Thursday, October 20, 2011

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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 ...

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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