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Corporate School Reform and 10 Hopeful Signs of Resistance « Rethinking Schools Blog
rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com - On Oct. 1, 650 people attended the 4th annual Northwest Teachers for Social Justice conference in Seattle. Rethinking Schools editor Stan Karp gave a well-received talk on “Challenging Corporate E...
Elite Club or Catalyst for Change?
edweek.org - Published Online: October 18, 2011Published in Print: October 19, 2011, as Broad Prize: Do the Successes Spread?When the Broad Prize for Urban Education was created in 2002, billionaire philanthrop...
Chinese Students Lose as U.S. Schools Exploit Need
bloomberg.com - Enlarge image China Students Paying $52,000 Say Boarding Schools Misled Guan Wang, a freshman at the University of California, Davis, from China, uses a laptop computer as she studies in her dorm r...
Tata's choice plan passes 6-2; Hill, Sutton vote no
indyweek.com - Kevin Hill (right, in yellow shirt) at Wake school board work session. Tony Tata is seated at left; James Overman, Tata's task force leader, is standing. Effective in the 2012-13 school year, unles...
The Koch Brothers And The Battle Over Integration in Wake County's Schools
huffingtonpost.com - The stakes in the battle over the Wake County Public School System in North Carolina couldn’t be higher.On one side are the billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, and the Tea Party and liber...
Schools | Detroit Public Schools grapple with crowded classes
detnews.com - Last Updated: October 19. 2011 1:47PM Jennifer Chambers/ The Detroit News Detroit — Every day, Donnie Hodges totes his backpack into Nolan Elementary School and heads for kindergarten class — searc...
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Elite Club or Catalyst for Change?
edweek.org - Published Online: October 18, 2011Published in Print: October 19, 2011, as Broad Prize: Do the Successes Spread?When the Broad Prize for Urban Education was created in 2002, billionaire philanthrop...
If You Believe in Miracles, Don't Read This - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah, Last June, I wrote an op-ed for The New York Times disputing the idea of "miracle schools." With the assistance of two volunteer researchers, Gary Rubinstein and Noel Hammatt, I learn...
Protesters get personal to embarrass city's titans
crainsnewyork.com - It's been a rough few weeks for the city's billionaires, bankers and corporate board members.As the Occupy Wall Street movement has gained steam, the city's well-heeled have become the target of pr...
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Republicans jump into non-partisan school board races
9news.com - JEFFERSON COUNTY - Across Colorado, there is a changing landscape when it comes to school board races. Once thought to be "mom and pop," elections have now turned into coordinated, professional cam...
Growth of Occupy NY spurs debate over media, electoral politics
fsrn.org - Year: 2011Length: 7:19 minutes (6.69 MB)Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR) Occupy Wall Street continues to gain momentum and spread across the US gripping the country’s attention. According to a ...
by Alice Walker | OccupyWriters.com
occupywriters.com - the joyful news of your arrest this sunday morning everything is bringing tears. in church this morning not a church anyone from my childhood would recognize as church a brother singing ecstatic ab...
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Rahm wants more tax breaks for the 1%. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Updated: Ernst & Young adding 500 Chicago jobs; Emanuel pushes lawmakers for CME aid | Greg Hinz | Blogs | Crain’s Chicago Business. Teachers all over the state are looking anxiously at the coming ...
Afternoon Fix: Bachmann wishes she’d Googled Rollins
washingtonpost.com - Michele Bachmann and Ed Rollins wish they had googled each other, House Democrats are after 9-9-9, the GOP convention has a logo and another Redskins alum could be in Congress.Make sure to sign up ...
Watchdog: Jackson Jr. Likely in the Clear
chicagonewscoop.org - A reopened investigation into U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s 2009 quest for a Senate seat is not expected to put him in the hot seat, according to a Washington, D.C., watchdog group that once named ...
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Subway route under Beverly Hills High declared safest option
latimesblogs.latimes.com - A controversial proposal to build the Westside subway extension under Beverly Hills High School is the safest option, compared with a route through the fault-ridden ground under Santa Monica Boulev...
Teachers join Occupy L.A. movement with march
abclocal.go.com - DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A strong showing is expected in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, as more people join the sweeping movement sparked by Occupy Wall Street protesters. Protestors with t...
School police officers relocate protestors' tents from LAUSD headquarters - LA Daily News #OWS
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School police officers relocate protestors' tents from LAUSD headquarters - LA Daily News:School police officers relocate protestors' tents from LAUSD headquartersDaily News Wire ServicesPosted: 10...
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Commander Who Pepper-Sprayed Protesters Faces Disciplinary Charges
nytimes.com - A New York City police commander who sprayed protesters with pepper spray during the opening days of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations last month faces an internal disciplinary charge that coul...
Denise McGregor Armbrister to resign from SRC
thenotebook.org - Another member of the School Reform Commission has resigned. In a statement, Secretary of Education Ronald Tomalis accepted the resignation and thanked Denise McGregor Armbrister for her service. M...
Walnut Creek school under fire after student receives racial threat
insidebayarea.com - WALNUT CREEK -- A Walnut Creek school has come under fire for not informing parents of an alleged racist death threat made to a student last week.Parents of an 11-year-old girl at Buena Vista Eleme...
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Citizens Stop Factory Farm -- In These Times
inthesetimes.com - Things tend to get crowded at industrial dairies, where cows can end up mired in their own manure. (Photo by: Darren McCollester/Getty Images) Unlike traditional, small-farm grazing methods, factor...
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Occupy the Classroom
nytimes.com - Occupy Wall Street is shining a useful spotlight on one of America’s central challenges, the inequality that leaves the richest 1 percent of Americans with a greater net worth than the entire botto...
Occupy Wall Street Videos for the Classroom | Mr. D's Neighborhood #OWS
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Occupy Wall Street Videos for the Classroom | Mr. D's Neighborhood:Occupy Wall Street Videos for the Classroomby ldorazio1The Occupy Wall Street protests are obviously on many peoples’ minds lately...
We the 99% Demand a Totally Different Budget
my.firedoglake.com - We can fit our demands on a bumpersticker: “Majority Rule” or “People Over Profits” or “Love Not Greed.” But we don’t want to. Our government is doing everything wrong, and we should be allowed t...
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#OccupyWallStreet Vocalizes In Spanish (Video)
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 10:57 am, October 18, 2011 Photo Credits: Ocupa Wall Street #OccupyWallStreet protesters are now organizing all over the world and speaking out in all different languages. Here is the...
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