Thursday, March 29, 2012

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STRIKE BEGINS ! « Teachers Fight Back

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - STRIKE BEGINS ! « Teachers Fight Back: STRIKE BEGINS !by alkleenHere we go!  The Rockford teachers’ strike is officially under way.  Late night negotiations failed to reach any settlement.  The tel...
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Variety of Models Fuels Hybrid Charter Growth

edweek.org - Published Online: March 5, 2012Published in Print: March 7, 2012, as Variety of Models Fuel Hybrid Charter GrowthIn innovation-friendly pockets across the country, the number of hybrid charter scho...
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Eureka College maintains spot on honor roll - Peoria, IL

pjstar.com - For the second consecutive year, Eureka College has been named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary community service.This year, Eureka College moved up in...
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Behind Every Harassed Child? A Lot of Clueless Adults

movies.nytimes.com - “Bully,” Lee Hirsch’s moving and troubling documentary about the misery some children inflict upon others, arrives at a moment when bullying, long tolerated as a fact of life, is being redefined as...
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Adrienne Rich, Feminist Poet, Dies at 82

nytimes.com - Adrienne Rich, a poet of towering reputation and towering rage, whose work — distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity — brought the oppression of women an...
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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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mcall.com - The top administrator of a troubled Bethlehem charter school resigned Wednesday, alleging that school officials continue to mismanage tax dollars even as two local school districts investigate its ...
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RITA KRAMER: A DARK PASSOVER | MIDEAST OUTPOST

mideastoutpost.com - When families gather around the Seder table, many recall the dark Passover of 1943 and the climax of the months-long battle in which the small number of men and women remaining in the Warsaw Ghetto...
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Arkansas high court overturns teacher-sex law

boston.com - LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the state's law banning sexual contact between teachers and students, finding that people 18 or older have a constitutional righ...
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Storobin Leads by 10 As Ballots Are Contested on Both Sides

politicker.com - Councilman Fidler (Photo: Facebook) Things are getting tense at the Board of Elections office in Brooklyn today where the count of absentee and provisional ballots from last week’s State Senate spe...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 29, 2012 The President proposed the Buffett Rule to ensure a very basic principle of fairness: millionaires shouldn’t pay l...
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Early morning Fox. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - WGN’s early morning sport reporter, Pat Tomasulo. I’m getting ready to fly off to Brooklyn this morning to see my daughters, their partners, my grand kids and the rest of my New York family. I neve...
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Early morning Fox. « Fred Klonsky

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Early morning Fox. « Fred Klonsky: Early morning Fox.by Fred KlonskyWGN’s early morning sport reporter, Pat Tomasulo. I’m getting ready to fly off to Brooklyn this morning to see my daughters, thei...
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Rockford out. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - After negotiating for over a year, members of the Rockford Education Association walked off the job this morning. District 205, one of the largest in the state, is known for being among the most to...
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Age, sex, race, education and credit cards

foxbusiness.com - Rugged individualism. It's part of our national ethos, and we all like to believe that we make our own choices and determine our own destinies. But in reality, most of us are products of our enviro...
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coming soon to a theater near you: in the family

blog.angryasianman.com - Film fans, take note. After picking up several accolades on the film festival circuit, including an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature, writer/director/producer/star Patrick...
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Culinary competition continues to grow

northjersey.com - WAYNE - Participants in Wayne Valley High School's sixth annual culinary competition outdid themselves this year as a record eight teams vied to win over the hearts, and stomachs, of over 550 atten...
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