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Stories and reflections on our 44th President, Barack Obama.

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  • [FWD: This is an amazing view of the inauguration] on Feb 8, 2009

    This is an amazing view of the inauguration.......you can click into any person in the crowd!!!!  You can zoom into Obama, or anywhere in the crowd for a close-up. http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b0623.

  • President Obama's Economic Recovery Plan on Feb 8, 2009

    On Monday evening, President Obama will be speaking directly to the country about the economic challenges we face.  More importantly, he will be asking us to not only understand the problem, but to support his stimulus package.  Here is

  • Change: Online Literacy; Crisis in California; A $10 Laptop on Feb 7, 2009

    The new world order will require our full engagement.  The future is ours, but only if we act on it.  Voting was only the first step in a long process of transformation of America, and the world.  We must seek to contribute to t

  • Guess What? Cheney's Still a Dick on Feb 7, 2009

    The story below is from a recent Huffington Post story. It is clear that the voices from the past will continue to haunt the present.  And unless we understand that there is danger in giving value to those voices that dominated the airwaves over.

  • Richard Rothstein in EdWeek on Jan 26, 2009

    http://www.edweek.org/login.html?source=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/01/28/19rothstein_ep.h28.html&destination=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/01/28/19rothstein_ep.h28.html&levelId=1000 Published Online: January 23, 2009

  • Millenial Spring on Jan 20, 2009

    By Angelina Sáenz For Barack Obama(teacher, Aldama ES)Milenial Spring the ice of this frozen lake breaks I've walked by this place my whole life got used to the lifeless, opal façade I didn't write off, or plan,  or expect, or give-up on it...

  • Advice for Duncan on Jan 12, 2009

    by James Crawford,Institute for Language and Education PolicyToday's Washington Post features nearly a full page of unsolicited advice for Arne Duncan, Obama's Education Secretary-designate. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article