April 2011
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Focus on the Family is a force for evil →
azspot:
I’m just going to go ahead and say this: Focus on the Family is not a Christian organization.
I don’t say this lightly. I’m one of those Christians willing to tolerate a pretty big tent. If you want to call yourself a Christian—and you’re at least vaguely trying—great. There’s room for people of faith to disagree. But .. there’s not quite enough room for Focus on the Family. Not...
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“In 1965, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described how the strategy of...”
– Charles M. Blow (via azspot)
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“After years of eliminating everything pretentious, self-serving or inauthentic...”
– Magnificent Ruin (via nevver)
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“Jesus wasn’t born in America yet you don’t see Republicans trying to keep him...”
– Corey Blackburn (via steviemcfly)
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Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help... →
“Every day I am haunted by the fact that I gave impoverished Massachusetts citizens a chance to receive health care,” Romney told reporters Wednesday, adding that he feels ashamed whenever he looks back at how he forged bipartisan support to help uninsured Americans afford medicine to cure their illnesses. “I’m only human, and I’ve made mistakes. None bigger, of...
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“The high-stakes tests may be worthless as pedagogy but they are a brilliant...”
– An anonymous teacher speaking to Chris Hedges in “Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System” (via xanderpiper)
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Miracle schools, vouchers and all that educational... →
Be skeptical of miracle schools. Sometimes their dramatic gains disappear in a year or two or three. Most such claims rely on cheating or gaming the system or on intensive test prep that involves teaching children how to answer test questions. These same children, having learned to take tests, may actually be very poorly educated, even in the subjects where their scores were rising.
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Great American Voices →
xanderpiper:
O, I’m the man who sailed those early seas In search of what I meant to be my home- For I’m the one who left dark Ireland’s shore, And Poland’s plain, and England’s grassy lea, And torn from Black Africa’s strand I came To build a “homeland of the free.”
The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we...
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“…“mainstream media” is never really a term I’ve used. Even though it’s such a...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)
“The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation. There must be something...”
– White Noise (via personalinfamy)
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Evan Williams | evhead: Five Easy Pieces of Online... →
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stoweboyd:
Ev Williams tries to boil down identity to five parts:
Authentication - Do you have permission?
Representation - Who are you?
Communication - How do I reach you?
Personalization - What do you prefer?
Reputation - How do others regard you?
This is a very tool-centric, or marketing-centric approach, and leaves out — or dismisses — all the messy and...
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“And let’s be very clear about what their demand to defund Planned Parenthood...”
– - Melissa McEwan at Shakesville
LET ME SAY IT AGAIN: Women are under attack. And this is class warfare.
(via keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus)
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Alfie Kohn: Ten Obvious Truths [About Education]... →
10. Substance matters more than labels
[I]n education, as in other domains, we’re often seduced by appealing names when we should be demanding to know exactly what lies behind them. Most of us, for example, favor a sense of community, prefer that a job be done by professionals, and want to promote learning. So should we sign on to the work being done in the name of “Professional Learning...
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“Education is a highly personal process. Every decision that teachers make,...”
– Steve Miranda, “The myth of objectivity”
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“Of all the costs imposed on our society by the top 1 percent, perhaps the...”
– Joseph E. Stiglitz, “Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%,” Vanity Fair
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