UPDATE, January 10, 2011: this week's agenda of the California State School Board -- which includes 6 new members (less the withdrawn-appointee, Bill Honig) -- has decided to delay adoption of "Parent Trigger" regulations. The trigger-petition law, giving parents an action to boot -- or reboot-- a failing school, is "all about charters," explains John Fensterwald in his blog, Educated Guess.
Ben Austin, video above, CEO of Parent Revolution, interviewed in mid-December at the State School Board meeting by John Fensterwald of Educated Guess. At the time, Austin was a Schwarzenegger-appointed member of the board; he was not confirmed, and was not reappointed by Gov. Brown.
Diane Ravitch popularized the term "Billionaire Boys Club" in her terrific book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, which I reviewed in this diary, from which I quote:
After noting the power and money now arrayed against public schools and education as a profession, and reminding us of the devastation wrought by financial deregulation, Ravitch cautions us
Removing public oversight will leave the education of our children to the whim of
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Please join us this episode as we pay homage and tribute to the late great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In typical American mass programming fashion the life of Dr. King has been watered down and narrowly reshaped to fit the ideals and warped values of some elites and US political sycophants. Without a doubt, if Dr. King were alive today he would be against
Why is this moron allowed to share with us his idiocy?
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Though Tuesday’s march proceeded without notable conflict between UPR students and the Puerto Rican police, it precipitated an immediate response from university administrators and government officials, who acted in concert to provide police forces with greater jurisdiction in quelling campus unrest (1). By Wednesday afternoon, ten students had been arrested and removed from campus. The detained had allegedly disrupted classes while distributing flyers that contained information about the strike (2). All ten students were transported to the Hato Rey station but later released without charges.
A peaceful gathering in the University Plaza on Thursday morning culminated in a minor skirmish between police forces and student protestors. The students resisted the polices’ efforts to force them out of the building, but, after being shot with tear gas and pepper spray, the students receded into Ponce de Leon Avenue (3).
A few hours later, the students regrouped inside the campus. As police forces began gathering nearby, th
With all the furor over Cathie Black's comments about “birth control” and “many Sophie’s choices” in relation to school overcrowding, I hope the larger issues are not ignored.
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There is a huge school-age population explosion in downtown Manhattan, not because people are reproducing like rabbits, but because of the rampant development that Mayor Bloomberg and other city officials have
"...Mr. Horne goes way overboard in trying keep high school students from studying works like Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” a classic educational text, or any effort to deepen students’ understanding of history, and their place in the world. Tucson school officials say that far from stoking teenage resentment, the program has helped students keep their grades up and stay in school."--New York Times editorial
"Louisiana has a 63 percent high school graduation rate,” Mr. Turner said. “It has roughly a 60
