Justin Oakley’s Pro-Public Education Radio Show Starts November 20, 2013
by Doug Martin Douglas Storm’s Interchangeprogram on WFHB in Bloomington has been one of the very few avenues where pro-public education advocates in Indiana have been able to voice their concerns. Now Hoosiers will be happy to know that Justin Oakley’s new radio show Just Let Me Teach will appear on Indiana Talks every Wednesday night from 9-10pm, starting tomorrow, November 20th. A veteran clas
Joe Hill Lives
From Susan O:I often start the day by posting a significant event of the day on Twitter--from Benjamin opening the first subscription library on Nov. 8, 1731 to six-year-old Ruby Bridges integrating William Frantz Public School in New Orleans in November 1960. Ruby told Robert Coles "I knew I was just Ruby, just Ruby trying to go to school...the Ruby who had to do it" Today is November 1
Memphis Commercial Appeal Pleads for the Poorest to Pay the Most for the Worthless
The Memphis Corporate Commercial Appeal has engaged in a very public and very losing campaign to max out the state and local sales tax (on food, too) to pay for an increase of corporate ed early childhood seats in Memphis. Here is a clip from today's Editorial, with my response below:That’s why we urge Memphians to vote FOR a referendum Thursday that would increase the city’s sales tax rate by a
An Arne Duncan Reader
While Secretary of Education Arne Duncan—career-long bureaucrat who has never taught and has no formal background in education—has created a controversy over his swipe at "white suburban moms," the great irony comes from his equally vapid apology, in which he concludes: "Let’s get back to that conversation, because it’s an important one for our country."Yes, we should not be di
11-18-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: The Grit-sters Have a New Guru without CIA ConnectionsWith the spook-ish Dr. Seligman too scary to mention in contexts involving children, his longtime disciple, Angela Duckworth, does not even mention Seligman in her mini-TED talk that CorpEd is pumping this week on HuffPo's education page. Seligman's work with the CIA as an expert on learned helplessness, and then his work with