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    • An exchange with New York Post reporter on witch-hunt of school principal

      Posted by Sandyenglish

      Chuck Bennett, a reporter who wrote a series of articles for the New York Post that furthered a smear campaign against Debbie Almontaser, the principal of the Khalil Gibran Academy, a new New York City public school offering courses in Arabic and Arab culture, has written to the World Socialist Web Site complaining that we misrepresented his journalistic efforts by accusing him of “ambush” journalism.

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      Critics Ignored Record of a Muslim Principal

      Posted by Shemuses

      For now at least, Ms. Almontaser remains employed by the Department of Education. What she requires, though, is something harder to obtain than another job. As another victim of a different smear campaign put it once: “Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?”

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    • Making Black Girls Lady-like

      Posted by Shemuses

      I have been convinced that many large public schools function like factory systems. You pop in one student and with the appropriate manipulations, the necessary conveyor belt rides and some pedagogical alchemy and you get the school product: a depoliticized consumer who is more prepared to select the next game system to buy then to think critically about the social context that shapes his financially struggling neighborhood. John Dewey alludes to it, and Paulo Freire explicitly discusses it.

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      The economic case for preschool

      Posted by Shemuses from Slate

      Softhearted people always advocate spending more on kids. But according to a new and authoritative synthesis of available evidence, there's a hardheaded case for investing more in young kids over older ones.

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    celestethelady comments on:

    Bothell's Celeste Marion founds charitable special-ed school in Peru

    Hi jeff,

    I just found this on your newscloud site. thanks for posting that! I have been working on begining connections in the non-profit world and the international community. Let me know if you know people who may be interested in the work I am doing.

    come to our first fundraiser on Saturday, December 6. It shoudl be a lot of fun, 3 live bands, auctioning off some small items and lots of promotion for my organization. Come and bring some friends!

     

    thanks,

    Celeste

     

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    12:43 am 11/29/08
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    venez1 comments on:

    You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama

    I agree with Okami again: freedom of speech is the most important issue.

    However, as they are free to say whatever bull**** they want, still we are free not to waste our time on them! As I said, I am not that optimistic about Obama, but let’s see whether he has got any idea behind his smile, especially as welfare and international politics are concerned…

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    2:40 am 11/07/08
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    okami comments on:

    You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama

     . . .gonna be a while. . .got a helluva lotta damage to undo. . .and if this is really gonna be a ‘free’ country, it’s gonna pop up again and again. . .it has to, otherwise, there’d be no freedoms.

    i don’t like it. . .now one whit. . .but if this is truly ‘free’ country, we must expect that we will encounter thngs like this.  otherwise it negates the very principle of freedom.

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    12:42 am 11/06/08
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    Damianmann comments on:

    You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama

    Good thing Obama won, huh? Now we can send this type of garbage to the trash heap where it belongs.

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    9:20 pm 11/05/08
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    venez1 comments on:

    You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama

    Hi okami,

    I don’t know if USA are a racist nation, I don’t think so and I hope not. But I agree with you 100% on the other bits of your comments!

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    1:15 am 11/02/08
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    okami comments on:

    You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama

    this type of story is why i don’t and won’t belong to any church.  Nietschze was 100% correct when he said that "Christianity died on the cross."

    people fear change and the future and uncertainity. 

    this is also a racist nation; the 12 of September 2001 proved that.  it will take about another 400 years to get rid of it. . .maybe.

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    1:12 am 11/02/08
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    venez1 comments on:

    You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama

    Ah, by the way. If I were an US citizen, I would vote conservative, but definitely not because of Obama’s skin colour or because of his religious ideas, if any.

    That’s why I am afraid Obama’s gonna win: because of conservatives’ lackness of proper arguments, I am afraid…

    US fellows: W A K E  U P !!! The world needs a strong US, leaded by an intelligent, rational, liberal person. Not from a religius freak!

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    1:11 am 11/02/08
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    Jeff

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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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    okami

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    former US Marine, retired police. . .nothing of interest. . .

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    Shemuses

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    Jodie lives, plays, and blogs in Vancouver, BC. Her day job at ONE/Northwest puts her talents to work supporting social change strategies for greening our world.

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    Ernie is Director of SmartVoter.org, a voter information service offered by the League of Women Voters in various states and local communities around the U.S. He is also a former policy advisor to state and federal officials on technology issues, and long-time proponent of initiatives to strengthen civic engagement and constructive political dialogue.

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