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More Shame of a Nation

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - On the heels of the Annie E. Casey report (below) comes another devastating report from the Children's Defense Fund on the State of America's Children. Here's the high lowlightsHow America Ranks Am...

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Michelle Rhee Challenged at Martha's Vineyard Forum

theroot.com - Former Washington, DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee was a frequent target at a forum on education on Martha's Vineyard last night. Rhee, who resigned as head of district schools after Mayor Adri...

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Is anyone listening? | Our Schools NYC

ourschoolsnyc.org - Note: I refer to each person in this article by first name, not out of disrespect but rather a neutral respect. It is the same respect I demand of my students, who call me by my first name and noth...

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Shame of a nation

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Millions of children growing up in poverty A couple of new reports caught my eye yesterday. The first was a new study on child well-being put out by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. It found that c...

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Rick Perry has a funny definition of "miracle"

dailykos.com - You know how the national health care law is modelled after Romneycare in Massachusetts? So if such laws kill jobs, as conservatives claim, then Massachusetts should be in dire straits, correct? If...

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Verizon Strike Solidarity Fund

afl.salsalabs.com - Amid the larger national context of attacks on public employee unions, Verizon has adopted a page from Scott Walker’s playbook to launch an assault on collective bargaining rights and the middle cl...

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Sharpton's Racket - Page 1 - Columns - New York

villagevoice.com - The Reverend Al Sharpton has proven that it's a waste of ink to detail his decades of bad behavior: the payoffs, shakedowns, conflicts of interests, campaign violations, and legal problems that hav...

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Election Update for Thursday

saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - Looks like all the incumbents dropped slightly (but overall one percent or less). However, the fight is still on for the challenger to Martin-Morris in Position 3. Dunn has closed the gap to les...

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Las maestras y los maestros importan

vidayfamilia.univision.com - Una maestra efectiva puede adelantar el conocimiento de sus estudiantes por el equivalente de un grado y medio en el espacio de un año académico, mientras que una inefectiva los hace crecer solamen...

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State of America's Children® 2010 Report

childrensdefense.org - Release Date: May 28, 2010File Size: 3.96 MBFile Format: pdfDownload Document CDF's The State of America's Children 2010, is a compilation of the most recent and reliable national and state-by-st...

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Customers Feel Some Ripples From the Verizon Strike

nytimes.com - As a strike by 45,000 Verizon workers approaches the two-week mark, the company’s customers are beginning to feel the impact — and are complaining about it. Verizon acknowledges “minor”...

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Customers Feel Some Ripples From the Verizon Strike

nytimes.com - As a strike by 45,000 Verizon workers approaches the two-week mark, the company’s customers are beginning to feel the impact — and are complaining about it. Verizon acknowledges “minor”...

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