Friday, March 7, 2014

Defend-Ed | because our future is worth fighting for

Defend-Ed | because our future is worth fighting for:









Kids For Cash

For-profit juvenile jails, corrupt judges, zero-tolerance public school policies; they’re all part of the school-to-prison pipeline. A new film documents one judge who was sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling our children to a private jail.

The Role of Poverty in School Success

U.S. policy initiatives to improve the U.S. education system are misguided because they deny evidence documenting that students from disadvantaged households perform less well in school than those from more advantaged families.

What Happened to Dump Duncan?

DumpDuncan.org was a website that ran from 2011-2014. It was created as a project of the Dump Duncan group on Facebook. DumpDuncan.org was reformed as Defend-Ed.org in January, 2014. Read why.