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Jul 28 · Two days ago these seven civil rights groups called on Arne Duncan to do away with parts of his education reform plans.
They quickly appear to have done an about face.
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Seven leading civil rights groups, including the NAACP and the National Urban League, called on U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today to dismantle core pieces of his education agenda, arguing that his emphases on expanding charter schools, closing low-performing schools, and using competitive rather than
Jul 28 · Many ordinary Americans speculate about the “Powers That Be” (PTB), the unelected but powerful and shadowy elite who seem to exercise influence over national and world events far more than a lot of people realize. Yet because of their shadowy nature they are very difficult to talk about with much confidence.
Despite their often minimal visibility, they seem to have their fingerprints over much of our nation’s history. Their ultimate purpose and motives can only be guessed at, but two aspects
Jul 28 · Three related items follow in this post:
1) “.... if a Federal prosecutor isn’t filing or refraining from filing the cases you want, feel free to covertly conspire to get him fired."
Via Email from Gov. Siegelman:
Dear -,
In the spirit of keeping you updated on the developments in my case and related events, please read this insightful article by Roger Shuler.
REPORT ON US ATTORNEY FIRINGS READS LIKE A FARCE
After reading the report on the Bush Administration's involvement in t
Jul 28 · AlterNet / By John Kelly
Has the Most Common Marijuana Test Resulted in Tens of Thousands of Wrongful Convictions?
More than 800,000 people are arrested on marijuana charges each year in the United States, many on the basis of an error-prone test.
July 28, 2010 |
Raised in Montana and a resident of Alaska for 18 years, Robin Rae Brown, 48, always made time to explore in the wilderness. On March 20, 2009, she parked her pickup truck outside Weston, Florida, and hiked off the beaten
Jul 28 ·
{1} Bill Moyers: “You've said on other occasions that there has to be a spiritual change if we are going to face these environmental issues. What kind of spiritual change?”
Chief Oren Lyons: “We don't preach here in this, our country. You know, we don't proselytize. As a matter of fact, we try to protect what we have from intrusion. And yet at a meeting that was held in Hopi back in 1969 when we sat there with many Indian leaders from around the country, spiritual leaders, they talked abo
Jul 28 · Ernest Partridge
The Crisis Papers
In the early sixties, the young black students in the South had had enough.
Enough separate drinking fountains, enough all-night drives because no motel would provide a room, and enough refusal of service at restaurants and lunch counters.
“Screw this,” they said, and so they sat at Woolworth’s lunch counters anyway, where they were taunted, spat upon, beaten, and arrested.
The white restaurant owners resisted, most notably one Lester Maddox i
Jul 27 ·
The Race to the Top reform program have been criticized for promoting popular but unproven methods in public education. AP
President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will deliver major speeches this week on their $4.35 billion Race to the Top school reform program, pushing back against complaints that it promotes unproven methods and ignores long-standing inequities in public education.
Speaking at the National Press Club on Tuesday, Duncan is expected to name a list
Jul 27 · On Tuesday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill already passed by the Senate that funds a $33 billion, 30,000-troop escalation in Afghanistan. The vote was 308 to 114. What could the good news possibly be?
The first good news is that, while we had no more than 35 congress members who would vote against war funding a year ago, or perhaps 55 when it was an easy vote with no pressure, we've now got 114. That's serious progress. That's a far more dramatic increase than we'
Jul 27 · Folks,
We don't know who the leaks came from today but we know Bradley Manning is being held for contributing to Wikileaks.
Please help him out.
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The Significance of the ‘Support Bradley Manning’ Campaign
Katharine Dawn on July 24th, 2010
July 24, 2010
Editorial by Katharine Dawn
Background
Bradley Manning is the young man charged with leaking classified US military information – including the video of a US Army helicopter gunning down Iraq
Jul 27 · There is a lot to be said for national standards to be met in education. But there is a lot to think about as well. Like who is playing a huge role as the government sets those standards. And surprise, surprise...it's Bill Gates and Foundation.
A number of recent news items on education should demonstrate to educators how little attention the political establishment has paid to the legitimate concerns of teachers. That is because the so-called “educational reform” movements that wer
Jul 27 · A vote is expected today in the House, under suspension and requiring 2/3 to pass, on the "emergency" (off the books) funding of the $33 billion / 30,000 troop plus contractors escalation of the war in Afghanistan.
Here's where the hypocrisy hits the highway. On July 1st, 162 congress members voted to require a withdrawal plan and end date for the occupation of Afghanistan, and 100 voted to fund only withdrawal, no continuation of war, while 25 voted to simply stop dumping any money into thi
Jul 26 · The veteran teacher at your son’s school is not being fired, because she does not do her job. She gets amazing results, considering that her school is
1. Under funded
2. The classrooms are too crowded
3. The kids come to school hungry
4. There is no health care available to treat their many medical problems
5. And the economy has forced many parents from their homes, requiring the kids to change school frequently as they are shuffled from one relative’s house to another.
Right now,
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