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• Bay Area Punk Rock Historized

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 580
  I’ve got a trash-strewn, vomit-smeared corner of my heart dedicated to that particular brand of sentimental sensationalism known as the rock book.  While academics all over the world scramble to hang haphazard theory all over the world of pop culture, rock books are a simpler affair compared to their highfalutin ...
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• Getting tough on teacher ed programs

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 615
  Texas will judge teacher-training programs based on graduates’ effectiveness in the classroom, reports the Houston Chronicle. Poor programs could lose state accreditation. Till now, programs have been judged only by the percentage of graduates who pass the teacher certification exam. The biggest change to the ...
  4 days ago

• Clean Energy Could Create 850,000 New Jobs

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 657
        With more than 2 million U.S. manufacturing jobs lost since the beginning of this recession in December 2007, a new report says developing a clean energy economy in the United States could create some 850,000 new manufacturing jobs. The report , “Building the Clean Energy Assembly Line: How ...
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• Election Lessons on the Hudson

  
  Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog — Authority: 126
  New Orleans It’s a small sample, but the Virginia bellwether and the deeply blue state New Jersey went hard Republican and in Jersey tossed a Democratic governor looking for a second shot.  Across the river, New York City voters surprised the chattering political classes by almost moving Mayor Bloomberg to his ...
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• The New Haven Teacher Contract: A Closer Look

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  All eyes were on New Haven, Conn. last week when the teachers’ union, in a 21-1 vote , overwhelmingly approved a new contract to go into effect next year. The contract, which includes changes typically eschewed by unions such as performance pay for teachers and the option to shut down and reorganize failing ...
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• Audio of Maine Press Conference Laying out Radical Gay Task Force Agenda

  
  Americans For Truth — Authority: 603
  Highlighting Outside ‘Gay’ Extremism in Maine: Thanks to our opponents, we have an audio record of the Maine news conference last week led by Paul Madore of Maine Grassroots Coalition in which Americans For Truth laid out the incredibly extreme agenda of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) — ...
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• 5 Tips For Documenting Code

  
  O'Reilly News — Authority: 434
  Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War , the oldest Flash military treatise in the world . In this AFT I will go over - 5 Tips for Documenting Code . Documenting code is not high on many peoples lists of things todo. Most of the time it is boring, repetitive, ...
  1 week ago

• Preserving Family Values

  
  Aroostook Flyers & Tyers — Authority: 118
  Yea I know this is not the typical subject matter of a Flytying site. But this is AFT and it is my site!! Now you may not agree but Maine is embroiled in a legal/moral issue. Just like seperation of church and state. What you do in your bedroom is your business. When your morals or lack of them are shoved in my face I ...
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• AFT Fights Exploitation of Foreign Teachers

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 657
  The growing number of overseas-educated teachers in U.S. schools has put many talented educators in classrooms, but the trend also has led to a host of concerns about exploitation, questionable hiring practices and harmful effects in the countries that are losing their most qualified teachers. An estimated 19,000 ...
  2 weeks ago

• American Labor Museum Honors Wowkanech

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 657
      New Jersey State AFL-CIO President Charles Wowkanech         Charles Wowkanech, president of the New Jersey State AFL-CIO , is being honored as a labor hero at this year’s 27th Annual Sol Stetin Awards Gala.  The award is bestowed every year by the American Labor Museum , located ...
  2 weeks ago

• AFT Civil Rights Conference: Help Turn America Around

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 657
  Public school teachers must work hard to make the nation’s schools places where the suffering of the nation’s children is alleviated. In her keynote address to AFT ’s Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Conference, Oct. 23-25 in Miami, union President Randi Weingarten said teachers can help turn America around ...
  2 weeks ago

• Practice Catch and Release!!!!

  
  Aroostook Flyers & Tyers — Authority: 118
  Here’s a video from MDIFW on how to get it done…….. Catch and Release Awesome video…….. Got something to say….post it here……………leave a comment.
  2 weeks ago

• Solidarity Schmolidarity: Teacher Larry Sand Exposes His Union

  
  Big Government — Authority: 798
   When you spend day after day examining the self-serving agenda of the nation’s two largest teachers unions, you develop a tendency to think badly of teachers. That’s a mistake. We have to remember that there are millions of great teachers out there, doing their best to help our children develop on a dialy ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blind Conservative Activist Shocked at ‘Gay’ Protesters’ Insensitivity, Says AFTAH Banquet a Huge Success

  
  Americans For Truth — Authority: 603
  ‘Truth Teller’ Honored: Donald Wildmon, Founder and Chairman of American Family Association and American Family Radio , was the first recipient of AFTAH’s “American Truth Teller” Award at the Americans For Truth banquet Saturday. Thanks to everyone who made our Americans For Truth banquet last night a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bizarre crash in Quebec kills teen, injures 11

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 507
  A girl riding in the open trunk of a car is dead, and almost a dozen other teens who were stuffed into two cars are injured, after a crash police say may have been caused by street racing.
  2 weeks ago

• More Gasbaggery from the American Federation of Teachers

  
  Big Government — Authority: 798
  When we received a threatening letter a few days ago  from the American Federation of Teachers over AFTexposed.com , we knew it was little more than bluster - the typical bullying that the AFT has come to be known for. I mean, who else could loge personal threats at a “Rally for Respect” (of all things!) ...
  2 weeks ago

• Letter - No Shame on Jennings-Alyson Publications-NAMBLA story?

  
  Americans For Truth — Authority: 603
  The following is adapted from our response to a hostile letter taking issue with our report on Kevin Jennings using a pro-pedophile publisher, Alyson Publications , for his first three books: ——————————————————————————– From: ColdCountry [mailto:——–] ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Haven teacher contract promising

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 552
  The New Haven, Connecticut school district has not failed to disappoint lately in grabbing our attention and is back in the news again - This time for being what is hailed as a potentially groundbreaking new teacher contract. This comes as no surprise, given the reformers (one might even say, gadflies) that have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Domain Bullying

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 766
  A posting over on the Big Government blog details recent attempts by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) to shut down the website at AFTExposed.com (which, as you might guess from the name, doesn’t have very nice things to say about the AFT). The AFT’s General Counsel has sent the operators of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fall Fishing

  
  Aroostook Flyers & Tyers — Authority: 118
  What do tye for fall fishing?? In Aroostook County our fishing has come to an end in August…….to return momentarily in September. A week or two of less than stellar action, most anglers just skip. Low water has heated the rivers and streams to the point that it’s more like bath water than fish water. The coming ...
  3 weeks ago

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