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Gatsby without greatness - Roger Ebert's Journal

blogs.suntimes.com - Did it seem to you that The Great Gatsby was especially difficult to read? It's a book that most American students encounter in high school. When I read it the first time, I certainly missed some o...

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Modern School: California’s Powerful Teachers Unions?

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: California’s Powerful Teachers Unions?California’s Powerful Teachers Unions?by Michael DunnIn an apparent payback to the California Teachers Association (CTA), which has donated mill...

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Whites recover, but the black recession lingers

cbsnews.com - (AP) BALTIMORE — Growing up black in the segregated 1960s, Deborah Goldring slept two to a bed, got evicted from apartment after apartment, and watched her stepfather climb utility poles to turn t...

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Arrests in UK hacking case

boston.com - LONDON - Prime Minister David Cameron’s former communications chief and a former royal reporter were arrested yesterday in a phone hacking and police corruption scandal that has already toppled a m...

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NYC Educator: His Area of Expertise

nyceducator.com - Joel Klein, who blithely observed scandal upon scandal for Mayor Bloomberg, has been tapped by Rupert Murdoch to oversee his own scandal. It's about time we saw Klein utilized for something he actu...

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Follow the money on charter schools

arktimes.com - A small followup on Gov. Mike Beebe's appointment of Joe Black of Newport (and Helena-West Helena, he told the Democrat-Gazette) to the state Board of Education. I mentioned yesterday that he was a...

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Memo to Govs Gone Wild: Stop cutting

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Teamster Nation: Memo to Govs Gone Wild: Stop cuttingMemo to Govs Gone Wild: Stop cuttingby Teamster PowerGuess what's a big drag on our economy right now? The loss of state and local jobs.All our ...

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Union urges action to stop debt deal

thehill.com - The United Autoworkers union on Saturday sent out an action alert to members urging them to sign a petition to President Obama to stop an emerging White House deficit deal. President Obama and Hous...

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World War III: The ‘resources’ war

dailycensored.com - As the media deals with erruptions in the Middle East and elsewhere as so many bee bees in a bag what is overlooked is that the US has been and is now involved in World War Three.Actions in Libya, ...

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Betty Ford remembered for her candor and tenacity

content.usatoday.com - Updated at 9:29 p.m. ETFormer first lady Betty Ford, who died this evening, is being remembered for her candor and strength in dealing with personal adversity.Ford, 93, died with her family by her ...

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Results Bachmann FB page flash mob

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Well, thousands of comments have been posted on Michele Bachmann's FB page this afternoon as a result of a virtual flash mob. We're not sure about the usefulness of this kind of online activism -- ...

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State prison protest continues - latimes.com

latimesblogs.latimes.com - About 1,600 inmates continued to take part in a hunger strike protesting conditions in the state prison system’s maximum-security isolation units, down significantly from the peak of roughly 6,600 ...

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Mexico's Advances Resulting in Illegal Immigration Decline

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 1:10 pm, July 9, 2011 Photo Credits: Mexico Today In a recent article by The New York Times, Mexico’s impressive advances in education, economy and democracy are making Mexican citizen...

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Saturday coffee. + Old school « Fred Klonsky's blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blogSaturday coffee.by Fred KlonskyThere’s was no Saturday coffee last week. I was at the NEA RA.Last night, Anne and I took Ulysses to Wilson beach on the Lakefro...

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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - There’s was no Saturday coffee last week. I was at the NEA RA. Last night, Anne and I took Ulysses to Wilson beach on the Lakefront so he could play with the hundreds of other dogs at Chicago’s gre...

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Thinking About the American Zeitgeist

saveourschoolsmarch.org - You are here: Home » Blog » Uncategorized » Dusty & Gay: Thinking About the American ZeitgeistJuly 10, 2011 Cross Country by Bike – Glenville – Madrid – Bardstown – Berea – Buckhorn – Lookout, Kent...

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Memo to Govs Gone Wild: Stop cutting

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Teamster Nation: Memo to Govs Gone Wild: Stop cuttingMemo to Govs Gone Wild: Stop cuttingby Teamster PowerGuess what's a big drag on our economy right now? The loss of state and local jobs.All our ...

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