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A Tweet about the greed based insanity of Standardized Testing I Want to see go Viral
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Watch the video and read the Op-Ed in The Washington Post. Here’s the lead paragraph of The Washington Post piece by Valerie Strauss: “Imagine that you are a doctor and your evaluation is based on patients you didn’t have. Or a car dealer, and you are assessed by how many cars…
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Salon: How the Rich Blame the Poor for Being Poor
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Paul Rosenberg, writing at Salon, is outraged that many super-wealthy people–and their apologists at the NY Times–blame poverty on the lifestyles of the poor. He writes: “There they go again. Conservatives are back again with their “war on poverty,” which is to say, their war on poor people and any liberals, or sympathizers, who…
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Discovering Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs with my ears
Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: I can’t remember when I paid $3 at Half Price Books for an audio book of Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear. You see, I enjoy reading. That’s why I buy books—audio and the old fashioned kind on paper—and DVD’s of films and TV series faster than I watch or read/listen to them, and…
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Two former Marines take a hike on Old Baldy that was almost as Lethal as Leukemia
On an average Saturday when there wasn’t a storm threatening, hundreds of hikers using all three trails would have been climbing to the top of Baldy, Mount San Antonio’s alias, but today, we saw no one.
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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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