MUST READ: How corporate & religious interest groups abuse non-profit 501c3 status & use them as tax-free lobbyist organizations and vehicles for secretive school board campaign donations. http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=4240Hir…
Archives for March 29, 2012
Shameful attempt to characterize people of Mexican descent in AZ as "illegal" ex…
Shameful attempt to characterize people of Mexican descent in AZ as "illegal" extends to blocking civil rights celebrations of Cesar Chavez. Yet another attack on learning and America's truly diverse cultures and histories. Tucson Unifie…
Charter schools are not a silver bullet. (And the magnet school experiment still…
Charter schools are not a silver bullet. (And the magnet school experiment still has unexplored potential.) Charter Schools Are Not the Silver Bullet |www.alternet.orgPoliticians tout them as a silver-bullet solution to the education crisis, but are ch…
But how do little children learn how to be "all on the same page," literally, wi…
But how do little children learn how to be "all on the same page," literally, with an e-book? Is it reading, or screen time? Research is just beginning but my hunch is that lack of "page numbers" takes something vitally social out o…
A comprehensive account of the slow destruction of public education across Ameri…
A comprehensive account of the slow destruction of public education across America. Monied bipartisan interests have united to destroy it. It'll take all of the rest of us to unite to save it. Ravitch: The toll of school reform on public education…