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Monday, February 24, 2014

2-24-14 Schools Matter

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Tennessee Taliban Challenges Rights of UT Students to Discuss Sex
From Huffington Post: Tennessee lawmakers advanced legislation this week officially condemning a group of students for holding a "Sex Week" event on campus.A resolutionwith 29 co-sponsorscurrently moving through the Tennessee House of Representatives will do nothing to stop "Sex Week" from taking place at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Instead, it declares the event


Political Cowards Blaming Parents for School Closures

Tomorrow evening the titans of King Cotton in Memphis will decide the next round of public school turnovers to the corporate welfare kings and queens lined up at the public feeding trough.Superintendent Dorsey Hopson is correct about one thing: closing these schools is not about saving money. If it were, he would be hard pressed to explain the economics of handing over $7500 per child to corporate


2-23-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Please take a closer look at the Common CoreSent to the School Library Journal 2/23Librarians may be "findings aspects of the common core to celebrate"("What's happening at the core," Feb. 2014), but they are ignoring very serious problems.  The standards might look like look like they involve "deeper levels of critical thinking" but they are completel