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Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane in a Hilarious Spoof “Trumped”
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: One of the great all-time Broadway shows was Mel Brooks’ “The Producers,” starring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane (based on the movie with Zero Mostel). The two men were failed producers who came up with a brilliant idea: raise lots of money to produce a really terrible play, which would quickly close as a…
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NEWS! George W. Bush Administration “Lost” 22 Million Emails Covering Crucial War Issues
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Newsweek reports that the George W. Bush administration “lost” 22 million emails covering a time of crucial decisions about the war in Iraq. “For 18 months, Republican strategists, political pundits, reporters and Americans who follow them have been pursuing Hillary Clinton’s personal email habits, and no evidence of a crime has been found. But…
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What Trump and Hillary are not talking about in the Sniffling Presidential Debates
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: The one issue that should be on every parents mind and the presidential candidates is what’s known as the alleged “school to prison” pipeline, and how to deal with this issue instead of making it worse. While Hillary Clinton has a long, committed record advocating for women and children, all we…
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Where Does Donald Trump Find the Most Support?
Now that you have these facts, what do you think the reason is that Trump has so much support in most of these top ten most violent, most racist and least educated states?
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Is the Internet, high-tech World all that Great, and Learning to hate Toyota
Playing old fashioned board games with real people in the same room is so much better than being alone staring at a computer screen and learning to hate Toyota.
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Massachusetts: Billionaires Ready to Pour Up to $18 Million into Charter Referendum
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Jonathan Pelto reports on the big money that will flow into the Massachusetts referendum on expanding charters. Most of it will flow from the coffers of hedge fund managers, who never showed any prior interest in improving public schools but get excited by the opportunity to privatize them. He writes: A group of billionaires…
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Jesse Turner: Who Decides? Who is a Sell-Out? Who is Pure?
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: http://childrenaremorethantestscores.blogspot.com/2016/09/who-decides.html?m=1 Jesse Turner is known as “the walking man.” He walked from Connecticut to D.C. inn 2010 to protest the overuse of mandated testing and its negative effects on children. He did it again in 2015. His blog is called “children are more than test scores.” This is his latest. It is called “Who…
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The Child Predator We Invite into Our Schools
As schools have relied more heavily on technology, they’ve invited big business into a space that is supposed to be private. Source: The Child Predator We Invite into Our Schools
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Trump boasts he will make America Safe from Terrorists by doing what Israel does
Mother Jones reports Donald Trump’s response to the recent New York, New Jersey Bombings, and the miracle cure is racial profiling on a mass scale. Trump says, “You know, in Israel they profile. They’ve done an unbelievable job, as good as you can do.” I took a closer look at Donald Trump’s claim that Israel does a job “as good…
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A Vote for Gary Johnson (or, Jill Stein) is a Vote for Trump
Originally posted on Ed In The Apple: Face the Nation and the other Sunday Talking Heads news commentary shows talked about the softening of the Obama coalition, the daily NY Times “percentage” in August had Hillary ahead 90-10, now the “poll” gives Hillary a 75-25 lead; whatever that means. The Nate Silver fivethirtyeight blog,”Chance of Winning,” has Hillary: 61.1% and Trump…