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Saturday, October 22, 2011

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Wisconsin Public Radio - Kathleen Dunn

wpr.org - Kathleen Dunn can be heard on WPR's Ideas Network stations Monday through Thursday mornings from 9-11am, leading balanced discussions about the issues of the day and the issues of our time. To join...

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Duncan drives, shoots and scores

dyn.politico.com - Arne Duncan grabbed headlines from the moment he arrived in Washington as President Barack Obama’s basketball-playing friend in the Cabinet. Nearly three years later, Washington insiders are paying...

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NYC DOE: Careers in NYC Schools

hostedjobs.openhire.com - Note: This grant funded assignment is for one (1) year with the possibility of renewal for up to three (3) years. Position Summary: The New York City school system is the largest in the country, c...

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William V. Healey: Heal for America

online.wsj.com - Considering the success of Wendy Kopp's Teach for America program?which this year will train and place more than 7,300 highly motivated teachers in our nation's neediest schools?perhaps we're ready...

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A Harvard Education Is Cheaper Than Jailing Youth

huffingtonpost.com - In advance of releasing her $3 billion spending plan for 2012, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle spoke about one expense she hopes to slash next year--the astronomical cost of jailing ju...

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Virtual charter school plan prompts review of laws

northjersey.com - A proposal for a virtual charter school based in Teaneck that would end its first year with $4.7 million of taxpayer money left in the bank has sparked concern and calls Friday for deeper scrutiny....

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Mitsch apologizes for racy tweets

articles.philly.com - "The specific tweet in question is an age-old saw most notably quoted by Jerry Hall, Mick Jagger's ex-wife, in the early 1990s: 'My mother said in order to keep a man, you must be a maid in the liv...

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How many teachers does it take to screw a lightbulb?

doyle-scienceteach.blogspot.com - NJ World Class Standard: 8.2 Technology Education, Engineering, and DesignAll students will develop an understanding of the nature and impact of technology, engineering, technological design, and ...

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All Education Matters: #OWS: The Mayors List

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - All Education Matters: #OWS: The Mayors List:#OWS: The Mayors Listby Cryn JohannsenBefore I headed up to Tulsa, Oklahoma last weekend to meet occupiers there, I had a long conversation with author ...

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Unable to Get Simeone Fired, NPR Drops "World of Opera"

my.firedoglake.com - Yesterday, NPR’s PR flack was haranguing me on the phone about how NPR had nothing to do with getting Lisa Simeone fired from an independent program called Soundprint. This was despite NPR having ...

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The Kill Team | Rolling Stone Politics

rollingstone.com - Cpl. Jeremy Morlock with Staff Sgt. David Bram By Mark Boal March 27, 2011 10:00 PM ET Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American infantrymen reached a mo...

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Hipster Cop Interview GQ New York Times

mediaite.com - One of the more bizarre but inevitable side effects of the Occupy Wall Street movement has been the blossoming of celebrity in otherwise barren Zuccotti Park, and, ironically, no greater personalit...

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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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