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- Rappin' About Literacy Activism
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  What do track, rap and the achievement gap have to do with high school learning? SF State professor and hip-hop activist Dr. Jamal Cooks breaks down the literacy code.
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- In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind
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  Mindfulness, while common in hospitals, corporations, professional sports and even prisons, is relatively new in the education of squirming children. But a small but growing number of schools in places like Oakland and Lancaster, Pa., are slowly embracing the concept — as they did yoga five years ago — and institutions, like the psychology department at Stanford University and the Mindfulness Awareness Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, are trying to measure the ef
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- Schooling Bill Gates
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  The billionaire's intentions couldn't be better, but here's how to really fix our schools from the bottom up.
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- Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops
  Posted by Jon from New York Times
  “After seven years, there was literally no evidence it had any impact on student achievement — none,” said Mark Lawson, the school board president here in Liverpool, one of the first districts in New York State to experiment with putting technology directly into students’ hands. “The teachers were telling us when there’s a one-to-one relationship between the student and the laptop, the box gets in the way. It’s a distraction to the educational process.”
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- Education equals higher chance of abuse for black women
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  (NNPA) - As students around the country prepare for graduation, Black women who walk across the stage and receive college degrees become 145 times more likely to suffer sexual, domestic or other abuse than those who did not finish high school, according to a recent study.
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- Drunken Pirate MySpace pic costs student her degree
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  Student's degree is revoked because of drunken MySpace photo.
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- Project Wants More Talk About Education
  Posted by Jeff from Washington Post
  Two of the world's wealthiest charitable foundations are bankrolling a $60 million initiative aimed at making education an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Philanthropists Bill Gates and Eli Broad are hoping their "Strong American Schools" project will goad the presidential candidates into taking bold stands on education...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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