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Who Should Be the Nation's Next Education Chief? - On Education (usnews.com)
blog post 13 Nov 2008 on USNWR
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Magid: Obama raises hopes for online civility - SiliconValley.com
fear mongering, defamation, elections, digital citizenship, and a GOOD example for young people
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ACORN: Home
ACORN is the nation’s largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people with over 400,000 member families organized into more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities across the country. Since 1970, ACORN has been building community organizations that are committed to social and economic justice, and won victories on thousands of issues of concern to our members, through direct action, negotiation, legislative advocacy and voter participation. ACORN helps those who have historically been locked out become powerful players in our democratic system.
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Rise of the Stupid Network by David Isenberg
Why the Intelligent Network was once a good idea, but isn't anymore. One telephone company nerd's odd perspective on the changing value proposition
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Dangerously Irrelevant: Edublogger letters to the next President
A challenge to educators to write a letter to our next President
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When History Happens
When History Happens is a new, unique way for educators and students of all levels and disciplines to create powerful knowledge through studying and actively participating in a current and meaningful community event. The locality of the conventions will allow educators to combine 21st century learning skills (critical thinking, inference, perspective, and compare/contrast), standards-based toolkits (background, context, lessons, primary sources, and digital newspapers), collaborative technologies (wikis, blogs, community journalism, and text messaging), and proper assessment to generate powerful learning that would otherwise be impossible to foster.
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Recent Podcasts | Professional Oklahoma Educators
Included education-focused podcasts with Oklahoma elected officials
Professional Oklahoma Educators | Professional Security. Personal Service. Oklahoma Values.
Professional Oklahoma Educators is a non-union, nonpartisan professional association for all school personnel. Members receive professional liability insurance, legal services and lobbying representation.
I Believe in Open — Home
A grassroots advocacy campaign in Canada similar to Change Congress in the United States, working to end corruption and increase transparency
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A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing | Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF proposal to address P2P file sharing dilemmas and the need to compensate artists
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Citizens Against Government Waste: Homepage
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is a private, non-partisan, non-profit organization representing more than one million members and supporters nationwide. CAGW's mission is to eliminate waste, mismanagement, and inefficiency in the federal government. (Mentioned by John McCain in the Sept 2008 US Presidential debate)
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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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