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9-28-14 Answer Sheet

Answer Sheet: Strauss: Why college freshmen need to take Emotions 101Too many college students face challenges for which they are emotionally ill-equipped to handle. In fact, suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students. In this piece, from OpEd Project’s Yale Public Voices Fellowship program, two mental health experts explain how colleges and universities can better deal with

by mike simpson / 8:28 AM UTC-7 

Life at the Intersections | …of spirit, people, and politics

Life at the Intersections | …of spirit, people, and politics: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT PROTESTS CREATE HEADACHES FOR SOME, HOPE FOR OTHERS Recent spontaneous and unprecedented high school student protest movements are causing a growing panic among the wealthy investor class who want to convert much of American education from public, democratic control to corporate investor control for their profits. It

by mike simpson / 1min 

9-28-14 the becoming radical | Jesusland?: Bible Belt Raises Welt of Corporal Punishment - A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): Jesusland?: Bible Belt Raises Welt of Corporal Punishment“Jesusland” by Ben Folds includes a powerful verse against the energetic piano and soaring harmonies: Town to town broadcast to each house, they drop your name but no one knows your face Billboards quoting things y

by mike simpson / 4min 

9-28-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: How Are Schools Supposed To Work When Everything Else Around Them Is Broken?Had a discussion with NY Daily News reporter Ben Chapman over the "disruption" that education reformers bring to the education system (and the money they make off of that "disruption") that went like this the other day:@NYDNBenChapman Cuomo's Smart Schools jive all about "dis

by mike simpson / 7min 

9-28-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Sunday reads.. Following a teacher strike, the Galesburg, Illinois school board refuses to return school days to the calendar. Why don’t we have real data on charter schools? The Koch brothers toxic empire. It extends to Chicago’s 10th Ward. Vote for Susan Sadlowski Garza for Alderman. “No excuses” ch

by mike simpson / 9min 

9-28-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: NYCFIRST LEGO League Kickoff - PhotosI had a great time yesterday at NYU/Poly on Jay Street at our annual FLL kickoff. We have about 170 NYC teams registered so far for the Challenge which is called World Class, all about learning. Kids not only build a robot for the game field - below - represent different styles of learning - but also do and present an extensive research project

by mike simpson / 13min 

Man in Red - Two Teachers and a Microphone featuring Erich Schneider - YouTube

Man in Red - Two Teachers and a Microphone featuring Erich Schneider - YouTube: Man in Red - Two Teachers and a Microphone featuring Erich Schneider"Man In Red" - A reimagining of "Man in Black" by Johnny CashTwo Teachers and a Microphone featuring Super Substitute Teacher Erich SchneiderWell, you wonder why on Tuesdays I wear red,Did I wake up on the wrong side of the bed?And

by mike simpson / 1h 

A level playing field at school can't make up for a broken democracy - LA Times

A level playing field at school can't make up for a broken democracy - LA Times: A level playing field at school can't make up for a broken democracy In the fall of 2010, after a14-year hiatus from the classroom, I began a one-year job filling in for a teacher on leave from the same rural Vermont high school that I'd entered as a rookie 30 years before.Almost from my first day, I was moved by the

1 by mike simpson / 1h 

Decriminalizing School Discipline | Marian Wright Edelman

Decriminalizing School Discipline | Marian Wright Edelman: Decriminalizing School DisciplineI believe the purpose of public schools is to educate not exclude children and to help identify and meet child needs, not make children serve adult convenience, self interest, and systems. So huge reforms are required in school discipline policies and practices across our nation as school pushout has worsen

by mike simpson / 1h 

LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 9-28-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Veteran Teacher In California Named Teacher of the YearGlendale Unified School District in California named math teacher Win Saw its teacher of the year. The son of two teachers in Burma, Win Saw never expected to be a teacher. But while in college at Santa Barbara, he realized that was his calling. He has been inspiring students f

by mike simpson / 1h 

9-28-14 Hemlock on the Rocks

Hemlock on the Rocks: Breakfast is served | The Crimson Chroniclehttp://www.thecrimsonchronicle.com/2014/09/breakfast-is-served/ Breakfast is served Posted on September 26, 2014 by Erika Salazar in News Erika Salazar Editor-In-Chief Breakfast in the Classroom, a district-wide initiative that aims to offer morning meals to those students who do not eat one on a regular basis, will be implemented on

by mike simpson / 1h 

9-28-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Five Most Popular Posts Of The Week© 2010 Paul Townsend, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Here’s the second post in this now every-Sunday feature. These are the posts appearing this blog that received the most “hits” in the preceding seven days (though they have originally been published on an earlier date). Here they are: 1.

2 by mike simpson / 1h 

NYC Educator: When the News is Too Strange to Believe...

NYC Educator: When the News is Too Strange to Believe...: When the News is Too Strange to Believe...I'm sure you remember how Mulgrew popped up in the news last May when his private words to his caucus went public.  He had pushed for twenty-two domains of Danielson to "gum up the works" as one defensive strategy against the ed "reformers" in this ongoing war to protect our publ

1 by mike simpson / 1h 

Kimble's Corner: Jack Kimble's Speech to the 2014 Values Voter Summit

Kimble's Corner: Jack Kimble's Speech to the 2014 Values Voter Summit: Jack Kimble's Speech to the 2014 Values Voter Summit

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Students Protest ‘Slut Shaming’ Dress Codes | PopularResistance.Org

Students Protest ‘Slut Shaming’ Dress Codes | PopularResistance.Org: Students Protest ‘Slut Shaming’ Dress CodesRESIST! EDUCTION, STUDENT ACTIVISM, STUDENT PROTESTS By Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.comSeptember 28th, 2014  Powered by TranslateStudents Around US Organise Mass Walkouts to Protest Administrators Who Made Them Wear ‘Shame Suits’ or Mandate Hemline LimitsA spate of revolts against scho

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Lessons from SF: UESF Teachers Push for Strike Vote in Contract Negotiations | Classroom Struggle

Lessons from SF: UESF Teachers Push for Strike Vote in Contract Negotiations | Classroom Struggle:Lessons from SF: UESF Teachers Push for Strike Vote in Contract Negotiations We repost an article below which comes to us from two members of the leftist teacher’s caucus in UESF, EDU (Educators for a Democratic Union).  They and other EDU and UESF members have been fighting for a strike authorization

by mike simpson / 10h 

Remarkable Idiocy: “Economically-driven Education” | deutsch29

Remarkable Idiocy: “Economically-driven Education” | deutsch29: Remarkable Idiocy: “Economically-driven Education”September 27, 2014On October 2, 2014, I will be speaking in Indiana to an audience chiefly comprised of university students who have a passing understanding of the intentions of moneyed interests to usurp control of public education.With a mind toward preparing for my upcoming engageme

by mike simpson / 10h 

Oregon Save Our Schools: OEA Needs to Follow its Members' Vote Against High-Stakes Testing

Oregon Save Our Schools: OEA Needs to Follow its Members' Vote Against High-Stakes Testing: OEA Needs to Follow its Members' Vote Against High-Stakes TestingOn September 17, the Oregon Education Association (OEA) made a report to the Oregon Senate Committee on Education & Workforce regarding Common Core and Assessment. While OEA's report was a welcome change from its previous responses (rangin

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Nite Cap 9-27-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT

James Baldwin said it best: "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAP2nd Banana 9-27-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post 2nd Banana 9-20-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post2nd Banana 9-13-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post2nd Banana 9-6-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post2nd Banana 8-30-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post2

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NYC Public School Parents: NYC DOE still putting out false discharge data and inflating the graduation rate

NYC Public School Parents: NYC DOE still putting out false discharge data and inflating the graduation rate: NYC DOE still putting out false discharge data and inflating the graduation rateThroughout the Bloomberg years, when the administration would trumpet rising graduation rates, I noticed how the discharge numbers were very high and seemed to be increasing. Every student listed as a “discharge

1 by mike simpson / 16h 

gulftoday.ae | By Randi Weingarten, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, Otha Thornton and Carol Joyner: Paid sick days for parents benefit kids

gulftoday.ae | By Randi Weingarten, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, Otha Thornton and Carol Joyner: Paid sick days for parents benefit kids: By Randi Weingarten, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, Otha Thornton and Carol Joyner: Paid sick days for parents benefit kidsSeptember 28, 2014 Print    Send to FriendIt’s back to school season! Educators and students are back in school, after many have prepared much of the summe

5 by mike simpson / 17h 

The Political Lens: What Global Warming and Wright v. New York Have in Common | 34justice

The Political Lens: What Global Warming and Wright v. New York Have in Common | 34justice: The Political Lens: What Global Warming and Wright v. New York Have in CommonDuring the 2003-2004 school year, my chemistry teacher told my class that global warming wasn’t occurring.  I believed her.  When I attended New Jersey’s Governor’s School of International Studies in the summer of 2005, a professor

1 by mike simpson / 23h 

2nd Banana 9-27-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform

BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POSTVenture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt’ Everything About the Education Market | The NationVenture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt’ Everything About the Education Market | The Nation: Venture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt’ Everything About the Education MarketVenture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating over the explod

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Morning Wink 9-27-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSLouisiana Educator: Educators Speak Up Now or Forever Live With VAM and The Dog and Pony Show Called COMPASSLouisiana Educator: Educators Speak Up Now or Forever Live With VAM and The Dog and Pony Show Called COMPASS: Educators Speak Up Now or Forever Live With VAM and The Dog and Pony Show Called COMPASSNote to readers: Legislators got so many complaints

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9-28-14 Answer Sheet

Answer Sheet:

Strauss: How much time will new Common Core tests take kids to finish? Quite a lot.

Q) How much time will it take for students to complete some of the new Common Core standardized math and English Language Arts tests? A) A lot. One of the two multi-state consortia that have been — with some $360 million in federal funds — developing new Common Core standardized tests for use this school year just announced how many hours of testing time schools that are giving the PARCC exam sho

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Strauss: Why college freshmen need to take Emotions 101

Too many college students face challenges for which they are emotionally ill-equipped to handle. In fact, suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students. In this piece, from OpEd Project’s Yale Public Voices Fellowship program, two mental health experts explain how colleges and universities can better deal with the problem of student anxiety and depression. It was written by Dia

1 by Erica Johnston / 1min 

All Week @ The Answer Sheet 9-27-14

The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer SheetWhy we can’t reform literacy and math all at onceSchool “reform” is hardly a new phenomenon in the public school system, with decades of efforts to improve reading and math scores. Why haven’t all these efforts met expectations? Here’s one explanation, from Andy Hargreaves, the Brennan Chair in Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College

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Life at the Intersections | …of spirit, people, and politics

Life at the Intersections | …of spirit, people, and politics:



HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT PROTESTS CREATE HEADACHES FOR SOME, HOPE FOR OTHERS

 Recent spontaneous and unprecedented high school student protest movements are causing a growing panic among the wealthy investor class who want to convert much of American education from public, democratic control to corporate investor control for their profits. It is showing that high school students are finding their own voice distinct from just joining in with adult protests.



Newark



The Newark Students Union was formed to resist the corporate takeover and charterizing of most of public education in Newark, New Jersey. No matter what excuses are attempted to dismiss this movement, it is real and powerful. Students in Newark are not willing to be widgets produced on an assembly line. They have become the wild card for the carefully laid plans of investors and the corporations they control.



This is a video report of their latest protest that involved over 300 students. Take note that these are very smart, politically astute high school students in a place where no one can argue that these are just brats being put up to this by adults, which has been the oft-repeated criticism.

Their protests began in April and lasted through May of last school year when big plans for transforming Newark to mostly charters were announced after Governor Chris Christie took control of Newark Public Schools and appointed his own superintendent. She immediately laid plans to convert most of Newark’s Public Schools into corporate charter schools. My criticism of this massive corporate charter takeover is in my earlier post HERE, a third post in my series criticizing the misuse of charters at the expense of the poor.

Since long-time education writer Anthony Cody pulled out of foundation-influenced Education Week and started his own independent blog Living in Dialogue, he has reported extensively on these and  other student protests.

You may follow and support these students by liking their Facebook page and following them on Twitter @NewarkStudents .

Colorado

The high school student protest movement has expanded in Colorado to include students from several high schools in Jefferson County, a suburban area of Denver.

They walked out of school to protest highly restrictive standards about the teaching of U.S. History imposed by the Jefferson County School Board. It is controlled by a slim hyper-conservative majority. Students correctly see it as being propagandistic and not Life at the Intersections | …of spirit, people, and politics:

9-28-14 the becoming radical | Jesusland?: Bible Belt Raises Welt of Corporal Punishment - A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University):

Jesusland?: Bible Belt Raises Welt of Corporal Punishment

“Jesusland” by Ben Folds includes a powerful verse against the energetic piano and soaring harmonies: Town to town broadcast to each house, they drop your name but no one knows your face Billboards quoting things you’d never say you hang your head and pray While the music and rhythm sound uplifting, the message of the lyrics is a sharp criticism of the Bible Belt, where I grew up, where I live. Fo

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9-27-14 the becoming radical EMPATHYEDUCATES! | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD

THE BECOMING RADICALEMPATHYEDUCATES!the becoming radical  A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by Misguided Reading Policy Creates Wrong Lessons for Students as WritersHaving taught writing to teenagers and young adults at the high school and undergraduate levels for over thirty years now, I have a standard approach to the first few classes: We identify and then unpack and challenge the lessons the

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9-28-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School:

Cuomo And Christie - A Bromance

Don't read this WSJ article on an empty stomach - it details now close Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo are, the closest any two governors of New Jersey and New York have ever been:The two powerful governors have dined together in Manhattan and chat by cellphone. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has asked staff to leave the room when he talks to his New York counterpart, Andrew Cuomo.And while Mr. Cu

by reality-based edu... / 3h 

How Are Schools Supposed To Work When Everything Else Around Them Is Broken?

Had a discussion with NY Daily News reporter Ben Chapman over the "disruption" that education reformers bring to the education system (and the money they make off of that "disruption") that went like this the other day:@NYDNBenChapman Cuomo's Smart Schools jive all about "disrupting" system to help marketeers - http://t.co/1wqvQFrqBD— realitybasededucator (@perdidosts

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9-27-14 Perdido Street School Week

Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School WeekCuomo: No Shift In Treatment Of Teachers In Second TermFrom State of Politics:Asked about whether he’s shifting his tactics post-primary, Cuomo said he wouldn’t change his approach to public workers and teachers labor organizations. “I knew what I was doing when I did not cater to the teachers union. I didn’t have to take the endorsement of the teac

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9-28-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:

Karen Lewis. We can’t think in silos any longer.

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Signatures far outnumber votes in school board election. Hinsdale clock is ticking.

For Immediate Release   Contact: mike.palmquist@hhsta.org   Over 1,100 Community Members Sign Petition to Accept Teachers’ Proposal Hinsdale, IL – September 29, 2014 – A Change.org petition created by Darien resident Anna Cepeda asks the Hinsdale District 86 school board to accept the teachers’ latest contract proposal. As of September 29, over 1,100 people—mostly community members, alumni, and c

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Sunday reads.

. Following a teacher strike, the Galesburg, Illinois school board refuses to return school days to the calendar. Why don’t we have real data on charter schools? The Koch brothers toxic empire. It extends to Chicago’s 10th Ward. Vote for Susan Sadlowski Garza for Alderman. “No excuses” charter schools make Zombie Kids. Chicago’s privatization strategy is symbolized by the disastrous parking meter

by Fred Klonsky / 3min 

9-27-14 Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher“I made a mistake.”Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson tries to join protesters. Another riot nearly ensues. . The other day Rahm said he made a mistake. He’s made many. But he only copped to one: Naming the planned north side se

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9-28-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online:

MORE Takes a Stand Against Eva Moskowitz at Hearings - Last Monday and Today in Manhattan

Thanks so much to all of you dear sisters and brothers who organized around getting folks out or going to the charter school hearing on Monday. These pics from DNAinfo are worth a thousand words and clearly show who's active and ready in the fight for Public Ed! So proud to wake up and see this today, so proud to stand in solidarity with all of you! http://dnain.fo/1xhTsyY.. Megan M. MOR A gaggle

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NYCFIRST LEGO League Kickoff - Photos

I had a great time yesterday at NYU/Poly on Jay Street at our annual FLL kickoff. We have about 170 NYC teams registered so far for the Challenge which is called World Class, all about learning. Kids not only build a robot for the game field - below - represent different styles of learning - but also do and present an extensive research project on the subject. Teams spend  the next 3 months preppi

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9-27-14 Ed Notes Online Week

Ed Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineThe Secret to Eva Moskowitz’s ‘Success’Another curious fact about Success Academy is the attrition of both students and teachers. For schools that are widely acclaimed, this is surprising indeed. Why do so many students and teachers leave?... What we can learn from Success Academy is that it is possible to winnow out the most intractable students and be left with th

2 by mike simpson / 9h 

Man in Red - Two Teachers and a Microphone featuring Erich Schneider - YouTube

Man in Red - Two Teachers and a Microphone featuring Erich Schneider - YouTube:

Man in Red - Two Teachers and a Microphone featuring Erich Schneider

"Man In Red" - A reimagining of "Man in Black" by Johnny Cash

Two Teachers and a Microphone featuring Super Substitute Teacher Erich Schneider

Well, you wonder why on Tuesdays I wear red,
Did I wake up on the wrong side of the bed?
And why does my appearance seem to have an angry tone.
Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.

I wear the red for my brother beaten down,
Who teaches in the hungry side of town
In crammed and dirty classes, yes the funding is a shame
And when the test score's low, he's he one to blame.

I wear red for those who've fallen through the cracks
For the kids who never took a music class;
For those who felt abandoned, so small and so alone
Why, their school should be a second loving home!

I wear red for all the parents in the struggle
Job and school and family to juggle
No pension or due process, a barely living wage
When we stand together, we can bring a change.

I wear it for the people who believe
In organizing our communities
Each of us embracing responsibility
Our public schools belong to you and me.

So if on Tuesday, you're not wearing red
We'll wonder what is going through your head
Perhaps your shirt is dirty, or misplaced under your bed 
Perhaps we'll get a raise when we're all dead. 

Such a small decision, so it seems
The clothes we wear, what does it really mean?
The actions that we take, speak louder than our words
Let's stand up for the schools our kids deserve!

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell John Deasy everything's OK,
But that would take a lobotomy, a mallet to the head
'Till we get a contract, I'm the man in red.

A level playing field at school can't make up for a broken democracy - LA Times

A level playing field at school can't make up for a broken democracy - LA Times:



A level playing field at school can't make up for a broken democracy

 In the fall of 2010, after a
14-year hiatus from the classroom, I began a one-year job filling in for a teacher on leave from the same rural Vermont high school that I'd entered as a rookie 30 years before.

Almost from my first day, I was moved by the sight of what had always been a good school straining to be a better one. Multiple tutoring centers did a brisk business at every period and not infrequently after the buses had gone for the day. Hardly a week went by when teachers were not summoned to an early-morning meeting to discuss an individual student's progress. Study halls no longer functioned as de facto prep periods for their faculty minders or as down-time for sleepy kids. Foxes have holes and birds have nests, but the boy who woke at 2 in the morning to do his barn chores no longer had a place to lay his head.





By all official measures, the school was succeeding. Ranked as the state's poorest on the basis of the number of its students eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches, Lake Region Union High School was outperforming many of its more affluent competitors on standardized tests. The year before I returned, its writing scores were the highest in the state. The next year, the free-and-reduced-lunch students performed above the state average in reading, writing, math and science on the New England Common Assessment Program exams.

But I also knew the school's sincere efforts were in the service of a cynical agenda. The battle cry of the school reform movement, that “poverty should never be an excuse for poor academic achievement,” all too often masks the blithe conviction that good academic achievement can serve as an excuse for poverty. As long as the test scores are at par, you see, we need not be overly concerned if the pantries are bare, the parents jobless or jailed, and the gap between rich and poor more appalling than it's been since 1928.





In the same county where Lake Region is achieving its impressive test results, an estimated 1 in 4 children is “food insecure.” It's a phrase that tries the imaginations of those who have the luxury of spicing their security with complaint. “What to cook for dinner, always such a dilemma.” 

I threw myself into the mission with as much gusto as a man can summon in late middle age. I did my best to coach for the NECAPs — yes, we took time away from our lesson plans to do some teaching to the test — and resolved to keep my skepticism about the ultimate value of the tests to myself. There were good reasons for doing so. I knew that voters in the community were likelier to approve the school budget if the tests results were good. I also knew that some of the kids I coached and cajoled would go on to surmount the social conditions that stood in their way. I knew this because a few of them always had.A level playing field at school can't make up for a broken democracy - LA Times: