“The capitalists, from the start, complained that universities were unprofitable. These early twentieth century capitalists, like heads of investment houses and hedge-fund managers, were, as Donoghue writes “motivated by an ethically based anti-intellectualism that transcended interest in the financial bottom line. Their distrust of the ideal of intellectual inquiry for its own sake, led them […]
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LAUSD: Haste Makes Ed Tech Waste
By Cynthia Liu, CEO/Founder of K12NN. [BREAKING: The FBI carted away 20 boxes of documents relating to the iPad purchase from LAUSD offices late Monday, December 1, 2014.] Two education technology disasters mark the former LAUSD Superintendent’s brief tenure: the iPad debacle, born from cozy relationships with vendors and dependent upon broadband infrastructure that, in […]
Why I Support An Ethnic Studies High School Graduation Requirement in LAUSD and SFUSD…And Beyond
Cynthia Liu, PhD, is founder and CEO of K-12 News Network. Once upon a time there was a girl who grew up in a remote small town in upstate New York. There were five Asian American families in her town; hers was one. At that time, she knew nothing about transcontinental railroad workers from China, […]
Sunday, November 23, 2014: Two ways to support Ethnic Studies supporter Bennet Kayser!
Sunday (Nov 23) Echo Parque for Bennett Kayser Precinct Walking https://www.facebook.com/events/556087097859768/ Join me, Robert D. Skeels, as we gather signatures for the Honorable Bennett Kayser to qualify for the ballot. Kayser’s sponsorship was a key factor in the recently passed Ethnic Studies for #LAUSD requirement resolution, and he has been a force for progressive change […]
Getting Back To LAUSD: Careful Choices
Guest post by Ellen Lubic, Executive Director of Joining Forces 4Ed. She also contributes to DianeRavitch.net’s blog community. The voting public showed their opinions about the Torlakson v. Tuck race for State Superintendent of Public Instruction by electing by a healthy margin, the incumbent, a former teacher, Tom Torlakson, and they rejected soundly the Wall […]
Voices From the Classroom: “Tell me when we can begin the healing so we can begin the learning.”
Jose del Barrio is a teacher in a Los Angeles Unified high school. Had a student in Saturday detention today. As he worked doing his community service we had a long heart to heart. His mother left him and his older brother and yonder sister when he was 7 years old in El Salvador to […]
“Live The Life That Was Meant For You”
Stefania Pomponi is Clever Girls Collective’s Co-Founder, President and Chief Evangelist. A respected social media thought leader and nationally recognized, award-winning blogger, she leads Clever Girls Collective’s corporate communications and PR efforts and has been instrumental in inking several key deals. Clever Girls was recently named 21st of the Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies by the […]
Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) November General Assembly
Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) General Assembly Thursday, November 6, 2014 4:20-6:45PM St. Marks Lutheran Church 3651 South Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90007 (2 blocks north of the Expo line’s Vermont station) The 2014-2015 school year is our time to take concrete action together and change the educational system and bigger systems that […]
Marshall Tuck: Last Chance for Big Money Backers to Control LAUSD?
Guest post by Los Angeles resident and edublogger Understanding Equity. Dear Friends and Neighbors: Next week, you will have the opportunity to vote for the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction. This is the first time I have made an appeal of this nature. As a retired teacher working with many other concerned […]
Associated Administrators of Los Angeles on teacher Torlakson v. banker Tuck
Don’t let the wealthy buy this election! — Associated Administrators of Los Angeles (AALA) From the November 3, 2014 issue of Update Tom Torlakson, California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction and AALA-supported candidate, needs your help to once again thwart the moneyed elite who unsuccessfully tried to defeat Monica Ratliff, Steve Zimmer, Bennett Kayser and Dr. […]