Education

Where Ms Dancer Rants About Year-Round School

by Karoli on May 10, 2011 · 0 comments

Her father had the audacity to link up this post on Facebook with the admonition not to let her see it. LOL. Here is her response: “Why are we still giving them the summer off?” Perhaps because our mental and emotional well being has a higher priority than our test scores? But apparently our intellect [...]

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Why Public Schools May Be Lost — And Unions Too

by Karoli on April 12, 2011 · 7 comments

Here’s why, via Booman Tribune: You may have noticed that the right is engaged in this fight on a structural level. They go after the people who register voters. They pass laws making it harder to vote. They attack the unions. They attack MoveOn.org. They go after anyone in the media, be it Bill Maher, [...]

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What bubble do 52% of Americans live in?

by Karoli on February 9, 2011 · 7 comments

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The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Feb. 2-7, 2011 among 1,385 adults, finds that nearly half (48%) say they have heard a lot about the anti-government protests in Egypt; about the same proportion (52%) reports hearing little or nothing. via Public Uncertain About Effect of [...]

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