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11/16/10

Week-long, world-wide event features 387 sessions and 60 keynote addresses focused on education technology and global classroom initiatives. The inaugural Global Education Conference, a week-long event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, will be held Monday, November...

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Homa Tavangar

11/15/10

I love my job. I got to start my Monday morning by taking a duplicate of Marianne's basket of clam-shaped cookies and personal messages from Massachusetts MomsRising members to U.S. Senator Scott Brown's Washington, DC office. That's because Mass moms and families want to make sure that Sen. Brown...

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Ruth Martin

Realistic & Fair Wages

11/15/10

It’s getting down to the wire, so today we made a last minute mad dash into the city to tell Senator Brown why the Paycheck Fairness Act is so important to moms in Massachusetts. Members met at Sen. Brown’s office with clam cookies in hand to give voice to the experiences of moms who are missing...

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Marianne Bullock

11/15/10

“I'm a single mother with two kids under 3, a full-time student, and an employee...so I don't have much time to write. But I have to tell whoever is willing to listen that the child care subsidy I receive has saved my life. I'm able to go back to school to get the kind of job that will help me...

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Sarah Francis

11/15/10

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Your ever-vigilant WIW has been schlepping about town talking to lots of people about what exactly we are to make of the results of last week's elections. Here's the expertise of the...

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Valerie Young

Health Care

11/12/10

Despite millions of dollars being poured into anti-health reform advertisements and mailings, the poll did not find a mandate for action one way or another. The poll also found that several key provisions of the Affordable Care Act remain very popular, even among those who support repeal of all or parts of the law.

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Say Ahhh!

Environmental Health

11/11/10

Crossposted from GenerationGreen.org Have you seen the Story of Stuff ? Millions of people have viewed Annie Leonard’s viral web video highlighting the health and environmental impacts of our consumer culture. Now, Annie returns with the Story of Electronics , a new video questioning the “designed...

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Charles Margulis

11/11/10

Recently I did a radio interview about working moms and talked about why I stopped working. My closest friends said I downplayed my nervous breakdown, making it sound like a really bad day (instead of a really bad year). It's true that I played it down. I was embarrassed. It's one thing to write...

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Katrina Alcorn

Health Care

11/11/10

Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., President of the Association of American Medical Colleges, called for American medical schools to lead a transformation of American medicine, during a speech given at the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine convention, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 in Marco Island, Florida. “This...

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Dora Wang, M.D.

11/11/10

A child with a pre-existing health condition is like a "burned down" house that shouldn't be insured?! [1] Opponents of health care reform are ramping up the rhetoric and working hard to roll back important new health care protections--like ending pre-existing condition exclusions. For example,...

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