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Education
The Apocalypse of the Teacher (The Book of the Great Divide)
J.H. Marten's masterful prose tells the story of teachers in this country, and the great divide that threatens education as a whole.
Outing ACT: Test-and-Punish Doesn’t Educate, but It’s Profitable for Testing Companies
The testing fox is in the education henhouse and it is having a wonderful time. Take the mandated high-stakes tests, fall below an arbitrary cut score set by a …
Do Obama Policies Help Baltimore Schools
Baltimore Activists say
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Selling the Soul of Public Education
Maya Schenwar: When it comes to teachers, Rahm Emanuel needs to sit down, shut up and listen to their more-than-reasonable demands.
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Corriendo Educando or Teaching/Learning While Running
Dr. Rodriguez examine running, specifically Indigenous ceremonial running, as a means of learning and acquiring knowledge and as a method of teaching and raising consciousness.
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Chicago Teachers Find Emanuel’s Prominent DNC Speaking Slot “Ironic“
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is taking the hardline with the city's teachers' union and eschewing the negotiation table for a DNC speaking slot.
Film “Won’t Back Down” Models Hollywood Propaganda in Age of School Reform
Hollywood is jumping aboard the PR train to push privatized education just as it did to popularize both World Wars - only this time, entrepreneurs are joining the government …
All Eyes on Chicago’s Teachers
Itu2019s impossible to exaggerate the national importance of the teachersu2019 struggle in Chicago. If the Chicago teachersu2019 union u2014 26,000 members strong u2014 goes on strike, many critical yet …
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What’s Red and Black and Controlled Independently by Students?
The student-run newspaper serving the University of Georgia, of course. When the board tried to take over editorial control, the student staff walked out in a final effort to …
Investors Seek to Profit From Privatizing Public Schools
Activists at Peopleu2019s Education Convention demand an end to excessive testing.