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Daily Kos: "American Teacher" - American Hoax

dailykos.com - The movie American Teacher finally premiered in Portland, Oregon, where I live. I had been curious to see it since it was promoted on ABC's Education Nation in September. The movie is said to be b...

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Lessons Shared At California Forum

huffingtonpost.com - STANFORD, Calif. -- Finland is this decade's shiny icon of classroom success, the repeat winner of top results in a global ranking of national school systems. That's why academics, teachers and gov...

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Shame of a nation

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - After a decade of No Child Left Behind and three more years of Race To The Top, Black and Lation teenagers in U.S. schools are performing at academic levels equal to or lower than those of 30 years...

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Readers sound off on Eli and the Giants, upstate and down

nydailynews.com - That golden ruleHolbrook, L.I.: To Voicer Michael W. Domis: I totally agree we should be better than our enemies, and we are. Are the Taliban building schools, etc.? And the Golden Rule applies to ...

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Alan Singer: The School-to-Prison Pipeline

huffingtonpost.com - Rethinking Schools is a magazine written for teachers by teachers. It is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and covers local issues, but really its concerns are national in scope. Its Winter 2011-2012 i...

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Making waves. Backing good guys. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Will Guzzardi in the 39th House District in Chicago. The Chicago Democratic Machine has been famous for promoting the theory of, “Don’t make no waves. Don’t back no losers.” What is surprising is h...

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Florida Poverty Outstrips U.S. « CBS Miami

miami.cbslocal.com - (Source: U.S. Census Bureau )TALLAHASSEE (CBS4)- The recession of the last couple years put more Florida residents into poverty and resulted in a decrease of median family income in much of the sta...

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Showdown Averted: ILWU and EGT Reach Agreement

dissidentvoice.org - The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the international conglomerate EGT Development came to a tentative agreement on Monday to resolve their long simmering labor dispute. The...

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New Book Critiques 'Corporate' School Reform

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - New Book Critiques 'Corporate' School Reform:DescriptionNeoliberal education reforms, including No Child Left Behind and Chicago's Renaissance 2010, tend to "marketize" schools and threaten to dism...

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