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This Week's Reading Assignment: March 23rd From Rethinking Education: About Those Tests I Gave You: An Open Letter to My Students, by By Ruth Ann Dandrea When they give you lined paper, write the other way. Dear 8th Graders,I'm sorry. I didn't know. I spent last night perusing the 150–plus pages of grading materials provided by the state in anticipation of reading and evaluating your English Language Arts Exams this morning. I knew the test was pointless—that it has never fulfilled its stated purpose as a predictor of who would succeed and who would fail the English Regents in 11th grade. Any thinking person would've ditched it years ago. Instead, rather than simply give a test in 8th grade that doesn't get kids ready for the test in 11th grade, the state opted to also give a test in 7th grade to get you ready for your 8th–grade test. But we already knew all of that. What I learned is that the test is also criminal. Read More Suggested Viewing for March/April: Free Oscar Lopez Rivera Action for Monday: February 13th Message from 350.org When we started the Keystone fight there were just a few of us, and no one thought we had a chance. But with hard work and lots of great organizing we scored an unlikely victory when the President eventually rejected the pipeline last month. However, the oil industry�s representatives in Congress are eager to undo that, and it looks like a deal could be coming together in the Senate this week to sabotage that win. It�s time for us to defend our victory. Beginning at noon today, every environmental group in the nation, not to mention great allies like MoveOn.org and CREDO Action, will come together for the most concentrated burst of environmental advocacy this millennia. We�re aiming to send half a million messages to the Senate in the next 24 hours. And they�ll all have the same message: back the President and make sure this pipeline doesn�t get built. This is what movements look like. And we need you to play a big part. 1�Send a message right now to the Senate: act.350.org/sign/kxl/ From The Big Picture January 21, 2012: Thom Hartmann and spokesman for MovetoAmend.org David Cobb discuss the latest developments from the Occupy the Courts movement at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
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