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I've Been Conned!!

backburner-nkk.blogspot.com - … I'll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around me Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I'll get on my knees and ...

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The Rick Scott-Michelle Rhee-Charter USA Pep Rally Debacle

bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com - It was clear from the start the decision from Charter USA to bus in 2000 teachers and administrators to a Michelle Rhee-Rick Scott rally on Thursday was a bad idea. With media coverage and outrage...

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After Words with Steven Brill - C

c-spanvideo.org - C-SPAN | BookTV The founder of The American Lawyer magazine and Court TV tells the story of a coalition of unlikely allies in the fight to change a school system that many parents believe is failin...

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UseYourTeacherVoice | The Classroom Sooth

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - UseYourTeacherVoice | The Classroom SoothUseYourTeacherVoiceby classroomsoothYesterday I launched the Use Your Teacher Voice campaign. At this juncture it is solely a YouTube campaign. The goal i...

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PS 51 Cancer Scare Ignites Calls For Accountability

ny1.com - To view our videos, you need toenable JavaScript. Learn how.install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. Critics are calling for Schools Chancellor Denni...

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Verizon Workers End Strike, Though Without New Contract

nytimes.com - Leaders of the unions that have been on strike against Verizon Communications announced on Saturday that they were ending the walkout even though the two sides had not reached an overall settlement...

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The Persistent Failure of Steven Brill

gawker.com - Steven Brill has a reputation for being a media wise man—a deep-thinking mogul who's always spotting the opportunities of The Future. Which is kind of strange, since the majority of his projects ha...

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Congressional Black Caucus Gets Tough on President Obama

thedailybeast.com - With a stinging budget defeat behind them and unemployment in the black community soaring to 16 percent, members of the Congressional Black Caucus say they’re done waiting for Barack Obama to fight...

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UseYourTeacherVoice | The Classroom Sooth

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - UseYourTeacherVoice | The Classroom SoothUseYourTeacherVoiceby classroomsoothYesterday I launched the Use Your Teacher Voice campaign. At this juncture it is solely a YouTube campaign. The goal i...

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Fixing Schools: A Smart Plan for Jobs

inthesetimes.com - Politicians love to talk about how to “fix” the education system, from imposing standardized tests to shuttering “failing” schools. But they've been ignoring a big, basic fix for the nation's schoo...

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    Radical Scholarship: New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut: paperback edition

    Radical Scholarship: New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut: paperback edition

    New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut: paperback edition

    by P. L. Thomas

    New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut
    http://us.macmillan.com/newcriticalessaysonkurtvonnegut
    Edited by David Simmons

    "Together the essays stand as an introduction to rereading Vonnegut, demonstrating that his canon may be worth reexamining. Secret lovers of Vonnegut (and sci-fi) will use this book to defend their affections for an artist whose pop fame and pop forms dismay some critics. And one can almost imagine Vonnegut's crooked smile at essays that seek to reserve a place in high-toned literary debates for his works."--Choice
    “This collection offers a timely re-engagement with one of the most enigmatic, deceptive, and misunderstood of American authors…Through a comprehensive interrogation of Vonnegut’s early and late novels, his short stories, and his relationship to predecessors such as Hemingway and his ‘post-9/11 heirs’ such as Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, and Ian McEwan, the contributing scholars establish beyond question the continuing relevance and necessity of reading Vonnegut.”—Will
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    Court won't stop teacher from challenging religion

    Court won't stop teacher from challenging religion

    Court won't stop teacher from challenging religion

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    Saying teachers need to be free to discuss controversial subjects, a federal appeals court has dismissed a student's lawsuit against a high school history instructor whose classroom comments poked fun at creationism and religious fundamentalism.

    The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Friday it did not have to decide whether some of the teacher's remarks - like his calling a former teacher's anti-evolution advocacy "religious, superstitious nonsense" - violated the constitutional requirement of government neutrality by expressing hostility toward religion.

    Regardless, the court said, a public employee can be sued only for violating clearly



    Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/19/BAB71KPM9O.DTL#ixzz1Vffkwuep
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    SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Dan Lungren Town Hall Meeting

    SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Dan Lungren Town Hall Meeting

    Dan Lungren Town Hall Meeting

    by Duane Campbell


    Rep. Dan Lungren Town Hall Meeting
    Let’s tell him our position on Medicare!

Wednesday, August 24th @ 6:30 PM
La Sierra Community Center
5325 Engle Road, Carmichael, CA 95608

    We have known for years that Congressman Dan Lungren is no friend to working families. However, Lungren has hit a new low this year with his positions on eliminating Medicare for seniors.

Over the last three months, Lungren and Republicans in Congress have voted three times to end Medicare. Lungren voted for the “Cut, Cap and Balance Plan” in July that is more extreme than the Ryan Budget was. The plan would again force an end to Medicare and raise health care costs for seniors while protecting tax breaks for big oil companies and multi-millionaires.

    Lungren must be held accountable for his harmful votes to working families and seniors. Please attend one of Lungren’s town halls (arrive early at 6:30 PM) and tell him: Hands off our Medicare!

    For more information or questions, please call 916-813-6658 or emailSacramentoMedicare@Gmail.com.

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    Bishops Urge Priests to Pray & Preach About DREAM Act - Hispanically Speaking News

    Bishops Urge Priests to Pray & Preach About DREAM Act - Hispanically Speaking News

    U.S. Conference of Bishops Urge Priests to Pray & Preach About DREAM Act

    U.S. Conference of Bishops Urge Priests to Pray & Preach About DREAM Act

    The U.S. Conference of Bishops through their “Justice for Immigrants” campaign is urging all Catholic priests to pray, preach and advocate for passage of the DREAM Act.

    The DREAM Act would grant a path to citizenship for children of undocumented parents that came to the U.S. at an early age and are either students or in the military. DREAM Act legislation has existed in one form or another for approximately 10 years and was most recently defeated in the Senate last year. It was reintroduced by Senator Dick Durbin and Senator Robert Menendez this year in hopes of passing once again.

    The Catholic Church prayer campaign will be formally launched September 18 and runs through October 9th

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    U of Maryland employees have come forward with allegations of sexual abuse, racial discrimination, physical abuse | Dailycensored.com

    University of Maryland employees (mostly custodians, housekeepers, and facilities workers) have come forward with allegations of sexual abuse, racial discrimination, physical abuse, and hateful verbal abuse (too name only a few) | Dailycensored.com

    University of Maryland employees (mostly custodians, housekeepers, and facilities workers) have come forward with allegations of sexual abuse, racial discrimination, physical abuse, and hateful verbal abuse (too name only a few)

    by Danny Weil
    On August 18, 2011, the Justice at Maryland Coalition for Workers’ Rights facilitated a Worker’s Panel and Press Conference. This event featured various workers from the University of Maryland who gave their heart-wrenching testimonials detailing years and years of workplace abuses aimed against them and their co-workers. Listed below are video clips from that event. [...]
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    Jersey Jazzman: Our Failed Education Discourse

    Jersey Jazzman: Our Failed Education Discourse

    Our Failed Education Discourse

    by Duke
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    Still, most agreed that the small numbers of tenure charges filed with the state are really only a fraction of the cases of low-performing teachers for whom the formal filing is a last resort, a vast majority of them eased out of the classroom as the complaints mount.
    'You don’t see these statistics, but I would say that hundreds of teachers who receive
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    Daily Kos: Obama bans war criminals, except our own

    Daily Kos: Obama bans war criminals, except our own

    Obama bans war criminals, except our own

    by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)
    For those growing number of Americans who are concerned with what has been and still is done in our names, it's important to know exactly the warning in this regard in the U.N. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment that was signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 and ratified by our government in 1994:

    "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.

    "An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture."

    I am quoting from Nat Hentoff, from a piece whose title I borrowed that appeared Friday at Reader Supported News.

    There are many reasons some of us who supported Obama for President are now disappointed and even angry.

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    Saturday, August 20, 2011

    Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - “Teacher Home Visits Are Important, But The Post’s Jay Mathews Misses The Point”

    Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - “Teacher Home Visits Are Important, But The Post’s Jay Mathews Misses The Point”

    “Learning The Language” Blog To Continue For Now Learning The Language, the crucially important Education Week blog on English Language Learners begun by Mary Ann Zehr several years ago, will continue — for now — and be written by Alexandra Rice. It’s still unclear what will be happening in the ...

    “Teacher Home Visits Are Important, But The Post’s Jay Mathews Misses The Point” Teacher Home Visits Are Important, But The Post’s Jay Mathews Misses The Point is the title of a new post I’ve written at my other blog, Engaging Parents In School. It’s a reaction to a recent column on teacher home visits by The Washington Post’s ...

    What Is The Best Research Available On The Use Of Technology In Schools? I’m a big believer in using technology with language learners, and believe that it is a huge teaching and learning asset. My own experience, and a lot of research, bears that out and I’ve compiled it in The Best Places To Find Research On ...
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    Arne Duncan’s Got Some ‘Splainin’ to do for His Attack on Rick Perry | Scathing Purple Musings

    Arne Duncan’s Got Some ‘Splainin’ to do for His Attack on Rick Perry | Scathing Purple Musings

    Arne Duncan’s Got Some ‘Splainin’ to Do for His Attack on Rick Perry

    by Bob Sikes

    This week, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan blasted the performance of Texas schools while Rick Perry has been governor. Hot Air’s Tina Korbe provided this link to Duncan’s interview with Bloomberg News’ Al Hunt:

    U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Texas’s school system “has really struggled” under Governor Rick Perry, a Republican candidate for president, and the state’s substandard schools do a disservice to children.

    “Far too few of their high school graduates are actually prepared to go on to college,” Duncan said on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital With Al Hunt” airing tonight and tomorrow. “I feel very,

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    Local News | Education portal helps decipher school info | Seattle Times Newspaper

    Local News | Education portal helps decipher school info | Seattle Times Newspaper

    Education portal helps decipher school info

    Most of the tools available to learn how kids are doing in school require people to be computer savvy and to understand the language of education statistics. Researchers from the University of Washington are working to change that with a new online program that is dynamic and simple.

    By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP

    The Associated Press

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    Thanks to new federal rules, more and more information is available to the public about how kids are doing in school. Unfortunately, getting the information is a lot easier than understanding what it says.

    Most of the tools available require people to be computer savvy and to understand the language of education statistics. Researchers from the University of Washington are working to change that with a new online program that is dynamic and simple.

    The new education portal — the Washington Achievement Data Explorer or WADE — was launched this past week by the UW's Center for Education Data and Research. It looks across time at whether school districts

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    Missouri Education Watchdog: What Do Tiger Mothers and Tiger Educators Have in Common?

    Missouri Education Watchdog: What Do Tiger Mothers and Tiger Educators Have in Common?

    What Do Tiger Mothers and Tiger Educators Have in Common?

    by stlgretchen
    This is from Ann Althouse about children coming of age between the 1950's through the 1970's.

    "I am a child of the 1970s. What that means, in short, is that my childhood summer vacations were spent..."

    "... languishing in front of the TV watching Phil Donahue and eating Boo Berry until my skin turned purple. Nobody cared if I read. Nobody cared if I wore sunscreen, or pants. I was like a house cat; my parents barely even knew if I was still living with them or whether I had moved in with the old lady down the street who would put out a bowl of food for me. In the '70s, parenting was like a combination of intense crate-training and rumspringa, so I would typically spend June through
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    On the Back Burner: I've Been Conned!!

    On the Back Burner: I've Been Conned!!

    I've Been Conned!!

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    I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
    Take a bow for the new revolution
    Smile and grin at the change all around me
    Pick up my guitar and play
    Just like yesterday
    Then I'll get on my knees and pray
    We don't get fooled again
    Don't get fooled again
    No, no!

    —The Who

    I suppose that I had it coming. In the virtual world of Gmail, Facebook and Twitter, there is no shrieking siren or a flashing red light to alert folks that they’re about to fall into a pit of vipers. Lulled into a false sense of security, I’ve settled into a daily routine of skimming quickly through my e-mail for worthy petitions, calls to action, and clicks to support worthy and benignly apolitical causes (think “kittens and puppies”). I’m a regular atChange.org, and at the GreaterGood Network. Looking over these two sites, I think you’ll
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