Thursday, December 1, 2011

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Miracle Schools: Where Are They Now?

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - The current education reform battle is a bit like a boxing match. The corporate reformers had a lot of momentum until April 2010, when Diane Ravitch came out with ‘The Death And Life Of The Great A...

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Fred Smith on David Abrams' resignation: No Mas!

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Fred Smith is a former senior analyst for the NYC Board of Education and an expert on testing. Here he comments on the sudden resignation of David Abrams, who led the NY State Education Dept. testi...

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Bloomberg Says He Has 'Own Army' in NYPD, Slams Teachers

dnainfo.com - Mayor Bloomberg Delivers Keynote Address at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Collaborative Initiative Conference. (Mayor's Office/Edward Reed) MANHATTAN — Now he can add another title to...

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Britons Strike as Government Extends Austerity Measures

nytimes.com - LONDON — Hundreds of thousands of public employees walked off their jobs in schools, hospitals, airports, courtrooms, libraries, museums and government offices on Wednesday, as British workers beca...

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American lives, undocumented | Being Latino Online Magazine

beinglatino.wordpress.com - by Hector Luis Alamo, Jr. A deep recession has struck a nation, and in the rubble, one entire section of society is subjugated, dis-empowered and dehumanized. Right-wing nationalists establish a re...

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Hillary's AIDS Plan Missed a Key Idea: Women

womensenews.org - It's an odd question to ask Hillary Clinton, the Obama administration's champion for global women's reproductive rights. But where were the women in her "AIDS-free generation" speech two weeks ago?...

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Today's Teamsters News 12.01.11

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Unions survive anti-labor push in New Hampshire Los Angeles Times ...Legislators in New Hampshire voted to sustain Gov. John Lynch's veto of a right-to-work bill in New Hampshire that would have...

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Cuomo Considering Tax-Code Changes - NYTimes.com

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - Faced with a worsening financial climate, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday that he was contemplating whether to propose changes to the state tax code, and he did not rule out the possibility tha...

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A Banker Speaks, With Regret

nytimes.com - If you want to understand why the Occupy movement has found such traction, it helps to listen to a former banker like James Theckston. He fully acknowledges that he and other bankers are mostly res...

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Judy Lewis, Secret Daughter of Hollywood, Dies at 76

nytimes.com - Her mother was Loretta Young. Her father was Clark Gable. Yet Judy Lewis spent her first 19 months in hideaways and orphanages, and the rest of her early life untangling a web of lies s...

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Mayor Bloomberg Has a Posse - Politics

theatlanticwire.com - Mayor Bloomberg, who always fends off the suggestion that he'll make a run at the White House, had to spell out why he's just as powerful where he's sitting in Manhattan: "I have my own army," for ...

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