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Robert Reich: Memo to Joe, Re: Debate

robertreich:

TO: VPOTUS

FROM: Robert Reich

RE: Debate

Beware: Paul Ryan will appear affable. He’s less polished and aggressive than Romney, even soft-spoken. And he acts as if he’s saying reasonable things.

But under the surface he’s a rightwing zealot. And nothing he says or believes is…

“[A]ll the talk about we need smaller classroom size, look that’s promoted by the teachers unions to hire more teachers. … And as president I will stand up to the National Teachers Unions.”
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Mitt Romney obviously knows so much about education. It’s all a conspiracy theory by the unions!

How many wanna bet that all five of Romney’s sons never sat in an elementary or high school classroom with 30+ other kids?

To all the teachers out there, to anyone who has kids of their own, or cares about the direction that education is headed in this country… this quote is scary.

(via sickeninglyliberal)

There is a clear difference between Obama and Mitt!

Maybe if we wait a week, he will change his mind and join the union!

(via adventuresinlearning)

(Source: issues2000.org, via adventuresinlearning)

“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.”
—   Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster, on the Romney campaign’s dishonest welfare ad.

(via theatlantic)

thedailyfeed:  Who will rule your mobile phone? The world’s top tech juggernauts — Apple and Google — are in an intense arms race to decide.  A major offensive to get the edge takes place today: An auction of 1,100 patents owned by photography giant Eastman Kodak Co. Whichever company gets the goods will keep the other from integrating cameras into smartphones and tablets — a big deal since Google’s Android operating system accounts for half of the smartphone market and Apple’s iPhone makes up a third.

thedailyfeed:

 Who will rule your mobile phone? The world’s top tech juggernauts — Apple and Google — are in an intense arms race to decide. 

A major offensive to get the edge takes place today: An auction of 1,100 patents owned by photography giant Eastman Kodak Co. Whichever company gets the goods will keep the other from integrating cameras into smartphones and tablets — a big deal since Google’s Android operating system accounts for half of the smartphone market and Apple’s iPhone makes up a third.

(via theatlantic)

theatlantic: Picture of the Day: Yes, Rocks Really Are That Color on Mars [Image: NASA, taken by Viking I]

theatlantic:

Picture of the Day: Yes, Rocks Really Are That Color on Mars

[Image: NASA, taken by Viking I]

shortformblog: moneyisnotimportant: How The Poor, The Middle Class And The Rich Spend Their Money Interesting detail in this graphic: Spending on transportation goes up for the middle class.

shortformblog:

moneyisnotimportant:

How The Poor, The Middle Class And The Rich Spend Their Money

Interesting detail in this graphic: Spending on transportation goes up for the middle class.

(Source: planetmoney)

motherjones: How do America’s mass murderers get their weapons? LEGALLY. How do killers get their weapons?

motherjones:

How do America’s mass murderers get their weapons?

LEGALLY.

How do killers get their weapons?

adventuresinlearning: A vision board created by Students when asked what do you want school to look like?

adventuresinlearning:

A vision board created by Students when asked what do you want school to look like?

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adventuresinlearning: marciamarcia: (via 33 Ways To Stay Creative) how can we help student do these things!

adventuresinlearning:

marciamarcia:

(via 33 Ways To Stay Creative)

how can we help student do these things!

theatlantic: Happy 100th Birthday, Woody Guthrie! Forty-five years after his death, Guthrie’s principal lament about America is still obvious and irrefutable: The nation is divided into haves and have-nots—and the have-nots are always the ones in pain. Born of the Great Depression, hardened by war, Kerouac before there was Kerouac, Guthrie’s music was sung by war protestors in the 1960s and by “Occupy” protestors in 2012. “This Land is Your Land“—haunting, teasing, eternally illusive—is as relevant today as it was when Guthrie first wrote it nearly three quarters of a century ago. No wonder Bruce Springsteen called it “about the greatest song ever written about America.” Read more. [Image: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images] Happy Birthday Woody Guthrie

theatlantic:

Happy 100th Birthday, Woody Guthrie!

Forty-five years after his death, Guthrie’s principal lament about America is still obvious and irrefutable: The nation is divided into haves and have-nots—and the have-nots are always the ones in pain. Born of the Great Depression, hardened by war, Kerouac before there was Kerouac, Guthrie’s music was sung by war protestors in the 1960s and by “Occupy” protestors in 2012. “This Land is Your Land“—haunting, teasing, eternally illusive—is as relevant today as it was when Guthrie first wrote it nearly three quarters of a century ago. No wonder Bruce Springsteen called it “about the greatest song ever written about America.”

Read more. [Image: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images]

Happy Birthday Woody Guthrie