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Arm Kids to Combat Propaganda: Teach Reason – the Fourth “R” – in the Classroom
Our children need sound thinking skills to reverse our mindless path of death and destruction.
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Threatened a President But Passed Her Background Check?
It barely made the news—like this week's Delaware courthouse shooting that left three dead. But last week the New York Times reported that Alice Boland threatened administrators at Ashley …
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Vassar College Students Take on Westboro Baptist Church
I'm in the thick of teaching at Vassar College at the moment. I just came off sabbatical and with lab activities to prepare, quizzes to grade, homework assignments to …
Corporations Advise School Closings, While Private Charters Suck Public Schools Away
As charter proponents aim to cash in on major investment returns, Philly braces for a massive schools shakeup.
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Norman Finkelstein’s Criticism of BDS: Wrong, But With a Germ of Truth
lan Dershowitz's opposition to the recent BDS panel discussion at Brooklyn College was easy for many people to dismiss, correctly, as Zionist chutzpah, but Norman Finkelstein's sharp attack on …
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Obama Pushes Preschool for All Kids So They Don’t Start Out “a Step Behind“
President Obama proposes legislation that would expand free pre-kindergarten education for American children as an attempt to level the playing field for low income families.
Noam Chomsky “Public Education and The Common Good”
Noam Chomsky gives to us an eloquent perspective on the public education system.
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Fuzzy Math: The Chicago Public Schools Budget Crisis
The real bottom line may be that this is Mayor Emanuelu2019s agenda, the facts donu2019t matter, and we have very little say in the decision.
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Global Day of Action for MAP Test Boycott: Many Thanks From a Garfield Teacher
Yesterday, February 6, was a national day of action to support Seattle teachers' boycott of the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test. The response was astounding. We received messages …