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My colleague Ruth Martin at MomsRising.org posted a review of the TV show The Good Wife. Have you seen it?
Remember the children’s holiday-writing campaign I promoted here at MotherTalkers? Well, we helped collect more than 5,000 letters — more than our goal! — by children speaking out against family separation due to deportation. The We Belong Together coalition will now deliver those to Congress tomorrow. Thank you all, especially those who participated!
Teacherken over at Daily Kos wrote an excellent post about standardized testing. As the experts in his story pointed out — including a three-time elected school board member who took the test — there are serious limitations to the tests, including multiple reasonable correct answers on the reading section.
Wow. A federally funded study found that 200 pregnant women in the New Hampshire area had elevated levels of arsenic in their urine due to rice consumption, according a story posted at Las Blogueras newsletter. If you have not done so already, please sign this petition to President Obama asking him to support new mercury and air toxics standards.
God bless, New Hampshire, for this research, too: just one percent of minors have actually sent an explicit photo of themselves over the phone, or engaged in “sexting”, according to this story in Slate.
What else is in the news? What’s up with you?
