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[Susan Ohanian <susano@gmavt.net>]

A reader of this announcement list offers this suggestion for contributing to the Songs of Resistance CD:

I am going to collect all of the coins in change in various places in my house, roll them, and exchange them for dollars that I will send to you for the CD's. I'll never miss this change and it will benefit your worthy cause.

Today's mail brought a $50 check from Australia. I don't know the donor, but obviously, he practices the message of John Donne's "No man is an island."

Here's my address:
Susan Ohanian
P. O. Box 370
Charlotte, VT 05445

Don't miss the article below on the New Jersey knitting project. 

Susan 


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Education Companies See Dollars in Bush School-Boost Law

San Francisco Chronicle
2003-12-25
http://susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.php?id=1555

We can finally be as bold as we want to be: NCLB benefits business and that's the name of that tune.

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Is Minnesota Virtual Adademy Legal?
Andrew Trotter
Teacher Magazine
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http://susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.php?id=1556

The spin in this story  about homeschooling and William Bennett's enterprise is deeply buried, but it's there. Don't get dizzy. 

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Half the Pupils in a New Jersey School Are Learning Knitting

New York Times
2003-12-26
http://susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.php?id=1557

Knitting has caught on at a New Jersey school, and the children's comments about its benefits may surprise you.

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Students spending vacations in school, studying for LEAP


2003-12-27
http://susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.php?id=1558

About 4,000 New Orleans public school students spent the days leading up to Christmas at school figuring fractions and practicing punctuation. The students, mainly in grades four, eight, nine and 12, were asked to spend most of their winter vacation in school honing math and English skills and preparing for the high-stakes Louisiana Education Assessment Program, which is fewer than 50 school days away. 



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Schools Reduce the Number of Students They Force to Leave Early
Tamar Lewin
New York Times
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http://susanohanian.org/show_nclb_news.html?id=254

Finally, maybe, some sense, not much, but some in the New York Push Out Program for its school system.

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Education Firms See Money In Bush's School-Boost Law
June Kronholz
Wall Street Journal
2003-12-24
http://susanohanian.org/show_nclb_atrocities.html?id=301

Teachers, parents and principals may have their doubts about No Child Left Behind. But business loves it.