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#parents More Measles Outbreaks Due to Decreasing Vaccination Rates - E.D. Kain - American Times - Forbes

More Measles Outbreaks Due to Decreasing Vaccination Rates - E.D. Kain - American Times - Forbes

More Measles Outbreaks Due to Decreasing Vaccination Rates

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Megan McArdle points to more infuriating news out of Massachusetts:

There’s a measles outbreak in Massachusetts, probably thanks to low vaccination rates.

It’s hard to believe, but we’re sliding backwards on two of the three public health achievements of the 20th century: vaccination, antibiotics, and clean water. Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem, one that we’re partly inflicting on ourselves by rampant overuse. And now vaccine resistance is spreading among parents who want to free ride on the herd immunity of

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thenation.com - At the commencement ceremony for Columbia University's Teachers College on May 18, Stanford education professor Linda Darling-Hammond—a nationally renowned leader in education reform and former edu...

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Ed Reform Meets the Mets

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - May 26, 2011 (GBN News): Long suffering Mets fans may finally have found their knight in shining armor, when it was announced today that that hedge fund manager David Einhorn will be buying a subst...

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Battle against co-location continues at Brooklyn school

uft.org - Cara MetzUFT President Michael Mulgrew, flanked by the co-plaintiffs, explains the details of the lawsuit against the Department of Education. PS 308 in Brooklyn is still battling plans by the Depa...

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Patriot Act Extension Came Down To The Wire : NPR

npr.org - Congress scrambled to renew three controversial provisions of the anti-terror Patriot Act that otherwise would have expired at midnight Thursday. Minutes before that deadline, President Obama was a...

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Bahrain’s Anti-Union Crackdown

modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/05/bahrains-anti-union-crackdown.html"; As people protest the corrupt and repressive monarchy of Bahrain, the government has responded with violen...

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Caroline Fredrickson: Divine Constitutional Abomination

huffingtonpost.com - Recent news reports have revealed that the nation's largest Tea Party umbrella group is seeking to infiltrate our public schools with the radical theory that the Constitution is divinely inspired.T...

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While I was Procrastinating. . . - THE DAILY RIFF

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Sanders Accuses CFTC of Breaking the Law

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Grover Norquist makes his case at a recent meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (Photo by Gage Skidmore.)

Financier and a primary mover and shaker behind the drive to get legislators to sign a “no tax pledge,” Grover Norquist was reportedly in California and meeting with Republican lawmakers in Sacramento to shore up their commitment to his “no-tax” pledge, according to the Sacramento Bee.

Norquist, a long-time supporter of privatizing government services, has also been a driving force behind efforts to

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