Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Big Education Ape: 7-26-11 On the Eve of the March, Phony Reforms are on the Ropes EDition

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The Save Our Schools March: Why I Won't Be Marching

laststand4children.blogspot.com - By: Monica Caldwell In May, I was appointed as Last Stand for Children First's East Coast Director of Teacher Development. This has been a wonderful experience for me and I would have to say even ...

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Schools Matter: The new tough FCAT writing test

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: The new tough FCAT writing testThe new tough FCAT writing testby skrashenThe new, tougher FCAT writing test based on incorrect assumptionsSent to the Orlando Sentinel, July 26, 2011...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release July 25, 2011 Generations of Americans with disabilities have improved our country in countless ways. Refusing to accept the worl...

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Please help Rochester save its public schools

dailykos.com - All over this country, our public education system and our teachers are under attack. Some people have accepted the meme shoveled out by the public school privateers (Republicans and Democrats alik...

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Gutierrez arrested during immigration march

abclocal.go.com - July 26, 2011 (WASHINGTON) (WLS) -- Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez was arrested during an immigration protest at the White House on Tuesday. The Democrat was one of about 10 protesters arres...

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Chicago police use more deadly force as gang war heats up

csmonitor.com - Chicago police have already shot and killed more people this year than they did in 2010. Officials blame a 'wanton disregard for law,' but critics say police have been too aggressive against gangs....

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release July 26, 2011 On June 25, 1950, the Korean peninsula erupted in conflict, becoming the front line of an intensifying Cold War. F...

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Off grid « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - We are heading north today from Grand Teton National Park just a few miles to Yellowstone. What is almost impressive as the incredible beauty of this part of Wyoming is the people we have met who w...

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Money Money Money « The Treehorn Express

treehornexpress.wordpress.com - The Treehorn Express If you have read Florence Patty’s The Shrinking of Treehorn you will know of Treehorn’s dilemma. As he shrunk, adults who cared for him, ignored his condition. Adult haughtines...

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Child poverty statistics - countries compared

nationmaster.com - A report by the United Nations Children’s Fund has found that child poverty has risen over the past decade in three-quarters of the 25 richest countries in the world. According to the study, Denmar...

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Wealth gap widens between whites, minorities

syracuse.com - WASHINGTON (AP) — The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century. The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leav...

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Bill Gates To Reinvent The Toilet

mashable.com - The man who revolutionized the personal computer is putting his efforts — and foundation — to revolutionizing toilets. Microsoft founder Bill Gates said he will dedicate $42 million towards reinven...

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Spare the rod and develop the child

educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩStudy suggests non-corporal discipline aids children's executive-functioning abilityChildren in a school that uses corporal punishment performed significantly worse in tasks involving "executive f...

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Our Think/Do Tank workshop at the SOS Conference in D.C.

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - American University Thursday, July 28 from 1:45 - 3:45 P.M. The national SOS action in Washington isn’t the end but hopefully the beginning of our organizing work in defense of public education a...

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