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Accountability on Crack

NCLB is not going anywhere soon, nor is our national obsession with accountability for…

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Added by Michael Dunn on April 27, 2011 at 11:03pm — No Comments

Charter Schools: The New Jim Crow

The Civil Rights Project, at UCLA, has just released a new report documenting the intense segregation that occurs at charter schools. The organization has been studying charter schools for seven years and has found that students are substantially more isolated by race and class than at traditional public schools.…

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Added by Michael Dunn on March 9, 2011 at 1:05am — No Comments

Public Sector Pensions: Too Big To Fail?

Public sector pensions have become a popular bogey man. It is true that most have huge unfunded liabilities and this is a problem. However, the blame is always placed on the workers themselves who have nothing at all to do with the problem. The pensions are in trouble primarily because the financial crisis…

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Added by Michael Dunn on March 9, 2011 at 1:03am — No Comments

Teacher Evaluations: Presumption of Incompetence

Teacher Evaluations: Presumption of Incompetence…

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Added by Michael Dunn on January 22, 2011 at 1:11am — No Comments

The “College and Career Ready” Farce Schools around the country are tossing out the old “College for All” slogan and replacing it with the popular Obama-school cliché, “College and Career Ready.” …

The “College and Career Ready” Farce

Schools around the country are tossing out the old “College for All” slogan and replacing it with the popular Obama-school cliché, “College and Career Ready.”

However, when you get right down to it, “College and Career Ready” is really…

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Added by Michael Dunn on January 22, 2011 at 12:16am — No Comments

Toddlers To Pay for Corporate Tax Break in Iowa

Iowa, one of the few states that does not have a budget crisis, actually has a $318 million surplus that they want use to give corporations a tax break. The…

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Added by Michael Dunn on January 14, 2011 at 4:35pm — No Comments

The Impending Demise of Unions

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Added by Michael Dunn on January 8, 2011 at 5:39pm — No Comments

2010: Rich Got Much Richer and Poor Got Much Poorer

There are more than 4 million more Americans in living in poverty than previously reported and they make up 15.7% of the…

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Added by Michael Dunn on January 8, 2011 at 5:34pm — No Comments

Added by Michael Dunn on December 23, 2010 at 5:40pm — No Comments

Teacher Quality and Testing Don’t Mix

Bill Gates, Arne Duncan and others have been spewing the ridiculous lie that teacher experience and education do not matter very much, as…

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Added by Michael Dunn on December 23, 2010 at 5:39pm — No Comments

Bad Week For School Boards—Bad Year for Most Everyone

In her blog, SF School Board Member, Rachel Norton, refers to the attack on the Panama City, Florida, school board, as an act of desperation and hopelessness, typical of how people are…

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Added by Michael Dunn on December 20, 2010 at 5:07pm — No Comments

Increasing Violence and Repression Against UK Students Photo by ucloccupatio The recent repression of student and teacher protesters in Britain has been the worst in decades. The police have s…

Increasing Violence and Repression Against UK Students

Photo by ucloccupatio

The recent repression of…

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Added by Michael Dunn on December 13, 2010 at 10:13am — No Comments

Murderous Middle class Marin Mommies

Marin county ranks #2 in California for pertussis (whooping cough), with 123 cases per 100,000. The illness has reached epidemic levels in California, with 5600 cases and 10…

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Added by Michael Dunn on November 28, 2010 at 2:21pm — No Comments