Sisyphus

Observations, reflections and thinking out loud on the way up the mountain and back down again.

Saturday, March 05, 2011

When testing surpasses teaching as a priority education reform is on the wrong path

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The Daily Show Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes , Political Humor & Satire Blog , The Daily Show on Facebook Diane Ravitch , an education ...
Thursday, March 03, 2011

Democracy advocates in Burma set up Facebook page to organize against dictatorship

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While it is easy to over-estimate the role of electronic social media in the recent wave of revolutions challenging and sometimes toppling a...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Right-to-work -- a semantic flim-flam

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The latest assault on working people in this country has been a revival of advocacy for so-called “right-to-work” legislation. In most othe...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Why unions have a crucial role to play in the United States

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Americans have mixed feelings when it comes to organized labor. According to the New York Times while a third of Americans surveyed view un...
Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Reading the Constitution aloud and the preconceptions of what it says

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This week the United States Constitution will be read aloud in its entirety in the U.S. House of Representatives compliments of the new Rep...
Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Threat on debt ceiling to attack Social Security

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William K. Black explains the motives of certain congressional Republicans in threatening to refuse to approve raising the government debt...
Monday, January 03, 2011

Don't raise the age for Social Security retirement, lower it

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Demographic shifts over the decades have raised concerns about the future viability of the Social Security system in this country. Those who...
Saturday, January 01, 2011

The future of Israel and the West Bank: Jewish state or democratic state?

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Jeffrey Goldberg, on his blog for The Atlantic, raises a question about the future of Israel: …. there's very little Israel's right...
Monday, December 06, 2010

Drawn into two unending wars on Muslim soil we cannot afford a third with Iran

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The prospects of a nuclear armed Iran are frightening. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei are the type of politi...
Thursday, November 04, 2010

Are we following Japan’s path to inconsistent and unstable leadership?

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What do this week’s mid-term elections say about governing stability in this country and our ability to govern ourselves? This nation is fi...
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