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Report: Charters Creating Two-Tier Education
At the 60-year anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, separate is still not equal.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: President Obama Announces an Order to Help Americans Pay Student Loans, and More
President Obama announced an executive order to help five million Americans pay off their student loans, and more.
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One Year After Closings, How Are Chicago’s Public Schools Now?
For the low-income communities that lost a neighborhood school, the effects are still palpable one year later.
Autistic Teen Entrapped by Cops, Jesse Snodgrass, to Participate in Graduation Ceremony at Chaparral High School
Jesse Snodgrass, the teenage special needs student arrested in an undercover police operation will receive his high school diploma at the Chaparral High School graduation ceremony on Thursday, June …
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State Senate Leader Reacts to Center Report, Urging Counsel for Truants
GOP leader involved in national movement to reform school discipline policies.
A Civil War Myth That Hurts Us All
Americans are shamefully unaware of their own country's past.
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Lawsuit: Low-Income Students Assigned Too Much “Work Experience” or Free Time Instead of Classes They Need
Suit against California says “work” periods, other problems, rob kids of instructional time.
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Testing Narrative: José Vilson’s Vision of Race, Class and Education in the US
Jose Vilson's new book “This Is Not a Test” discusses how education reform looks and feels to those who actually have to endure it: teachers, parents and students.
Michigan Teacher Suspended for Showing Video on Segregation and the Use of Black Face
There is a troubling case in Michigan where Alan Barron, a public school teacher at Monroe Middle School, has been suspended for teaching an eighth grade class on racial …
Endgame: Disaster Capitalism, New Orleans, and the Charter Scam
How to monetize and what will the market bear are the guiding ethics of disaster capitalism, which exists seamlessly within the larger ethic of the US, capitalism.