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• An Inflammatory Bake Sale; A Plea to Rethink Rankings (The Atlantic Wire)
• 2 Ariz. sisters injured when truck hits school bus (AP)
• Teachers’ union president calls merit pay naive and short-sighted (The Lookout)
• Five Best Monday Columns (The Atlantic Wire)
• Kids say say 'potato,' USDA says 'poh-tay-NO' (AP)
• No regrets from Muslim students in speech case (AP)

An Inflammatory Bake Sale; A Plea to Rethink Rankings (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 26 Sep 2011 03:31 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Today in academia: U.S. News has a ready rankings retort, Boston University has its new ad campaign snarked, a UC Berekeley bake sale gets inflammatory and college presidents are an aging bunch.

2 Ariz. sisters injured when truck hits school bus (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2011 01:17 PM PDT AP - Two girls getting on a bus for school Monday were injured when a dump truck rear-ended the vehicle in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale.

Teachers’ union president calls merit pay naive and short-sighted (The Lookout) Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:59 PM PDT The Lookout - The Lookout sat down with the president of the nation's largest teacher's union, Dennis Van Roekel, Monday to ask him about a hot topic in education reform right now--teacher compensation. Van Roekel is attending NBC's "Education Nation" summit in New York, which has focused on the need to boost teachers' salaries. The network hosted the premiere [...]

Five Best Monday Columns (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:08 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - L. Gordon Crovitz on failed Twitter protests Last week, Adbusters, a Toronto-based magazine, seeking to "spark demonstrations", "created a Twitter topic with the hashtag #OccupyWallStreet, asking people to come to New York's Financial District to join what they said would be tens of thousands in a 'leaderless resistance movement' objecting to banks, capitalism and other perceived evils," writes L. Gordon Crovitz in The Wall Street Journal. The group cited as precedent the Tahrir square protests in Egypt. But the demonstrations "were a bust," Crovitz says. A few hundred "over-educated and underemployed" protesters "occupied" Zuccotti Park, a few blocks from Wall Street. (Never mind, Crovitz reminds us, that most big banks have moved to midtown.) New Yorkers mostly saw the protestors as an inconvenience. Some were arrested for setting up tents or wearing masks. Police blocked off several streets to keep protestors from popular landmarks. "This worked, but it is inconveniencing hundreds of thousands of locals who live and work in the area." The organizers were wrong to compare the movement to Tahrir, Crovitz says. One New York college student with family from Egypt wrote, "It's insulting. And it's disrespectful to the thousands who were brutally murdered and tortured and raped all across the Middle East and North Africa in their actual fights for freedom from their chains." It wasn't the only failed Twitter protest of the month, though. Crovitz recalls "AttackWatch", the Obama campaign's attempt to invite supporters "to report alleged falsehoods about the president." Conservatives merely hijacked the hashtag, making jokes of it instead, and the campaign has apparently since abandoned it.

Kids say say 'potato,' USDA says 'poh-tay-NO' (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:13 AM PDT AP - Sen. Susan Collins, who hails from Maine's potato country and picked potatoes as a girl, is working to restore some respect for the humble spud, which is on the verge of being virtually banished from the nation's school lunch programs.

No regrets from Muslim students in speech case (AP) Posted: 25 Sep 2011 10:39 PM PDT AP - Eight Muslim students convicted of misdemeanors for disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador at the University of California, Irvine thanked supporters and expressed no regrets at a public meeting in an Anaheim mosque.

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