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A NYSUT Task Force recently released a report, More Teaching, Less Testing, on excessive standardized teaching in public schools. A Blue Ribbon Commission of the New York State Board of Regent, the governing body for New York schools, made similar...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Nov 19, 2023 at 06:49 AM PST
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UPDATE: Tuesday, Aug 22, 2023 · 12:57:10 AM +00:00 · Dem Praepese Add: Skipped a debate in 2016 and held a rally for veterans instead at the same time with the promise to donate the $6,000,000 it raised to veteran causes. Instead, he stiffed the vets...
by Dem
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on Mon Aug 21, 2023 at 02:32 PM PDT
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We shall test the liveblogging system with the exciting saga of farm animals awaiting their breakfast. This is only a test, so you can use it as an open thread for as long as it lasts. Share your favorite stories, pictures of your breakfast, whatever.
by elfling
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on Thu Oct 27, 2022 at 09:11 AM PDT
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So there’s some question about YouTube videos. When I try one back in draft it does fine. Will it publish? Inquiring minds want to know! So here we go. Can you see? Also, it’s a very funny video. Why would I choose anything else? Now testing captions:...
by elenacarlena
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on Wed Jun 01, 2022 at 01:01 PM PDT
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Here’s a quiz for you:
Students, parents and teachers have long lamented the hours that kids spend taking standardized tests, especially since the introduction of the � Common Core � academic ...
by bilboteach
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on Sat Apr 23, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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I have such a backlog of articles today that I think that an additional COVID-19 News Digest is warranted. I realize this isn’t at my normal time and place, but it takes awhile to write these, especially with little to no help. I don’t mean to...
by bilboteach
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on Thu Mar 24, 2022 at 03:00 PM PDT
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UPDATED: 3/21/2022 COVID-19 News Digest: The Calm Before the BA.2 Storm. Call Congress 4 Funding NOW Welcome to the COVID-19 Digest for today! I realize that this thread is early, and there are good reasons for it to be that way today. I have what I feel is a more important diary primed to go in the usual News Digest slot that has critical news that I...
by bilboteach
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on Mon Mar 21, 2022 at 02:29 AM PDT
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From my Facebook page: “Our world in data presents the data that shows getting vaccinated saves lives. If you are not vaccinated, then look at the fucking data ....
by Dem
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on Sun Jan 30, 2022 at 04:53 PM PST
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Hi Kosworld, I am a retired firefighter living just outside of Austin, Texas.� I retired in 2017. My EMT license was still good in March of 2021 when a request went out for retired firefighters to ...
by manoffire
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on Sat Jan 15, 2022 at 12:36 AM PST
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I realized that I left unsaid some context and things that should be said. Not all of those who have made mistakes regarding public statements about COVID are equal offenders. Some have been better on COVID than others. Venus did make a misstep when...
by Dem
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on Mon Jan 17, 2022 at 09:15 PM PST
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The Party of Lincoln is shockingly out of touch when it comes to social media. Case in point? A recent graphic tweeted by TexasGOP, which states that “if you can wait in line for hours for testing… you can vote in person.” It’s the disenfranchisement...
by April Siese
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on Fri Jan 07, 2022 at 03:52 PM PST
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On Thursday, the United States recorded more than 750,000 new cases of COVID-19. That may seem to be a decline from earlier in the week, when the media blared the news of a million cases in a day, but that earlier number was inflated by inclusion of...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Jan 07, 2022 at 12:49 PM PST
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gave an off-the-rails press conference Monday, dismissing COVID-19 vaccines and testing, downplaying the severity of symptoms of the omicron variant, and whining and complaining about how the federal government isn’t giving...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Thu Jan 06, 2022 at 12:56 PM PST
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Florida’s Surgeon General is standing in front of a sign that promotes “EARLY TREATMENT “ while bashing testing which the Florida Surgeon General is calling a “cycle of testing “ . He says to make “the decision you want “ re vaccination and live the...
by Dem
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on Tue Jan 04, 2022 at 01:17 PM PST
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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Republicans across the board have done everything they can to not work productively on a course of action that might succeed in protecting the public and controlling the spread of the virus. The first step,...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Jan 04, 2022 at 07:26 AM PST
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The New Year seems like the same old year.
by laloalcaraz
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on Fri Dec 31, 2021 at 02:36 PM PST
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In the past eighteen months, humanity has already suffered three pandemics. All were variants of Covid-19: (1) the original variant Alpha, (2) the first “highly contagious” variant Delta, and (3) now the even-more-contagious Omicron. In their rate of...
by dratler
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on Mon Dec 27, 2021 at 04:24 AM PST
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***See the update at the bottom of this diary for what to do if you test positive for Covid — even fully vaccinated people need to be concerned with Omicron now spreading rapidly.*** The BBC has something of a horror story from Wales: Covid patient...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Dec 19, 2021 at 06:49 PM PST
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Anti-vaxxers aren’t the only reason for outrage. When Psaki brings up cost: first its miniscule compared to the costs of not testing; secondly, given the astronomical amounts we have and are paying for healthcare in this country, I’d say we’ve already...
by Wolf10
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on Tue Dec 07, 2021 at 07:00 AM PST
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MSNBC’s Chris Hayes went in on former President Donald Trump after it recently came to light that the twice-impeached, one-term president appeared at rallies, meetings with Gold Star families, a party for a Supreme Court nominee, and even the first...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Thu Dec 02, 2021 at 09:30 AM PST
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