Archives for February 16, 2012

End education funding cuts: if this isn’t your first priority in improving public education, why not? Here’s a bright high school student’s take.Occupy High: A Protest of Education Funding Cuts (Guest Post by Kalila Bohsali)coopcatalyst.wordpress.comEv…

MUST READ: how are the unelected Emergency Managers of two mostly African American school districts in MI working out? Community members have petitioned for suspension of the law that enabled inexperienced and sometimes corrupt managers from taking ove…

Rick Santorum is opposed to a public school system overseen by the government, despite having used $38,000/yr of taxpayer money to educate his own 7 children via online charter school. There it is. In a nutshell. Too bad, 88% of American schoolchildren…

The Heartland Institute: muddying public opinion on climate science/encouraging denial. Now privatizing schools too.How the Heartland Institute plans to wreck educationgrist.orgDeSmogBlog has publicized documents that illuminate the Heartland Institute…

A national database tracks how well a given college prosecutes campus rape cases (i.e., supports victims, creates an environment where rapes are not tolerated). Reports compiled from students at the colleges show gaps between policy and implementation….

The techno-scholastic complex wouldn’t exist if the fetish for standardized test scores weren’t so intense. Corporations thrive on data. Kids thrive on exploration and experimentation.Texas Republican Blows the Whistle on the Techno-Scholastic Complexb…

Are UT’s “student savings accounts” — public money for education that follows the student — the new “voucher”?Utah Bill Would Give Public Education Money Directly To Student ‘Savings Accounts,’ Not Schoolswww.huffingtonpost.comFunding for public educ…