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Vicki McClure Davidson | November 14, 2010

  This time, public education lunacy isn’t in liberal California or in Massachusetts. It’s in Fairfax County in Virginia. School officials in Alexandria want to solve the problem of high school students failing their courses by eliminating failing grades. I’d guess then that “D” grades would become the new “F’s.” Banishing the F… what could [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | June 7, 2010

  The one-day-showing-only documentary film The Lottery follows for several months four families from Harlem and the Bronx who have entered their children in a charter school lottery. Out of thousands of hopefuls, only a small minority will win the chance of a better future at a charter school. Public schools in these poor communities, [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | April 30, 2009

Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone Good thing VP Joe Biden didn’t make his swine flu precautionary announcement earlier that people should avoid riding subway trains. Otherwise, this cool anniversary tribute to Duke Ellington yesterday may have been postponed. James Barron, NY Times Taking Subway Directions, Literally, From a Song of the City [...]

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