Nigeria – Images

Via: Nigerian Nostalgia Project

Peatwal Junior Primary School, Kano. 1960

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See more wonderful photos, HERE:

http://nigerianostalgia.tumblr.com/

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Louisiana Thinks Funding School Run By ‘Apostle And Prophet’ Is Somehow Constitutional

Via: Wonkette

Louisiana’s exciting experiment in public-school vouchers is steaming forward, providing parents and children with educational excellence and traditional values, hooray!

But that’s not all!

It’s also an excellent lesson in how the free market can improve education, by taking taxpayer funds from the wasteful public schools and handing it to efficient private schools run by religious loons, just the way Real America wants.

Among the 119 voucher schools approved so far is New Orleans’ Light City Christian Academy, founded and run by Apostle Leonard Lucas.

The state’s voucher program will be sending this gentleman, who “walks in the fullness of his calling and wears the mantle of an Apostle and Prophet,” some $364,000 to educate 80 students ($364,000 / 80 = $4,550).

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Read more, HERE:

http://wonkette.com/481709/louisiana-thinks-funding-school-run-by-apostle-and-prophet-is-somehow-constitutional#more-481709

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“Praise the Lord, and pass the vouchers” said the Apostles: Lucas/Ryan/Romney!

President Obama supports PUBLIC SCHOOLS – Vote Biden/Obama!

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Indonesia – Image Gallery

Via: First Time User

‘Going to School’

- by toniart57

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http://firsttimeuser.tumblr.com/tagged/Indonesia

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(2 of 2) – Jindal’s ‘Louisiana School Voucher Program’ – Science syllabus

What they now will teach in Louisiana:

“Bible-believing Christians cannot accept any evolutionary interpretation. Dinosaurs and humans were definitely on the earth at the same time and may have even lived side by side (See photo) within the past few thousand years.”

– Life Science, 3rd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 2007

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Via: Huffington Post:

Under Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal’s sweeping new school voucher program, tens of millions of Louisiana taxpayer dollars will be used to offer vouchers to more than half of the state’s poor and middle-class public school students.

These students can in turn use these vouchers to attend more than 120 private schools, including a number of small, Bible-based learning institutions that boast extreme anti-science and anti-history curriculums while championing creationism.

Earlier this week, C. Welton Gaddy, the president of a national multi-faith religious group, blasted Jindal’s program in a letter to the governor, claiming the effort represents “a ruthless attack on public education” and violates the separation of church and state.

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Read more, HERE:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/crazy-facts-students-will_n_1758003.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics#slide=1351588

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(1 of 2) Jindal’s ‘Louisiana School Voucher Program’ – U.S. History syllabus

Via: Huffington Post

‘Homeless men line up for a place to sleep, New York, 1930′

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What they will now teach in Louisiana:

“Perhaps the best known work of propaganda to come from the Depression was John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath…

Other forms of propaganda included rumors of mortgage foreclosures, mass evictions, and hunger riots and exaggerated statistics representing the number of unemployed and homeless people in America.”

– United States History: Heritage of Freedom, 2nd ed., A Beka Book, 1996

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Under Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal’s sweeping new school voucher program, tens of millions of Louisiana taxpayer dollars will be used to offer vouchers to more than half of the state’s poor and middle-class public school students. These students can in turn use these vouchers to attend more than 120 private schools, including a number of small, Bible-based learning institutions that boast extreme anti-science and anti-history curriculums while championing creationism.

Earlier this week, C. Welton Gaddy, the president of a national multi-faith religious group, blasted Jindal’s program in a letter to the governor, claiming the effort represents “a ruthless attack on public education” and violates the separation of church and state.”

Read more, HERE:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/crazy-facts-students-will_n_1758003.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics#slide=1351584

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Student Debt Hits the Middle-Aged

Via: WSJ

Student debt is rising sharply among all age groups, but middle-aged Americans appear to be struggling the most with payments, according to new data released Tuesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The delinquency rate—or the percentage of debt on which no payment has been made for 90 days—was 11.9% for debt held by borrowers aged 40 to 49 as of March. That compares with a rate of 8.7% for borrowers of all ages.

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Many debtors over 40 are still paying balances from college years ago, while their home values and savings have declined sharply in recent years.

Some have stopped payments after losing jobs. Many parents—no longer able to tap home equity to pay for their children’s education—are taking out new student loans to do so. An Education Department program that provides loans to parents to fund their kids’ education is among the fastest-growing of the government’s education loan programs.

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Read more, HERE:

http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303612804577533332860797886.html

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“Quote of the Day”

Do the right thing – Re-Elect Obama/Biden!

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“Think of the Children” – Paul Krugman

Via: NY Times

Every time I hear some smug pundit or politician saying that we can’t spend to create jobs because that would be laying too much of a burden on our children, I get angry — because of reports like this:

For this generation of young people, the future looks bleak. Only one in six is working full time. Three out of five live with their parents or other relatives. A large majority — 73 percent — think they need more education to find a successful career, but only half of those say they will definitely enroll in the next few years.

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No, they are not the idle youth of Greece or Spain or Egypt. They are the youth of America, the world’s richest country, who do not have college degrees and aren’t getting them anytime soon.

Everything we know says that this generation will never — NEVER — recover from the terrible job market into which it has graduated.

But hey, we can’t do anything about that; we must have austerity, for the sake of the next generation.

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Paul Krugman’s Blog – ‘Conscience of a Liberal’

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/

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“A Better AMERCIA – I’m with Mitt”

Via: Instagram

“The new Romney app”

http://instagr.am/p/LO5EGZh9LY/

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personal thought:

Aw great, ANOTHER ‘Education President.

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Philip Jones Griffiths – Image Gallery

Via: Magnum Photos

1952 – GB. Liverpool, School Outing.This group of school children and their teacher were waiting to board a bus. Liverpudlians have always expressed an intensity rarely seen on other faces.

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When Evelyn Waugh described people like this in his novels, he was accused of fantasy.

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See MANY MORE amazing images, HERE:

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http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=ViewBox&ALID=2K7O3R149D29&IT=ThumbImage01_VForm&CT=Album

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Jones Griffiths was born in Rhuddlan, to Joseph Griffiths, who supervised the local trucking service of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and Catherine Jones, Rhuddlan’s district nurse, who ran a small maternity clinic at home.

He studied pharmacy in Liverpool and worked in London as the night manager at the Piccadilly branch of Boots, while also working as a part-time photographer for the Manchester Guardian.

His first photograph was of a friend, taken with the family Brownie in a rowboat off Holyhead.

Read more. HERE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Jones_Griffiths

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