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Diane Ravitch Speaks

us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com - I'm excited. Tonight, Diane Ravitch speaks on my campus. She is to give a talk at Braden Auditorium, which seats just under 3,500 people. Based on the fact that ISU has one of the largest colleges ...
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Dissent Magazine - Spring 2012 Issue

dissentmagazine.org - For Barkan’s other writing on the self-proclaimed “education reform movement,” click here, here, and here. If you want to change government policy, change the politicians who make it. The implicati...
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One Hundred Scholars Take On Rahm In Chicago

schooltechconnect.com - If I hadn't started my own blog and searched out the RSS feeds of the great school advocates in this town, I might not have heard about the Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformationa...
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The Pattern on the Rug - Bridging Differences

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,There comes a time when you look at the rug on the floor, the one you've seen many times, and you see a pattern that you had never noticed before. You may have seen this squiggle or th...
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LAUSD Should Fund Schools in Need, Not District Offices

huffingtonpost.com - Dear LAUSD School Board Members, Superintendent Deasy, Secretary Duncan, and President Obama,We all want to provide the educational opportunities for children and our communities. Please help me re...
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Lobbyists, Guns and Money

nytimes.com - Florida’s now-infamous Stand Your Ground law, which lets you shoot someone you consider threatening without facing arrest, let alone prosecution, sounds crazy — and it is. And it’s tempting to dism...
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Support in U.S. for Afghan War Drops Sharply, Poll Finds

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — After a series of violent episodes and setbacks, support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped sharply among both Republicans and Democrats in recent months as increasing numbers of A...
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One Drug to Shrink All Tumors

democraticunderground.com - Source: Science/AAASA single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mice, researchers have found. The treatm...
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Name droppers: UCD’s Pham receives medical scholarship

davisenterprise.com - Yvonne Thanh-Nga Pham of Orange County, a fourth-year student at the UC Davis School of Medicine, is the winner of a scholarship for female medical students. She will receive $3,000 as the recipien...
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Climate Change Nearing “Irreversible” Stage

news.firedoglake.com - The new EPA rules on future power plants will limit but not reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the near future, and maybe ever, if natural gas prices remain low. No coal-fired plants are really on ...
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Japan warns of nuclear safety 'myth'

democraticunderground.com - Source: Sydney Morning HeraldTHE Japanese Prime Minister warned a nuclear security summit yesterday that the world must not be lulled into a ''myth of safety'', following lessons learnt from the ts...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 26, 2012 From 1949 through 1989, the Soviet Union conducted hundreds of underground nuclear tests and experiments at the fo...
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more on pta fundraising with ps 295

nycschoolhelp.com - You may have seen the NY Times article about changing neighorhoods and school fundraising. I truly admire PS 295's PTA for going to the mat for their school and their out of the box creative fundra...
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How much 'pink slime' beef do schools serve?

californiawatch.org - Anfuehrer/FlickrGround beef (pictured here) purchased by the USDA for its national school lunch program may contain "pink slime," or lean finely textured beef. Tomato, tomahto. Pink slime, lean fin...
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David Stovall, Notes From The Ground

schooltechconnect.com - Professor David Stovall, University of Illinois Chicago, spoke at yesterday's CReATe event.  He works with one of Chicago's small high schools, Social Justice."At the same time that we were placed ...
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Closed Schools Ten Years Later: Who Goes There Now? | Edwize

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Closed Schools Ten Years Later: Who Goes There Now? | Edwize: Closed Schools Ten Years Later: Who Goes There Now?by Jackie BennettIn case you have not been paying attention, the mayor is vowing to ...
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David Stovall, Notes From The Ground

schooltechconnect.com - Professor David Stovall, University of Illinois Chicago, spoke at yesterday's CReATe event.  He works with one of Chicago's small high schools, Social Justice."At the same time that we were placed ...
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