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Public education, immigrant rights, and contempt of the bourgeoisie and their reactionary servants.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Special Event - Punishing our Future: School Discipline in Los Angeles

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"While KIPP schools ostensibly claim that college acceptance for all students is their primary goal, the principles and practices that ...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Dissident Voice: Lying to Mother Jones

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The Compton experience and others across the country reflect parents' real frustrations with their schools. However, the four trigger ch...

Schools Matter: John Deasy's Queen Antoinette moment: "let them eat ebooks"

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First published on Schools Matter on September 24, 2011 "Right now, only higher-income readers can afford ebook readers and ebook...
Friday, September 23, 2011

October 24, 2011 Save the Date for a Special Event

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The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman A screening of the film. Followed by a panel with special guests including Dr. Stephen Kr...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

Schools Matter: Eli Broad pays Parent Revolution to champion charters not to empower parents!

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"To support efforts to help Charter Management Organizations apply for new LAUSD schools under LAUSD's School Choice Resolution...

Elizabeth Terzakis and Adrienne Johnstone on Pedagogy and Liberation

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"It is not surprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings. The more students work at stor...
Friday, September 16, 2011

Shirlee Smith: Parent Revolution? Not really

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"The idea of the Parent Revolution is to say fuck you." — Ben Austin (Executive Director, Parent Revolution) [1] Shirlee Smith...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

How do we win back our schools?

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"After years of teachers union bashing and corporate-led school 'reform' efforts, anti-public school forces are now on the defe...
Thursday, September 08, 2011

Schools Matter: A match made in privatization purgatory? Capricious Young and A.J. Duffy!

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"Improving education is not the goal. Privatization is the goal... Private interests are just that – private." — Bruce A. Dixon (...

Schools Matter: Perfidious Petruzzi calls for accurate evaluations of Green Dot Charter Corporation?

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"The lowest-performing, based on test scores, is the large Green Dot chain." — Los Angeles Times I dismantle and debunk all of ...

Schools Matter: Initial thoughts on Duffy's duplicity

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Duffy has not kept the faith. He has sold his soul. He is prepared to betray untold numbers of teachers for his own personal gain, while hel...

Nativo Vigil Lopez: Katt Wiliams' Anti-Mexican Rant a True Kramer Moment

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Katt Wiliams' Anti-Mexican Rant a True Kramer Moment By: Nativo Vigil Lopez Not dissimilar to an experience lived by standup comedi...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Schools Matter: Occupation of Logan Street School Rooms by a Corporate Charter Continues

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"[C]reating a 'separate and unequal' education system through the co-locations of charter schools in public school buildings....

On Democracy Now! "Poverty Is the Problem": Efforts to Cut Education Funding, Expand Standardized Testing Assailed

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The Democracy Now! team discusses recent developments in New York's assessment plans, the U.S. Department of Education's controversi...

EDUCATION AND CAPITALISM: Struggles for Learning and Liberation

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"This book is a breath of fresh air! The chapters take on central issues in education with a clear vision of what could be. Class, race...

The unnamed corporate ed-reform "uber-hipster" has a name, Mike McGalliard

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"I'm not going to accuse you and John Holcomb of white savior syndrome per se, but I will go on record as saying that your ideas an...
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Matt Damon speaks truth to power and advocates for authentic reform

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[ click here if you can't view this video ] Valerie Strauss posted a transcript of this cogent and inspiring speech.
Monday, August 22, 2011

Economic Justice L.A. Calls Urgent Action: Tax Big Oil = Fund Education

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This seemed worthy of publicizing. What if we could get the oil companies to give schools kindergarten through universities 3 billion dol...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Robert D. Skeels on The Mind Of A Bronx Teacher BlogTalkRadio

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"We demand equity in our schools!" — Robert D. Skeels Listen to internet radio with Bronx Teacher on Blog Talk Radio [ click ...

Professor Daniel Willingham on Merit Pay, Teacher Pay, and Value Added Measures

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The private sector rewards only true merit - not! — Caroline Grannan (Journalist, Editor, Educator) [ click here if you can't view...
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