TFA Truth Tour Starts Tomorrow
Teach for America regularly spends more on recruiting than it does on educating the young neophytes who are dumped into the most challenging classrooms after 5 weeks of basic indoctrination. USAS begins a 15 campus tour tomorrow to get the truth and stop TFA's corporate predators on campus.By Robert Ascherman and Karen LiStarting tomorrow, USAS is launching the next stage in our campaignto fight
All Your Life You Have Lived by Their Rules, and You Don't Have to Anymore--OPT OUT!
Be Divergent!Register for UOO’s annual spring event in Denver, CO, March 28th to 30th
Common Core Will Take 24 Years to Show Improvement That Will Fall Way Short of NAEP Results from 1992 to Now
In a research report issued last week by Brookings, researchers found that states with CCSS-like standards have not scored as well as other states on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP). Brookings found “states with standards most different from the CCSS . . . gained the most on NAEP (p. 29). Offering this dismal assessment of prospects for states adopting Common Core, the Br
Be in Worcester, MA Wednesday Morning to Greet Duncan
From MassLive:WORCESTER — Hoping to bring more attention to the federal changes in academic standards, protesters will greet U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan with picket signs along Skyline Drive and Belmont Street Wednesday morning.Duncan is scheduled to visit Worcester Technical High School on Wednesdayat 9 a.m. as part of a two-day tour of Massachusetts schools.The secretary is expected
3-22-14 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: Schools Matter All WeekDuncan Invites Parents to Conduct Research on Reasons for Racist Practices in SchoolsDuncan sent one of his underlings to the News Hour this evening to express her disgust that 3 and 4 year old students, most of whom are minority children, would be suspended from school. The young African-American woman from the Duncan's Civil Rights Office leaned forward i