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re-education

n. (alternative spelling of reeducation English)

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Re-Education (Through Labor)

"Re-Education (Through Labor)" is the first single from Rise Against's fifth studio album, Appeal to Reason. The single was released digitally to digital stores and radio stations on August 26, 2008. A music video was released on the same day.

A limited physical version of the single was released on 7" vinyl and can be obtained exclusively by pre-ordering Appeal to Reason. This version also includes a B-side titled "Minor Threat", which is a cover of the eponymous song by Minor Threat.

The single's fifth week on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart made "Re-Education (Through Labor)" Rise Against's second-highest charting single to date, hitting number five. It has since reached a peak of number three. The band's previous highest charting single on the Alternative Songs chart was " The Good Left Undone", the third single from the band's previous album, which peaked at number 6. "Re-Education (Through Labor)" is also Rise Against's first song to appear on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

Usage examples of "re-education".

My counterparts on the South Vietnamese delegation, the Four Party Joint Military Team, evacuated their families, but they stayed to the very end and ended up in re-education camps, by and large, after the takeover.

To stop the Day Oners instituting their programme of mass extermination, the other factions had offered to run courses of re-education for the less desirable recruits to the insurrection.

She remembered the rumors of how the Nazi camps, the Stalinist purges, and the Khmer Rouge re-education farms were the side effects of similar blowoffs.

In all the talk about the need for continuing education, in all the popular discussions of retraining, there is an assumption that man's potentials for re-education are unlimited.

The Chief bowed to him, catching no hint in the benign eyes that the re-education program which the Chief was about to outline had, in actual fact, been initiated twenty years ago.

But the kind of new Germany that we all want - its own people included - isn't going to be set up on the dead bodies ot men like Stockener and von Eckern and the thirty-six pilots that Die Zelle has murdered so far and it isn't going to be run by people especially qualified to direct a political re-education centre using an asylum for the criminally insane as a front.