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Support for Early Education

nytimes.com - To the Editor: “Occupy the Classroom,” by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, Oct. 20), made a powerful case for early education programs, including Head Start. We agree, and that is why Pre...

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Education According to Mike Milken

businessweek.com - With K12, the largest U.S. operator of taxpayer-funded online schools, the former junk-bond king has figured out how to make money in education. Is that a good thing?By John HechingerTen-year-old A...

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Shanker Blog » NAEP Shifting

shankerblog.org - Tomorrow, the education world will get the results of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred to as the “nation’s report card.” The findings – reading and math s...

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Charter School Push Grows - WSJ.com

online.wsj.com - BY LISA FLEISHER The rancor that has followed former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz's attempts to open charter schools across New York City is coming to a place that hasn't experienced it before: ...

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Smelt Supreme Court ruling goes against farmers

democraticunderground.com - Source: SF Chron(10-31) 15:43 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal today by Central California farmers who claimed the federal government lacks constitutional authority to p...

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Is This the Weirdest Rick Perry Speech Ever?

motherjones.com - Jon Ward flags this video of Texas Governor Rick Perry speaking at an event in New Hampshire on Friday, and politely calls it "unusually expressive." I will go a few steps further and say it is the...

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OWS has transformed public opinion - Occupy Wall Street

salon.com - You took me by surprise. For all I know, you took yourself by surprise, the first of you who arrived at Zuccotti Park and, inspired by a bunch of Egyptian students, didn’t go home again. And when t...

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Topless protest against DSK in Paris

euronews.net - A protest with a difference has taken place outside the home of the former IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn in Paris.A Ukrainian feminist organisation organised a “topless demonstration” to protest...

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Pension overhaul on hold in Illinois

qctimes.com - SPRINGFIELD — The clock will be ticking on efforts to overhaul the state’s pension systems when lawmakers return to the Capitol next month for the final three days of the fall veto session. Althoug...

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Protesters Hershey's chocolate on fair trade principle

democraticunderground.com - Source: SF Chron(10-31) 17:16 PDT SA FRACISCO -- Thousands of Bay Area residents are kissing off Hershey's chocolate this Halloween to protest its use of cocoa that is not fair trade certified.The ...

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Occupy SF brings unexpected life to dormant park

sfgate.com - Thomas Webb / The Chronicle Occupy SF members have taken over the grassy area in Harry Bridges Plaza, just south of Justin Herman Plaza. Whatever you think of the politics, and whatever happens in ...

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Protesters Arrested in Denver and Portland

nytimes.com - Confrontations between police and protesters of the Occupy Wall Street movement led to arrests in two Western cities overnight while demonstrators in Nashville defied a curfew into the early hours ...

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S.F. sheriff defends deputy in Scott Olsen videos

sfgate.com - (10-31) 11:57 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco Sheriff's Department officials expressed concern today that a deputy who took part in Tuesday's night's police action against Occupy Oakland protest...

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Teamsters strike produce co. for firing 10 workers

teamsternation.blogspot.com - This just in from the Associated Press: Teamsters pickets are marching outside the Port of Hueneme to protest the firings of 10 truck drivers by an Oxnard produce company. There are about 20 people...

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