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Obama's Chief of Staff: The Man from J.P. Morgan

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - With Daley in charge, who needs Republicans?Bill Daley, the brother of the former Chicago mayor and JPMorgan Chase executive, joined Obama's inner circle back in January in an effort to ease tensi...

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Chicago Shopping

chicagotribune.com - About a dozen law enforcement officers, including FBI agents, raided the home of a former top aide to Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday as part of a growing investigation into whether county employees...

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Finding the money for school repairs: reduce testing

schoolsmatter.info - Sent to the New York Times, Sept 13, 2011 The US Department of Education plans to increase testing well beyond the already excessive amount we are doing now, without any supporting evidence. Test d...

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Promoting K-12 Education to Advance Student Achievement

brookings.edu - Event Summary Great teachers and great schools have the ability to transform the living standard of Americans. Over the past century, investments in education have boosted the productivity and ear...

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Debt and The Great Disconnect

schooltechconnect.com - I wonder how this is playing out in communities where the new metric isn't a test score but rather the ability to sculpt a school's graduating class so that 100% of the graduates are accepted at co...

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Most See Unemployment as America’s Top Problem

fdlaction.firedoglake.com - A large plurality of Americans, 39 percent, say unemployment is the most important problem facing the country today. “Unemployment” recently managed to take the top spot away from the issue of “the...

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Truthout: Postal Workers: The Last Union

kochwatch.org - -by Allison KilkennySeptember 8, 2011- The recent attacks against the United States Postal Service (USPS) are more than signs of desperate times - a natural sunset moment for a service rendered arc...

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Should Davis be executed? No

ajc.com - By William S. SessionsNo: Questions about his guilt continue to plague his conviction.As Troy Davis faces his fourth execution date on Sept. 21, many may assume that lingering doubts about the case...

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The Innocence of Troy Davis

forbes.com - John Rudolf has a long piece up on Troy Davis in the Huffington Post. Davis was convicted in 1991 for the shooting death of a Georgia policeman. Since then, many doubts have been raised about the c...

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Supreme Court halts Texas execution

northjersey.com - HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution Thursday of a black man convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago after his lawyers contended his sentence was unfair becaus...

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TeachHub Monthly Classroom Projector Giveaway!

oldschoolteach.wordpress.com - We teachers are always looking for a way to get tech tools for free! Actually, anything for free. Well TeachHub has decided to help us out! They are conducting a monthly contest where each winner ...

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Fires Alarmed | The Jose Vilson

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Fires Alarmed | The Jose Vilson:Fires Alarmedby JoseFire drills always unnerve me. One time, our dean asked me to stand in one of the streets, a standard procedure for fire drills as we escort stud...

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Obama admin ignored warnings about Solyndra

news.yahoo.com - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration ignored repeated warnings about a clean-energy loan program that has become an embarrassment for the White House amid the collapse of a California solar e...

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Why Hunger Is Still With Us

thenation.com - Editor's Note: This piece is one in a series of replies to Frances Moore Lappé’s essay on the food movement today. Amid the joy of local, seasonal ingredients and tides of young people with dirt ...

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Fires Alarmed | The Jose Vilson

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Fires Alarmed | The Jose Vilson:Fires Alarmedby JoseFire drills always unnerve me. One time, our dean asked me to stand in one of the streets, a standard procedure for fire drills as we escort stud...

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School Tech Connect: Debt and The Great Disconnect

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Debt and The Great Disconnect:Debt and The Great Disconnectby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)I wonder how this is playing out in communities where the new metric isn't a test score b...

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Stop Children What's That Sound? Only #edreform

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - There's something happening hereWhat it is ain't exactly clearThere's a man with a gun over thereTelling me i got to bewareI think it's time we stop, children, what's that soundEverybody look what'...

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