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posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 20 hours ago
by Jim Horn and Anonymous Knoxvillian The Broad Agenda for Tennessee public schools was crippled last evening when Knox County Commissioners rejected the McIntyre school budget increase to fund a meritle...
posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 21 hours ago
From Truthdig.com:Posted on Jun 3, 2012 By Chris Hedges I gave a talk last week at Canada’s Wilfrid Laurier University to the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Many in the audience had pinn...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago
(CNN) -- How big is the financial hole? This is the main question among Spaniards nowadays. They want to know how much money Bankia, the country's fourth-largest bank, needs. Bankia was created in 2010, ...
posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago
[image: photo] *Rami Abdelrahman, after meeting Britain's Foreign Secretary, William Hague, the man in charge of MI6. Rami is 'the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights', a one-man operation. * Tony Cartalu...
posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago
June 5, 2012 Cyber threats, hacker attacks and laws officially aiming to tackle internet piracy, but in fact infringing people's rights to online privacy. It's an increasingly topical subject - and the ...
posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day ago
I can't find exact numbers on how many websites and blogs went dark in yesterday's BlackoutSpeakout campaign, but conservative mainstream media is saying that more than 500 websites and 18,000 people parti...
posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
*"Three Passions" * "Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind. Love brings ecstasy and relieves lonelin...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Afghanistan – We Forgot History and We Repeated It"* by Eric Margolis "Santayana’s famous dictum about those who forget history being condemned to relive it is nowhere better observed than in the mount...Forget. We were never taught what used to be in history books and read instead heroic accounts of troops in far lands....without salient details.
posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day agoSource: http://www.uaff.us/just_say_no.htm POLICE STATE USA: The Paranoid Style of American Governance by Prof. James F. Tracy Global Research Canada, June 3, 2012 In 1964 *Harper*'s magazine publi...
posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoRelentless Neo-Con propaganda originating from "conservative" news agency. *by Tony Cartalucci* *June 5, 2012* - "Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for a former CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and au...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStudents and graduates from several Southland campuses talk of their loans and how paying them off figures into their plans. For some, the path seems secure; for others, uncertainty is the only certainty....
posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost... the ship has sailed and only a fool would continue. Truth is... I've always been a fool.” - S...
posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the major...
posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 1 day agoSent to USA Today, June 4, 2012 Rising scores on the national (NAEP) science test are indeed reasons to “Quit fretting. U.S. is fine in science education” (June 3). But we can make more progress: The av...No Child Left Behind is all about testing. It is sister to the TSA and Homeland Insecurity in arrogant futility and ignores coaching and known reliable methods to teach basic skills of usable math and reading/writing - let alone following the model of TED to use technology to liberate kids and show them how to explore. UNESCO perverts education : testing is about control and generating aversion to learning through resentment.no child left behind education reform - Bing News
It took a few tries, but Connecticut has finally secured a waiver to the No Child Left Behind education reform law passed a decade ago. This is good news for the state. That law put the quality of our public schools on…Stamford AdvocateThe next item is redlisted at Web of Trust. I haven't checked it out but am flying on reverse psychology and comments listing it as innocent and containing important historical information. Consider it a Search hint !No Child Left Behind. The National Education Sciences Reform Act Funds Detailed National Data Collection System: Major Data Collection Bill, HR 3801
The protections of privacy in an information age guaranteed by the Privacy Act of 1974 prohibiting the cross referencing of government data bases and the protection of social security number linked data will become history. Even if the most egregious portions of this bill are eliminated, the foundation is laid that can be completed at any time with a rider on some subsequent legislation slipped by in the dead of night. Stopping the federal Juggernaut may be a quixotic exercise. Perhaps those opposed to the whole system of federal control can best serve themselves by immediately doing all in their power to cut the information strings between themselves and the system by refusing to use children's social security numbers for identification purposes at school, on health insurance forms and all other places where they are now routinely requested though not necessarily mandated. John
In the spring of 1991, education scholar Diane Ravitch got a phone call from Education Secretary Lamar Alexander inviting her to lunch in Washington. He asked her to become an ...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYears ago, mother reported attending a conference in Halifax where a speaker from the U.S. noted "We have welfare and social services too. It's called jail and is much more expensive than your system." Not that I believe for a microsecond that our neocons ( We can openly call them fascist. Quebec must remember Premier Maurice duPlessis and the English should remember Victorian England and orphanages/workhouses ) dreamed this up independently.posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 1 day agoFew phrases have been written or uttered more often than "data-driven instruction" or "evidence-based decision making" since No Child Left Behind (NCLB) codified "scientifically-based" practices in 2001. ...
posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 2 days agoA former NJ DOE employee continues to send us news of from his/her former workplace, where incompetent and corrupt corporate toadies now pretend to do the work once done by educators and administrators con...
posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day agoLink from United Opt Out: This week United Opt Out National stands in solidarity with the UMass teacher educators and the sixty-seven student teachers at UMass Amherst School of Education who together cho...
posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day agoLast year Paul Toner, the ostensible leader of the MA Teachers Association, surrendered his membership by capitulating without a whimper to the first step in the corporate blueprint to replace tenured and ...
posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*For those of us in Wisconsin, California, Montana and New Mexico, let's keep these words by Elizabeth Warren in our minds when we vote* Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 5, could be an historic day. First and forem...
posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agoIs this cover art sufficiently creepy for my upcoming thriller? This was partly done last year by Mrs. JP with CorelDraw. Obviously, it doesn't matter what cover art I choose since the author never has an...
The Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts, is believed to be the only institution in the world in which disabled and disturbed children are subjected to electric shocks to in a system known called "aversive therapy".
posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day agohttp://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/02/un-investigation-shock-treatments-autism
posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago*A painting by Russian artist Victor Bregeda.* *Related:** * *10 Reasons Why Reality Is A Collective Dream* *1.* Under empires of thought, reality is not based on facts, but on unscientific beliefs th...
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