Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Big Education Ape: 12-27-11 AM Law turns kids into commodities EDition #OWS #edreform

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International Socialist Review

isreview.org - Back to home pageISR Issue 62, November–December 2008 Charter schools and the attack on public educationBy SARAH KNOPPIn a stock market prospectus uncovered by education author Jonathan Kozol, the ...

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Law turns kids into commodities - Fred Grimm

miamiherald.com - Compared to modern school kids, I was a downright worthless student.I don’t mean worthless as a pejorative. (My father would have used a more colorful term to characterize my scholarly pursuits.) B...

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Daily Kos: Social Context Reform: Where to Start

dailykos.com - Social Reform: Choosing Evidence over Cultural Myths "For more than two centuries," explains Sawhill and Morton, "economic opportunity and the prospect of upward mobility have formed the bedrock up...

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When Lessons From Education 'Reform' Go Unlearned

ourfuture.org - One good thing you can say about 2011 is that it is a year in which lots of wrong-headed undertakings finally came to their ignominious conclusions -- including, among others, the Iraq War, the Gad...

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Chapter 23: The Instructional Run-Around

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A Tax to Narrow the Rich-Poor Gap

nytimes.com - To the Editor: Re “Don’t Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself,” by Ian Ayres and Aaron S. Edlin (Op-Ed, Dec. 19), proposing an extra tax limiting the incomes of the top 1 percent of earn...

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Cops Ready for War - Yahoo! News

news.yahoo.com - Nestled amid plains so flat the locals joke you can watch your dog run away for miles, Fargo treasures its placid lifestyle, seldom pierced by the mayhem and violence common in other urban communit...

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Ben Falik: We Bought a School

huffingtonpost.com - After news this week that Governor Snyder lifted the limits on the number of charter schools operating in Michigan, you may be asking yourself, "What's stopping me from opening my own charter schoo...

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Wisconsin Set to Throw the Republicans Out |

bluecheddar.net - According to Andrew Feldman’s Christmas Eve opinion piece in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, “Despite Democrats’ massive protests and their success at gathering recall signatures, most Wisconsinite...

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Springtime for Toxics

nytimes.com - Here’s what I wanted for Christmas: something that would make us both healthier and richer. And since I was just making a wish, why not ask that Americans get smarter, too? Surprise: I ...

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#OccupySupply: Erie Still Strong After 7 Raids!

my.firedoglake.com - Occupy Supply is making a difference. Occupy Erie has faced 7 devastating raids but refuses to quit, thanks in-part to the tireless support of the Firedoglake community. Our liaison Mark H. wrote i...

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One More Reason to Hate Wal-Mart (and Football)

modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/12/one-more-reason-to-hate-wal-mart-and.html"; What do Wal-Mart and football have in common, aside from being huge and tedious? Apparently they ar...

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Photo Galleries Of The Week

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Obviously, photos can be great educational tools with English Language Learners and with any students (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons). I post about many photo galleries, also called sl...

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Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1% | Labor Notes #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1% | Labor Notes:Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1%Howard Ryan| December 26, 2011Rahm Emanuel, whom Occupy Chicago has dubbed Mayor 1%, fired another shot at the city’s...

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Cops Ready for War - Yahoo! News

news.yahoo.com - Nestled amid plains so flat the locals joke you can watch your dog run away for miles, Fargo treasures its placid lifestyle, seldom pierced by the mayhem and violence common in other urban communit...

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Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1% | Labor Notes #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1% | Labor Notes:Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1%Howard Ryan| December 26, 2011Rahm Emanuel, whom Occupy Chicago has dubbed Mayor 1%, fired another shot at the city’s...

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#OccupySupply: Erie Still Strong After 7 Raids!

my.firedoglake.com - Occupy Supply is making a difference. Occupy Erie has faced 7 devastating raids but refuses to quit, thanks in-part to the tireless support of the Firedoglake community. Our liaison Mark H. wrote i...

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