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Losing Their Immunity

nytimes.com - As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow, the response from the movement’s targets has gradually changed: contemptuous dismissal has been replaced by whining. (A reader of my blog sugge...

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Money pouring in for charter supporters

chron.com - NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The votes won't be cast and counted for weeks but several candidates for Louisiana's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education already hold big leads when it comes to raising m...

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Pension Call Tuesday. « Fred Klonsky's blog

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Bloomberg Says ‘Tent City’ Goes Beyond Free Speech

nytimes.com - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, speaking Monday as Occupy Wall Street protesters celebrated the passage of a month encamped in Zuccotti Park, said he was trying to strike a balance between protecting p...

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Our Demands for Public Education

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A Letter from Goldman Sachs « Borowitz Report

borowitzreport.com - NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)– The following is a letter released today by Lloyd Blankfein, the chairman of banking giant Goldman Sachs: Dear Investor: Up until now, Goldman Sachs has been silent ...

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SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Dwight Schrute Eats Worms

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Junk Food Doublespeak « MomsRising Blog

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Buffett’s Son Defends Occupy Wall Street

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Mayor Bloomberg and Occupy Wall Street by the Numbers

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A Letter from Goldman Sachs « Borowitz Report

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    News: Shutting Down Open Resources - Inside Higher Ed

    News: Shutting Down Open Resources - Inside Higher Ed:

    Shutting Down Open Resources

    October 18, 2011

    WASHINGTON -- It’s been less than a month since the U.S. Labor Department announced $500 million in grants for community colleges to develop job-training programs and make them free for other institutions to use, but the program is already facing a threat to its existence.

    A provision in the proposed House of Representatives budget for fiscal year 2012 would stop the federal government from using grant programs to develop new courses, learning materials or other related projects unless the labor secretary verifies that similar programs are not already available for purchase or “under development.”


    The move is a boon to publishers, who have feared that government support for the freely available, modifiable course materials, known as “open educational resources,” or OERs, would eat into their profits and give the free programs an unfair advantage. If effective programs are already for sale, they argue, the federal government shouldn’t spend extra money to reinvent the wheel.

    Advocates for community colleges and online education argued that the provision, if enacted, would stifle innovation and restrict colleges to the publishers’ more expensive programs.

    “We hear any concerns that the subcommittee might have about

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    Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial: Overcoming - Lily's Blackboard – Lily's Blackboard

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    Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial: Overcoming

    Oct 18th, 2011
    by Lily.

    This is in the history books: In 1983, Congress passed and President Ronald Regan signed the law making Martin Luther King’s birthday a national holiday.

    This is history, but it’s not in many books: My Utah state legislature made us the last state to recognize the holiday. In 2000 our legislators finally renamed our generic “Human Rights Day” Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The argument for preferring the broader “human rights” name went something like, “Civil and human rights is bigger than just one person. Many people struggled for human rights, not just Martin Luther King, Jr.”

    And so we kept the faceless “human rights” day for many years. That I recall,

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