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Daily Kos: Dear Mitt,

dailykos.com - Working in the real world might mean flipping burgers at a fast-food joint. Working in the real world might mean that your third job, with no union protections, is changing the bed linens in the ho...
teacherken

Schools to take more fire

palmbeachpost.com - By The Palm Beach PostPosted: 7:23 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, 2012Those scanning the horizon for still more legislative assaults on public education in Florida should notice a provision buried on Pag...
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brucelesley RT @First_Focus This Week in Poverty: How to Get Involved by@GregKaufmann | The Nationawe.sm/5jEau3 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite
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mikeklonsky For black parents in Pasadena, shootings give fresh relevance to 'The Talk' lat.ms/Hmcifcabout 1 hour ago · reply · retweet · favorite
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mikeklonsky Robert Reich' s Blog: Don't Miss -- "Imagine a country in which the very richest people get all the economic gains...." bit.ly/Hng9p2about 1 hour ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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My Island View

tomwhitby.wordpress.com - April 5, 2012 by tomwhitby What is not to love about a zone of comfort; it is a comfy cocoon. It is a pleasurable place that is safe, sound, and satisfying. It is a place where alliterative adjecti...
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A letter from a black mother to her son - The Answer Sheet

washingtonpost.com - This was written by Dyan Watson(watson@lclark.edu), an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education and Counseling at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore.  She is an editorial associa...
TeacherReality

Ecuador sabbatical a real ‘eye

stalbertleader.com - Noah Wilson hops up onto the couch in the living room of his family’s Kingswood home, the photo book made by his mother in his hands, eager to share. It’s been a few months since Noah, 9, mom Kendr...
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Robert Reich (The Fable of the Century)

robertreich.org - Imagine a country in which the very richest people get all the economic gains. They eventually accumulate so much of the nation’s total income and wealth that the middle class no longer has the pur...
mikeklonsky

Today in Pseudo-Outrage -- Daily Intel

nymag.com - The political industry requires the constant generation of pseudo-outrage. Pseudo-outrage is in a different category than normal political disagreement, and even hyperbolic political disagreement, ...
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Today In Labor History: April 6

modeducation.blogspot.com - April 6, 1712 - New York City saw its first slave revolt, which occurred just north of Wall Street, in response to the execution of twenty-one blacks for killing nine whites. Conditions were ideal ...
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msnbc.com Entertainment - MPAA changes 'Bully' rating to PG

entertainment.msnbc.msn.com - By Bob Tourtellotte, ReutersThe filmmaker and studio behind documentary "Bully" on Thursday won their battle to have the movie's rating lowered, allowing kids as young as 13 years-old to see it.Dir...
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The Year's Most Important Film

huffingtonpost.com - I'm not a movie reviewer, but I strongly recommend that you take your child by the hand this weekend -- or several children -- to see the new documentary film, Bully. The only problem is, you might...
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If You Sleep After You Study, You'll Remember More—Duh?

modeducation.blogspot.com - Effective Studying in Action (Image from Flickr, by Mrehan)That sleep improves memory ought to be common sense knowledge, but apparently it is not, even after numerous studies have shown a strong c...
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My Island View

tomwhitby.wordpress.com - April 5, 2012 by tomwhitby What is not to love about a zone of comfort; it is a comfy cocoon. It is a pleasurable place that is safe, sound, and satisfying. It is a place where alliterative adjecti...
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Smart-Briefing and Zite-Seeing « My Island View

tomwhitby.wordpress.com - April 6, 2012 by tomwhitby There are few questions that I get from teachers about social media, or sources that I haven’t gotten in some form before over the last three or four years. Two similar q...
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Will · The Real Shift is Not Technology

willrichardson.com - From the “I Know I Keep Saying This But I Just Can’t Stop Dept.” comes yet another example of how out of whack our language is when talking about what student learning should be. In this long, cele...
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A Real Victory For Parents Against Reforminess!

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - I can't let this pass without noting that parents in New Jersey gained a major victory this week in the battle to reclaim public education: The founders of Tikun Olam, a proposed Hebrew-language hi...
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Troubled terms galore :: Reclaiming Reform

reclaimingreform.org - We put out a call for Troubled Terms a while back, and have gotten some excellent submissions. (Click here to read some of the others, and share one of your own!) Thanks so much for sharing your th...
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