by David Safier The stakes on high stakes tests keeps rising. Teachers' salaries and jobs hang in the balance. Schools' funding, and even their existence, can be jeopardized by bad test scores. So it's not surprising there have been a number of stories about schools cheating on standardized tests. Here's the latest. City and state … Read more
by David Safier Day 3 of Al Melvin week was actually Wednesday, but here I am posting about it Thursday. Better late, I guess. Day 3 of Al Melvin's Greatest Hits brings us his support of, and vote for, payday lenders. In 2008, predatory lenders spent millions to convince voters to let the industry continue … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The East Valley Tribune this past weekend published a report about a new Morrison Institute for Public Policy study, "2010: Illegal Immigration: Perceptions and Realities." The executive summary of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy study is here. 2010: Illegal Immigration: Perceptions and Realities — Morrison Institute The study is here. 2010: … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: More than a month after the Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion and leak began, the memory of the media has finally been jarred — "this all seems vaguely familiar, oh yeah, it happened before!" The Rachel Maddow Show put together a decent compilation from the 1979 Ixtoc I oil spill in the Gulf … Read more
Posted by azBlueMeanie: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was a guest on Countdown with Keith Olbermann Wednesday evening as part of MSNBC/NBC's "A Nation Divided" focus on immigration. The interview begins around the 2:33 mark. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy