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From that moment on, I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of American democracy. I was a radical....The situation required not just a new president or new laws, but an uprooting of the old order, the introduction of a new kind of society—cooperative, peaceful, egalitarian.-- Howard Zinn (1994), You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, p. 173

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

That NCTQ Report on Teacher Education: F | Diane Ravitch's blog ← NPE News Briefs

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remnant 21: “I began feeling more and more uncomfortable with the text that they would be using” | DISCOURSE as quilting

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Merrow Is a Jolly Fellow (Not) – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER

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Solidarity and My Name: Some Thoughts – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER

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