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November 23rd, 2011 by ASCD Whole Child Bloggers

Post submitted by Nora L. Howley, manager of Programs at the National Education Association Health Information Network (NEA HIN). She believes that a great public school is one where students and staff are healthy and safe, and she’s gratified that her job allows her to help make healthier, safer schools a reality. Howley is a former preschool teacher who has taught students as young as two and as old as 85, and served as director of the School Health Project at the Council of Chief State School Officers and as interim executive director at Action for Healthy Kids. Contact Howley by e-mail at nhowley@nea.org.

Kids should move more at school. It sounds easy, but I hear from NEA members that they are not sure how to do it. It was not part of the

Daily Kos: The Poor, the Near Poor and You

Daily Kos: The Poor, the Near Poor and You:

The Poor, the Near Poor and You

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

is the title of this lead editorial in today's New York Times. As we give thanks for our blessings today, I thought it worthwhile to call this to your attention.

Here's the opening paragraph:

What is it like to be poor? Thankfully, most Americans do not know, at least not firsthand. And times are tough for the middle class. But everyone needs to recognize a chilling reality: One in three Americans — 100 million people — is either poor or perilously close to it.

People here will probably know much of the data cited, and like the author(s) of the editorial will know how ridiculous the criticisms by Heritage of how the data is calculate are. As the editorial notes

The rankings ignore the fact that many of these are requisites of modern life and that things

Thanks

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

in no particular order, for

- the students who each day give my life meaning
- the parents who entrust me with their children
- the benefits I received from an excellent free public education
- National Music Camp in Interlochen, where I learned I could be both a musician and an athlete
- Haverford College, which admitted me, then twice readmitted me, letting me grow up and find myself
- Sylvia and Louis Bernstein, my parents, who gave of themselves so that I could do things like music, Interlochen, and more
- this electronic community, which enabled me to develop my voice, and which has sustained me at times when I was shattered
- teachers and professors like Thomas Rock, John Davison, William Reese, Linda Poole, and others, who saw value in me even when I didn't
- Marion White-Hood, Doc, who gave me leadership positions when I was still a beginning teacher
- Leaves on the Current, now 37 years together, almost 26 of marriage, who still will tell me she loves me, especially when I am down or depressed
- Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Sibelius, Dvorak, so many wonderful composers whose music has brightened my

Left Agents of the 1% | Dissident Voice

Left Agents of the 1% | Dissident Voice:

Left Agents of the 1%

by Frank Scott / November 23rd, 2011

As the Occupy Wall Street movement spread across the nation, mistakes and setbacks occurred which are minimal when compared to its success in calling attention to the private domination of America’s wealth by the upper 1% as major cause of our social problems. Agents of that minority are feverishly at work, whether directly on the payroll or simply acting according to anti-social programming that teaches individualism, selfish egoism and the divisive identity politics that reduce the 99% to splintered minorities and assure continued domination by the richest 1%.

Direct employees of corporate capital in media and politics either downgrade the movement or try to incorporate it, while some supposed progressive critics claim that only their specific problems must be on its agenda. Any attempt to bring down barriers between people and promote unity is labeled racist, sexist, exclusionary, bigoted and other expletives that play well among these agents of division.

Groups that have penetrated the gated communities of political isolation and begun to learn about each others problems and the need for unity in

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