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John Lennon & Rosie and The Originals – Angel Baby
Originally posted on The Immortal Jukebox: ‘[Angel Baby] … This is by a 15 year old girl from National City California named Rosie. This is going to be a hit Guys and Gals’ – DJ Alan Freed on K-Day Radio, November 1960. ‘This here is one of my all time favourite songs. Send my love to Rosie – wherever she…
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Peter Greene on Our Clueless Business Leaders
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Peter Greene read the Fortune article about how business leaders are fighting valiantly to save Common Core, and he realized that they don’t have a clue about dealing with individual consumers or social media. They pour millions into creating astroturf groups and blogs without readers, but they don’t understand anything about education or the…
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Tis the season for donating and contributing your money to scam artists and frauds
Con artists may take advantage of your generosity this time of year with bogus charities posing as legitimate ones.
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Is Tim Cook, the CEO of APPLE, ignorant or a fraud?
For one room to hold all of the tool and die makers working in the United States, it would have to be at least 456 thousand square feet in size.
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Things Are Not Going So Well for the Privatizers
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: It is true that they have a lot of money–Gates, Broad, Walton, Dell, Wasserman, Arnold, Helmsley, and about two dozen other foundations. Maybe more. And they have the U.S. Department of Education. But none of their big ideas is working. Study after study shows that charters on average do not produce higher test scores…
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A preview of what will happen if the GOP controls all three branches of the federal government
Who started the war on drugs in the United States and who continues to support this war?
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Peter Greene: What Is a Philanthropist?
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Peter Greene is not impressed with the new form of philanthropy. The new philanthropists are not content to give money to worthy causes. No, they insist either in plastering their names for the public to see, a vanity project or paid advertising. Or they insist on controlling what they find, to make sure the…
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Who do you think should pick the elected leaders of the United States?
“I for one,” my old friend wrote, “would rather have the rich chose my leaders than another group’s choice.”
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Who Funds Jeb Bush’s Education Foundation?
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: It is common knowledge that Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Educational Excellence supports charters, vouchers, and digital learning. When he announced his run for the GOP nomination, he stepped down and brought in Condaleeza Rice to lead FEE. ? Who provided the money to showcase Bush’s education platform? Bush released his list of donors from…
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Hypocrisy: Democrats Criticize Trump but Not a Peep Against Emanuel
Originally posted on gadflyonthewallblog: ? So Donald Trump is a narcissistic, bigoted, fascist. Not exactly a surprise. He’s also the Republican front runner for President. I’ll admit to being mildly shocked by that. However, much more astonishing are the chauvinistic and possibly illegal actions of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel – and the fact that no major Democrat of note is…
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