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Monday, September 12, 2011

Weekly Update…and it’s only Monday! | Seattle Education

Weekly Update…and it’s only Monday! | Seattle Education:

Weekly Update…and it’s only Monday.

This just in.

First up, Diane Ravitch will be speaking at Town Hall on November 17th at 7:30 PM. The topic will be “Getting Our Schools Back on Track”. Advance tickets can be purchased through Town Hall.

Our very own Jesse Hagopian, a teacher in the Seattle Public School system and founding member of Seattle Equity Educators (SEE), had an article published in Common Dreams.org this week. Check out Shock Doctrine Schooling in Haiti: Neoliberalism Off the Richter Scale.

Another article relating to Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine by Salon writer David Sirota, describes how