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The Truth About Segregation?

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Posted on August 29, 2008 - 9:17am at Post Politics
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Alt-weekly editor Pete Kotz on the futility of forced integration:

After all, Woods is right: For 40 years we’ve been trying to integrate poor kids into middle-income class rooms. And for 40 years it’s been killing urban school districts.

Resegregating Nashville: What the School Board is Afraid to Talk About

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Posted on August 29, 2008 - 5:04am at Pith In The Wind
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They're just as likely to take flight as whitey is.

The Headline is the Bottom Line

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Posted on July 6, 2008 - 8:59am at Kay Brooks
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Great information in this morning's Tennessean by Jaime Sarrio titled "Poor Kids Teachers Earn Less in Metro". Just a short note, as time will allow at this time of my life, regarding a bit of it.

War without Tears

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Posted on May 31, 2008 - 10:49pm at mushin no shin
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Please indulge me while I brag for a moment…

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Posted on May 27, 2008 - 12:44pm at GingerSnaps
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What Is It? And Another Annoying Question.

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Posted on April 29, 2008 - 12:44pm at Shlog
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Last Tuesday Gabriella and I sat down like we always do on Tuesdays and read the next part of the story we Christians call the Bible.  As always, this ended in Gabriella asking a question.

"...they got themselves into this fix by having babies they can't support."

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Posted on March 18, 2008 - 7:00am at Stone Soup Station
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The Feds bail out major companies but leave our poor kids to fend for themselves, then cut the clothes right off their backs.

Sigh....

Breakfast of Significance

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Posted on February 2, 2008 - 1:26pm at Shlog
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There will be bacon and eggs and poor kids for breakfast this morning.  I’m speaking to a city-wide multi-denominational men’s breakfast this morning in Burlington, North Carolina and I’m going to do my best to get what’s supposed to be 1000 men to sponsor every kid on my Compassion table.

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