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ALEC Exposed: Now Tell the IRS to InvestigateCommon Cause

commoncause.org - ALEC – the American Legislative Exchange Council – is a secretive and powerful front group of corporations that are investing millions of dollars a year to write business-friendly legislation at th...

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Obama and His Discontents

nytimes.com - The administration of President Obama has never held much regard for its left flank. Admonished by the vice president to “stop whining,” inveighed against by the president himself for “griping and ...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release July 29, 2011 Cabinet Room 4:13 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I just wanted to publicly welcome four very distinguishe...

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Abortion Rule Blocked; Violence Up in Kenya's Camps

womensenews.org - (WOMENSENEWS)-- CheersU.S. District Judge Karen Schreier upheld Planned Parenthood of South Dakota's request to block the implementation of a law that would require women seeking abortions to go th...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release July 29, 2011 A year ago today, I was proud to sign the Tribal Law and Order Act into law. American Indians and Alaska Natives ...

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Apple Has More Money Than USA | Apple Stocks | Mac Lion

mediaite.com - Unfortunately, the country is now so broke that I believe they’re now only serving ramen in the House cafeterias (they’re calling it Freedom Ramen to keep up appearances). You know who’s not having...

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Grassley Questions Education Agency's Ties to Wall Street

dealbook.nytimes.com - Senator Charles E. Grassley is examining whether Department of Education officials disclosed secret government information to hedge fund managers, including Steve Eisman.The inquiry stems from the ...

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Details of rival plans on spending and debt

boston.com - WASHINGTON—House Republicans and Senate Democrats are pressing competing plans to pair an increase in the nation's $14.3 trillion borrowing limit with spending cuts and to create a special committe...

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Things We Could Do With Electronic Skin - Technology

theatlanticwire.com - Somewhere in between "cool invention" and "creepy thing that should go back to the Philip K. Dick novel it came from" are nanowire electronics. Nanowires are sort of like flexible, transparent micr...

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Dissecting Dyslexia: Linking Reading to Voice Recognition

educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩResearch shows dyslexia involves difficulty processing language sounds in dyslexic brainsNew research: Dyslexic individuals have significant difficulty recognizing voices.Credit and Larger Version...

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#SOSMARCH What Side Am I On? « Outside the Cave

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - What Side Am I On? « Outside the CaveWhat Side Am I On?by Stephen LazarWith a summer off for the first time in my career, and a transition to a new school on the horizon, I’ve been thinking a lot r...

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    4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: DEALING WITH (ANTI)EDUCATION ACTIVISTS

    4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: DEALING WITH (ANTI)EDUCATION ACTIVISTS

    DEALING WITH (ANTI)EDUCATION ACTIVISTS

    BY NORA CARR | FROM THE JULY ISSUE OF AMERICAN SCHOOL BOARD JOURNAL | HTTP://BIT.LY/MRXLYI

    Few took the fledgling Tea Party movement seriously in 2009. Then, in 2010, Tea Party candidates began toppling political icons nationwide.

    Now Tea Partiers have set their sights on public schools, calling for massive funding cuts. Using the recession and state budget woes as political cover, many Tea Party zealots seek to dismantle or starve the traditional public school infrastructure.

    Not surprisingly, most websites and candidates associated with the movement also call for the rapid expansion of charter schools, vouchers, tuition tax credits, and other parent choice mechanisms.

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    petition and action in support of filipino migrant teachers | angry asian man

    petition and action in support of filipino migrant teachers | angry asian man

    petition and action in support of filipino migrant teachers

    Passing along word about a petition and action that could use your support, involving migrant teachers in the D.C. area... In Maryland, Prince George's County Public Schools were determined to be a "willfull violator" of labor laws because they let 1,000 international teachers -- the majority of whom come from the Philippines -- shoulder fees that should have been the schools'.

    The Department of Labor penalized them by demanding they pay these teachers back. However, they were also debarred from
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    Modern School: Sci. Am., Do Your Homework

    Modern School: Sci. Am., Do Your Homework

    Sci. Am., Do Your Homework

    by Michael Dunn

    The August issue of Scientific American published an editorial by their board of editors titled, “Stand and Deliver.” In the editorial, they perpetuate the myth that Jaime Escalante was a paragon of teaching who should be emulated across the nation and that this will catapult the U.S. ahead of its trading partners in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. To their credit, they do argue for increased funding, better professional support, improved social status, and better supplies and equipment for math and science teachers. However, they also replicate the same bad “science” of the Ed Deformers and pundits who blame poor educational outcomes on the quality of teaching, contrary to the data.

    Here is my response, published on their website today:

    Escalante was no model of good teaching. He verbally abused his students and couldn’t even
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    4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Duncan: TEACHER SALARIES SHOULD BE $60K - $150K

    4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Duncan: TEACHER SALARIES SHOULD BE $60K - $150K
    Duncan: TEACHER SALARIES SHOULD BE $60K - $150K Duncan: Teacher Salaries Should Be $60,000 to $150,000 By Michele McNeil | Ed Week/Politics K-12 | http://bit.ly/pW2xae July 29, 2011 3:45 PM | U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called for a radical upending of the nation's teaching ...
    UTLA: AB 114 AIMS TO STABILIZE SCHOOLS UTLA is putting pressure on LAUSD to fulfill the intent of the CA legislature to rehire UTLA members and restore programs that were cut this year. FROM THE UTLA WEBSITE | http://bit.ly/kGvjCt Assembly Bill 114 (AB 114), part of the state budget ...
    AB 114: LAID-OFF LEACHERS REHIRES THROWN INTO CONFUSION BY NEW STATE LAW By Theresa Harrington - Contra Costa Times | http://bit.ly/n65ZN6 Updated: 07/28/2011 05:19:54 PM PDT - Pink-slipped teachers in some California schools are being called back to work as districts respond to the recently adopted state budget and a ...
    Obama Prep + Clay MS: PROTESTERS UPSET OVER CHANGES AT 2 SOUTH L.A. MIDDLE SCHOOLS: “…a moral and ethical violation of the public trust” by Howard Blume | LA Times/LA Now | http://lat.ms/pPa8mc July 27, 2011 | 7:02 PM - About 75 demonstrators gathered Wednesday afternoon to protest the removal of a Los Angeles middle school principal and the conversion of another South L.A. campus to a ...
    Robles-Wong: ANOTHER SETBACK IN SCHOOL FUNDING LAWSUITS - Plaintiffs rebuffed in broad equal-protection claim (+ ruling) By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess | http://bit.ly/oyrLBP 7/29/11 - An Alameda County Superior Court judge has dealt another blow to plaintiffs in two lawsuits claiming that the state’s “insufficient, irrational and unstable” school funding system ...
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    X Games: LAPD will be enforcing teen curfew - latimes.com

    X Games: LAPD will be enforcing teen curfew - latimes.com

    X Games: LAPD will be enforcing teen curfew

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    With X Games 17 in downtown Los Angeles this weekend, Los Angeles police are warning minors and their parents that authorities will enforcement the city’s curfew rules.

    According to the L.A. municipal code, unaccompanied children under the age of 18 are generally not permitted in public places -– including streets, parks or buildings -– between 10 p.m. and sunrise, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

    There are exceptions to the rule, however: if the minor is running an errand for his parent or legal

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    Angel flying too close to the ground. « Fred Klonsky's blog

    Angel flying too close to the ground. « Fred Klonsky's blog

    Angel flying too close to the ground.

    by Fred Klonsky

    The eighty mile drive from Cody to Thermopolis covers the kind of territory you remember from old western movies. It is wide open sage brush land, with snow covered mountains in the far distance.

    It’s beauty is a different kind of beauty than the dramatic craggy peaks of the Grand Tetons and the waterfalls and buffalo grounds of Yellowstone. But it has a beauty all of it’s own.

    We found a radio station that came in clear the entire drive. It probably was a public station, since we heard only station identifications and no ads. And it played great country and cowboy music.

    Dolly Parton doing a so-sad cover of the Everly Brothers’ Cathy’s Clown. And Willie singing Angel Flying to

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    #SOSMarch Kohn: Why we have to save our schools - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    Kohn: Why we have to save our schools - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
    Answer Sheet

    Kohn: Why we have to save our schools

    by Valerie Strauss

    These are questions that veteran educator and blogger Anthony Cody put to Alfie Kohn, author of 12 books on education and human behavior. His books include The Schools Our Children Deserve , Punished by Rewards,The Case Against Standardized Testing , and, most recently, Feel-Bad Education . Cody taught science for 18 years in inner-city Oakland and now works with a team of science teacher-coaches that supports novice teachers. He is a National Board-certified teacher and an active member of the Teacher Leaders Network. Thispost appeared on his Education Week Teacher blog, Living in Dialogue.

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