Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Big Education Ape: 3-28-12 PM A Civil Right to Unionize EDition #EDREFORM

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A Civil Right to Unionize

nytimes.com - FROM the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progres...
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Dissent Magazine - Spring 2012 Issue

dissentmagazine.org - For Barkan’s other writing on the self-proclaimed “education reform movement,” click here, here, and here. If you want to change government policy, change the politicians who make it. The implicati...
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The Pattern on the Rug - Bridging Differences

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,There comes a time when you look at the rug on the floor, the one you've seen many times, and you see a pattern that you had never noticed before. You may have seen this squiggle or th...
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Soaking the Public | Yinzercation

yinzercation.wordpress.com - At the White House education policy session on Friday, the Superintendent of the Lancaster School District, Pedro Rivera, offered an idea that received immediate support from those in the room. “Pu...
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Diane Ravitch Speaks

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UCD won’t name second pepper-spray officer

davisenterprise.com - UC Davis police Officer A. Lee, right, holds a pepper spray canister as he joins other officers in removing protesters from a walkway on the UCD Quad on Nov. 18. UCD suspended Chief Annette Spicuzz...
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Group Allied With Cuomo Tops Albany Spending List

nytimes.com - ALBANY — Highlighting a shift in the way money is spent to influence government, the group that spent the most on lobbying in New York last year was a coalition of business leaders allied with Gov....
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Support in U.S. for Afghan War Drops Sharply, Poll Finds

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — After a series of violent episodes and setbacks, support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped sharply among both Republicans and Democrats in recent months as increasing numbers of A...
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Stay In Your Lane [A Math Teacher's Lament] | The Jose Vilson

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theatlanticwire.com - Rick Santorum's campaign is raising eyebrows after announcing he plans to make a major foreign policy speech at the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield, CA, on Thursday. Santorum's seemingly bizarre l...
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Lorax statue stolen from La Jolla estate of Dr. Seuss

latimesblogs.latimes.com - March 27, 2012 |  2:23 pm San Diego police are investigating the apparent theft of a 300-pound bronze statue of the Lorax -- a character from a Dr. Seuss book that is now a movie -- from the La Jol...
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Rockford teachers strike set for Thursday. « Fred Klonsky

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Rockford teachers strike set for Thursday. « Fred Klonsky: Rockford teachers strike set for Thursday.by Fred KlonskyMembers of the Rockford Education Association wait for the start of a closed-door...
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David Stovall, Notes From The Ground

schooltechconnect.com - Professor David Stovall, University of Illinois Chicago, spoke at yesterday's CReATe event.  He works with one of Chicago's small high schools, Social Justice."At the same time that we were placed ...
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