Archives for April 2012

#pineapplegate redux: Pearson's test design & contracts to do so now under scrutiny by a skpetical public. Isn't it convenient and oh-so profitable for them to recycle old test questions given in other states for no extra cost but chargin…

Good news: an organic foods market with affordable produce & fruit opened up across from an elementary school, and the kids there seem to like kale salad. 🙂 More from the MomsRising.org foodblogging carnival on kid's nutrition and the anti-ob…

Good news: an organic foods market with affordable produce & fruit opened up across from an elementary school, and the kids there seem to like kale salad. 🙂 More from the MomsRising.org foodblogging carnival on kid's nutrition and the anti-ob…

PBS Independent Lens feature exploring how the ban singling out Mexican American studies has affected Arizonans, many of whom have organized in a civil rights struggle to regain an intellectual and cultural heritage that lawmakers have tried to erase.P…

Beautiful statement of support for the National Time Out From Testing Resolution from the United Church of Christ, which supports justice, an end to poverty, and the uplift of every child through education. UCC is a co-sponsor of the national resolutio…

Are writing, history, and foreign language requirements on the chopping block at Sacramento State? (It feels like the liberal arts everywhere have bull's eyes on them.) From the article; "The committee will use the comments from staff and stu…

Stanford/Silicon Valley, source of so much neoliberal/privatization or tinkering with public education. Is it now turning its formidable powers of "disruption" on itself with distance learning for higher ed? What will be the result?Will Stanf…

Poverty & inequality: public education should reduce both by increasing opportunity & social mobility, and should ideally exist in a society that seeks to end poverty. Currently "ed reform" as devised by testers/turnaround businesspeo…

Bumping this American Prospect article up: no authentic appetite for privatizing public ed, demand must be manufactured: Gates, Walton, Broad End #PublicEducation! No Funds Left Behind http://owl.li/aqZI8 One of Gates’s latest education projects is c…

Public education is infected by #ALEC. For-profit colleges & @WaPo's Kaplan donated $$, why don't they #dropALEC? Privatization of public education has no place in the public trust.Exclusive: Washington Post's Kaplan and Other F…