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Corruption RequiredViewing - Lessig Wiki
A list of movies recommended by Dr Larry Lessig and his team at ChangeCongress focusing on US governmental corruption, corporate reform, campaign finance reform, and political reform
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Why We Banned Legos - Volume 21 No. 2 - Winter 2006 - Rethinking Schools Online
after school program which banned legos "to launch a critical evaluation of Legotown and the inequities of private ownership and hierarchical authority on which it was founded"
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Welcome to Debatepedia! - Debatepedia
Debatepedia is a wiki encyclopedia of pro and con arguments and quotations in important public debates from around the world. It is considered "the Wikipedia of debate", helping the world centralize arguments and quotations found in millions of different articles, essays, and books into a single encyclopedia, so that citizens can better understand important public debates and make informed choices. Join this cause and community and become an editor of the site. Your efforts will improve your own thinking and have a major impact on the way thousands of other citizens draw conclusions. Debatepedia is endorsed by the United States' National Forensic League.
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Employers Fight Tough Measures on Immigration - Series - NYTimes.com
6 July 2008
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McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out - New York Times
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Presbyterians Plant Seeds of Self-Destruction - Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD)
27 June 2008 update on Presbyterian General Assembly vote on ordination
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The Memory Hole [rescuing knowledge, freeing information]
Memory Hole exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known. This includes: Government files, Corporate memos, Court documents (incl. lawsuits and transcripts), Police reports and eyewitness statements, Congressional testimony, Reports (governmental and non-governmental), Maps, patents, Web pages, Photographs, video, and sound recordings, News articles, Books (and portions of books). The emphasis is on material that exposes things that we’re not supposed to know (or that we’re supposed to forget).
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NEA: Technology Not Being Used Effectively In Schools
Teachers Need Professional Development and Support to Implement School Technology (NEA report, 10 June 2008)
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Billions for an Inside Game on Reading - washingtonpost.com
1 Oct 2006 article about controversies surrounding the US federal reading first grant programs
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FRONTLINE/World Mexico . Crimes at the Border | PBS
PBS special airing on 27 May 2008 about human trafficking and other US - Mexico border issues and problems
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Police chief resigns in Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez amid wave of killings - International Herald Tribune
18 May 2008 AP Article - of 22 public officials in Juarez threatened by drug cartels, only 1 remains in his post, the rest have been killed, injured, or resigned.
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PC(USA) General Assembly - Presbyterian Church (USA) - 2008 - Home
Website for the 2008 general assembly
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Connecticut's NCLB Lawsuit Is Dismissed - On Education (usnews.com)
29 Apr 2008 - Judge rules NCLB does not place unreasonable unfunded mandate burdens on states.
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Change Congress — Track
We need your help tracking down politicians and getting them to sign on to our cause. The first step is researching candidates and finding their views on these crucial issues of reform. The second is contacting them to get them to sign the pledge. Each step needs volunteers; both steps are easy and important.
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Change Congress — Blog
Blog of Larry Lessig's organization Change Congress, a movement to empower and support the reform efforts of multiple organizations focused on changing the US Congress
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Teachers say principal threatened to kill them if TAKS test scores didn't improve (26 Mar 2008)
NEW BRAUNFELS -- A middle school principal threatened to kill a group of science teachers if their students did not improve their standardized test scores, according to a complaint filed with the New Braunfels Police Department.
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About IBC :: Iraq Body Count
Iraq Body Count (IBC) records the violent civilian deaths that have resulted from the 2003 military intervention in Iraq. Its public database includes deaths caused by US-led coalition forces and paramilitary or criminal attacks by other
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Iraq Death Toll: US Coalition and Iraqi Civilian Casualties
Anti-Bush website documenting both US military and Iraqi deaths
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Michael Moore's Film 'Sicko' Takes On the Healthcare Industry
Oprah's website about her interview with Michael Moore on his film about health care insurance and industry (June 2007)
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