Nicholas Lemann on Michelle Rhee
The New Republic has published an astute and nuanced view of CorpEd's Queen of Venom, Michelle Rhee. As may be expected, it took someone not on the neo-lib NR payroll to do this act of journalistic honesty. by Nicholas Lemann The other day I picked up a copy of The Adventures of Augie March. I hadn’t remembered that Saul Bellow, writing in the early 1950s, when he was not yet forty, about Chicago
Attention NC Teenagers: This Is What Racist Adults in Your State Don't Want You to Know about Ralph Ellison
Sixty years after winning the National Book Award for fiction in 1953, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man has been banned by school board members (Board Chair Tommy McDonald and members Tracy Boyles, Gary Cook, Matthew Lambeth and Gary Mason) in Randolph County, NC. The decision ran counter to two review committee recommendations that considered the complaint against the book prior to passing the issu
Schools Matter Welcomes Doug Martin!
Doug Martin’s Hoosier School Heist will be published by Brooks Publications in December. Martin’s exposures of the corporate takeover of public education have appeared or been referenced in the Washington Post Answer Sheet, the Associated Press, Diane Ravitch's Blog, and other places. Martin holds a PhD in literary prosody and nineteenth-century American literature from Oklahoma State University
EPSLP: College Ready? Alliance Charter Corporation's big scam
First published on Echo Park Patch on September 20, 2013 "If the American public understood that reformers want to privatize their public schools and divert their taxes to pay profits to investors, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform." — Professor Diane Ravitch "However, within this market, competition exists in several forms" — (Alliance CRPS Corporation's
Trinational protest at Mexican Consulate in solidarity with CNTE
Protesting education neoliberalism across borders. En solidaridad con Los maestros de Mexico! #lausd pic.twitter.com/t8sunJeLP6— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) September 21, 2013 On Friday, September 20, 2013 the Trinational Coalition To Defend Public Education organized a demonstration in front of the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Mexico to protest
9-21-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: TN Achievement School Distict Official Granted Charter Approval by TN Achievement School DistrictPosted at Memphis Schools Matter:After Bobby White got national attention on Fox & Friends by enforcing a ban on baggy pants at Westside Middle School in Memphis, where he was principal a couple of years back, White has become the darling of the State-funded effort to corporatize a