Choosing Democracy

Even though residents in the foothills turned out to denounce health care reform, today they are benefitting from the work of a socialist pr...

Stealing From the Youth by Joseph Palermo There’s an ancient saying that we do not inherit our society from our ancestors, but borrow it fro...

“Race To The Top:” Feds Demand Too Much, Too Soon, For Too Little By Marty Hittelman
President
California Federation of Teachers The Califor...

Remarks on Race to the Top (RTTT) Stephen Krashen Expanded version of comments submitted to regulations.gov on Race to the Top August 27, 20...

SACRAMENTO — Two Oxnard School District trustees, one day after having ended a weeklong fast to call attention to education funding cuts in ...

Testimony before the California State Senate on California’s response to the demands of the Duncan Administration Race to the Top. Topic, ...

Re "State can't let money slip away" (Editorial, Aug. 20): The Bee editorial argues that California must not let federal mone...

Obama's Awful Education Plan By Diane Ravitch Posted: August 23, 2009 10:22 AM No group had greater hopes for President Obama and his pr...

From Class Struggle: by Jay Mahews. Here's a dispatch from my colleague Nick Anderson on the national education beat: http://voices.was...

The Organization California Together Responds to the publication of California STAR test results. August 18,2009. “System Failure; For t...

The Honorable Arne Duncan U.S. Secretary of Education Washington, DC Dear Secretary Duncan, The $4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund presents ...

California. Congessional District 3 Saturday, August 22nd 10:30- 12noon Jackson Civic Center 33 Broadway Jackson, CA 95642 View Larger Map W...

Medicare for all The town hall meeting occurring across the country reveal a renewed hard right wing in the U.S. The health care debate has...

The Sacramento Bee for Saturday has an article , “Districts allowed to delay updating textbooks; states OK Frees us funds,”http://www.sacbee...

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Chris Kromm We're now two weeks into the Town Hall Uprising that has rocked members of Congress coming home for their August recess. The...

Education ‘Miracles’ Don’t Survive Scrutiny By Mike Rose Despite a childhood of incantations and incense, of holy cards and stories of crutc...

Testing Issues Added to the shortcomings of the standards movement is the recent heavy emphasis on high-stakes testing to determine the ach...

I was giving a speech on the political control of public schooling to a forum here in Sacramento. A teacher in the conference asked, “ I ...

The Real Problem with The Senate's Small-State Bias by Nate Silver Five Thirty Eight: Politics Done Right 8/3/2009 As you all surely kno...