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Are We Still A Democracy?: November 2008
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Are We Still A Democracy? Friday, November 21, 2008. The Cost of Democracy. The quintessential element of democracy is that "The People" have to accept the cost of it, the essence of which is their willingness to carry out their 'citizen responsibility.'. That means Americans actually have to do something, not just wait for the corruption of special interests to mortgage their future. Somebody should find a way to etch that on every car bumper in America? Freedom and dependency are unable to coexist?
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EDU Weblog: October 2008
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LG Orsay Review For Students. Students all need mobile phones to get in touch with friends, classmates and family. They also need more access to information for their school requirements. Entertainment is very much in demand to most students as well. The Basic Mobile Phone Needs of Students. For this, they are very fortunate that the LG Orsay is now available in the market. This mobile phone. Video clips can easily be taken with the LG Orsay camera. Students would have fun taking 30 frames per second...
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EDU Weblog: Maryland Taking Over 11 Baltimore Schools
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Maryland Taking Over 11 Baltimore Schools. 11 Baltimore schools are going to be taken over by Maryland after the state board of education approved the move. Specifically, the state will take over 4 high schools and direct the city to find a 3rd party to manage 7 middle schools. The takeover is being done under the auspices of the No Child Left Behind Act's accountability provisions. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Exposed, The Student Loan Trap. How banks rip off college students and the government.
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EDU Weblog: November 2008
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A lot of people die due to hunger and unavailability of eatables in the advanced countries. According to the facts and figures of the UN about 25000 deaths occur daily due to non availability of food. It means that one person is dying in every four seconds. The children are the worst prey to poverty all over the world. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Man is curious by nature and always remains busy in new and novel things. Poverty has many dimensions and quenches the thirst of man in thi. Heres a real life e...
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EDU Weblog: AASA Supports NEA NCLB Lawsuit
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AASA Supports NEA NCLB Lawsuit. The NEA announced today that six states (CT, DE, IL, ME, OK, WI, and DC), the governor of Pennsylvania, state and local officials in California, and the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) filed a series of amicus briefs in support of the NEA’s appeal of the dismissal of their NCLB lawsuit, Pontiac v. Spellings. Highlights of AASA’s amicus brief:. Program, from fiscal year (“FY”) 2002 through FY 2007, with the authorized amounts steadily increa...Many stat...
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EDU Weblog: Student Face to SAT Debacle
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Student Face to SAT Debacle. Here's a real life example of the unfortunate impact of the SAT's scoring mistakes on a student's academic career from that same NY Times story. When he took the October SAT, he thought he had done well — until he got his scores. The results forced him to shift his search to other colleges, and he was accepted by the New York Institute of Technology, last year's national Division II lacrosse champion. Mr. DeLillo said he was looking forward to attending. This Florida student ...
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EDU Weblog: April 2006
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AASA Supports NEA NCLB Lawsuit. The NEA announced today that six states (CT, DE, IL, ME, OK, WI, and DC), the governor of Pennsylvania, state and local officials in California, and the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) filed a series of amicus briefs in support of the NEA’s appeal of the dismissal of their NCLB lawsuit, Pontiac v. Spellings. Highlights of AASA’s amicus brief:. Program, from fiscal year (“FY”) 2002 through FY 2007, with the authorized amounts steadily increa...Many stat...
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EDU Weblog: Poverty and Media
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A lot of people die due to hunger and unavailability of eatables in the advanced countries. According to the facts and figures of the UN about 25000 deaths occur daily due to non availability of food. It means that one person is dying in every four seconds. The children are the worst prey to poverty all over the world. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Man is curious by nature and always remains busy in new and novel things. Poverty has many dimensions and quenches the thirst of man in thi. Heres a rea...
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EDU Weblog: March 2006
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Maryland Taking Over 11 Baltimore Schools. 11 Baltimore schools are going to be taken over by Maryland after the state board of education approved the move. Specifically, the state will take over 4 high schools and direct the city to find a 3rd party to manage 7 middle schools. The takeover is being done under the auspices of the No Child Left Behind Act's accountability provisions. Flunking the Final Four. NCAA President Myles Brand is defending the academic standing of his tournament's Final Four teams.
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Sonic's Place: July 2005
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Views on the world and the war. Friday, July 29, 2005. No one wants to talk about Falluja,". It seems so long ago that the destruction of Falluja was hailed as the turning point that would lead to peace in Iraq. Of course that was about three turning points ago. But it is important that we on the anti-war left remember what was done to the city, and now, at last an independent journalist has managed to gain entry into the cirt and report what it is like now. We Regard Falluja As a Large Prison". The Iraq...
