Choosing Democracy

A major water bill has been passed by the California  Legislature, led by local leader Darrell Steinberg.  It includes a 10.1 Billion wa...

Tom Frank's book, *The Wrecking Crew* < http://tcfrank.com/books/the-wrecking-crew/>explains  how the Bush administration destro...

Here we have it: The Democratic Leadership Council, corporate power, and the Broad Foundation joining hands to destroy public education. Bil...

Excellent, valuable video : http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/jobs/americaneedsjobsnow.cfm

  Why California Students Do Not Understand Chicano/Latino History. Dr. Duane Campbell, BMED (emeritus) has been organizing testimony t...

FEINGOLD-REQUESTED STUDY SHOWS TESTING MANDATES IN NCLB MAY PROMOTE NEGATIVE EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES GAO Study Shows Problematic Practices Li...

Gene R. Carter, Executive Director of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development ( which I have been a member of for over 30...

We've got to stop cutting public education . To ease the budget crisis, one state after another is taking an ax to higher education . T...

And, they even mention the CSUs Why Are We Destroying Public Education? University of California Students and Staff Prepare for System-W...

A Wake Up Call on Jobs by Robert Kuttner President Obama has announced a White House Jobs Summit for next month. At least that's the b...

The use of trumped-up numbers downplays the difficulty of the work Demmellash and other nonprofit leaders do -- and it downplays the stubb...

'Feels Like My Heart Has Been Broken' New and Veteran Teachers in D.C. Stunned By Their Dismissal, as Well as Handling of It By Mi...

Schwarzenegger Signs The Delta's Death Warrant  by Dan Bacher After an all night session, the California Legislature on November 4 p...

The Sacramento Bee Forum has two major pieces on the Schwarzenegger proposed Water Bonds. Several of the key Republicans supporting this a...

DSA Talk: The Economic Crisis: Economic Crisis, The Budget, Our Schools, and Your Students.  This session will focus on the causes and co...

a blog note. I had to delete the excellent  post by Diane Ravitch which appeared here two days ago. Something in the post disrupted the oth...

A major water bill has been passed by the California   Legislature, led by local leader Darrell Steinberg.  It includes a 10.1 Billion wat...

Letters to the editor; Race to the top a 'boondoggle' Re "Not pretty, but state education bill takes a step" (Editori...

National Panel Urges Upgrades to Teacher Workforce By Lesli A. Maxwell Washington A report from a high-powered education task force that ...

Needed: an overhaul of teacher prep At a speech to Columbia University's Teachers College, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called f...