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International Socialist Review

isreview.org - Back to home pageISR Issue 62, November–December 2008 Charter schools and the attack on public educationBy SARAH KNOPPIn a stock market prospectus uncovered by education author Jonathan Kozol, the ...

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Law turns kids into commodities - Fred Grimm

miamiherald.com - Compared to modern school kids, I was a downright worthless student.I don’t mean worthless as a pejorative. (My father would have used a more colorful term to characterize my scholarly pursuits.) B...

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Daily Kos: Social Context Reform: Where to Start

dailykos.com - Social Reform: Choosing Evidence over Cultural Myths "For more than two centuries," explains Sawhill and Morton, "economic opportunity and the prospect of upward mobility have formed the bedrock up...

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When Lessons From Education 'Reform' Go Unlearned

ourfuture.org - One good thing you can say about 2011 is that it is a year in which lots of wrong-headed undertakings finally came to their ignominious conclusions -- including, among others, the Iraq War, the Gad...

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Chapter 23: The Instructional Run-Around

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A Tax to Narrow the Rich-Poor Gap

nytimes.com - To the Editor: Re “Don’t Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself,” by Ian Ayres and Aaron S. Edlin (Op-Ed, Dec. 19), proposing an extra tax limiting the incomes of the top 1 percent of earn...

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Cops Ready for War - Yahoo! News

news.yahoo.com - Nestled amid plains so flat the locals joke you can watch your dog run away for miles, Fargo treasures its placid lifestyle, seldom pierced by the mayhem and violence common in other urban communit...

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Ben Falik: We Bought a School

huffingtonpost.com - After news this week that Governor Snyder lifted the limits on the number of charter schools operating in Michigan, you may be asking yourself, "What's stopping me from opening my own charter schoo...

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Wisconsin Set to Throw the Republicans Out |

bluecheddar.net - According to Andrew Feldman’s Christmas Eve opinion piece in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, “Despite Democrats’ massive protests and their success at gathering recall signatures, most Wisconsinite...

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Springtime for Toxics

nytimes.com - Here’s what I wanted for Christmas: something that would make us both healthier and richer. And since I was just making a wish, why not ask that Americans get smarter, too? Surprise: I ...

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#OccupySupply: Erie Still Strong After 7 Raids!

my.firedoglake.com - Occupy Supply is making a difference. Occupy Erie has faced 7 devastating raids but refuses to quit, thanks in-part to the tireless support of the Firedoglake community. Our liaison Mark H. wrote i...

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One More Reason to Hate Wal-Mart (and Football)

modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/12/one-more-reason-to-hate-wal-mart-and.html"; What do Wal-Mart and football have in common, aside from being huge and tedious? Apparently they ar...

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Photo Galleries Of The Week

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Obviously, photos can be great educational tools with English Language Learners and with any students (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons). I post about many photo galleries, also called sl...

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Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1% | Labor Notes #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1% | Labor Notes:Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1%Howard Ryan| December 26, 2011Rahm Emanuel, whom Occupy Chicago has dubbed Mayor 1%, fired another shot at the city’s...

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Cops Ready for War - Yahoo! News

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Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1% | Labor Notes #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1% | Labor Notes:Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1%Howard Ryan| December 26, 2011Rahm Emanuel, whom Occupy Chicago has dubbed Mayor 1%, fired another shot at the city’s...

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#OccupySupply: Erie Still Strong After 7 Raids!

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Rahm’s big money pals buy the Sun-Times. Then criticize teachers. « Fred Klonsky

Rahm’s big money pals buy the Sun-Times. Then criticize teachers. « Fred Klonsky:

Rahm’s big money pals buy the Sun-Times. Then criticize teachers.

by Fred Klonsky

The old sage once said, “Freedom of the press belongs to those that own one.”

Rahm’s big money backers understand that too well. They bought the Sun-Times last week. And this week they editorialize against the Chicago Teachers Union for their direct action style and protest of school closings and turnarounds.

By the way have you read the Sun-Times recently. Me neither.

Well, that’s not exactly true. I was at Joe’s over on Fullerton getting a haircut and a shave. There was a copy sitting next to me while I waited for a chair.

It had shrunk! It’s now this tiny little thing. But there was room for this:

We appreciate great street theater. We also love to see parents and teachers tell the board it has

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Schools Matter: Social Context Reform: Where to Start

Schools Matter: Social Context Reform: Where to Start:

Social Context Reform: Where to Start

by P. L. Thomas
Social Context Reform: Where to Start

In a recent commentary on whether or not education reformers on all side have accepted the powerful impact of poverty on the educational outcomes of students, I suggested that the reform debate appears to be a struggle between two perspectives (although I again concede within each perspective there remains a good amount of nuance): "No Excuses" Reformers and Social Context Reformers.
In the responses to this commentary, jkaa1 offered a comment I think worth considering:
"While I can agree with the thrust of the article--it fails to answer the fundamental question--What can we do? If we can all agree about the corrosive effect of poverty on educational outcomes--then how do we address it? If we can all agree that standardized testing is a flawed instrument to measure student achievement and teacher quality, what is the alternative? Until social context
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The Great California Mess: It’s 80 Initiatives Deep | California Progress Report

The Great California Mess: It’s 80 Initiatives Deep | California Progress Report:

The Great California Mess: It’s 80 Initiatives Deep

by megan

By Peter Schrag

A lot of Sacramento’s wise heads are warning that if more than one of the half dozen or so tax proposals now being circulated for next November’s California ballot actually get there, exasperated voters till throw up their hands and vote them all down.

The onus for clearing the field has been hung on Gov. Jerry Brown, whose own plan – a combination of increases in high-bracket income taxes and across the board sales taxes – is given the best chance of passing.

But what few have noticed, and may be even more important as a measure of the mess we’re in, is that those tax plans are part of a larger glut of some 75 would-be ballot measures that have been cleared for circulation or are waiting at the attorney general’s office for title and summary, so they too can join the crowd that’s already on the streets.

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Shorter Mercury News: California Doesn’t Need Jobs

by megan

By Robert Cruickshank

California’s current unemployment rate is 11.3%. That’s still a far higher level than the state has seen in decades – and it has been sustained at around that level for at least two years.

California faces nothing less than a severe jobs crisis. That doesn’t mean any old job is a good job. But when you have an opportunity to create tens of thousands of jobs per year while building sustainable infrastructure that can save money and spur new growth for the rest of the century, you would be crazy to dismiss it. California didn’t dismiss those opportunities during the Great Depression, building dams and bridges that put people to work immediately and still help create economic value 75 years later.

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Grover Norquist: Portrait of a One Percenter

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By Steven Mikulan

Even when he loses, Grover Norquist wins. This is one of the unsettling conclusions to be drawn from Peter Dreier and Donald Cohen’s December 20 feature, “Grover Norquist’s Real Game: Shifting Power and Wealth to the 1 Percent,” posted on Truthout.org.

Their richly detailed portrait of the founder of Americans for Tax Reform shows Norquist as not simply a more highly evolved version of Howard Jarvis, the California anti-tax zealot who bequeathed us the nightmare known as Proposition 13. Indeed, as Dreier and Cohen state, Norquist is not really a conservative genuinely interested in smaller government or tax reform, but the hired arsonist of big business. Although highly secretive about who pays his rent, Norquist has flacked or lobbied for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Big Tobacco and the gambling industry, to name a few of his benefactors.

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What does it mean to be “educated”? | Being Latino Online Magazine

What does it mean to be “educated”? | Being Latino Online Magazine:

What does it mean to be “educated”?

by Cristopher Rubio

by Cristopher Rubio

Just last week I was sitting with my cap, gown (and hood!) at the University of Georgiafor my graduation ceremony honoring my Master’s Degree in Educational Administration and Policy (the best part of it all was sitting next to my fiancรฉ who was also graduating). For some time now, I had imagined the day and how great it would feel to finally be done. My family would be there, I’d take pictures with my fiancรฉ in our regalia, and we’d all go out and celebrate the fact that we were that much more educated.

“Ay mi hijito, el educado,” I could imagine my abuelita saying proudly. El educado…was that what someone would think or say about me? I started to think about what that meant. Exactly when did I become more

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