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wbez.org - by Achy Obejas | Jan. 28, 2011 Gery Chico thinks he’s Mayor Daley. It’s not just that Carol Moseley-Braun called him out for taking credit for hiring cops, it’s that it’s a pattern He’s become firs...


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nypost.com - None of the 40 finalists in this year's Intel Science Talent Search, considered by many to be the most prestigious science competition in the nation, attends a New York City public school. In recen...


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tc.columbia.edu - A Plea for Partisanship in Education Published: 1/28/2011 Why Bipartisanism Isn't Working for Education ReformBy Amy Stuart Wells It’s not surprising that President Barack Obama focused heavily on ...


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suntimes.com - Oak Park-River Forest unites against offensive list that ranked girls Pioneer Press Jan 28, 2011 05:16PM Oak Park A giant banner dispaying the word respect was hung in the main hallway at Oak Park ...


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suntimes.com - U.S. students lagging in science proficiency By CHRISTINE ARMARIO Jan 26, 2011 02:35AM Results from a national science exam show that fewer than half of the country’s fourth, eighth and 12th grade ...


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nbcchicago.com - Community colleges have long had a reputation as places where academic careers go to die. Young people start out “taking some classes” at Kennedy-King or Wright, and the next time you see them, the...


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edvox.org - by Melissa Kissoon Melissa Kissoon is an 18 year old graduate of Franklin K. Lane High School in Brooklyn & a youth leader with Future of Tomorrow and the Urban Youth Collaborative. I was victim of...


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tnr.com - But perhaps most striking on the list of what makes Finland’s school system unique is that the country has deliberately rejected the prevailing standardization movement. While nations around the wo...


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politico.com - Michelle Rhee turned up at work last September 13 utterly stunned.“I really did think he was going to win,” she told her staff of her boss, Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty. Continue Reading “Ye...


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huffingtonpost.com - Something was strange about Michele Bachmann's Tea Party response to Obama's State of the Union address, and it wasn't just that someone asked Michele Bachmann to give the official response to anyt...


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huffingtonpost.com - Down to 26 days remaining until the city elections, and we're back at you with the day's news. The first ballots will start coming in next week, and the candidates are trading body blows before Rou...


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chicagonewscoop.org - By DAN MIHALOPOULOS January 27, 2011 Mayoral candidate Gery Chico gave back four $5,000 campaign donations Thursday afternoon, hours after the Chicago News Cooperative reported that those contribut...


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myemail.constantcontact.com - South Side Canvass this Saturday. Join us at 10 a.m. for refreshments, brief training and campaign updates.Where: South Side campaign office at 2922 E. 79th StWhen: Saturday, January 29 from 10 a.m...


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chicagotribune.com - 12:50 p.m. CST, January 28, 2011 First off, congratulations to all four mayoral candidates. I applaud your desire to lead Chicago. You know, before watching the WGN mayoral debate last night, I was...


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gothamschools.org - Our comments section is about to get a little bit nicer. Our comments section has its moments of glory, instances of brave citizens discoursing civilly despite a national education debate dominated...


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voices.washingtonpost.com - More bad news for “Waiting for Superman.”First this week the movie failed to win a nomination for an Academy Award in the documentary feature category, even though it was considered to be a shoo-in...


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preaprez.wordpress.com - I met Mike Volpe at a meeting of bloggers organized by the Miguel Del Valle campaign at a north side coffee house I just happened to sit down at the table where Mike had already set up his laptop. ...


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latimes.com - A Los Angeles school police officer who said he was shot by an attacker last week, prompting a manhunt that shut down a large swath of Woodland Hills, has been arrested on suspicion of concocting t...


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dailynews.com - Los Angeles School Police Department Officer Jeff Stenroos, who allegedly made up the story that he was shot by a burglary suspect near a high school in Woodland Hills last week, was free on $20,00...


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4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - By Joel Rubin and Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/dRjezd January 28, 2011 - A Los Angeles school police officer who said he was shot by an attacker last week, prompting a manhu...


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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: NEW SUPERINTENDENT OR JUST AN ATTENDANT

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: NEW SUPERINTENDENT OR JUST AN ATTENDANT

NEW SUPERINTENDENT OR JUST AN ATTENDANT

CARSON HIGH SCHOOL TRAILBLAZER STAFF EDITORIAL (STUDENT NEWSPAPER FROM MYHIGHSCHOOLJOURNALISM.ORG | HTTP://BIT.LY/EETTKW

Friday, January 28, 2011 LAUSD, the second largest school district in the nation, needs help improving. A new superintendent might just do the trick.

Come April 15th, the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Ramon C. Cortines, 78, will be retiring his post as superintendent to John Deasy.

Cortines’ successor was announced on January 11th. However, the decision-making sparked up some disapproval from certain unions and one LAUSD Board member. That member, Steve Zimmer, abstained in the 6-0 vote believing that, though capable, Deasy was hired too easily—he had no competition! Under normal circumstances, the district would conduct a public, nationwide search for the next superintendent, something the United Teachers of Los Angeles believed should have happened. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, taken with Deasy, had a large influence over his appointment but Deasy, who joined LAUSD in July of 2010 as deputy superintendent, was long expected to be superintendent-in-waiting. There was also the issue that LAUSD is already money tight as it is and a search would be both unnecessary and time-consuming.

Despite the lack of competition, Deasy’s capabilities won over the District Board, the Los Angeles mayor, and us. In his years of experience, the man was the leader of three different school districts including the Santa Monica – Malibu Unified School District worthy of note. It was there he was among the first to break up large campuses

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Modern School: Grand Jury Repression of Muslim Students in California

Modern School: Grand Jury Repression of Muslim Students in California

Grand Jury Repression of Muslim Students in California


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The Orange County (California) district attorney’s office has convened a grand jury that will consider filing conspiracy charges against the Irvine 11, a group of Muslim students who disrupted a 2010 speech by the Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. The students shouted over the Ambassador as he tried to deliver a speech on U.S.-Israeli security. They were disruptive enough to force Oren to take a 20-minute break. They were later arrested.

There is speculation that
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Modern School: Los Angeles is King of Charter Schools

Modern School: Los Angeles is King of Charter Schools

Los Angeles is King of Charter Schools

by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dunn)


While local charter organizations complained about the roadblocks LAUSD’s new charter policy placed before them, the Chicago-based National Assn. of Charter School Authorizers gave LAUSD high marks for their plan to increase charter schools in the area. While LAUSD is only the second largest school district in the country, it
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Education Roundup: More Segregation, Science Fails, and the State of the Union | Mother Jones

Education Roundup: More Segregation, Science Fails, and the State of the Union | Mother Jones

Education Roundup: More Segregation, Science Fails, and the State of the Union

— By Titania Kumeh

| Fri Jan. 28, 2011 11:00 AM PST

— Majory Collins/Zumapress.com

  • Would you lie to get your kids into a better school? Ohio mom Kelley Williams-Bolardid, and was jailed for nine days for using a false address to send her two daughters to a better school. Colorlines and HuffPo sum up the racist undertones of Kelley's case, and the public outrage that's resulted.
  • Also sparking some outrage is McCaskey East High School in Pennsylvania, which since mid-December, has segregated students by race and gender to boost academic results, according to Education News. The separation occurs for six minutes each day and 20 minutes twice a month and, it only applies to black students.
  • Those nationally-lauded New York City charter schools are spending more than public schools, receiving $10,000 per student from private donors, but they’re not getting better performance results, according to a study by the National Education Policy Center.
  • Hey, here's one reason why US students aren't learning science at internationally
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Modern School: California to Cut 6 Weeks Off School Year?

Modern School: California to Cut 6 Weeks Off School Year?

California to Cut 6 Weeks Off School Year?

by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dunn)

School Closed (by Chris Heaton
State treasurer Bill Lockyer said that if Gov. Brown and the Legislature don’t pass a budget by their self-imposed deadlines (i.e., in 60 days), the state will face “very substantial shortfalls.” To pay for the shortfalls, Lockyear has presented a doomsday scenario of cutting everything, including education. He specifically mentioned cutting six weeks off the public school
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Schools Matter: Weekend Reading

Schools Matter: Weekend Reading

Weekend Reading

by Kenneth Libby
New: Adding Up the Spending: Fiscal Disparities and Philanthropy Among New York City Charter Schools by Bruce Baker and Richard Ferris is a must-read.

The Department of Ed launched an education dashboard earlier this week. The DOE will soon be unveiling another tool to track school improvement grants.

Russo makes a few interesting points about progressives resisting education reform. One might fairly answer that there are alternatives out there, but they are not supported by the current administration nor pushed through big screen/TV exposure. There are active Twitter discussions about genuine progressive education reform and a
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Mr. Nice Guy | Politics | Chicago Reader

Mr. Nice Guy | Politics | Chicago Reader

Mr. Nice Guy

Is Miguel del Valle tough enough to be mayor? And does toughness matter?

By Ben Joravsky

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Miguel del Valle before a news conference January 11 at Telpochcalli Elementary School

AP PHOTO/M. SPENCER GREEN

Miguel del Valle before a news conference January 11 at Telpochcalli Elementary School

When I interviewed city clerk Miguel del Valle about his mayoral campaign, he met me at the door of his near-west-side campaign office, introduced me to staffers and other visitors, and then ushered me into his room for a 90-minute on-the-record talk.

But when I asked to interview Rahm Emanuel—oh, brother, what an ordeal. I started with one aide who sent me to another who told me I was only getting five minutes of Emanuel's time and wanted to know what questions I planned to ask. And then she told me I couldn't ask about the tampons—more on that later.

It's a classic contrast of campaigns—one open and conciliatory, the other closed and hard-assed.

As I write this, Emanuel's presence on the ballot is in doubt—because the Illinois appellate court ruled on Monday that he hadn't met the city's requirement that candidates reside in Chicago for the year before an

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Legislation Conference

Legislation Conference

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Early voting for MDV begins Monday. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Early voting for MDV begins Monday. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Early voting for MDV begins Monday.

by Fred Klonsky

Chicago city readers of this blog:

You do not need to wait for election day. You can vote starting Monday and through February 17th. You don’t need any special reason or excuse. You just need to be registered and have a government issued photo ID.

Voting early for Miguel Del Valle means your vote is assured and protected.

1st Ward – Goldblatts Building 1615 W. Chicago Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

2nd Ward – Mabel Manning Library 6 S. Hoyne Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

3rd Ward – Chicago Bee Library 3647 S. State St.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

4th Ward – M L King Community Ctr 4314 S. Cottage Grove: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

5th Ward – Jackson Park 6401 S. Stony Island Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

6th Ward – Whitney Young Library 7901 S. M. L. King Jr. Dr.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

7th Ward – Jeffery Manor Library 2401 E. 100th St.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

8th Ward – Olive Harvey College 10001 S. Woodlawn Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

9th Ward – Palmer Park 201 E. 111th St.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

10th Ward – Vodak/East Side Library 3710 E. 106th St.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

11th Ward – McKinley Park 2210 W. Pershing Rd.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

12th Ward – Back of the Yards Library 4650 S. Damen Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

13th Ward – West Lawn Park 4233 W. 65th St.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

14th Ward – Archer Heights Library 5055 S. Archer Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

15th Ward – Lindbloom Park 6054 S. Damen Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

16th Ward – Sherman Park 1301 W. 52nd St.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

17th Ward – Thurgood Marshall Library 7506 S. Racine Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

18th Ward – Wrightwood-Ashburn Library 8530 S. Kedzie Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

19th Ward – Mount Greenwood Park, 3721 W. 111th St.: 9 am-5 pm EVERY DAY from Jan. 31-Feb. 17, including Sundays and Lincoln’s Birthday on Feb. 11: 9 am-5 pm

20th Ward – Coleman Library 731 E. 63rd St.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

21st Ward – Woodson Regional Library 9525 S. Halsted St.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

22nd Ward – Piotrowski Park 4247 W. 31st St.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

23rd Ward – Clearing Library 6423 W. 63rd Pl.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

24th Ward – Douglass Library 3353 W. 13th St.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

25th Ward – Chinatown Library 2353 S. Wentworth Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

26th Ward – Humboldt Park Library 1605 N. Troy St.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

27th Ward – Eckhart Park 1330 W. Chicago Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

28th Ward – West Side Learning Ctr 4624 W. Madison St.: Mon thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

29th Ward – Amundsen Park 6200 W. Bloomingdale Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

30th Ward – Portage Cragin Library 5108 W. Belmont Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

31st Ward – Blackhawk Park 2318 N. Lavergne Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

32nd Ward – Bucktown-Wicker Park Library 1701 N. Milwaukee Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

33rd Ward – Independence Library 3548 W. Irving Park Rd.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

34th Ward – West Pullman Library 830 W. 119th St.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

35th Ward – Logan Square Library 3030 W. Fullerton Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

36th Ward – Hiawatha Park 8029 W. Forest Preserve Dr.: Mon-Sat: 9 am-5 pm

37th Ward – West Chicago Library 4856 W. Chicago Ave.: Mon-Sat: 9 am-5 pm

38th Ward – Wright College – Science Bldg 4300 N. Narragansett Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

39th Ward – N. Park Village Admn Bldg 5801 N. Pulaski Rd.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

40th Ward – Budlong Woods Library 5630 N. Lincoln Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

41st Ward – Roden Library 6083 N. Northwest Hwy.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

42nd Ward – Access Living 115 W. Chicago Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

43rd Ward – Lincoln Park Library 1150 W. Fullerton Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

44th Ward – Merlo Library 644 W. Belmont Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

45th Ward – Edgebrook Library 5331 W. Devon Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

46th Ward – Truman College 1145 W. Wilson Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

47th Ward – Welles Park, 2333 W. Sunnyside Ave.: 9 am-5 pm EVERY DAY from Jan. 31-Feb. 17, including Sundays and Lincoln’s Birthday on Feb. 11: 9 am-5 pm

48th Ward – Edgewater Library 1210 W. Elmdale Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

49th Ward – Pottawattomie Park 7340 N. Rogers Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

50th Ward – Warren Park 6601 N. Western Ave.: Mon. thru Sat., 9 am-5 pm

Board of Elections – 69 W. Washington St., Lower Level Conference Room: 9 am-5 pm EVERY DAY from Jan. 31-Feb. 17, including Sundays and Lincoln’s Birthday on Feb. 11

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Right Destination, Wrong Vehicle « EdVox

Right Destination, Wrong Vehicle « EdVox

Right Destination, Wrong Vehicle

by edvoxny

The Schott Foundation for Public Education responds to Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address

Make no mistake, President Barack Obama understands the critically important link between quality education and a strong future for our country. The President’s State of the Union address placed education as a cornerstone of sustaining and growing our country’s democracy and economy. The President used the address as an opportunity to claim this as America’s “Sputnik moment” and reiterate his “man on the moon” goal that America will have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020.

A 2010 Lumina Foundation report indicates that to achieve this goal by 2025, 60 percent of the U.S. population between the ages of 25-64 would need a post-secondary education-far more than the 37 percent in the United States that have achieved that goal. Lumina also predicts that to achieve this five years later than the President’

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Public Policy Blogger: Lessons from Challenger: Words from a teacher and a brother

Public Policy Blogger: Lessons from Challenger: Words from a teacher and a brother

Lessons from Challenger: Words from a teacher and a brother

by Anne Geiger
On the radio this morning, I heard two touching stories on the Challenger tragedy, an event that
happened 25 years ago today. The first is an interview with a teacher who remembersthat day as she and her anxious students, who had prepared for months, went from sheer joy to deep shock. It reminded me that the first citizen NASA chose to go into space was.........A TEACHER, Christa McAuliffe. During a time when we universally respected and honored the role that teachers play in the lives of children and in the fabric of society. In an interview before the launch, this citizen-astronaut said,
I was delighted that a teacher was chosen as the first space participant because there are so many of us who have daily contact with people, and that was a very exciting thing for me, to think that teachers were finally recognized as the good communicators that they are and that they reach so many students.
It is sad how far our politics have led us from that perspective. It made me feel even more disappointed than I
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What The US Could Learn From Finland About Education | The New Republic

What The US Could Learn From Finland About Education | The New Republic

The Children Must Play

What the United States could learn from Finland about education reform.

While observing recess outside the Kallahti Comprehensive School on the eastern edge of Helsinki on a chilly day in April 2009, I asked Principal Timo Heikkinen if students go out when it’s very cold. Heikkinen said they do. I then asked Heikkinen if they go out when it’s very, verycold. Heikkinen smiled and said, “If minus 15 [Celsius] and windy, maybe not, but otherwise, yes. The children can’t learn if they don’t play. The children must play.”

In comparison to the United States and many other industrialized nations, the Finns have implemented a radically different model of educational reform—based on a balanced curriculum and professionalization, not testing. Not only do Finnish educational authorities provide students with far more recess than their U.S. counterparts—75 minutes a day in Finnish elementary schools versus an average of 27 minutes in the U.S.—but they also mandate

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Are you an “ed reformer” or a “real reformer” Listen to this “xtranormal” debate « Teacher Reality

Are you an “ed reformer” or a “real reformer” Listen to this “xtranormal” debate « Teacher Reality
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Education secretary: 'No Child Left Behind' has led to a 'dumbing down' - The Hill's Congress Blog

Education secretary: 'No Child Left Behind' has led to a 'dumbing down' - The Hill's Congress Blog

Education secretary: 'No Child Left Behind' has led to a 'dumbing down'

By Emmanuel Touhey - 01/28/11 02:47 PM ET
President Obama placed special emphasis on education in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, mentioning it 10 times in all. With Congress set to renew the ‘No Child Left Behind’ law this year, The Hill’s Comment Editor Emmanuel Touhey sat down Thursday with Education Secretary Arne Duncan here in Washington, D.C. They discussed the approach Congress should take to overhauling the law, school vouchers, the DREAM Act and proposed rules governing for-profit colleges and universities.

The Hill: ‘No Child Left Behind’ is up due for reauthorization this year. What exactly do you want to see fixed in the law?

Secretary Duncan: There are a number of things that I think are broken with the current law that working in a bipartisan way we can have common sense

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Closing the Achievement Gap, One 'A' at a Time | Mother Jones

Closing the Achievement Gap, One 'A' at a Time | Mother Jones

Closing the Achievement Gap, One 'A' at a Time

by Kristina Rizga

Early Friday morning Darrell* cracks open the classroom door for a second time here at Mission High. Darrell's nervous. He's been making progress and getting steady B's lately in Robert Roth's Honors History class lately, but today there's an hour and a half long history test. He's arranged to spend extra time with Mr. Roth this morning reviewing the material.

"Hi Darrell! "I'm ready for you," says Roth, who hasn't yet had breakfast or coffee. Darrell nods and takes off his music headphones as he enters the room. Dressed in a Mission High T-shirt, he towers over his teacher. He takes his usual spot in the back of the class, gets his notebook out of the backpack, and looks for the right page.

"OK, what's the Monroe Doctrine?" Roth begins. "The US policy in early 19th century that established, hmm ... Latin America as its sphere of influence," Darrell responds in a calm voice. "That's exactly right!" Roth responds

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