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Thursday, March 27, 2014

3-27-14 Schools Matter

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NYTimes Editorial Board Goes Soft on 4 Year Olds

Maybe Brent Staples is getting sentimental in his middle age, but the Editorial Board is suddenly all misty-eyed about pre-K and kindergarten urban children being kicked out of school for any breach of the total compliance system perfected in the KIPP reform schools.I, too, worry about these children, but I worry, too, about the ones who are left there, whose little human spirits that are not stro


3-26-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: A Breath of Fresh Air from DenverDenver will be hosting this year's United Opt Out event in a few weeks. This event was held on the front steps of the Department of Education building in Washington, DC for the past two years.I am an employed social studies and history teacher now for 6th grade and a lot has changed in two years. Finding a public school that is not suffering under t