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Election Countdown 2012: Florida Health Administrators Leave Sick and Disabled Children in Nursing Homes, and More
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The Liberal Way to Run the World – “Improve” or We’ll Kill You
In Anglo-American scholarship, influential theorists known as
Did Citigroup Defraud Billions from US Ally Abu Dhabi?
Abu Dhabi has likely learned an important lesson about how Wall Street does business. An investigative report reveals the company's nasty dealings.
High-Performing Charter Schools: Beating the Odds, or Beating the Test?
u201cOdds-beating charter school.u201d Those words are like an impenetrable shield for those who operate such places. They are also the holy grail of the education reform movement, which is …
As Chicago Teachers Head Toward Strike, Democrats Turn on Their Union
Have Democrats abandoned teacher unions in their pursuit of a corporate-backed education overhaul? From the looks of the Democratic National Convention, it would seem so.
The Myth That Japan Is Broke: The World’s Largest “Debtor” Is Now the World’s Largest Creditor
Japan's massive government debt conceals massive benefits for the Japanese people, with lessons for the US debt
Free Trade Lobby Brigade Deployed at DNC
The same kinds of corporations are involved with different configurations and with different names that have the same mission: to hijack the name of free trade to impose all …
Election Countdown 2012: The Tampa Bay Times Declares Obama’s DNC Speech “Surprisingly Predictable” and More
Both the Republican and Democratic Nation Conventions are over. Election Countdown has reactions from all around the country.
Outing ACT: Test-and-Punish Doesn’t Educate, but It’s Profitable for Testing Companies
The testing fox is in the education henhouse and it is having a wonderful time. Take the mandated high-stakes tests, fall below an arbitrary cut score set by a …
Forget the Polls: Obama Is the Odds-On Favorite to Win in November
Poll numbers may go up or down, but the bookies have pegged the election as an Obama win right from the start