Choosing Democracy

A discussion of major issues facing our democracy with an emphasis on public schooling.

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Education and amateurs

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edpbrady27032705mar27,1,464606.story?ctrack=1&cset=true Amateurs amok -- call in the pro...
Monday, March 28, 2005

California High School Exit Exams; and the Bee

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Back to the California High School Exit Exams. California High School Exit Exam. On Monday, March 21, 2005, The Sacramento Bee editorial wri...
Saturday, March 26, 2005

California drop out crisis

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It is great that the Sacramento Bee found this report. These alarming figures have been known to civil rights activists in schools for over...

Cesar Chavez Presente

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César Chávez: "Presente" By Duane E. Campbell The spirit of Cesar Chavez lives on in the struggle for union rights and justice in...
Friday, March 25, 2005

School improvement and tenure battles

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The Governor argues that we need an initiative to change teacher tenure, but there has been no evidence offered that this is a problem cau...
Monday, March 21, 2005

LA Times on tenure

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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-tenure21mar21,0,3605685.story EDITORIAL Rewards, Not Tenure: The Los Angeles Times March 21, 2005 ...

California High School Exit Exam

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California High School Exit Exam. On Monday, March 21, 2005, The Sacramento Bee editorial writers take a position in favor of the California...
Friday, March 18, 2005

The California Governor and education

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You can see the new CTA ads on the Governors policy at http://www.cta.org You can see the Governor’s view at http://www.cagop.org/ You can ...

More on Jill Stewart's superficial and biased writing

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See the prior posting on March 15 for background. As a long-time resident of California, I suppose that I am one of the ‘everyday California...
Thursday, March 17, 2005

Sit in with Arnold for 22cents

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To: arnold-watch@consumerwatchdog.org Subject: Sit-In At The Gov's Table http://ArnoldWatch.org Web Log - March 17, 2005 - 11:35 AM Go t...

Diane Ravitch fails again

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Dr. Diane Ravitch has a new opinion piece in the New York Times of March 15, 2005 entitled, “Failing the Wrong Grades” Ravitch is the forme...
Tuesday, March 15, 2005

1000 Protest Governor- Bee skips the story

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Hundreds Protest Governor's Reform Plans Sacramento BEE skips the story Crowd Gathers Outside Pricey Fund-Raising Event POSTED: 7:47 a...

Nader on Arnold

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Published on Monday, March 14, 2005 by CommonDreams.org Arnold Imitates Art by Ralph Nader Corporate cyborg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, must be ...

Teachers as professionals

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From a reader: In response to a Bee article: I hope Michael Kolbert writes more about the deleterious ways in which high stakes-standardized...

Vile and incendiary rants in print

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The Sacramento News and Review hosts a flamethrower columnist Jill Stewart. From time to time she takes off on bilingual education and Latin...
Monday, March 14, 2005

The Sacramento BEE editorial on reinventing schools

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Struggling Schools can reinvent themselves. The editors of the Sacramento Bee on Monday, March 14, 2005, wrote a lead editorial on how strug...

About this blog

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Welcome, I am considering starting a blog with a focus on critiquing media reports on schools, school reform, and school policy. I regularly...

The Governor's Strange Priorities

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The governor’ s strange priorities, March, 2005. California has a school crisis-described again by the Rand Corporation (www.rand.org). We h...

No Child Left Behind

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There is a fundamental problem of school funding in California. We do not fund our schools well. We rank between 37th and 47th. out of th...
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