Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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Wall St. Layoffs Take Heavy Toll on Younger Workers

dealbook.nytimes.com - Andrew Sullivan for The New York TimesMarine Corps veteran Sam Meek, 27, recently was laid off from his job at a hedge fund.Earlier this fall, Steve Ferdman celebrated getting a job offer from Cred...

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Reporters Meet the Fists of the Law

nytimes.com - In the aftermath of the Occupy Wall Street eviction from Zuccotti Park, a mayoral aide e-mailed reporters. The aide, Stu Loeser, said that he had heard of journalists “supposedly” weari...

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Fail - Feature Story - Local Stories - November 17, 2011

newsreview.com - Full disclosure: Reporter Cosmo Garvin’s wife is a teacher in the Sacramento City Unified School District. School districts all over the country are struggling to turn around “failing schools.” It’...

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3 More Students Surrender in SAT Cheating Scandal

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Morton Deutsch: Bullish on Occupy Wall Street

tc.edu - Morton Deutsch: Bullish on Occupy Wall StreetPublished in Views on the News 11/1/2011Morton Deutsch, Director Emeritus of ICCRThe ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, which began at Zuccotti ...

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Remembering Mayor Harold Washington. « Fred Klonsky

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The White Party

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Columbia prof, Thomas Edsall writing in today's NY Times, points out that the GOP has become the "white party," armed strategically with a racist, anti-Latino, anti-immigrant election strategy. It'...

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NYC Educator: On Punctuality

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Occupy Los Angeles Day 52 News Report

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GDP Growth for Q3 Revised Downward

news.firedoglake.com - While Washington looks uneasily at the demise of a deficit committee that was completely irrelevant to reducing the deficit, the real problem for the country, the troubling lack of growth, continue...

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Modern School: California’s 1% Goes On The Offensive

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: California’s 1% Goes On The Offensive:California’s 1% Goes On The Offensiveby Michael DunnWe've Saved the Schools! (Image from Flickr, Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com)Three of Califor...

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Economy grew at 2 percent rate in third quarter

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theatlanticwire.com - Both Meghan McCain and Chelsea Clinton recently landed gigs as contributors to NBC News (well, McCain's at MSNBC), which should tell us something. In McCain's case it says duh Meghan McCain likes b...

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NYC Educator: The NYCTF Recruitment [Soon-to-be] Scandal

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Sheriff, DA begin probe of pepper-spraying incident

davisenterprise.com - The Yolo County Sheriff’s Department has launched its investigation into Friday’s confrontation on the UC Davis campus that resulted in the pepper-spraying of unarmed protesters, a review requested...

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All Education Matters: NYT Reporter(s) - Hello Again! #ows

All Education Matters: NYT Reporter(s) - Hello Again!:

NYT Reporter(s) - Hello Again!

by Cryn Johannsen
Hey reporter(s) who visit(s) my blog from the NYT: Welcome to AEM! It's nice to have you here. Please feel free to use me as a source, but I would appreciate you mentioning my non-profit. I don't care if you mention my name or not. Doesn't really matter. What matters? Well, I'll tell you what matters - that indentured educated citizensknow there is a non-profit out here working around the clock for them. Feel free to email me - ccrynjohannsen (at) gmail (dot) com.

Hypervocal: Why We Desperately Need A Debtors' Strike

by Cryn Johannsen
Here's my latest piece on my column, Seriously Subversive, over at Hypervocal.com.
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America's Education Reform Lobby Makes Its Presence Known At The Voting Booth

America's Education Reform Lobby Makes Its Presence Known At The Voting Booth:

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America's Education Reform Lobby Makes Its Presence Known At The Voting Booth

Education Reform Groups Elections Michelle Rhee

First Posted: 11/22/11 04:55 PM ET Updated: 11/22/11 06:00 PM ET


Meet the new education lobby.

It's ambitious, expansive and, in some cases, modeling itself after sprawling single-issue lobbying organizations like the National Rifle Association and AARP. The groups, which have in large part been created by hedge fund managers and lapsed government officials, count political operatives inside state legislatures and even the Democratic National Committee among their ranks. And they're using the power of their fundraisers' purses and sophisticated messaging outfits to push their agendas in local and school-board elections across the country.

"We've been trying to win this battle by blogging and making compelling arguments," said Michael Petrilli, executive vice president for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, which supports charter schools,

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Thank a Teacher on Nov. 25, StoryCorps’ National Day of Listening | Edwize

Thank a Teacher on Nov. 25, StoryCorps’ National Day of Listening | Edwize:

Thank a Teacher on Nov. 25, StoryCorps’ National Day of Listening

by W.J. Levay

StoryCorps is asking everyone to take a few minutes to say thanks to a favorite teacher on the day after Thanksgiving.

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Whether posting a memory to Facebook (@storycorps), thanking them on Twitter (@storycorps, #thankateacher), taping a tribute on YouTube or sending a ‘thank you’ card, the 2011 National Day of Listening will send a powerful and necessary message to teachers across the nation: they matter, and we as a nation are grateful for the impact they have on our lives.

You can also record a face-to-face interview with a teacher—or anyone else you’d like to honor for the National Day of Listening—using the the tools on this page.

Once you have participated, tell us about it on our Wall of Listening.

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All Education Matters: Letter to Chancellor Linda Katehi of UC Davis from a group of Physics Department faculty calling for her resignation

All Education Matters: Letter to Chancellor Linda Katehi of UC Davis from a group of Physics Department faculty calling for her resignation:

Letter to Chancellor Linda Katehi of UC Davis from a group of Physics Department faculty calling for her resignation

by Cryn Johannsen
Does Chancellor Katehi have any friends or sympathizers left? I would be surprised if she did. She needs to do the right thing and resign immediately.

Here is a letter from a group of Physics Department faculty also calling for her resignation.

Here's how you protest with grace and good sense - UC Davis students are a great model. Watch Kathei walk to her car, surrounded by silent students. It's her walk of shame. She needs to resign NOW. Please disseminate this letter and post widely.

In addition, UC Davis students will be carrying out a general strike on Nov. 28th. I urge all campuses
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tomhayden.com - Peace Exchange Bulletin - Why the Pepper Spray Spree Should End #OWS

tomhayden.com - Peace Exchange Bulletin - Why the Pepper Spray Spree Should End:

WHY THE PEPPER SPRAY SPREE SHOULD END

DateMONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011 AT 9:17PM

The pepper spraying of eleven University of California (Davis) students is a startling visual revelation a pattern repeated over two decades, the widespread use of the potent chemical compound to subdue political protesters, prison inmates and numerous inner city youth, in spite of numerous warnings by health officials of potentially life-threatening effects. The Davis episode shows that pepper spray has become a weapon of choice even for University of California police.

Perhaps the globally televised spectacle of UC Davis students being sprayed while sitting in a peaceful protest will open a window to the similar treatment of thousands of others rarely mentioned or reported in mainstream media.

In 1992, the California Attorney General’s office supported law enforcement and manufacturer


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Academia Occupied: The Academic As “Other” in Corporate Colonialism | The Homeless Adjunct #OWS

Academia Occupied: The Academic As “Other” in Corporate Colonialism | The Homeless Adjunct:

Academia Occupied: The Academic As “Other” in Corporate Colonialism

Posted on November 21, 2011

The term “occupy” is all over the news now, with the Occupy Movement gaining power and momentum across our country, and linked in solidarity to the occupy movements that began in the Middle East. There is a strong wave of a growing Occupy Colleges movement, long overdue to my mind, that is finally beginning to take hold. The irony of this is something I would like to point out. We may be occupying in protest. But for the last thirty years, it is academia which has been “occupied.” We have been colonized by corporatism, and subjugated to its power.

A few years ago, as I was struggling in the worst of the 2008 economic collapse, about to lose my home, losing my financial battle to live on adjunct salaries, I was walking across

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Parents from Schools Targeted for Closure Protest Together at DOE HQ « EdVox

Parents from Schools Targeted for Closure Protest Together at DOE HQ « EdVox:

Parents from Schools Targeted for Closure Protest Together at DOE HQ

by edvoxny

Middle and high schools targeted for closure serve almost entirely low-income Black and Latino families and have lost tens-of-millions to budget cuts over past 3 years. Many schools represented were founded, moved or co-located by Bloomberg Administration; most house large numbers of high-needs students.

Susan Hackshaw, parent from PS 631

For months, hundreds of mostly low-income, Black and Latino parents and students from across the City have separately held rallies outside of their beloved middle and high schools in an effort to stop the Bloomberg Administration’s march to close them. They have argued that their schools are struggling because of factors

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