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• Marcus on Tenure & Test Scores

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 491
  HT Education Week (Guest post by Greg Forster) On NRO today, Marcus soldiers on through the endless New York test score tenure wars, reporting on a gutsball move by Mayor Bloomberg: New York’s state legislature gave teachers a gift last year by banning the use of student test-score data in tenure ...
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• Winter visitors – Part 3

  
  xenogere — Authority: 125
  Like sheets of rain they arrive, waves of life washing over the land in downpours of sight and sound.  Even within the confines of a hectic city, the torrent of wing beats can drown out the cacophony of metropolitan noise, and the flood of songs and calls can fill a cloudless sky with a storm of beautiful music. ...
  4 days ago

• Germany’s Team Milram To Race In Tour Down Under

  
  Bicycle.net | Attitude is Everything — Authority: 435
  Sprinter Robert Forster will spearhead the German Team Milram at Australia’s Tour Down Under in January, organizers said on Monday. Forster has ridden in the Tour de France three times (2005, 2007, 2008) and is rated by his team as one of the best sprinters in international cycling. “Forster has had ...
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• World War Z Movie Still Lumbering Along, Says Writer

  
  Film School Rejects — Authority: 663
  One project worth following is the adaptation of Max Brooks’ fantastic novel World War Z , which has been underway at Paramount for quite some time. The book has long been heralded (by yours truly) as the zombie book to end all zombie books, and in my mind it would make quite possibly the coolest 12-part ...
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• Switzerland: Women Take On Politics

  
  Women of History — Authority: 141
  From SwissInfo : Both houses of parliament have appointed women to chair their meetings over the next 12 months – a first in Swiss history. Pascale Bruderer, a member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party, was elected speaker of the House of Representative. The 32-year-old Bruderer entered politics ...
  5 days ago

• A PASSAGE TO INDIA – Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft – d: David Lean

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 441
  A Passage to India (1984)Direction: David LeanScreenplay: David Lean; from E. M. Forster’s novelCast: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, James Fox, Richard Wilson, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth Judy Davis in A Passage to India Synopsis: In the early 20th century, a British ...
  1 week ago

• Ed Schools Take the FCAT

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 491
  (Guest post by Greg Forster) Good gravy! Never mind the debate on using test scores to evaluate teachers. Florida is actually using test scores to evaluate teacher colleges : It determined what percentage of graduates from each program had 50 percent or more of their students make a year’s worth of progress ...
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• The propagandisation of Andrew Forster

  
  Aotearoa: a wider perspective — Authority: 132
  Let me start by saying that in no way do I want to insult Andrew Foster or his family. I have no doubt that he was a brave man and that his family have lost their pillar but he died in an unfortunate and horrific death in a peaceful Nation trying to clean up explosives used in an exercise in a peaceful nation. So ...
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• Today in Jane

  
  The Egalitarian Bookworm (Chick?)... — Authority: 122
  More of the usual musings on Janes enduring popularity from the New Yorkers Book Bench blog . It includes a great EM Forster quote, which I am reprinting in full here: "I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ...
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• Weekend Weirdness: The Rock-afire Explosion Explores Showbiz Pizza. Plus, White Fang, Alligator, “Michael Draper” Returns, and Dracula’s Music Cabinet

  
  /Film — Authority: 787
  It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies, sans New Moon , that offer proof. Weekend Weirdness takes a look at such films, whether it’s via a new trailer for a provocative indie, a mini-review, or news of an excavated cult classic. The works discussed herein tend to make cinema a little more ...
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• Oz boarding school mistress charged with sexual assault on boys

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Melbourne, Nov 22 (ANI): An Aussie housemistress has been charged with 34 counts of aggravated sexual assault and aggravated indecency after seven boys at the boarding school came forward with allegations of rape.According to the Sunday Telegraph, the boys told police that the offences took place on the school grounds ...
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• 10 Rules of Rock and Roll: Collected Music Writings 2005-09 – Robert Forster

  
  BookOffers.com.au — Authority: 146
  10 Rules of Rock and Roll: Collected Music Writings 2005-09 is the new book by the founding member of The Go-Betweens Robert Forster. This is a roller-coaster ride through the history and present of popular music from The Monkees, The Rolling Stones, Nana Mouskouri and Neil Diamond to Cat Power, Antony and the ...
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• The Go-Betweens perform the classic "Cattle and Cane" Live on Rock Arena

  
  Stupid and Contagious — Authority: 452
  In the sky, a rain of falling cinders. From time to time the waste. Memory wastes. The greatest work from the late great Grants magnificent catalogue? Possibly! Well, one of them anyway! Here the Go-Betweens perform the classic " Cattle and Cane " from the seminal and supremely influential "Before ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Orchids of Costa Rica

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 174
  Orchids proliferate in Costa Rica. Warm-weather-loving, humidity-seeking, exotic, colorful and graceful, orchids are the perfect flower to represent the beauty of the Costa Rican sims. It’s entirely appropriate, then, for me to point you to the wonderful work of Miko Omegamu, sold on the Laguna Arenal sim. ...
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• All of your cycling news – November 19, 2009

  
  Bike World News — Authority: 142
  In todays cycling news, Astana Pro Tour decision comes tomorrow, Germany wont release Haussler to race in Aussie colors, Rebellin to appeal loss of silver medal and more... For the full story, go to http://www.bikeworldnews.com
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• Former SS soldier charged over 1945 massacre of Jewish workers

  
  Calvin Palmer's Weblog — Authority: 129
  By Calvin Palmer A 90-year-old former member of the Waffen SS has been charged with 58 counts of murder in connection with the massacre of Jewish forced laborers in Austria during the closing stages of the Second World War. The suspect, identified by German media as Adolf Storms, came to light following research ...
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• Game Night

  
  word bk — Authority: 104
  [IMG: http://wordbk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/gamenight-2.jpg][IMG: http://wordbk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/gamenight-11.jpg][IMG: http://wordbk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/gamenight-3.jpg][IMG: http://wordbk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/gamenight-4.jpg][IMG: ...
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• Heath Ledger’s Rap Music Video Surfaces

  
  The Rap Up — Authority: 550
  Hey kids, there’s this Aussie actor named Heath Ledger. Heard of him? He once directed a music for an Australian hip-hop artist, whose name you probably can’t say without a pronunciation cue. Rapper Nfamas Forster-Jones has now decided to post this video dubbed “Cause and Effect” on the tubes for your ...
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• 5 Artists You Should Know: November

  
  Food for Thought... — Authority: 131
  So this is what Im listening to this month. Check out the bands and let me know what you think of them in the comments section below, and don’t worry, daddy will do the dishes.Related posts: 5 Artists You Should Know: September Below are five artists I discovered this past summer that... Asher Roth: Asleep in ...
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• SLIFF 2009 Review: TOUCHING HOME

  
  We Are Movie Geeks — Authority: 533
  Whether you’re a baseball fan or not, TOUCHING HOME is a wonderful story and a great little film that’s appeared from somewhere out in left field. The film is inspired by true events, written, produced and directed by and starring the real life twin brothers Logan and Noah Miller. This pair of first-time indie ...
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