New (cool) education website
I’m not saying this new website is cool because I’m a featured writer (yeah right), but it is part of The Progressive Magazine so that in itself gives it creds.
To follow is the press release:
The Progressive Magazine announces a major new online resource to EXPOSE the behind-the-scenes effort to privatize our public schools, and CONNECT pro-public school activists nationwide.
Official launch date: September 3, 2013 (that’s today).
Special Features:
• Live chats with major national figures in the pro-public school
movement
• Original reporting telling the whole story of the behind-the-
scenes effort to privatize our public schools
• Breaking news updates by a national network of bloggers
• A hub to connect parents, teachers, and concerned citizens
who want to defend our public schools
• An interactive map tracking privatization legislation in the
States
movement
• Original reporting telling the whole story of the behind-the-
scenes effort to privatize our public schools
• Breaking news updates by a national network of bloggers
• A hub to connect parents, teachers, and concerned citizens
who want to defend our public schools
• An interactive map tracking privatization legislation in the
States
August 2013:
Who’s Behind the Attack on Public Schools?
By Ruth Conniff, Brendan Fischer, and Rebecca Kemble
By Ruth Conniff, Brendan Fischer, and Rebecca Kemble
The attack on public education is an attack on the very heart of our democracy.
Yet the “school choice” movement has succeeded in setting the terms of the conversation. To the layperson, “school choice” and “education reform” sound like benign policy goals that aim to improve children’s access to high-quality education.
Too few lay people understand that behind these buzzwords there is a coordinated, well financed ideological attack on the very idea of free, excellent public schools that are open to every child.
Local organizations of parents, teachers, and activists lack the network and organization that the school-choice movement has built so effectively. This site will help fill that gap.
In straightforward, vivid, and comprehensible prose, we intend to lay out the threat to public education and help the ordinary citizens who are not education experts