Wednesday, Sep 14, 2011
Forty-nine million or so American children have returned to public school classrooms that are, according to many
Budget means districts drop agriculture programs …. really
Governor Walker keeps telling us that the 2011-13 budget is working for school districts, but the evidence keeps mounting that it’s not OK for kids, their schools, or their communities.
For example, a recent column that ran in several state newspapers admits there will be changes to many of our
The United Church of Christ (UCC) has taken the stand that the conventional wisdom on school reform is wrong and the church needs to care about it. In a recent message, the UCC said “all children have the right to an opportunity to learn, not as a matter of competition or where they live, but as a civil and human right. We must guarantee all students access to high-quality early education, highly effective teachers, college-preparatory
from indybay:
As with the inaugural event of the California occupation movement two years ago – when students barricaded themselves inside the Graduate Student Commons at UC Santa Cruz – the occupation of Tolman Hall was both an act of material expropriation (or attempted expropriation) and an act of communication, meant to signal, to warn, to threaten and raise the alarm. . . It was both a declaration of resumed hostilities against the university and a form of communication with comrades here and elsewhere, both inside and outside the university. It was a warning directed at the small clique of arrogant, befuddled bureaucrats who run the university, as well as their armed thugs. But also a message sent to our comrades. For our comrades, the occupation was meant to communicate first and foremost a kind of excitement: Let’s do this! Let’s occupy everything! But behind the initial thrill it should communicate, also, a few critical lessons:
1)The first lesson is as clear as a geometric proof: Violence works. As with the threat of a two thousand person riot which freed the Wheeler occupiers on Nov. 20, defensive violence works particularly well. Faced with a group
This weekend, I spent time in Syracuse University, my alma mater and the site of Coming Back Together X, a special reunion where the African-American and Latino alumni of Syracuse U can meet with students and faculty on campus every three years in the spirit of camaraderie, growth, and opportunity. This tradition has happened for the last three decades and change, illuminating an illustrious history of people that includes Dave Bing, Jim Brown, Angela Robinson, and Debra Mercado, just to name a few. When I get there, I’m among the few people representing the Millenials (’00 and up), but through the extensive research I did as an undergrad, I was able to contribute and provide context for histories about the campus that let me fit in with the elder statesman there.
As I reminisced on my days as Education Chair of La LUCHA (the premiere Latino organization on campus), I
Note: This image is not from either of the films mentioned, but from another charter school lottery. For reasons that should be clear from the post, I selected a picture where the indiividuals are difficult to identify.
Frankie Beverly & Maze, “Joy and Pain” (click to listen or download)
This is Take Two in a series. Take One, with a fuller introduction, can be found here. Briefly, the idea of the series is to counter anti-teacher and anti-teachers’ union individuals and “reform” groups appropriation of the phrase “it is all about the kids” as a means to heap scorn and ridicule on public education and public education employees by investigating some of the actions of these individuals and groups in light of the question “is it all
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings recently published an essay titled “We Aren’t Serious.” Spellings calls our nation’s public school teachers “non-believers.” The non-believers, she claims, don’t believe poor and minority kids can learn. Further, she accuses our nation’s teachers of being the single biggest obstacle to student’s success.
Ms. Spellings, your shameless attempt to slander and discredit the nation’s teachers will not stand. We aren’t “non-believers.” I do believe, Ms. Spellings. Let me count the ways.
You say we must call out those who “shamelessly believe
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