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preaprez.wordpress.com - The Tea Party governor of Maine ordered murals removed from the state Department of Labor that depict labor. He also ordered the names of rooms named for such labor leaders as Cesar Chavez taken of...

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washingtonpost.com - TOKYO — Workers doled out bottled water to Tokyo families Thursday after residents cleared store shelves because of warnings that radiation from Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear plant had seeped int...

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chronicle.com - By Audrey Williams June As Antioch College prepares to reopen, its leaders are grappling with quandaries unfamiliar to most new campuses. At the heart of discussions about reinventing the iconic li...

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michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - The great WaPo columnist Valerie Strauss has been reporting on the first ever International Summit on Teaching, convened last week in New York City. She takes note of the key difference between cur...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Lessons from the International Summit on TeachingLessons from the International Summit on Teachingby Mike KlonskyThe great WaPo columnist Valerie Strauss has been rep...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Judge sides with Compton parents | Thoughts on Public EducationFunding reform out of the ashes - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess With K-12 schools facing financial disaster if state taxes aren...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child EducationNational Civil War Student ChallengeMarch 23rd, 2011 by Klea ScharbergIn April 2011, award-winning cable network HISTORY and global education company Hou...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 5 myths about teachers that are distracting policymakers - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post5 myths about teachers that are distracting policymakersBy Valerie StraussThis was written by Barnet...

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wbez.org - (Flickr/Eric Allix Rogers) Smaller schools within the James H. Bowen building will be consolidated into one school. Chicago Public Schools looking at some potential changes. Interim CEO Terry Mazan...

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pissedoffteeacher.blogspot.com - Most, if not all of my algebra students are in the lowest half of the school. They've failed math and other subjects for years. Some have difficulty reading. Over half have some form of ADD and...

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blog.nationalequityproject.org - Our Advisory Board member, NYU education professor and authority on urban schools, Pedro Noguera spoke with Oakland’s Effective Teaching Task Force last week and shared a lot of good, if familiar, ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - News | www.kochwatch.orgAlterNet: Buyer's Remorse: GOP House Majority in Jeopardy Already *March 23, 2011-* Buyer's remorse is setting in quickly, according to Democratic pollster Greenberg Quinlan...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - News | www.kochwatch.orgDavid Pakman: Mississippi Shows Sad Future of Anti-Union Explosionby CD"Buycott"?by CDIn response to widespread calls for consumer boycotts of Kock products, right-wing blog...

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democraticunderground.com - Source: Medea Benjamin and Charles DavisIn 2009 alone, European governments - including Britain and France - sold Libya more than $470 million worth of weapons, including fighter jets, guns and bom...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Mexican President Felipe Calderón has signed a decree permitting income tax deductions for school fees. This measure is designed to help Mexican families cover the cost of education, which will ena...

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womensenews.org - In the third and latest major demonstration in Lebanon, protesters of the sectarian or "confessional" system took special aim at religious family laws that prevent civil marriages and discriminate ...

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sacramentopress.com - The Brown Act is not currently enforceable, according to an attorney and lobbyist for the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Thomas Newton discussed the status of the state’s law on trans...

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nbcconnecticut.com - Updated 11:48 AM EDT, Wed, Mar 23, 2011 | Print A 13-year-old Orange girl missing since Sunday has been found safe. Isabella Oleschuck, a 7th grade student at Amity Middle School, disappeared on S...

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coopcatalyst.wordpress.com - This is a repost from my personal blog. I wrote this almost four months ago but it still resonates with me when people take someone’s attention for granted. I hope posting it here may illicit addit...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NYC Educator: "This Is Not the Place to Take it Easy for the Day""This Is Not the Place to Take it Easy for the Day"by Miss EyreI hurt myself a couple of days ago--no big deal, just a sprained ankl...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - This Week In Education: Thompson: Toxic Circumstances, Toxic ClassroomsThompson: Toxic Circumstances, Toxic Classroomsby john thompsonIn yesterday's NYT, Bob Herbert piece explains that schools wit...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 11:17 am, March 23, 2011 Photo Credits: Paid Sick Days The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) has found that black and Hispanic workers do not get the same amount of paid sic...

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news.firedoglake.com - The locus of fear in Japan has shifted from the Fukushima Daiichi plant (although smoke was seen coming from Unit #3 today) to the produce and other food products coming out of the region. The FDA ...

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history.com - The worst oil spill in U.S. territory begins when the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation, runs aground on a reef in Prince William Sound in southern Alaska. An es...

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4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - from the CGS TSUNAMI WEBSITE | http://1.usa.gov/fJj3A7 National Tsunami Awareness and Preparedness Week March 20-26, 2011 FREE tsunami education MATERIALS and...

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capitolweekly.net - The state’s fiscal turmoil has caused fissures in one of California’s most important political interests – organized labor. Ironically, the immediate cause of the division is Gov. Jerry Brown, wh...

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sacbee.com - Thousands of students will log on to their computers at 4 p.m. today to find out if they got into UC Berkeley. Most will be disappointed – even many with straight A's and enviable test scores.Berke...

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