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American anti-intellectualism more popular than ever, and why not?

December 28, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

American anti-intellectualism more popular than ever, and why not?

“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 […]

Filed Under: Educators Tagged With: academia, anti-intellectualism, Corporate Education Reform, neoliberalism, Privatization, Racism, rdsathene

LAUSD: Haste Makes Ed Tech Waste

December 2, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Ed Tech, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, Too Good For the LA TImes Tagged With: Broad Superintendent Academy, John Deasy, Superintendent John Deasy

Why I Support An Ethnic Studies High School Graduation Requirement in LAUSD and SFUSD…And Beyond

December 1, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

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, […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, Curriculum, Dual language immersion, Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, San Francisco, School Boards Tagged With: ethnic studies

Sunday, November 23, 2014: Two ways to support Ethnic Studies supporter Bennet Kayser!

November 20, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Re-elect Ethnic Studies Supporter Bennett Kayser to LAUSD Board of Education

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 […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: 90026, Bennett Kayser, Board of education, Education, ethnic studies, LAUSD, rdsathene, School Board, struggle

Getting Back To LAUSD: Careful Choices

November 18, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

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 […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Los Angeles, March 2015 elections

Voices From the Classroom: “Tell me when we can begin the healing so we can begin the learning.”

November 8, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

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 […]

Filed Under: Bilingual education, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Districts, Students, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: Jose del Barrio

“Live The Life That Was Meant For You”

November 6, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Parents, School Districts, Students Tagged With: Emotional/Social Health

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD) November General Assembly

November 6, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve (SLASD)

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 […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: CEJ, ethnic studies, LAUSD, LCFF, rdsathene, resistance, resistance to privatization, SLASD, struggle

Marshall Tuck: Last Chance for Big Money Backers to Control LAUSD?

November 1, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Marshall Tuck endorsed discredited and disgraced John Deasy

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 […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts Tagged With: Marshall Tuck, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson

Associated Administrators of Los Angeles on teacher Torlakson v. banker Tuck

October 30, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

Re-elect Tom Torlakson: a teacher working for schools and kids

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. […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, State Education Law Tagged With: AALA, California State Superintendent of Instruction, Marshall Tuck, rdsathene, Tom Torlakson

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Federal Policy

Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

There are twenty-three candidates running to fill former Congressman Xavier Bacerra’s seat in Congressional District 34 in Southern California. (Bacerra is currently the state’s Attorney General, replacing Kamala Harris, who, after November 8, 2016, became our US Senator.) Election Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can find your polling […]

Betsy DeVos, #NOTMYSDOE

Take the pledge to #resist and fight for public schools as a public good TODAY. DeVos had to have the assistance of Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaking vote in order to win her confirmation. Two GOP Senators voted against, all Democratic Senators voted against. Yet all the other GOP Senators who received campaign donations […]

Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

The next #DemDebate is scheduled for the important primary state of Iowa on November 14, 2015. It’ll be broadcast by CBS in partnership with the Des Moines Register. Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig is leading the call for the families of 50 million students K-12 across the nation and the communities they live in to have […]

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