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nypost.com - A low-performing Manhattan high school that was granted up to $6 million in extra funds to undergo a “transformation” has found the secret formula for success: Dumb down the requirements for studen...

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Education Officials Travel Paid by a Vendor’s Foundation

nytimes.com - Since 2008, the Pearson Foundation, the nonprofit arm of one of the nation’s largest educational publishers, has financed free international trips — some have called them junkets — for education co...

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Anti-Federalism in G.O.P. Race Aims at Education

nytimes.com - Representative Michele Bachmann promises to “turn out the lights” at the federal Education Department. Gov. Rick Perry calls it unconstitutional. Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, would allo...

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Oakland Schools Expanding Free-Meal Programs

nytimes.com - On a recent Saturday morning, some 60 teachers and nurses from the Oakland Unified School District gathered at Tilden Education Complex for a daylong seminar on nutrition education. Mar...

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Teachers Union march | Occupy Chicago

occupychi.org - Yesterday a representative from the Chicago Teachers Union visited the Occupy Chicago protestors to announce that up to 1000 members will march with them on Monday, October 10th at 4pm.The march wi...

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Anti-Federalism in G.O.P. Race Aims at Education

nytimes.com - (Page 2 of 2) For his part, Mr. Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, which has long had the nation’s top public schools, at first resisted the education law, but he came to embrace it. More recent...

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Jute Mill Strife in India Preys Harshly on Wives

womensenews.org - The wives and a sister of jute mill workers who are demanding employee benefits have paid the price as the men were imprisoned and became fugitives. Though the men have returned, pressures remain a...

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Chris Crutcher: Bullying

huffingtonpost.com - A new school year is up and running and the educational community is again forced to address the issue of bullying. Thirty years ago when I started my career as a child abuse and neglect therapist,...

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I Am My Hair, Too | The Jose Vilson

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - I Am My Hair, Too | The Jose Vilson:I Am My Hair, Tooby JoseNivea's Ad, Re-Colonize YourselfTo look as fresh as some of us brothers do takes a certain amount of patience, skill, and discernment tha...

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Cain: Wall St. protesters playing victim card

cbsnews.com - GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain on CBS' "Face the Nation," October 9, 2011. (CBS) (CBS News) Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain on Sunday accused anti-Wall Street protesters of pla...

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G.O.P. Anti-Federalism Aims at Education

nytimes.com - Representative Michele Bachmann promises to “turn out the lights” at the federal Education Department. Gov. Rick Perry calls it unconstitutional. Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, would allo...

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G.O.P. Anti-Federalism Aims at Education

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Telemundo Launches Two YouTube Channels

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 5:28 am, October 9, 2011 Telemundo announced that it will launch two YouTube channels dedicated exclusively to Telemundo and mun2 content. The two YouTube channels, designed to promote...

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More Bleak Job Numbers

nytimes.com - It would take a lot of optimism to put a positive spin on the jobs report for September, released on Friday by the Labor Department. Employers added 103,000 jobs last month, allaying fe...

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Italian union: Don't send Fiat jobs to North America

democraticunderground.com - Source: Detroit Free PressItalian union: Don't send Fiat jobs to North America8:50 PM, Oct. 9, 2011 BY BRENT SNAVELY AND GREG GARDNERDETROIT FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITERSThe UAW and Chrysler are push...

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Facebook PAC raises privacy concerns

dailycensored.com - Over the past few years, Facebook has garnered a lot of publicity, concern, and backlash for its numerous privacy issues. The most current concern is a recent patent filing to track its users offsi...

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