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Georgia: 50CAN Targets Atlanta’s Public Schools for Privatization Ed Johnson is a systems thinker and consultant in Atlanta. He cares passionately about the public schools of his city and keeps watch over the actions of the Atlanta Public School Board. Johnson is an adherent of the work of W. Edwards Deming; he believes in thinking of about how to change systems, not in […]
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Thom Hartmann: Will Democracy Survive? Thom Hartmann reports on the growing numbers of nations that have rejected democracy and accepted authoritarian rule. The Republican Party, he notes, has pledged its loyalty to an authoritarian leader, accepted his lies about the 2020 elections, and is abandoning Ukraine to please him. Shockingly, very few elected Republicans have stood up to Trump; the […]
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Florida: DeSantis Signs Bill to Limit Book Bans and Adds a Sugarplum for Charter Schools Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill limiting the ability of non-parents to initiate book bans. That’s a step forward since any crank was free to challenge any book under previous law. But, the same law made it easier to close public schools and hand them over to the charter industry. TALLAHASSEE — After more than […]
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Washington Post Unveils Feature That Lets You Create Version Of Blackout Poem Today, The Washington Post published a feature that lets you create a sort of version of blackout poetry. Blackout poetry is when you “blackout” large portions of an article’s text and just leave the words you want in your poem. The Post’s interactive lets you choose words from an article and create a poem. […]
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What Got Your Attention in the News Recently? All summer long we’ll be asking a similar question for our Summer Reading Contest. Practice here by posting a comment or a short video about a story that has interested you lately.
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