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Sunday, January 27, 2013

The Sunday Mail. « Fred Klonsky

The Sunday Mail. « Fred Klonsky:


The Sunday Mail.

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Young folks stepping up.
Teacher unions. We can fall apart or stand together. What’s it gonna be?
Alfie Kohn joins Debbie Meier at Bridging Differences. Why punishment doesn’t work.
So what happens when teachers join forces and make a carefully considered–and, importantly, collective–decision about what their students need?
How Senator Steans greased the UNO charter deal.
The Los Angeles Times has always hated teachers and public schools.
Why doesn’t the Illinois Education Association join our efforts and post our public employees’ petition on its website? Perhaps it is because the Illinois We Are One Coalition is planning a “summit” with a few, thus far, unsuspecting legislators (like Elaine Nekritz, for example, “who [said she] had not heard about the union