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Candidacy tests Mexico's culture of machismo
… said political analyst Jose Antonio Crespo. "Why would people believe her now?" Besides ending corruption and improving education , she has said little about what direction she would take the country. She won the nomination even though most …
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Candidacy tests Mexico's culture of machismo
… said political analyst Jose Antonio Crespo. "Why would people believe her now?" Besides ending corruption and improving education , she has said little about what direction she would take the country. She won the nomination even though most …
Audio & Video
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Garrett Quinn - How to Profit from Economic CollapsePeter Schiff. CEO and chief global strategist for Euro Pacific Capital Group and author of How to Profit from the Economic Collapse, joins Garrett Quinn to discuss the end of Occupy.
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Condi Rice gets real about education in America.Tom And Todd discuss Condi Rice's comments about the lack of quality education in the United States.
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Do Illegal Immigrants deserve In-State Tuition?Rhode Island education officials have voted to let high school graduates who are in the country illegally pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities, acting on an issue that state lawmakers have dodged and that has entered into the debate among the Republican presidential hopefuls. The vote Monday night followed an hours-long public hearing punctuated by boos, cheers, and heated comments from audience members on both sides of the question. Eleven of the 13 members of the Board of Governors for Higher Education were there, and all voted in favor of the measure. Do they deserve to get in state tuition?
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Brian Joyce - Texas or Massachusetts?
In his book, Rick Perry states that most Texans wouldn't want to live in Massachusetts and vice-versa. After giving some statistics, Brian asks that same question, and gets some interesting calls from the listeners!
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Michele Bachman: Fact Or Fiction?As Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's campaign for the presidency puts her under the microscope, she's getting tough questions from reporters. And at times, she isn't answering them. Bachmann certainly has clearly answered some of the questions put to her during her recent media tour, but her silence on others has been loud. And while she's not the first politician not to answer questions, her dodging and misstatements are threatening to define her initial campaign push. Howie wanted to know Is the media holding Michele Bachman to a double standard.
Pages & Blogs
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Scarborough Blasts Howard Dean on Education
… president, it’s the defenders of the unions, it’s the defenders of the status quo that don’t want to talk about education reform because we as a nation are spending more money per child than any nation on the planet. Joe Scarborough : ...The fact …
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Rhee: DC Adults Continue to Hurt Kids
… crippled by union work rules," noted Isaacson. "Until the teachers' unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform ." Jobs proposed allowing principals to hire and fire teachers based on merit, that schools stay open until 6 p.m …
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Bachmann Asked: Are You a Flake?
… scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform . We started a charter school for at-risk kids. I've also been a state senator and member of the United States Congress …
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Bloomberg's Ed Chief Explains Why Education Has Failed
… rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people,” the gains we have made in improving our schools are negligible—even though we have doubled our spending (in inflation-adjusted dollars) on K–12 public …
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Indiana Dems Put Unions Ahead of Kids
… these politicians are signaling blanket opposition to the education reform proposals of a conservative coalition led by Governor Mitch Daniels. A consistent advocate of education reform , Gov. Daniels is fighting on several fronts. Daniels …
