May 2011
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Your tax dollars at etc. etc.
Senator Tom Coburn says the government is wasting your money — on science! The National Science Foundation has, and it spent $500,000 of taxpayer money researching it. It’s not entirely clear what this research hoped to establish. But it’s one of a number of projects cited in a scathing new report from Sen. Tom Coburn, a Republican from Oklahoma, exclusively obtained by ABC...
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Meanwhile! Public schools across the country, struggling with cuts in state funding, rising personnel costs and lower tax revenues, are shifting costs to students and their parents by imposing or boosting fees for everything from enrolling in honors English to riding the bus. At high schools in several states, it can cost more than $200 just to walk in the door, thanks to registration fees,...
May 25th
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mikehudack asked: What do you do for a living? And why is this particular education issue such a hot button for you?
May 25th
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Places We Used To Go: A BLOG ABOUT AMERICA!: More... →
dceiver: pareene: placesweusedtogo: osmium: mikehudack: pareene: ninety9: youngmanhattanite: Would more people become firefighters if the same were true? They have the same type of seniority system as teachers. Last hired, first fired. I’d like to see stats… There was that night we all thought that Blip.tv could fly. But it didn’t, so it died. There are nights when I...
May 25th
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More people would become teachers if teachers were...
May 25th
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More people would become teachers if incompetence...
placesweusedtogo: osmium: mikehudack: pareene: ninety9: youngmanhattanite: Would more people become firefighters if the same were true? They have the same type of seniority system as teachers. Last hired, first fired. I’d like to see stats correlating “bad teachers” with student performance. My fairly informed hunch is, there aren’t any. However, there are MANY studies showing...
May 25th
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I was just like, "what is this show on Fox that is...
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May 25th
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More people would become teachers if being a...
I HAD NO IDEA THIS WOULD GET SO EMOTIONAL
May 24th
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More people would become teachers if "Avatar" had...
May 24th
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More people would become teachers if incompetence...
mikehudack: pareene: ninety9: youngmanhattanite: Would more people become firefighters if the same were true? They have the same type of seniority system as teachers. Last hired, first fired. I’d like to see stats correlating “bad teachers” with student performance. My fairly informed hunch is, there aren’t any. However, there are MANY studies showing correlation between the...
May 24th
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More people would become teachers if incompetence...
ninety9: youngmanhattanite: Would more people become firefighters if the same were true? They have the same type of seniority system as teachers. Last hired, first fired. I’d like to see stats correlating “bad teachers” with student performance. My fairly informed hunch is, there aren’t any. However, there are MANY studies showing correlation between the socio-economic makeup of a school...
May 24th
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May 24th
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“Most of them will not be prisoners with medical conditions or severe mental...”
– Haha ok, Nino.
May 23rd
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ListenThe Mekons (featuring Edith Frost, Kelly Hogan,...
May 20th
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American Buffalo Chip
dceiver: celebraterickysargulesh: pareene replied to your post: DAVID MAMET IS A PRICK BUT RONIN WAS REALLY GREAT mamet is a really great playwright and screenwriter! and a passable director of his own material! and his politics have always been bad and stupid! yay america! Right?? How can anyone who has seen Oleanna be like “man, David Mamet used to be such a liberal.” I mean! Also pretty...
May 16th
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Help me understand: "Eurovision"
Can you explain the voting situation in Eurovision in three sentences?
May 14th
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May 13th
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“Yesterday you hosted at the White House a rapper whose lyrics appear to support...”
– Good news, leftists: Mumia is apparently out of jail and on the run! UPDATE: Jay Smooth points out that this is probably about “A Song For Assata” and not that one Mumia quote I saw on every right-wing blog in the world yesterday, which means that Peter Kirsanow is totally correct and...
May 12th
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May 12th
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steve albini has a cooking blog →
artyucko: madpunishmentwheel: attackshipsonfire: this cannot be real life right now whaaaaaaaa  Big Black. Bean Soup. “The future belongs to gas ranges. Fuck induction.”
May 12th
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“House Majority Leader Matt Dean said he reminded Urdahl of the “importance...”
– GOP targets Legacy funds for MPR, arts
May 4th
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