Many Child Refugees Travel All Alone. Here Are Their Stories. No Child Left Behind: Congress set to dump law. Thirteen years after President George W.
Bush and Congress embarked on the country’s biggest-ever education experiment to help the poorest and most vulnerable students — casting the federal government as enforcer — lawmakers are poised to step it back. The House is expected to pass a bipartisan bill later this week that would dismantle key elements of No Child Left Behind, the sweeping law that became synonymous with one-size-fits-all testing and a punitive approach to failing schools — and which is reviled almost equally on the left and right.
Story Continued Below. Enough About ISIS, Let’s Talk About RWCTs (Right-Wing Christian Terrorists) « How the American middle class lost its taste for mindless consumerism. This Black Friday, middle-class Americans around the country will succumb to the lure of the deal.
But in many ways Black Friday is a remnant of a bygone era. As recent news of Macy’s tumbling stock prices suggests, today’s middle-class shoppers are looking for more than a bargain. Low prices used to be enough to entice middle-class families earning $45,000, $65,000, or maybe even $90,000 a year. Holiday sales and two-for-one specials successfully encouraged shoppers to buy goods not because they needed it, or even because they particularly wanted it, but in order to take advantage of a “one-time” offer. All-you-can-eat buffets, chain restaurants and fast-food value menus relied on the same principle. Low prices used to be enough to entice middle-class families. Captagon: The Jihadist's Drug. Michaela WhittonNovember 27, 2015 (ANTIMEDIA) United Kingdom — Dubbed the “jihadist’s drug,” Captagon is rapidly flooding the Middle East and is said to be fueling the bloody conflict in Syria.
French media recently reported that the Paris attackers may have taken the drug. Last weekend, Turkish anti-narcotics police seized 11 million Captagon pills in a haul that weighed almost two tonnes. It was set to ship to Gulf countries. Top U.S. Psychiatrists Confirm Trump’s Narcissistic Personality Disorder, ‘Textbook Case’ « A striking number of leading mental health experts are concerned enough about the possibility of a Trump presidency that they’re willing to speak out, publicly, about the candidate’s “Textbook narcissistic personality disorder.”
During a recent interview with Vanity Fair, developmental psychologist Howard Gardner, a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, referred to Trump as “remarkably narcissistic,” while clinical psychologist Ben Michaelis used the term “Textbook narcissistic personality disorder,” to describe Trump. Michaelis went on to explain, “In the field we use clusters of personality disorders. Narcissism is in cluster B, which means it has similarities with histrionic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and antisocial personality disorder. Mass shootings since Sandy Hook, in one map. In December 2012, a gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 20 children, six adults, and himself.
Since then, there have been at least 998 mass shootings, with shooters killing at least 1,135 people and wounding 3,937 more. The counts come from the Gun Violence Archive, a database that tracks events since 2013 in which four or more people (not counting the shooter) were shot at the same general time and location. The database’s researchers comb through hundreds of news stories, police reports, and other sources each day and individually verify the reports. 3rd Paris Bomber Pretended to Be Refugee. 2 Turkish journalists jailed over Syria smuggling reports. By Will Hobson and Steven Rich November 23, 2015 In September, Auburn University’s football stadium debuted one of the largest video boards in North America.
At just shy of 11,000 square feet, the high-definition screen is roughly the size of a five-story building. During a test one night this summer, the glow was visible in the skies over the rural plains of eastern Alabama nearly 30 miles away. When he announced the purchase, Auburn Athletic Director Jay Jacobs said the new board would help recruit star athletes and sell tickets. The same month, about 1,000 miles away in the crowded suburbs of northern New Jersey, another Rutgers University football season began with much less fanfare.
Six years had passed since Rutgers’s last big athletics purchase — a $102 million expansion of the football stadium, which the former athletics director said would help finally make the program financially self-sufficient. Among the findings: From Indonesia, a Muslim Challenge to the Ideology of the Islamic State. Israeli military warns violence could go on for months and risks getting worse. The Israeli military believes the current wave of lethal violence with Palestinians, which has claimed over 100 lives on both sides in the last two months, will continue in the coming months amid the risk of a further serious escalation.
After a period of 10 days that saw the highest number of Israeli fatalities, and the failure of a mission by US secretary of state John Kerry to calm tensions earlier this week, the bleak assessment confirms the growing view that the current tensions have become a new normal. The prediction that the violence will continue was made by a senior unnamed Israeli Defence Forces officer who briefed Israeli journalists, and whose assessment was reported in several Israeli papers on Thursday morning. The assessment emerged as Israel’s defence minister Moshe Ya’alon unveiled plans to construct an additional section of fence to prevent Palestinians from the southern West Bank – a flash point area in recent weeks - from reaching Israel. Why Does the (White) Lower Middle Class Vote Republican? During the 2008 Presidential election, 51% of white voters who earned less than $50,000 a year voted for John McCain.
The Pew Research Center reported that, during the 2012 election, the GOP held a 54 percent to 37 per cent advantage over Democrats among whites without a college degree -- which correlates with income at a lower level. While people at the very bottom of the income level vote Democratic, a majority of white people in the lower middle class (those earning from $30,000 to $50,000) vote Republican. Of the ten states with the lowest household median income in 2008, nine voted Republican. Here’s how delusional nostalgia is killing the white working class. The Man Beaten And Choked At A Donald Trump Rally Tells His Story. When activist Mercutio Southall Jr. was curled up on the ground getting kicked, punched, and choked by Donald Trump supporters at a campaign rally in Birmingham, Alabama, he thought, “I can’t die today.
I’ve got shit to do. I have little kids. Young female suicide bombers kill 15 in Nigeria market attack. At least 15 people have been killed after two female suicide bombers, one said to be aged as young as 11, blew themselves up at a busy mobile phone market in north-east Nigeria, a day after more than 30 were killed in a bomb blast.
Two explosions ripped through the Farm Centre market in northern Nigeria’s biggest city, Kano, shortly after 4pm on Wednesday. One of the bombers was said to be aged just 11 and the other 18. Inside the surreal world of the Islamic State’s propaganda machine. CONFRONTING THE ‘CALIPHATE’ | This is part of an occasional series about the rise of the Islamic State militant group, its implications for the Middle East, and efforts by the U.S. government and others to undermine it. An image grab taken from a propaganda video uploaded on June 8, 2014, by the Islamic State allegedly shows militants driving in vehicles near the central Iraqi city of Tikrit.
(AFP/Getty Images) RABAT, MOROCCO — The assignments arrive on slips of paper, each bearing the black flag of the Islamic State, the seal of the terrorist group’s media emir, and the site of that day’s shoot. “The paper just gives you the location,” never the details, said Abu Hajer al-Maghribi, who spent nearly a year as a cameraman for the Islamic State. Crowds gather in Paris to mark one week anniversary of attacks.
A crowd has converged on the Place de la Republique and at the sites of the attacks in Paris to mark the moment one week ago when the terrorist atrocity began. Dozens of French artists and cultural figures urged people to make a lot of "noise and light" at 20:20GMT. Two of the three suicide bombers who blew themselves up near the Stade de France stadium in the Paris attacks a week ago had passed through Greece posing as migrants fleeing the Syrian war, prosecutors said Friday. It was already known that one of the men had been registered in Greece -- a key entry point for migrants -- on October 3 but a second man "has been formally identified as being the individual whose handprints correspond to those of the check in Greece" on the same day, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.
The French female extremist’s curious path to Islamist violence. Play Video0:17 Audio: Female militant's last words with police Islamic State militant Hasna Aitboulahcen was killed in the standoff with police in Saint-Denis, France, on Nov. 18. Tapped phone led Paris attack leader to his death. Third Body Is Found in Rubble of Police Raid Near Paris. Photo. Maternal cannabis users risk severe legal sanctions, despite lack of evidence proving fetal endangerment. Josh Earnest clashes with Fox's Elisabeth Hasselbeck over Paris response. White House press secretary Josh Earnest tangled with "Fox and Friends" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Wednesday morning over what she characterized as an "aloof, apathetic ... and quite cavalier" response on the part of President Barack Obama to last week's terrorist attacks in France.
The Koch intelligence agency. The political network helmed by Charles and David Koch has quietly built a secretive operation that conducts surveillance and intelligence gathering on its liberal opponents, viewing it as a key strategic tool in its efforts to reshape American public life. Forbes Welcome. Karma Strikes: Price-Gouging “Pharma Bro” Posts Loss Of $14 Million. The Global Brain: Peter Russell (1983) Class Dismissed (2004) BREAKING: Putin Reveals 4O Countries That Are Funding ISIS At The G20 Summit.
In Suspects’ Brussels Neighborhood, a History of Petty Crimes and Missed Chances. Photo. Bush Administration Ignored Multiple Detailed Pre-9/11 Warnings. Although there has been previous evidence suggesting that the Bush administration had warning of the 9/11 attacks, new details have emerged in a report from Politico that confirm that the Bush administration was made aware of several warnings of an impending attack. In an interview with Politico, former counter-terrorism chief Cofer Black explain how they first warned President Bush and his administration in May of 2001 of a potential terrorist attack. Anonymous vs. the Islamic State. Efforts to Rein In Arbitration Come Under Well-Financed Attack.
What I Discovered From Interviewing Imprisoned ISIS Fighters. Strike on Jihadi John unfolded quickly, but hunt took months. Don’t Thank Me Anymore... Just Care for Veterans Who Return and Work To End All War. A Billionaire, Some Millionaires, and a No-Show Senator Debate How Best to Block Wage Hikes. New York Attorney General Orders FanDuel and DraftKings to Stop Taking Bets. M.dailykos. The Family Plot. Dailykos. Are We Training Cops to Be Hyper-Aggressive ‘Warriors’? Sign In. Russian soldiers geolocated by photos in multiple Syria locations, bloggers say. Anonymous' protest in London descends into violence. Chicago police: 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee lured to alley, shot in gang war. Video: James Tran arraigned in stabbing of Spencer Stone. Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by New York Attorney General.
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Iran Begins Deactivating Centrifuges Under Nuclear Deal’s Terms. Stressed, Tired, Rushed: A Portrait of the Modern Family. Death rate rises for middle-aged white Americans. In elephant families, Grandma is boss. Let Girls Learn: Michelle Obama on How to Address the Crisis in Girls' Education. The truth about Sweden's short working hours. Nationalmemo. FBI knew Jared Fogle was a pedophile — and let him continue molesting children for years anyway. The GOP and the Rise of Anti-Knowledge. Sacramento-area-high-schools-ranked-by-college. Opinion: Lead threatens health of millions.