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A Common Core Rap
Notorious Phd's Common Core RapMy Core's not common,Neither's my brain,These tests they're givingDrive me insaneMy parents hate them,My teachers too,Someone was lookingFor students to screwTo make them helplessTo make them failTo get them readyFor Walmart or jailBut I'm not readyTo give up this soonMy parents taught meTo shoot for the moonSo I won't settleFor second bestIt's time to removeAll Comm
"School Choice" Is Not only About Charters and Vouchers
Where are all the advocates of "school choice" when inner city parents and students organize in defense of their neighborhood schools threatened with closing, as they have done in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and now Newark? Somehow, they only mobilize when inner parents want charters or vouchers. They have no problem with Mayors and Governors shutting down public schools that have b
JAN 26
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Corporate Reform versus Child-Centered Progressby Avi Tropper Recent years have seen the growth in influence and power of the corporate reform approach, part of GERM (the Global Education Reform Movement), on education policy-making. It principles include a focus on closing schools, test-based accountability, and building portfolio model district offices. This approach tends to be favored by the e
The Obama Administration's "Scorched Earth Policy" for Urban Schools
The Obama Administration, in the five years it has been in office, has pursued an Education "Scorched Earth" policy in major urban centers, closing public schools en masse and replacing them with charter schools. And for the most part, Democratic Mayors have enthusiastically supported this policy. Only in the last year, there has been finally been some resistance to this policy, by newly
JAN 24
A Program for Urban Schools- Do Mayoral Candidates in Your City Support These?
1. Stop School Closings Immediately- Fix Troubled Schools Don't Close Them.2. End all Contracts with Teacher of America.3. Three year moratorium on new Charter Schools. Evaluate existing ones.4. Make Recess Sacred! No test prep during recess or physical education.5. Fund Pre-K and After School Programs- Schools in High Needs Communities should be Open 6 AM to 9 PM.6. Cut Testing to fund arts, spor
Why The Democratic Party Can Longer Be Relied Upon to Defend Public Education
The Democratic Party, at its top levels, is mired in a web of corruption and insider dealing when it comes to the "growth areas" of Predatory School Reform- charter schools, on line learning, educational technology, test production. This is one important reason why Arne Duncan was, and still is, the perfect Secretary of Education for Barack Obama. In the face of the profits to be made an