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Big Education Ape: 10-20-11 PM Students visit Occupy L.A. for lesson in democracy EDition #ows

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Students visit Occupy L.A. for lesson in democracy

latimesblogs.latimes.com - About 30 schoolchildren took a field trip Tuesday afternoon – not to the aquarium – but rather to City Hall, the epicenter of Occupy Los Angeles. The fifth- through eighth-grade students from Sequo...

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kdvr.com - DENVER -- Former President George W. Bush paid tribute to Get Smart Schools, a local education reform nonprofit, in brief comments after a roundtable discussion there Thursday morning.After a 30-mi...

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Citizens Stop Factory Farm -- In These Times

inthesetimes.com - Things tend to get crowded at industrial dairies, where cows can end up mired in their own manure. (Photo by: Darren McCollester/Getty Images) Unlike traditional, small-farm grazing methods, factor...

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Success Charter's Co-Location in District 15 Faces Hurdles

carrollgardens.patch.com - Success Charter Network founder and former Councilmember Eva Moskowitz faces multiple hurdles in her attempt to open a K-8 charter school in the Cobble Hill/ Boerum Hill area next fall. One potenti...

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The One Percent And Us

edwize.org - Over the last few weeks, a small team of New York City building inspectors descended upon UFT headquarters, responding to a mysterious 311 call. Our building has been placed under police surveillan...

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Study Warns School Closings Unlikely to Raise Much Cash

edweek.org - ByKristen A. Graham, The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)As it prepares for large-scale school closings, the Philadelphia School District must brace itself for a painful process that probably won't gene...

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Chicago math and science scores worst ever

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Duncan rode the myth of the Chicago "miracle" all the way to D.C.It's been 16 years since Mayor Richard M. Daley took control of Chicago's school system, bringing with him a school-reform agenda fo...

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Afternoon Fix: Bachmann wishes she’d Googled Rollins

washingtonpost.com - Michele Bachmann and Ed Rollins wish they had googled each other, House Democrats are after 9-9-9, the GOP convention has a logo and another Redskins alum could be in Congress.Make sure to sign up ...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 20, 2011 Rose Garden2:07 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Today, the government of Libya announced the d...

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Occupy: The Truth That Hurts

addictinginfo.org - From The New York Times, a comment about Occupy Wall Street from a reader in Chicago:- The leaderlessness and the lack of any agenda or even the desire to engage the system. Shows an almost total l...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 20, 2011 Multi-Million dollar Georgetown Property Deemed Excess Today, Updated Map and Dashboard UnveiledWASHINGTON, DC -...

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Big Changes Coming to Google Reader

forbes.com - Image via CrunchBaseIt was only a matter of time. When Google announced last week that it was killing off Google Buzz, those of us who use Google Reader began to get nervous. Would Google kill off...

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Verizon Workers To Join #OWS Friday

ourfuture.org - Popular This WeekOctober 19, 2011October 18, 2011more» Also Worth ReadingNo related links for this issue category. Tomorrow (Friday) as many as 1,000 Verizon workers will march with Occupy Wall St...

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Occupy the Classroom

nytimes.com - Occupy Wall Street is shining a useful spotlight on one of America’s central challenges, the inequality that leaves the richest 1 percent of Americans with a greater net worth than the entire botto...

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    “Don’t mess with my TRS!” Call now. 888-412-6570. « Fred Klonsky's blog

    “Don’t mess with my TRS!” Call now. 888-412-6570. « Fred Klonsky's blog:

    “Don’t mess with my TRS!” Call now. 888-412-6570.

    by Fred Klonsky

    The lines are now open. Dial 888-412-6570 and follow the prompts. You will be connected with your state senator or representative. Tell them to do the right thing, say NO cutting the modest pensions earned by public employees who keep us safe, educate our children, care for the sick and disabled and more.
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    Jersey Jazzman: False Gods Are Not Appeased By Human Sacrifices

    Jersey Jazzman: False Gods Are Not Appeased By Human Sacrifices:

    False Gods Are Not Appeased By Human Sacrifices

    by Duke
    I noticed a few folks today beating up Andrew "Eduwonk" Rotherman on the Twitter machine for his column in this week's Time. Let me quickly recap, and then make a larger point about the ongoing reformy education debate:

    Predictably, Rotherman first tells us that teacher quality is a serious problem without any real evidence that it is. Yes, there are bad teachers, just like there are bad pilots and bad architects and bad edubloggers - that's how life works. But where's the evidence that this is a huge issue in student achievement? Eric Hanushek'sconjectures? Matt DiCarlo is able to dismiss those without batting an eyelid.

    In his piece, even Rotherberg acknowledges that we're talking about one or two teachers per school. This is setting off alarms? I hate to point this out, Andrew, but if you have to rank everyone, someone will have to come
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    A Rag Blog Interview with Bernardine Dohrn « Bill Ayers #ows

    A Rag Blog Interview with Bernardine Dohrn « Bill Ayers:

    A Rag Blog Interview with Bernardine Dohrn

    by billayers

    20 October 2011
    Jonah Raskin

    Bernardine Dohrn. Photo by Thomas Good / Next Left Notes.
    Who doesn’t have a reaction to the name and the reputation of Bernadine Dohrn? Is there anyone over the age of 60 who doesn’t remember her role at the outrageous Days of Rage demonstrations, her picture on FBI “wanted posters,” or her dramatic surrender to law enforcement officials in Chicago after a decade as a fugitive?

    To former members of SDS, anti-war activists, Yippies, Black Panthers, White Panthers, women’s liberationists, along with students and scholars of Weatherman and the Weather Underground, she probably needs no introduction.

    Sam Green featured her in his award-winning 2002 film, The Weather Underground. Todd Gitlin added to her iconic stature in his benchmark cultural history, The Sixties, though he was never on her side of the ideological splits or she on his. Dozens of books about the long decade of defiance have documented and mythologized

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    ESEA moving in HELP committee « Parents Across America

    ESEA moving in HELP committee « Parents Across America:

    ESEA moving in HELP committee

    by pureparents

    Update stories from Ed Week here and here on the status of ESEA in the Senate HELP committee, which has set a hearing on the proposal for November 8:

    …the bill’s sponsors, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the chairman of the committee, and Sen. Michael B. Enzi, R-Wyo., reached an agreement with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., so that action on the bill could move forward.

    …the biggest loser is the Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s plan to offer states waivers from some provisions of the current No Child Left Behind Act. Lawmakers have said they’d like to get this bill passed in the Senate before Christmas to

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    Taking it to the White House for Excellent Public Schools « EdVox

    Taking it to the White House for Excellent Public Schools « EdVox:

    Taking it to the White House for Excellent Public Schools

    by edvoxny

    “Minute by minute, hour, by hour, we are the parents, we have the power!” That is what parents and community members from across the nation chanted on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 during the Communities for Excellent Public Schools Day of Action.

    More than 175 people from across the nation came together in Washington DC to demand a new option for the interventions for our lowest performing schools under the School Improvement Grants on behalf of the Communities for Excellent Public Schools. Representing more than 400,000 people from across the US, we

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