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teamsternation.blogspot.com - Koch whore Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker quietly killed an apprentice program that has trained young workers in the building trades since 1971. Milwaukee News Buzz has the story: In an executive orde...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Editorial: Actions speak louder than tweets, blogs - NorthJersey.comEditorial: Actions speak louder than tweets, blogsThursday, March 24, 2011SOUTH BERGENITEWe read the news and the analysis pieces...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A song entitled, “Madison” | blue cheddar.A song entitled, “Madison”BY BLUECHEDDARPlease click and listen. This song is called “Madison” and it comes to you from some sweet musicians in Oakland, Ca...

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news.firedoglake.com - Last night, I was at my local Drinking Liberally chapter talking to a couple people about my trip to Madison last month, and someone remarked that Ohio passed a bill which was even more draconian. ...

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dekerivers.wordpress.com - Caffeinated Politics also endorsed Marsha Rummel in early March. District 6: Marsha Rummel Few Madison alders are so thoroughly engaged with their districts as is Marsha Rummel, who was elected to ...

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wkbt.com - Associated Press - March 24, 2011 6:55 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An Indiana prosecutor says 1 of his deputies has resigned after admitting that he sent an e-mail to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker sugg...

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teamsternation.blogspot.com - We're not kidding. This really happened. Carlos Lam, a deputy prosecutor in Johnson County, Ind., sent an email to Koch whore Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. WisconsinWatch.org reports: The email came...

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reuters.com - MADISON, Wis | Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:04pm EDT MADISON, Wis (Reuters) - The battle over Wisconsin's new law curbing the union rights of public workers is headed for the state Supreme Court after a lowe...

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readersupportednews.org - Dave Johnson writes: "William Koch, brother of company owners David and Charles, called the company an 'organized crime' operation: Koch says that Koch Industries engaged in '(o)rganized crime. And...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Union election mess is the GOP's M.O.: Cause chaos, blame your opponents | Uppity WisconsinUnion election mess is the GOP's M.O.: Cause chaos, blame your opponents So here's another Republican frak...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Carlos Lam just admitted he wrote email telling Scott Walker to frame unions | blue cheddar.Carlos Lam just admitted he wrote email telling Scott Walker to frame unionsBY BLUECHEDDARUpdated 3:59 p....

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - MSNBC's Cenk Uygur takes a trip down memory lane playing back the Republicans doom and gloom warnings that never quite panned out. And they haven't stopped warning us either. Fun but shockingly inc...

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teamsternation.blogspot.com - DA Files for Budget Act Stay Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ...Keep order in effect, Ozanne asks court...Kasich So Eager To Cut Spending He’d Leave Prison Guard Towers Empty ThinkProgress ... Kasi...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - When 69 percent of Milwaukee voters passed the right for paid sick leave in a referendum two years ago, the business community challenged the will of the citizens in court, and managed to hold up t...

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californiaprogressreport.com - Printer-friendly versionSend to friendBy David Dayen Scott Walker did not run primarily on a platform of killing public employee unions and becoming a conservative darling. His slogan during the Wi...

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wepartypatriots.com - Mar 2011 24 Walker’s executive order, his 18th, was not distributed as a press release, unlike the prior 17, each of which can still be read on the “Media Center” section of the governor’s website....

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pantagraph.com - An Indiana prosecutor says one of his deputies has resigned after admitting that he sent an e-mail to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker suggesting the Republican fake an attack on himself to discredit pu...

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milwaukeenewsbuzz.com - In an executive order that was quietly released, Gov. Scott Walker recently suspended rules requiring contractors on state construction projects to employ workers under the state’s apprenticeship p...

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defendwisconsin.org - The People's Mic - Damon Terrell and Rudy from Matt Wisniewski on Vimeo.

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com -

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - This is actually a BIG story, with huge economic and job implications, that for whatever reason is not getting any traction against the Republican led House. The GOBP may be bought and paid for by ...

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defendwisconsin.org - – March 24, 2011Posted in: Announcements Some good news regarding the April 5 election… Union Cab of Madison Co-operative’s Board of Directors has authorized free rides to and from Madison, WI poll...

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uppitywis.org - Carol will be live at the capitol this morning to talk about the civil disobedience that should be going on at the capitol this morning with Segway Jeremy and Ben Masel - http://blogtalkradio.com/u...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - News | www.kochwatch.orgDavid Pakman: Mississippi Shows Sad Future of Anti-Union Explosionby CD"Buycott"?by CDIn response to widespread calls for consumer boycotts of Kock products, right-wing blog...

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teamsternation.blogspot.com - Saturday's monster rally in Los Angeles is only one of a series of actions that will take place on or around April 4, 2011. The day marks the 43rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's death duri...

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guilfordian.com - Tens of thousands of protesters have traveled to Madison, the capitol of Wisconsin, for weeks of protests. Protesters have even surrounded Governor Scott Walker's home and filled the state's capito...

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democraticunderground.com - Source: Journal Sentinel OnlineThe Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld Milwaukee's paid sick-day ordinance, which was halted by an injunction two years ago.The injunction sought by the Me...

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workdayminnesota.org - Wisconsin-style attacks spawn record turnout in St. Paul

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defendwisconsin.org - Gov. Scott Walker is expected Thursday to roll out the unpassed pieces of his budget repair bill, including a plan to refinance about $165 million in bonds. The move comes a month after Walker held...

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uppitywis.org - Conservative bloggers have been working overtime to counter the broad and widely echoed arguments of anti-Walker forces on many of the governor's sweeping and (arguably, since they are coming so fa...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - Now Sen. Ron Johnson (still a bit surreal to me) got a big fat media pass during the elections, when he got away with lying about health care reform, the main reason he jumped into the race (beside...

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uppitywis.org - So, Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald was on Fox News on Tuesday night and let slip that he didn't have the votes if they re-voted on killing collective bargaining. Fox moved quickly to bury this ne...

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uppitywis.org - What is this passionate farmer, Tony Schultz of Athens, WI, doing at a rally against Gov. Scott Walker's budget? He is fiery and eloquent as he talks of the shared values of farmers and unions and ...

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defendwisconsin.org - Members of the Natural Resources Board on Wednesday urged Gov. Scott Walker to reconsider his plan to roll back rules that protect Wisconsin lakes and streams from phosphorus pollution. The board, ...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - Gov. Scott Walker knows the dangers. Who knew. Comedy Central:

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huffingtonpost.com - MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin appeals court says the state Supreme Court should decide whether a law that takes away nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers should be allowed to t...

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bluecheddar.wordpress.com - Comments still closed. Come on over to facebook and chat there. Thanks. Here is the original appeal statement. (I’m no lawyer. illusory tenant is and con provide a more scholarly analysis. I’ll sti...

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uppitywis.org - The Daily Kos has caught on to the Senator Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac) story with another update titled "Randy Hopper's mistress never formally applied for Wisconsin state job. It seems one way of...

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solidaritywisconsin.com - Just as spring break was starting, the largest protest in Wisconsin’s history was taking place March 12 on Capitol Square. One of the speakers there was a member of the farmer’s union who had come ...

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uppitywis.org - Governor Walker's proposed budget is taking on some very interesting aspects when you look at the politics. I offer the following example. First, there is State Secretary of the Department of Veter...

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dekerivers.wordpress.com - Sinister minds were in over-drive during the chaotic weeks when collective bargaining rights were on the chopping block at the Wisconsin State Capitol. While there were wild speculations about the ...

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wtaq.com - MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Dane County’s chief prosecutor has given a state appeals court a second reason to keep blocking the new law that limits collective bargaining by public unions. Ismael Ozanne ...

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uppitywis.org - Gov. Scott Walker, in short order, has polarized Wisconsin's citizens. But he's also managed to divide the University of Wisconsin system. And before he's through, he could split the Republican cau...

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thedailypage.com - Note: This essay, by Isthmus news editor Bill Lueders, was written for a national audience and published March 23 on PoliticusUSA. By now most people in Wisconsin and throughout the nation know wha...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - It looks like the public outrage over the Republicans attack on teachers, unions and health care is having an effect on our new legislative bullies. Here’s the audio from Greta Van Susterin’s inter...

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uppitywis.org - Constituents of State Senator Sheila Harsdorf react to Republican State Senators passing a bill through an illegal committee. Among other things, the bill will strip Wisconsin's public workers of m...

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teamsternation.blogspot.com - State Republicans are running attack ads against two of the Democratic "Fab 14" senators who fled Wisconsin to prevent a vote on anti-union legislation. The two, Teamster member Dave Hansen and Jim...

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uppitywis.org - It seems that Scott Walker is unable to make the normal entrance to the places he goes these days. Today he chose to enter through the back door. Walker came to Minnesota Wire in Eau Claire, Wiscon...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Newly Released Wisconsin Emails Show GOP Considered Ways To Punish DemocratsMADISON, Wis. -- Everything from taking away computers to denying a year of service in the state retirement system was co...

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defendwisconsin.org - On March 9, with the news cameras rolling, Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, stood up, a copy of the state’s open meetings law in his hand, and shouted that the actions several Repub...

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millermps.wordpress.com - By Georgia Pabst and Sharif Durhams of the Journal Sentinel Updated: March 24, 2011 The Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld Milwaukee’s paid sick-day ordinance, which was halted by an inj...

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millermps.wordpress.com - by SCOTT BAUER 03/23/11 Huffington Post MADISON, Wis. — Everything from taking away computers to denying a year of service in the state retirement system was considered to punish the 14 Wisconsin D...

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Deptford Mall Grade-In | Seattle Education 2010

Deptford Mall Grade-In | Seattle Education 2010

Deptford Mall Grade-In

Posted on March 24, 2011 by seattleducation2010| Leave a comment

A clever idea provided by the New Jersey Education Association:

Frank McCulley and 106 of his colleagues converged on the Deptford Mall food court, took a seat and for two hours did in public something usually done in private. They graded papers, wrote lesson plans, and created instructional materials. McCulley, a physics teacher at Delsea Regional High School, cooked up the idea with chemistry teacher Tina Dare.

Working for a solid two hours, no one got all the work done.

“Tina and I were talking about how the public has this notion that teachers work short hours,” McCulley said. “They have no idea of the time we put in grading

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Spring training and the death of small schools

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Spring training and the death of small schools

Spring training and the death of small schools

by Mike Klonsky

I was in Ft. Myers Wednesday, where we had a chance to meet fantastic teacher/activist and tweeter Bonnie Cunard, a real leader in Florida's Save Our Schools movement. After that, we decided to head over a few blocks to City of Palms Park, the spring training home of the Boston Red Sox.

It's a beautiful night and the Sox are hosting Tampa Bay. But on our way, I have to pull the car over when the cell phone rings. It's Linda Lutton from WBEZ radio telling me that Chicago's interim schools CEO, Terry Mazany is going to announce up to 20 school closings the next day, including the remaining small schools at Bowen High, which we -- the Small Schools Workshop -- helped start. Linda wanted to know what I thought about all that and I told her in the most direct way I could.

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The small schools at Bowen were originally conceived, organized and led by teachers with lots of support from the school's principal and its
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Modern School: Making School Safer by Arming Students

Modern School: Making School Safer by Arming Students

Making School Safer by Arming Students


Modern College Student (Image by Nevada Tumbleweed)
This just in from Change,org: The Texas House has approved a new law allowing college students to carry concealed weapons on campus. While it is understandable that people are nervous in the wake of several recent shootings on college campuses, including one last year at the University of Texas, Austin, it is complete lunacy (and a statistical fallacy) to think that an increase in guns will somehow reduce gun injuries.

The plan is spearheaded by a group called Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. One of its members, Scott Lewis, was quoted by Change.org:
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Schools Matter: "The model is a business design, not an educational program..."

Schools Matter: "The model is a business design, not an educational program..."

"The model is a business design, not an educational program..."

by Kenneth Libby
If the Ravenswood City School District school board agrees with the district's superintendent, it looks like one Rocketship won't be launching in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park anytime soon.
Rocketship Education, praised for its reliance on cheap labor "hybrid" model and funded in part by the Broad Foundation, was hammered for their "unsound education program".
From Palo Alto Weekly's Chris Kenrick:
The superintendent of East Palo Alto's Ravenswood City School Districthas recommended denial of an
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A song entitled, “Madison” | blue cheddar. #wiunion

A song entitled, “Madison” | blue cheddar.

A song entitled, “Madison”

BY BLUECHEDDAR

Please click and listen. This song is called “Madison” and it comes to you from some sweet musicians in Oakland, California. I know that many of the supporters of collective bargaining in Wisconsin are not in Madison. I also know that we have a large number of people that are outside the state and around the globe sending encouragement and standing up for worker rights and unions. I think in this case “Madison” is where you are right now, too.

Thank you sweet, musicians. Link to blow it up BIG.

Thanks to Brett Banditelli for sharing this song with me.

Lyrics by Mark Vickness & PC Munoz. Music by Mark Vickness

Alex Aspinall expandabletrio.com

Nicholas Bearde nicolasbearde.com

Edo Castro www.passionstarmusic.com

Sharon Knight. www.sharonknight.net

Erik Lindquist www.expandabletrio.com

PC Munoz www.pcmunoz.com

Mark Vickness www.glasshousemusic.org

David Worm www.sovoso.com

Oakland California Musicians Perform “Madison” to Thank the Protesters in Madison, Wisconsin

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Local teachers union leaders say strike is a 'last resort,' face certification loss if they walk out | MLive.com

Local teachers union leaders say strike is a 'last resort,' face certification loss if they walk out | MLive.com

Local teachers union leaders say strike is a 'last resort,' face certification loss if they walk out

Published: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 6:30 PM
Dave Murray | The Grand Rapids Press By Dave Murray | The Grand Rapids Press
G0317RALLY03.jpgCory Morse | The Grand Rapids PressProtesters take part in a labor group rally opposed to Governor Rick Snyder's policies at the State Capitol Building in Lansing on March 16.

State lawmakers have a message for members of teachers unions talking about a potential strike: It could cost them cash – and their certification.

But local Michigan Education Association members say a walkout is a “last resort,” despite a tough letter from President Iris Salters that calls on locals units to “ratchet up actions” and plan an April vote authorizing crisis activities “up to and including a job action.”

Area teachers received letters this week from Salters saying that recent activity in Lansing amounts to “outright attacks” on the union.

“Should lawmakers fail to end these attacks on the people of Michigan, we will not shy away from

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SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: The Two Faced Ramblings Of E4E'S Ruben Brosbe

SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: The Two Faced Ramblings Of E4E'S Ruben Brosbe

The Two Faced Ramblings Of E4E'S Ruben Brosbe

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 03:03 PM PDT


The idiot savant and Educators4Excellence lackey Ruben Brosbe is back in the news today, or at least yesterday. Ruben somehow managed to write a piece in Gotham Schools yesterday laughingly and shamelessly entitled, "Why Teachers Like Me Support Unions: An E4E Take on Edusolidarity."

OK, done laughing. Let's continue. Let's once again show just how clueless, two-faced, and botarded Ruben is.

Ruben blabs; There are plenty of times when I disagree with Michael Mulgrew and the UFT. There have been more than a few occasions in conversations about teaching when I’ve had to admit my own confusion or frustration with the union.

Actually I agree with Ruben here. There are many things I disagree with the UFT, Mulgrew, and the AFT. In fact I know many people like this. The difference between me and like minded people, and Ruben and his shills over at E4E is, we will not, would not, and can not turn on our own. The rank and file we believe
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Carlos Lam just admitted he wrote email telling Scott Walker to frame unions | blue cheddar. #wiunion

Carlos Lam just admitted he wrote email telling Scott Walker to frame unions | blue cheddar.

Carlos Lam just admitted he wrote email telling Scott Walker to frame unions

BY BLUECHEDDAR

Updated 3:59 p.m. Carlos Lam has admitted writing the email and resigned as deputy prosecutor of Johnson County, according to a statement from the Johnson County Prosecutor.

Before you read the meat of this, just check out the difference in headline. The local-yocal TV station, WKOW wrote:

“Email to Gov. Walker suggested faking an attack on governor”

I was like “uhhh–what?”

and now from Think Progress: “Indiana Official Reportedly Advised Scott Walker to Stage a Phony Violent Attack by Union Supporters”

I needed the longer headline. Anyway, from Think Progress:

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Koch brothers and Pritzker boycotts ignored by IEA leadership. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Koch brothers and Pritzker boycotts ignored by IEA leadership. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Koch brothers and Pritzker boycotts ignored by IEA leadership.

by Fred Klonsky

At the IEA RA held two weeks ago in Rosemont there were two New Business Items passed by the membership calling for consumer boycotts. The discussion over them didn’t take very long and the votes in favor were overwhelming. They weren’t controversial.

One was to list and boycott products made by companies owned by the Koch brothers. The Koch boys are by some counts the fourth richest men in the United States. They bank rolled Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s anti-collective bargaining campaign and other union bashing efforts.

The other was to boycott Pritzker owned properties. The Pritzker family, prominent Democrats and Obama supporters, own the Hyatt Hotel chain. They refuse to bargain fair contracts with workers represented by their

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solidaridad: Advocating Public Education Roundup 11W12

solidaridad: Advocating Public Education Roundup 11W12

Advocating Public Education Roundup 11W12

by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene
In a profound sense, Democrats like Michelle Rhee have paved the way for Scott Walker — Richard D. Kahlenberg

CMO Corporate Charters discriminate against SWD, Special Ed, and ELL students!
Every day the list of CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS grows and grows. The inevitable result of putting public money into private hands.CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS' sister site, THE BROAD REPORT, detailing the depraved machinations of the vile plutocrat Eli Broad, was recently updated as well.

Our quote of the week comes from Professor Linda Darling-Hammond inDarling-Hammond: U.S. vs highest-achieving nations in education:

[T]he United States has been pursuing an approach to teaching almost diametrically opposed to that pursued by the highest-achieving nations.

California State Senator Carol Liu's SB 433 would require charter schools to follow public school rules in regard
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Hechinger Report | Teachers alone cannot be expected to fix America’s woes

Hechinger Report | Teachers alone cannot be expected to fix America’s woes

Teachers alone cannot be expected to fix America’s woes

by Vikash Reddy

Vikash Reddy

As a Teach For America (TFA) alumnus, I enjoyed George Will’s recent op-ed, “Teach for America: Letting the cream rise,” in The Washington Post. Will notes that TFA has become a force not just in education-reform circles but also among recent college graduates, with more than 15 percent of seniors at Harvard and Princeton competing for the chance to spend two years teaching students in low-income urban and rural neighborhoods.

I fear, however, that the lessons Mr. Will has learned from TFA’s story are incomplete. He writes, “Until recently—until, among other things, TFA—it seemed that we simply did not know how to teach children handicapped by poverty and its accompaniments—family disintegration and destructive community cultures. Now we know


Social media and a tale of two New Jersey principals

by Liz Willen

Middle-school principal Anthony Orsini of Ridgewood, N.J., made national headlines last year when he urged parents to keep their young adolescents off Facebook — at least until high school.

The slings and arrows of social-media stings by peers — also known as cyberbullying — were far more common than any from adult predators, Orsini said, calling threats from the latter “insignificant compared to the damage

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video: "asians in the library" response by kt tatara | angry asian man

video: "asians in the library" response by kt tatara | angry asian man
video: "asians in the library" response by kt tatara

Comedian/actor KT Tatara coming at you with yet another rap response to this whole "Asians in the Library" debacle, aka The Biggest Mistake of Alexandra's Wallace's Life. This one features hordes of Asians, libraries, and an Alexandra Wallace lookalike -- filmed on what looks like the actual UCLA campus. Take a look:



Here are the lyrics:
When I wake up in the morning I'm so confused
Got dirty clothes everywhere, don't know what to do!
Put on a shirt, from the bookshelf
'Cause I've never been taught, how to fend for myself

I'm kinda hungry but I can't cook
Do I even have food? I don't know
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Food Not Lawns “Guard-In” at University of Victoria Today « Student Activism

Food Not Lawns “Guard-In” at University of Victoria Today « Student Activism

Food Not Lawns “Guard-In” at University of Victoria Today

by Angus Johnston

One year ago today a student protest action took place in Canada that was, as I put it at the time, “unlike anything I’d ever heard of before.” Here’s how I described it then:

Student activists and others at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, a Canadian university some seventy miles northwest of Seattle, held a teach-out on “food democracy” and sustainability issues. There was music, a slate of speakers, pamphlets to read, and tea. At the end of the event the group planted a garden.

On the lawn.

In front of the library.

They ripped up the sod, built some raised beds, and planted a variety of vegetables and other native plants.

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