Choosing Democracy

On Monday, Oct. 8, 4 major newspapers carried news stories or editorials bemoaning the risisng costs of education at the U.C. ( See below). ...

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/08/politics The Liberal (and Moderating) Professoriate Faculty members identify as liberals and v...

Less to bank on at state universities Educators fear a 2004 funding deal has schools sliding toward mediocrity By Richard C. Paddock Los Ang...

Presentation: The Crisis of Our Democracy. Progressive Forum 2007. Oct. 4, 2007. CSU Sacramento We gather at a very interesting time. We a...

Clarence Thomas and Rupert Murdoch Jon Wiener The long-awaited publication of Clarence Thomas's memoir, "My Grandfather's Son,...

Here's a new article by two former NCLB supporters, Frederick M. Hess and Chester E. Finn, Jr., "Can This Law Be Fixed? A Hard Look...

           Of all the things we expected Congress to fix when reauthorizing NCLB, the over-reliance upon standardized tests to measure both ...

The Crisis in Our Democracy You are invited: Progressive Forum 2007 Orchard Suite. University Union. CSU –Sacramento Oct.4, 2007. 9 Am ...

Over on the California Progress Report. http://www.californiaprogressreport.com G.O.P. Electoral Vote Scheme Blows Up – Spreading Egg All Ov...

California reading scores shameful- again: National Scores essentially stagnant. Governors, Senators, and Assemblymembers , and the State Su...

Obama to open Oakland office while Hillary’s here Posted by Josh Richman on September 26th, 2007 Democratic presidential candiate Barack Oba...

The 2007 NAEP results are presently available on line. They are not yet available in print. As per past years, the Bush administration is ...

Of all the things we expected Congress to fix when reauthorizing NCLB, the over-reliance upon standardized tests to measure both student lea...

September 26, 2007 Math Scores Rise, but Reading Is Mixed By SAM DILLON America’s public school students are doing significantly better in m...

Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1 http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/09/24/ahmadinejad/ Demonizing the Iranian president an...

It looks like the vote on the re-authorization of NCLB will be after Oct.8. CTA has mounted a major campaign to stop the bill in its presen...

Your website and framing on Dirty Tricks is excellent, but this is a plea for message discipline. The California Democratic Party has been f...

From a Move on e mail. Yesterday, an amazing thing happened. After the Senate's shameful vote, and after President Bush called MoveOn ...

We Must Persevere Recently, the Supreme Court rendered a decision that makes school integration far more difficult. Civil rights leader Juli...

Two excellent reporters, Donald Bartlett and James B. Steele, tell the story of corruption in Iraq. http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/featu...