Education Cuts in Oregon?
From the Oregonian:
Oregon revenue drops sharply, rips $563 million hole in state budget
By Harry Esteve, The Oregonian
May 25, 2010, 11:43AM
SALEM -- Oregon’s stubbornly bad economy has left a huge hole in the state budget, distressed lawmakers learned today -- $563 million that must be cut from schools and other programs over the next year unless more money comes in.
Attacking Colleges of Education
From Henry A. Giroux, via Truthout:
Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Education in the Name of Reform
Tuesday 25 May 2010by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-EdAs the Obama administration's educational reform movement increasingly adopts the interests and values of a "free-market" culture, many students graduate public schooling and higher education with an impoverished political imagination, unable to recognize injustice and unfairness. They often find themselves invested in a notion of unattached individualism that severs them from any sense of moral and social responsibility to others or to a larger notion of the common good. At the same time, those students who jeopardize the achievement of the quantifiable measures and
