Choosing Democracy

Some of the nation’s largest corporations have amassed vast profits outside the country and are pressing Congress and the Obama administr...

important column by Ravitch : http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/2011/06/reasons_for_hope.html "For the past year, t...

Faculty Say Budget Cuts Put Quality of Education in Peril   Essential Skills May be Jeopardized by Rapidly Deteriorating Situation LOS ANG...

The California Budget Project, a nonpartisan public policy research group, released the following statement from Executive Director Jean R...

The Republican minority won the California budget battle. California is a Democratic controlled state; in the Senate there are 25 Democra...

Currently the Republicans are preventing an extension of the national debt limit.  They demand deep budget cuts first.  In refusing to exten...

S. Krashen The US Department of Education is planning the most massive and expensive testing program ever seen on the planet, far exceedin...

Budget deal removes teacher layoff threat JUNE 24, 2011 An agreement reached by New York City and the UFT will ensure that no New York City ...

  Paul Karrer,                              How Did We Get Here?  The public has gone from venerating teachers to vilifying them  . How did...

  The big lie must be exposed.  The lie the rightwing has been perpetrating for nearly a generation. The lie that now almost all politician...

Commencement Speech: Stephen Krashen Delivered at Lewis and Clark College, June 5, 2011 Our schools are not broken: the problem is poverty...

By   Randy Shaw Beyond Chron In 2008, young people and longtime non-voters set cynicism aside to mount a national grassroots campaign t...

From: Huffington Post. Joy Resmovits As Texas lawmakers prepare to cut billions in education funding and give school districts a heavier ha...

From: The California Budget Project.  June 7,2011.   In response to sizeable budget shortfalls, lawmakers have repeatedly cut state spendin...

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/06/07/not-a-happy-anniversary-10-years-of-bush-tax-cuts/

by Dean Baker When the financial system was on the edge of melting down back in the fall of 2008, there was much talk in the punditocracy of...

A comment on Ravitch's NY Times article: School Miracles, Slow Learners and Access to Books- by Steven Krashen First-class investigativ...


Bill Fletcher, Jr.  Task for progressives in 2012:
Monkey-wrenching the white united front
 
It has been striking that many progressives h...

The spokesperson for Michelle Rhee's "Students First" organization would have you know it's not that Rhee and Students Fi...