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Friday, November 25, 2011

Big Education Ape: 11-25-11 PM We Are the 99.9% EDition #OWS #OCCUPIERS

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We Are the 99.9%

nytimes.com - “We are the 99 percent” is a great slogan. It correctly defines the issue as being the middle class versus the elite (as opposed to the middle class versus the poor). And it also gets past the comm...

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APPR Paper - Long Island Principals

longislandprincipals.org - In May 2010, the New York State Legislature—in an effort to secure federal Race to the Top funds—approved an amendment to Educational Law 3012-c regarding the Annual Professional Performance Review...

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Holiday reflection, and resolve, at Occupy L.A.

latimes.com - When Thanksgiving Day arrived at Occupy L.A. on Thursday, campers greeted the occasion in true revolutionary form: They boycotted the holiday's name. "We are calling it International Giving Thanks ...

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Thanks to you! - Thanksgiving

salon.com - In keeping with American tendencies, Thanksgiving is a bastard holiday, cobbled together from homegrown traditions and the hokey imaginings of 19th century writers, along with actual historical fac...

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Race to the Top Mandates Impossible to Implement

huffingtonpost.com - In the Republican Party, presidential debates candidates like Mitt Romney and Herman Cain tout their business executive experience and claim expertise at job creation. Former Governors Rick Perry a...

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'Virtual' schools

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - The Nation reports:If the national movement to “reform” public education through vouchers, charters and privatization has a laboratory, it is Florida. It was one of the first states to undertake ...

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

chronicle.com - November 23, 2011, 2:57 pm By Peter Wood Sunday, unseasonably warm and beautiful for late fall, I wandered coatless across Central Park to a meeting of the New York affiliate of the National Associ...

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Occupy Seattle – Shopping For Handcuffs On Black Friday

seattleducation2010.wordpress.com - This is written by Jesse Hagopian, founding member of Social Equality Educators (SEE), teacher in the Seattle Public School System and education activist. Why I am shopping for handcuffs on Black F...

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In New York, Mexicans Lag in Education

nytimes.com - In the past two decades, the Mexican population in New York City has grown more than fivefold, with immigrants settling across the five boroughs. Many adults have demonstrated remarkable success at...

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School Tech Connect: Worse Than Bedbugs

schooltechconnect.com - I only just today realized that I am basically a vector for everything wrong with our nation. In my wallet, I've been carrying around a credit card that I got through an MBNA/NEA arrangement ages a...

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5 "LITTLE THINGS" THAT LEAD TO SUCCESS IN YOUTH SPORTS

edupln.ning.com - Although I have over 20 years coaching experience, with stints at the college and high school levels, my first year as a youth football coach has been the most rewarding. I was able to coach my son...

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WTF...

sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com - Um, excuse me Universe... WTF is going on??? I can get onto the websites on which I do my usual social activism stuff, but I can't get onto websites that deal with my financial situation and wit...

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We Are the 99.9%

nytimes.com - “We are the 99 percent” is a great slogan. It correctly defines the issue as being the middle class versus the elite (as opposed to the middle class versus the poor). And it also gets past the comm...

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The Age of the Superfluous Worker

nytimes.com - AMERICA, like other modern countries, has always had some surplus workers — people ready to work but jobless for extended periods because the “job creators,” private and public, have been unable or...

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Video

nypost.com - John Podhoretz Fanciers and critics of Michael Bloomberg alike, take note; there are signs he’s noodling once again about making an independent run for president.Item 1: After two months of dilly-d...

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J.K. Rowling chased from home by press, she says

cnn.com - Actress Sienna Miller testified being hounded by the press was "terrifying."London (CNN) -- Paparazzi hounded "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling so constantly after her children were born that she ...

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Black Friday. « Fred Klonsky

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Black Friday. « Fred Klonsky:Black Friday.by Fred KlonskyWhat marketing genius thought of calling the biggest shopping day of the year, “Black Friday”?We just got back from taking our grandchildren...

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LAPD gives Occupy L.A. protesters Thanksgiving turkeys

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Thankgiving Day at the Occupy L.A. camp at City Hall was greeted with a mixture of reflection and resolve. "We are calling it International Giving Thanks Day," Regina Quetzal-Quinones said. "It's a...

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Occupy Supply Visits Hartford, CT

my.firedoglake.com - I was privileged enough to travel to Hartford CT this week to visit my family for the holiday. I traveled from Washington DC to Connecticut by train with over 50lbs of OccupySupply cold weather clo...

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    All Education Matters: Please disseminate WIDELY and ASAP - ACLU: Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window

    All Education Matters: Please disseminate WIDELY and ASAP - ACLU: Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window:

    Please disseminate WIDELY and ASAP - ACLU: Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window

    Please read this piece over at the ACLU and disseminate widely and immediately. Who the hell wants this to happen in this country or globally?!? This provision is absolutely insane.
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    Haridopolos, under oath, says he didn’t tell ‘whole story’ of confidential Jim Greer settlement – St. Petersburg Times « Continuing Change

    Haridopolos, under oath, says he didn’t tell ‘whole story’ of confidential Jim Greer settlement – St. Petersburg Times « Continuing Change:

    Haridopolos, under oath, says he didn’t tell ‘whole story’ of confidential Jim Greer settlement – St. Petersburg Times

    by gatorbonbc

    Round and round the court they go, Harry and the weasel…

    Hey, does it say he is a political science instructor at UF?

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    Oh, it hurts to be a Gator today.
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    But, isn’t he one of the ones saying political science degrees, and other non-stem degrees, from Florida universities, are worthless and therefore should not be available to students on

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    SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Technology In Education Is Not For The Mega Mind Of Jeb Bush

    SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Technology In Education Is Not For The Mega Mind Of Jeb Bush:

    Technology In Education Is Not For The Mega Mind Of Jeb Bush

    by noreply@blogger.com (Bronx Teacher)
    It's easy to bash the Bush family. Yes, that Bush family. Poppy, W, and especially Jeb. It easy, but I find it necessary. However, I will keep my wrath from Poppy and W, and instead target Jeb? Why Jeb? It seems lately that Jeb has decided to come to the forefront of the education deformer debate and put him self front and center. We all know the smoke and mirrors that Jeb used to show that he was the "education governor," but in reality, Jeb and his policies were failures.

    So it is with great wonder and befuddlement why anyone would take anything by Jeb Bush seriously. Jeb Bush feels he has a mega mind. So would then anyone who takes him seriously be a groupie? A Megamind if you
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