Choosing Democracy

BILL MOYERS: In past decades, the voices of the labor movement swelled the Democratic chorus. Then, Democratic presidential candidates offic...

August 31, 2008 @ 4:56 PM The Education Coalition announced opposition to the Republican Senate budget proposal that permanently cuts billio...

The California budget remains a stalemate. The Senate’s first vote was 3 votes short. That is, no Republicans voted for the budget. Passing...

Creation Myth What Barack Obama won't tell you about his community organizing past. John B. Judis, The New Republic Published: Wednesd...

from The American Prospect http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_democratic_education_divide The Democratic Education Divide A pre...

: David Bacon A veteran photojournalist explores the human side of globalization and argues for new ways to think about and legislate around...

O’Connell’s proposal ( below) calls for more sensitivity training for teachers to reduce the achievement gap. There is simply no evidence t...

State Schools Chief Jack O'Connell Releases 2008 STAR Program Results Showing California Students Continue to Improve LOS ANGELES/SAN JO...

Reclaiming Education: How to Resist the Growing Threat to Public Education By Susan Harman and Deborah Meier (online) AMERICANS HAVE settle...

The budget stalemate and children Once again Californians are treated to a budget standoff-as we have been so often in the last 10 years. ...

State Schools Chief Jack O'Connell Calls on Legislature and Governor to Reach Budget Accord SACRAMENTO — State Superintendent of Public ...

August 6, 2008 (Computerworld) More than a thousand hacked Web sites are serving up fake Flash Player software to users duped into clicking ...

The budget stalemate and children Once again Californians are treated to a budget standoff-as we have been so often in the last 10 years. ...

I am not a great fan of David Brooks of the NYT. However, in his Tues. essay he makes sense. The clip below is edited. Go to the original f...

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The California State Board of Education has recently decided that all 8th. graders in the state should take Algebra. See prior posts on thi...

from the London Guardian http://books.guardian.co.uk/interviews/story/0,,2291935,00.html America's last taboo Barbara Ehrenreich has bee...

Jack O’Connell: California’s Alarming Dropout Rate and the Support Our Children Need In this week’s Democratic weekly radio address, State S...