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A few men with the power of gods and a lot less jobs for the rest of us
If you had a choice, who would you vote for to rule the world—a government guided by the Bill of Rights that was written to protect the people from their own government or billionaire oligarchs and corporations that don’t answer to the Bill of Rights?
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Lyndsey Layton: Governor Christie Falters in Newark
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Lyndsey Layton wrote a compelling account in the “Washington Post” about Governor Chris Christie’s calamitous and non-productive attempt to burnish his credentials as a school reformer in Newark. Five years ago , Christie boasted that he would turn Newark into a national model of school reform. He and then-Mayor Cory Booker persuaded Facebook founder…
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Forty-Five thousand U.S. Businesses are Built on a Foundation of Legal Seduction and Sex
Is the United States a Jekyll and Hyde culture that ignores human nature?
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Pearson’s No profit left behind—Investigative reporting at its best from Politico
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: America’s transparent, non-profit, democratic public schools are being destroyed thanks, in part, to the profit motivated efforts of Pearson UK. Stephanie Simon writing for Politico reveals that in the high-stakes world of American education, UK’s Pearson makes money even when its results don’t measure up and they often do not deliver.…
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Word of Mouth Marketing for Authors
I took part in this year’s online Romance Festival again this weekend organised by Harper Collins and the really wonderful thing was that this time, I was able to do so as an author! I was able to submit an author Q&A for display on the Romance Festival site and I also submitted one of my blog posts entitled ‘5…
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A Book Cover Must Make a Promise, and the story must Deliver it
The title of his presentation was “The Secrets to Ebook Self-Publishing Success”.
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We owe it to our children to combat Poverty and Racism in the United States
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: An older friend of mine who is in his 80’s once told me that he’d rather be wealthy and unhappy than poor and hungry. Then there is the old curse of racism. Racism exists when one ethnic group dominates, excludes, or seeks to eliminate another ethnic group on the basis that…
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Campbell Brown’s Selective Indignation with Sexual Misconduct in Schools
Originally posted on deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog: In April 2014, anti-union “activist” Campbell Brown was honored at anti-union, New York charter queen Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Spring Benefit. Her 12-minute talk can be viewed here: At the event, Brown spoke about “the issue that took her from being a supporter of this [charter school] cause to an activist in the fight.”…
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Suspensions and Expulsions in the US Public Schools—what does that 3.3 million really mean?
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: THIRD UPDATE (Scroll down for the Second and First updates followed by the actual post that started a Twitter storm) This afternoon, I received an e-mail informing me that because of my racist tendencies I was being removed as a member of the TBATS. I can only assume that this is…
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