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Stop NYC From Evicting #OccupyWallStreet
(Updated with new action items.) Disturbing developments in New York City. Mayor Mike Bloomberg just said he's going to use the police to effectively end "Occupy Wall Street" Friday morning. In a transparent ploy, new rules were passed out this morning prohibiting...
Starving America’s Public Schools
Wall Street’s excesses blew up the economy. Now the question is who pays to clean up the mess. And across the country, our children are already paying part of the bill – as their schools are hit with deep budget cuts. A new report – Starving America’s...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/13/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Can't Have Great...
If We Want Great Teachers Dont We Need To Give Them Jobs
Even after writing the headline to this post I have to wonder, "Is this a point that even has to be made?" But in light of events in Washington, DC this week, I have to answer, "Yes." Because just as lawmakers in the White House and Congress were hard at work crafting...
Where Is The Middle Ground In The Education Debate
By the time that July slips slowly off the calendar, events this month -- culminating with an upcoming teacher/parent-organized march on the nation's capital -- will have clarified all too well the lay of the land in the debate on the fate of our nation's public...
Back To School Investing In Distraction
Back to School: Investing In Distraction My guest today is Sabrina Stevens Shupe. Sabrina is a teacher, writer, and activist who has worked with students in struggling communities in Philadelphia and Denver. She recently helped to organize the Save Our Schools March &...
House Conservatives Charter Ideology Over Educational Reality
The House is poised to vote on legislation that would increase federal support for charter schools and would encourage states to authorize new charter schools. The "Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act" represents the latest triumph of ideology over...
Save Our Schools March About The Soul Of Education
If aliens from another planet landed in the U.S. this weekend they would likely assume that the people inhabiting this place are completely obsessed with one thing and one thing only: money. Unless of course if they landed at the Save Our Schools March that happened...
You Cant Waive The Reality Of Our Public Schools
So much for the "New Washington Consensus on Education". Education policy, we were told by conservative leaders merely six months ago, was a " redeeming feature" of the Obama administration that would provide DC policy makers with a tranquil eddy amidst the whitewater...
Back To School The Vain Search For The Right Formula For Education
Much in the same way that September ushers in a new football season every year regaled by a bombast of armchair quarterbacks analyzing "the game," the month also brings on yet another Back to School Season with a chorus of commentators declaring their prescriptions to...
