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Poverty and Education in SC and the US

wrestlingwithwriting.blogspot.com- Op-Eds in The State and The Greenville News:As children across South Carolina re-enter our schools across the state, two recent reports on childhood well-being are worth considering—the State of Am...

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Shifting Talking Points among School Choice Advocates

dailykos.com - The evolution of the school choice advocacy talking points has included the following, in roughly the order in which they surfaced in the advocacy reports by think tanks and the media from the 1980...

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Why I Hate Teach for America — Feministe

feministe.us - Like many English majors who have reached their senior year of college and are unsure of what kind of job they can get with that specialized B.A. in interwar period lesbian literature, five years a...

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SocietySee all

What Did You Learn in School Today? (The Texas Version)

commondreams.org - Millions of Texas students head back to school this week confronted by a dramatically altered, state-mandated social studies curriculum. The contentious hearings of the Texas State Board of Educati...

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Failing Forward

nytimes.com - Sometimes I push back on my heels, look at this country and wonder aloud: “What on earth are we doing?” We have a growing crisis among the nation’s children, yet our policies ignore tha...

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EnvironmentSee all

Do We Really Need A National Weather Service?

foxnews.com - As Hurricane Irene bears down on the East Coast, news stations bombard our televisions with constant updates from the National Hurricane Center. While Americans ought to prepare for the coming sto...

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Survival Tips After a Hurricane Strikes, Hurricane Irene

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 6:59 pm, August 27, 2011 Photo Credits: Post Hurricane The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) are warning residents in hurricane-impacte...

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Examining a Labor Hero’s Death

nytimes.com - At Woodstock, Joan Baez sang a famous folk ballad celebrating Joe Hill, the itinerant miner, songwriter and union activist who was executed by a Utah firing squad in 1915. “I never died, said he” i...

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Examining a Labor Hero’s Death

nytimes.com - At Woodstock, Joan Baez sang a famous folk ballad celebrating Joe Hill, the itinerant miner, songwriter and union activist who was executed by a Utah firing squad in 1915. “I never died, said he” i...

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Judge won't drop Beverly Hills schools corruption case

latimesblogs.latimes.com - A judge on Friday denied a request to drop the felony criminal charges filed against a former Beverly Hills schools chief. An attorney for Supt. Jeffrey Hubbard had argued that Hubbard was only fol...

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Nine candidates make ballot for Nov. 1 DPS board election

denverpost.com - There will be nine names on the Nov. 1 ballot for Denver Public School's board election. The deadline to submit 50 signatures in order to secure a spot on the ballot was 5 p.m. today. A 10th hopefu...

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Before Jobs, Sam Walton and Bill Gates took exits

boston.com - NEW YORK—As CEOs, Sam Walton, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs possessed common traits. They were tireless workers, demanding bosses and sticklers for detail. They were visionaries, too, who reshaped thei...

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Radical Scholarship: Poverty and Education in SC and the US

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Radical Scholarship: Poverty and Education in SC and the US: Poverty and Education in SC and the USby P. L. ThomasOp-Eds in The State and The Greenville News: As children across South Carolina re-...

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Daily Kos: The answer is yes, Mr. Kristof

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: The answer is yes, Mr. Kristof: The answer is yes, Mr. Kristofby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)whose column for tomorrow asks Did We Drop the Ball on Unemployment?He acknowledges being pa...

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