Thompson: SOS March Not About Saving Jobs
#sosmarch The Education Sector's Richard Colvin is half-right about the Save Our Schools March. Teachers have suffered less than most workers as jobs, wages, and benefits have been cut over the last four decades. In fact, that may be the biggest reason why we have been targeted as scapegoats. The politics of resentment demands that teachers also get their comeupance. Colvin is also correct in reminding us of the 300,000 teaching jobs that the
Events: "No Child" Back On Stage In NYC
If you missed it the first time around don't miss it again. Nilaja Sun's one-woman play about teaching in a New York City school is back in town until mid-August and you can get tickets to see it for just $25 using the supersecret code Susan Sawyers told me about. Others will disagree but my favorite part of the show is the tense encounter between the Caribbean-born security guard and one of the students going through the metal detectors. Security guards play such a little-noted but important role in