tour Please SHOW UP EARLY so we can greet their ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Some legislators may face successful recalls, both sides say | Defend WisconsinSome legislators may face successful recalls, both sides say At least some of the Wisconsin state senators who are bei...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Attacking Teachers Reveals Cost Less Than in ’81: Albert R. Hunt - BloombergAttacking Teachers Reveals Cost Less Than in ’81: Albert R. HuntBy Albert R. Hunt - Mar 6, 2011 8:01 AM PTBloomberg Opini...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Wall Street Journal: “Wisconsin Not in Fiscal Peril” | Defend WisconsinWall Street Journal: “Wisconsin Not in Fiscal Peril”by kmatt2 people liked this“There’s a good amount of political theater in ...

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abclocal.go.com - March 6, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Chicago area letter carriers joined a rally against a proposal that would end collective bargaining rights for many Wisconsin state workers. About 150 letter carr...

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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - Yet another poll in Wisconsin, this time commissioned by a free-market think tank, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, shows voters disapproving of Gov. Scott Walker, and saying he should comp...

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dekerivers.wordpress.com - I grew up when America came together in the early evening to watch ‘Uncle’ Walter Cronkite anchor the CBS Evening News. At one point in his long career the well-respected journalist stated his pro...

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boingboing.net - 20 lies from Scott WalkerCory Doctorow at 5:24 AM Sunday, Mar 6, 2011 A heavily-linked and cited list of 20 lies told by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker makes for good Sunday reading. The cynicism...

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morningstaronline.co.uk - He told tens of thousands of protesters that "Madison is only the beginning."The crowd roared in approval as Mr Moore hailed demonstrators for standing up to Republican Governor Scott Walker's legi...

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weac.org - If you went to the WEAC Facebook page on Saturday or Sunday you would have found some great reporting of events from Saturday’s rally at the State Capitol, the protest of Scott Walker’s appearance ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Michael Moore in Mad Town. « Fred Klonsky's blog Michael Moore in Mad Town.by Fred KlonskyStill not posting. Here’s Michael Moore’s speech from Madison yesterday when 70,000 protesters showed up on...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Washington DC: Congressional Black Caucus Stands In Solidarity With Wisconsin Workers « Larry Miller's BlogWashington DC: Congressional Black Caucus Stands In Solidarity With Wisconsin WorkersFiled...

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defendwisconsin.org - Most Reverend Jerome E. Listecki, archbishop of Milwaukee and president of the Wisconsin Catholic Conference, has issued the following statement regarding the rights of workers and the value of uni...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Please Attend Sen. Vukmir/Rep. Sensenbrenner Town Hall Meeting Monday Night « Larry Miller's BlogPlease Attend Sen. Vukmir/Rep. Sensenbrenner Town Hall Meeting Monday Nightby millerlfMonday evening...

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millermps.wordpress.com - Mar. 4 2011 By RICK UNGAR Forbes In what may be the result of one of the great political miscalculations of our time, Scott Walker’s popularity in his home state is fast going down the tubes. A Ras...

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financialfeed.net - Posted by Amy Morris on Mar 6, 2011 in Economy, Finance13 unions were sent notices on Friday to layoff 300,000 state workers.On his threat to issue dismissal notices to unions that represent worker...

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archmil.org - Most Reverend Jerome E. Listecki, archbishop of Milwaukee and president of the Wisconsin Catholic Conference, has issued the following statement regarding the rights of workers and the value of uni...

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greenbaypressgazette.com - Gov. Scott Walker's biennial budget is creating some concern among municipal officials who are just beginning to understand its impact."We're preparing for the worst-case scenario and hoping for th...

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thepilot.com - By Bill Johnston Special to The Pilot It is time - past time, in fact - that I speak my mind about the situation in Wisconsin. I do so from personal experience, an experience which dramatically alt...

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tweetdeck.com - Coopmike48#WeAreWI #WIUnion #WEAC Wisconsin's children are at the core of our struggle. We want them to have a better future and they make Wisconsin a great place. How have you explained the past 3...

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shorewood.patch.com - Efforts to gather the 21,000 signatures needed to recall state Sen. Alberta Darling began in Shorewood Saturday, as volunteers and petitioners canvassed neighborhoods armed with clipboards. Leader ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Thank you, Michael Moore… Wisconsin, Thank you. United… Video « Continuing ChangeThank you, Michael Moore… Wisconsin, Thank you. United… Videoby gatorbonbcThank you, Wisconsin. Thank you, Michael M...

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dekerivers.wordpress.com - Being that it is Sunday, and I am reading more about the proposed Wisconsin state budget, the following question comes to mind. What would Jesus think of the budget proposal put forth by Governor W...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Some of 3/6 Week’s Walker Budget Events « Larry Miller's BlogSome of 3/6 Week’s Walker Budget EventsFiled under: Scott Walker — millerlf @ 7:52 pm Event list for opposing Walker Budgets(Last update...

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jsonline.com - March 5, 2011 8:13 p.m. | Republicans are on the offensive these days. Emboldened by their success at the polls and energized by the tea party activists in their midst, the GOP faithful have set ou...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Politics and Publics | FiredoglakePolitics and Publicsby masaccioJohn DeweyThere is a disconnect between our people and our politics, as Jon Walker points out after almost every national poll. Peop...

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jsonline.com - March 6, 2011 | The next generation of Wisconsin teachers and other public employees, a sector long blessed with one of the most generous retirement plans in the country, may be facing an entirely ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Why employee pensions aren't bankrupting states | McClatchyWhy employee pensions aren't bankrupting statesBy Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy NewspapersWASHINGTON — From state legislatures to Congress to ...

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online.wsj.com - The leader of the 14 Wisconsin Senate Democrats who left the state last month to block legislation that would curb public-employee union rights said the senators plan to return "in the relatively n...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Wisconsin Wants Compromise | Solidarity WisconsinWisconsin Wants Compromise The recent vow by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) that he "can't compromise" with Democratic legislators on union rights ...

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dailykos.com - Please, contribute $8 to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin to help recall eight Republican state Senators.Photo by Melissa RyanThe common characteristic of the constituent parts of the Democratic c...

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“Cambridge Ideas” Is Like “TED Talks” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

“Cambridge Ideas” Is Like “TED Talks” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
“Cambridge Ideas” Is Like “TED Talks” The University of Cambridge organizes an on-going series of short presentations called “Cambridge Ideas,” which seem to be very similar to TED Talks. They have their collection both on YouTube and on their own University website. I’m adding it to ...
This is Exciting! MSNBC Appears To Have Subtitles on ALL It’s Online Videos MSNBC has long be on my The Best Sites For News & History Videos That Won’t Get Blocked By Content Filters (At Least, Not By Ours!) list. It got even better a few months ago when they started offering transcripts of the videos. Those, however, ...
The Best Learning Games For Advanced ELL’s & Non-ELL’s In one of my previous posts, The Best Ways For Advanced ELL’s & Non-ELL’s To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly (For Their Classmates & Teacher To See), I shared our situation of being able to have our mainstream ninth-grade students do our ...
“100 things to do before you die” The author of the travel book, *100 things to do before you di*e, recently died, and The Independent newspaper created a slideshow showing all the 100 things. I’m adding it to The Best Sites Showing The Most Popular Tourist Destinations In The ...
MisterThread MisterThread joins the list of a zillion sites that lets you create a private chatroom. Others have more features, but MisterThread couldn’t be more simple. I’m adding it to The Best Online Tools For Collaboration — NOT In Real Time.
More On How Much Outside Factors Have On Student Achievement Here are the newest additions to The Best Places To Learn What Impact A Teacher & Outside Factors Have On Student Achievement: Experiences of poverty and educational disadvantage is the title of a good report from the Rowntree Foundation Poverty and ...
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Brownley to push for finance reform | Thoughts on Public Education

Brownley to push for finance reform | Thoughts on Public Education
Brownley to push for finance reform - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess As bleak as it looks for school funding this year, the stars may actually be aligning for school funding reform. Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, who chairs the Assembly Education Committee, is betting that this year the Legislature will pass a more ...
Common Core groups should be asked plenty of questions - by Doug McRae On Wednesday, the California State Board of Education will hear presentations from representatives of two assessment consortia that have been awarded federal grants to develop “next generation” assessments to measure the Common Core content standards ..
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This Week In Education: Polling: Teachers / Teachers Unions Poll Pretty Well

This Week In Education: Polling: Teachers / Teachers Unions Poll Pretty Well
Polling: Teachers / Teachers Unions Poll Pretty Well "Among political elites, virtually everyone is *more* critical of teachers unions than of unions in general. But the voters like teachers a lot." (People Love Teachers Matt Yglesias)
AM News: House Committee Chief Has Common Core Concerns [image: image from webmedia.newseum.org] Obama to meet students, faculty at Boston school AP: Known as a pilot school, it serves students in grades 6-12. According to its Web site, the school has an 85 percent graduation rate and 93 percent of ...
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Buzzflash: New York Times Posts Puff Piece on Koch Brothers | www.kochwatch.org

Buzzflash: New York Times Posts Puff Piece on Koch Brothers | www.kochwatch.org
Glenn Beck Exposes FreedomWorks Fisting (A DC Douglas Tweak) WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
Buzzflash: New York Times Posts Puff Piece on Koch Brothers *March 5, 2011-* The New York Times has a front page story today on the charitable activities of the notorious Koch Bros. The Times article states brother David has given hundreds of millions of dollars to cancer research over the years, including ...
Truthout: Public Teachers: America's New "Welfare Queens" March 6, 2011- In 1976, on a failed campaign to the White House, Ronald Reagan coined one of his enduring linguistic legacies - the "welfare queen," a mythical, inner-city resident who wastes the public's hard-earned money on "welfare Cadillacs" and ...
Ryan Bingham performs at anti-Walker rally in Madison, Wisconsin WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
NYT: Organized Labor Hopes Attacks by Some States Help Nurture Comeback *March 5, 2011-* When Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker, began his crusade against collective bargaining by public employees, his state’s unions seemed woefully outmatched. But Wisconsin’s beleaguered labor movement woke up and mobilized, through ...
'America Is NOT Broke': Michael Moore Speaks in Madison, WI WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Walker notifies unions of layoffs, but gives Democrats 15 days to reverse move *March 4, 2011-* Gov. Scott Walker notified unions Friday of impending layoffs if a budget-repair bill isn't passed in the next 15 days, even as both Republicans and Democrats showed signs of moving from their entrenched positions as they try to ...
Unions Were Great When They Were Standing Up To Communists... Of course, actions speak louder than words; Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers when they went on strike- breaking their union for all time- and as president of the Screen Actors Guild he was notoriously pro-management, and weakened the ...
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On The Budget: Will Norquist Always Win? | California Progress Report

On The Budget: Will Norquist Always Win? | California Progress Report

On The Budget: Will Norquist Always Win?

by megan

By Peter Schrag

It’s a measure of California’s dysfunctional government that a lot of people are hoping for the success of Gov. Jerry Brown’s split-the-baby resolution of the state’s budget mess. But last month’s comprehensive review from the California Budget Project should remind us that Brown’s remedy is light years short of adequate.

As Grover Norquist, the small government “starve the beast” head of Americans for Tax Reform, threatens to destroy Republicans who vote to put Brown’s taxes on the ballot, many of us are reluctantly pushing for preservation of the half-starved beast that Norquistism has already left us with.

Even if Brown gets his five-year tax extension, the CBP points out that the gap between revenues and the requirements of even the current shrunken level of public services will return when the tax extensions expire after 2014-15.

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Teaching: The Most Noble Profession « Cooperative Catalyst

Teaching: The Most Noble Profession « Cooperative Catalyst

Teaching: The Most Noble Profession

by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I’m sharing an essay I wrote that was published on Common Dreams.org, a progressive news site. Here’s a short excerpt:

“In college a friend in medical school told me that he thought that medicine was the most noble profession. It was a strange statement, really, and quite provocative. I wondered at the time, can any profession be the most noble? I ruminated on it for a long time, and now, thirty years later, I feel ready to respond. If pressed to name the most noble

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Excerpts from Florida Senate Bill – SB736 : Read it closely…. very closely « Continuing Change #awakeFL

Excerpts from Florida Senate Bill – SB736 : Read it closely…. very closely « Continuing Change

Excerpts from Florida Senate Bill – SB736 : Read it closely…. very closely

by gatorbonbc

Excerpts from Florida Senate Bill – SB736

In the case of a layoff (expected with projected cuts), here are the rules – Teachers with high test scores stay. Now, I ask you, if schools with ‘at-risk’ students have lower scores…won’t these teachers be the ones cut? Well, that is some thank you for teaching the students with the highest needs…

Here is the bill. Read for yourself:

(5) If workforce reduction is needed, a district school

1127 board must retain employees at a school or in the school

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NYC Educator: Where's the Liberal Bias I'm Looking For?

NYC Educator: Where's the Liberal Bias I'm Looking For?

Where's the Liberal Bias I'm Looking For?

by NYC Educator
The New York Times, always staid, always calm, ran a featured editorial about the need of public workers to sacrifice. While the Times has a reputation for liberalism, like all papers, it's had to deal with unions. And that's not always easy. My uncle was an accountant for the Times, and he hated unions. When the News unions struck, he made it a point to buy the scab paper on the street every day.

So when the NY Times speaks of sacrifices public employees need to make, I'm not surprised they neglect to mention Andy Cuomo just dispensed a 5 billion dollar tax break to New York's Richest. I'm not surprised they forget how Barack Obama just extended the Bush tax cuts, the ones he specifically promised to cut if we voted for him. I'm not surprised they conclude being overly generous to union workers is breaking the bank.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the Times forgets how
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Schools Matter: Library Quality and Children

Schools Matter: Library Quality and Children

Library Quality and Children

by skrashen
Sent to the Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2011

Library Quality and Children

Pico Iyer is right about the importance of supporting libraries ("Sanctuary amid the stacks," March 6). Missing from his argument, however, is the impact of libraries on children.

Studies shows that when children have access to good public and/or school libraries with plenty of good

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solidaridad: The President now toasting Teabaggers. What's next, touting Texas textbooks?

solidaridad: The President now toasting Teabaggers. What's next, touting Texas textbooks?

The President now toasting Teabaggers. What's next, touting Texas textbooks?

by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene
"You know, I'm amused. I can't tell you how many foreign leaders who are heads of center-right governments say to me, I don't understand why people would call you socialist, in my country, you'd be considered a conservative." — President Barack H. Obama (CNN’s State of the Union 2009-09-20)

Arne Duncan's neoliberal dismantling of public education is criminal
I first read about the President praising teabagger and brother of war criminal George W. Bush on Anthony Russo's blog, prompted by his brilliant tweet:

@AnthonyCody | Obama is Right: Education is a Bi-Partisan issue. Both Dems and Repubs are pushing bad ideas. #WakingGiant, #edchat http://bit.ly/hc6scS

Another excellent piece addressing this is President Obama shares the stage with Jeb Bush in Miami.

Since I spent most of the weekend polemicizing against HuffPost liberals who were
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

WEEKEND QUOTABLES

by Mike Klonsky
Anthony Cody
"President Obama last week proved his point. Education is not a partisan issue. Both Democrats and Republicans are pushing terrible ideas." --Washington Post
Obama on Bush
Jeb Bush “is someone who championed reform when he was in office, someone who is now championing reform as a private citizen.”--Politico
Florida teacher Jennie Smith
"I told him [Pres. Obama] directly that I and so many other teachers were very disappointed to see
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What I Wrote to My Students, the Day After the Cops Kicked My Class Out of Wheeler Hall « occupy california

What I Wrote to My Students, the Day After the Cops Kicked My Class Out of Wheeler Hall « occupy california

What I Wrote to My Students, the Day After the Cops Kicked My Class Out of Wheeler Hall

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This is what one professor wrote to students following the police evacuation of Wheeler Hall the other day during the protest.

Those of you who tried to come on Thursday, I apologize – the police let several of us in and we were inside the building until police came and told us the chancellor was closing the building at which point we had to leave.

A question this course should lead you to ask is: by what right does the chancellor get to close Wheeler Hall? Whose property is it?

Know that this university exists because the land was donated by the state to the university in exchange for it providing free education to the citizens of California. In terms of labor theories of

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Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » Invent a Job, Not Find One: A Working Conference on Preparing Students as Global Entrepreneurs

Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » Invent a Job, Not Find One: A Working Conference on Preparing Students as Global Entrepreneurs

Invent a Job, Not Find One: A Working Conference on Preparing Students as Global Entrepreneurs

by YongZhao

Invent a Job, Not Find One: A Working Conference on Preparing Students as Global Entrepreneurs

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Invent a Job, Not Find One: Preparing Students as Global Entrepreneurs

A Two-day Conference jointly organized by

iNET (UK) and College of Education, University of Oregon

Portland, Oregon, USA

August 3rd and 4th, 2011

The world needs more creative and innovative talents to meet the unprecedented challenges and take advantage of the vast opportunities presented by technological changes and globalization. Old industries are rapidly being replaced by new ones. Students need to learn to collaborate globally in this interconnected and interdependent village. Yet school systems around the globe continue to focus on producing good test takers, and prepare students for jobs that may not exist when they graduate. Children have become

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