Choosing Democracy

"For you, Mr. Bush, and for Mr. Cheney, there is a lesser task. You need merely achieve a very low threshold indeed. Display just that ...

Report from the blog Facing South: U.S. Social Forum: Another politics is possible A driving message coming from the 10,000+ activists asse...

Democrats: No child law needs overhaul By Nancy Zuckerbrod, Associated Press Writer | July 2, 2007 PHILADELPHIA --They all voted for it, b...

REPORT TOUTING NCLB SUCCESS CANNOT SUPPORT OVERSTATED CLAIMS Methodology is too weak to support finding that student achievement has increa...

By Michael Abramowitz Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 3, 2007; A01 President Bush limited his deliberations over commuting the ja...

From David Sirota's blog “Democratic leaders in Congress put off a vote on trade agreements with Peru and Panama until those countries r...

There is an important debate about this decision. However, the educational debate is somewhat different than the court debate. See prior po...

Today’s Supreme Court decision on school integration plans. Lets be honest: The Supreme court decision was a victory for conservatives. It...

It's a big problem: More and more news outlets are owned by fewer and fewer corporate conglomerates that spend less and less time on rea...

An interesting essay on Truth Dig with Dr. Troy Duster: The Forgotten War on Drugs and Election ’08 http://www.truthdig.com/interview/item/2...

The Bush Regime and many educational pundits, including Peter Schrag of the Sacramento Bee regularly claim that reading scores have improved...

Deciding on a candidate. After watching the presentations of leading Democratic Party candidates at the Take Back America Conference, http:/...

The Crisis in our Democracy: First annual : Sacramento Progressive Forum Fall October 4, 2007. CSU-Sacramento. University Union All ...

The nation, not schools, takes lousy care of our children From the beginning of the educational “accountability” movement in the mid-1990s, ...

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COMMENTARY A Diminished Vision of Civil Rights: No Child Left Behind and the Growing Divide in How Educational Equity Is Understood By James...

June 2, 2007 U.S. Puts Limits on Lenders’ Ties to Universities By JONATHAN D. GLATER The Education Department, criticized for lax oversight ...