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teachers need to become a professional group, able to nationally control their members, just as lawyers and doctors do. Ability to deduct all work related expenses, including an in home office.

This superintendent can only guarantee these salaries for five years, then what? She is either naive or set on the complete destruction of Washington DC school district.

Any union with a grain of gumption should run the other way when they hear this proposal. Isn't she breaking your contract by offering two career paths?

Tags: nytimes, tenure, WashingtonDC, professional, teachers, union, tragedy, unethical on 2008-11-13 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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entire text of acceptance speech

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basically, we need a clear head to find our own way here in America to pull us out of the tailspin we are in by listening to flat earth people and warmongers; written by the point man for both groups; interesting world isn't it?

Tags: Thomas Friedman, Anxious in America, nytimes.com, nytimes on 2008-06-29 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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This is how education should be provided, in a manner so irresistible that your students will meet at a casually announced, SECRET real world coordinates; very funny, very cool
rather like Common Craft videos; black and white stark images

Tags: Randall Munroe, anthropology, unix, sudo, comics, online, integration, technology, education, nytimes on 2008-05-27 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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"latest wave of innovation. Firefox 3.0, for example, runs more than twice as fast as the previous version while using less memory, Mozilla says.The browser is also smarter and maintains three months of a user’s browsing history to try to predict what site he or she may want to visit. Firefox has named this new tool the “awesome bar” and says it could replace the need for people to maintain long and messy lists of bookmarks. It will also personalize the browser for an individual user.'Sitting at somebody else’s computer and using their browser is going to become a very awkward experience,' said Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation."

Tags: nytimes, firefox, safari, flock, IE, browser, techintegrator on 2008-05-26 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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