A little love letter to all my haters from the profitable #edreform sector who mocked me about my education
A little love letter to all my haters from the profitable #edreform sector who mocked me about my education #LAUSD pic.twitter.com/wN88aVyXps— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) June 7, 2014 Now can we talk about your funders Gates, Zuckerberg, and Dell being college dropouts, or is that just something neoliberal corporate education reformers tar working class people with?
I'm on #TeamMcKenna because ALL students in LAUSD need representation, NOT just the few attending CCSA's lucrative charter outlets
I'm on #TeamMcKenna because ALL students in #LAUSD need representation, NOT just the few attending @CALcharters' lucrative charter outlets.— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) June 7, 2014
PESJA: When we say Eli Broad controls LAUSD, we're accused of peddling 'conspiracy theories.' Yet… policy isn't conspiracy.
When we say Eli Broad controls #LAUSD, we're accused of peddling 'conspiracy theories.' Yet… policy isn't conspiracy. pic.twitter.com/rQZlNrRTxz— PESJA Los Angeles (@PESJA_LA) June 7, 2014
@ THE CHALK FACE: Dr. Krashen’s Solutions Work! Preempt “summer learning loss” by addressing poverty, and ensuring access to books!
First published on @ THE CHALK FACE on June 6, 2014 Providing more access to interesting reading material by investing in public libraries and librarians is an excellent way to deal with summer learning loss. — Dr. Stephen D. Krashen Let's talk about serendipity. This morning at teacher sent me a Haertel paper on the unreliability of Value Added Measures, and I saw a figure in the paper on "
Schools Matter: Marshall Tuck's white male friend Dax Shepard 'splains that cultural sterilization isn't "real racism"
First published on Schools Matter on June 5, 2014 When I taught in the Los Angeles Unified Schools, I openly opposed the Vietnam War and was critical of the system’s race policies. Fortunately, I was never threatened with dismissal, I belonged to a union. — Professor Rodolfo F. Acuña Students Protesting Marshall Tuck's racist decision to kill Ethnic Studies. Photo by Robert D. Skeels. Eli Broa
Schools Matter: Responding to Meghan Daum's reactionary attack on the Class of 2014 social justice movements
First published on Schools Matter on May 22, 2014 "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. " — Paulo Freire LA Times columnist Meghan Daum takes issue with the Class of 2014's nationwide activism to resist and reject neoliberal reactionaries like Christine Lagarde and Condoleezza Rice as their comm
Schools Matter: SPLC says don't read tacit support for Common Core into their condemnation of reactionary hate groups
First published on Schools Matter on May 8, 2014 "In short, the real literacy crisis occurs whenever we deploy a pedagogy that asks our students only to consume texts and not to produce them as well." — Richard E. Miller Profiteering members of the testing industrial complex, and right-of-center Democrats were quick to embrace the release of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) repor
LA Progressive: Marshall Tuck’s Legacy of Bigotry and Failure
First published on LA Progressive on May 26, 2014 Portions of this article were contributed by Cheryl Ortega and Dr. John Fernandez. "Tuck will most likely have a huge pot of money in his war chest coming from the likes billionaire boys clubbers like Broad, DFER and other corporate reformers." — Professor Mike Klonsky Los Angeles Parents and Community Protesting Marshall Tuck. Photo b
K12NN: Markham MS Community to Protest PLAS Policies started under Marshall Tuck
First published on K-12 News Network on May 20, 2014 Former PLAS CEO Marshall Tuck's school-to-prison-pipeline legacy for children of color lives on in the policies he established at Markham Middle School. However, the community is tired and fighting back! African-American and Latino parents/students to unite with Community groups and United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) to speak out against disc
K12NN: Photo Gallery: Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve Rally 8-May-2014
Photo Gallery: Schools Los Angeles Students Deserve Rally 8-May-2014 http://t.co/BCtZbbtUMf @K12NN #LAUSD pic.twitter.com/UVDAopN5At— RDSkeels4Schoolboard (@RDSkeels4LAUSD) June 7, 2014
K12NN: May 4 Candidate Forum: LAUSD School Board District 1 Special Election
First published on K-12 News Network on May 9, 2014 I was asked to cover the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) School Board District 1 Special Election Candidate forum held on Saturday, May 4, 2014. The event took place at the University of Southern California (USC), and it was hosted by the Walton Family Foundation's key neoliberal privatization organization—Parent Revolution. Parent