Thursday, October 20, 2011

Big Education Ape: 10-20-11 PM Students visit Occupy L.A. for lesson in democracy EDition #ows

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Students visit Occupy L.A. for lesson in democracy

latimesblogs.latimes.com - About 30 schoolchildren took a field trip Tuesday afternoon – not to the aquarium – but rather to City Hall, the epicenter of Occupy Los Angeles. The fifth- through eighth-grade students from Sequo...

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kdvr.com - DENVER -- Former President George W. Bush paid tribute to Get Smart Schools, a local education reform nonprofit, in brief comments after a roundtable discussion there Thursday morning.After a 30-mi...

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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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Success Charter's Co-Location in District 15 Faces Hurdles

carrollgardens.patch.com - Success Charter Network founder and former Councilmember Eva Moskowitz faces multiple hurdles in her attempt to open a K-8 charter school in the Cobble Hill/ Boerum Hill area next fall. One potenti...

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The One Percent And Us

edwize.org - Over the last few weeks, a small team of New York City building inspectors descended upon UFT headquarters, responding to a mysterious 311 call. Our building has been placed under police surveillan...

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Study Warns School Closings Unlikely to Raise Much Cash

edweek.org - ByKristen A. Graham, The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)As it prepares for large-scale school closings, the Philadelphia School District must brace itself for a painful process that probably won't gene...

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Chicago math and science scores worst ever

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Duncan rode the myth of the Chicago "miracle" all the way to D.C.It's been 16 years since Mayor Richard M. Daley took control of Chicago's school system, bringing with him a school-reform agenda fo...

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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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Occupy: The Truth That Hurts

addictinginfo.org - From The New York Times, a comment about Occupy Wall Street from a reader in Chicago:- The leaderlessness and the lack of any agenda or even the desire to engage the system. Shows an almost total l...

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Big Changes Coming to Google Reader

forbes.com - Image via CrunchBaseIt was only a matter of time. When Google announced last week that it was killing off Google Buzz, those of us who use Google Reader began to get nervous. Would Google kill off...

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Verizon Workers To Join #OWS Friday

ourfuture.org - Popular This WeekOctober 19, 2011October 18, 2011more» Also Worth ReadingNo related links for this issue category. Tomorrow (Friday) as many as 1,000 Verizon workers will march with Occupy Wall St...

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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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