Choosing Democracy

Spending Per Student Increases, Nearly Returning to the Pre-Recession Level – California Budget Project California’s public schools serv...

New Jersey’s Education Cerf-dumb » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

by Jeff Bryant Everyone loves “choice,” right? In a country where in a single year there are more than  100 new choices for what to use...

State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Reports California Sees Significant Drops in Student Suspensions and Expulsions SACRAMENTO—The number...

By Duane Campbell Julie Watson of The Associated Press reports today in the Sacramento Bee that   nine public school students are suing ...

by Duane Campbell When young people don’t vote. The “Policy Experts”   Just Don’t Get It I watched the Public Policy Institute   Sacram...

Jack Rothman. Co-authored by Amy Rothman, psychotherapist and mediator in Los Angeles   American education just received another bea...

By Stan Karp This is a revised version of a talk on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) delivered in Portland, Oregon, Sept. 20, 20...

by Thomas F. Jackson In 1968, a united black community in Memphis stepped forward to support 1,300 municipal sanitation workers as the...

The California Board of Education on Jan.16, approved the funding formula presented  by Gov. Jerry Brown and approved by legislators last ...

You Have to Know History to Actually Teach It, an interview with Eric Foner. http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive...

Interesting panel on Disrupting the School to Prison Pipeline. the Albert Shanker Institute. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuzsMo...

Seth Sandronsky Take the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001. Add its heir, the Race to the Top Fund (RTT-TF), part of the Ame...

An excellent video explanation by Dr. Wayne Au "Recolonizing Our Classrooms:  The Race and Class Hypocrisy of Corporate Education Re...

by Duane Campbell On January 9, California   Governor Brown proposed a budget for the 2014/2015 fiscal year.   It will be subject to cha...

And, a response SB 837 would make Transitional Kindergarten Available to All Four-Year-Olds in CA (Sacramento)  – In recognition that t...

Jeff Bryant All the reviews of last year’s top education news stories are out and the consensus view is 2013 was a “pivotal year” for t...

No Al-Qaida Link In Benghazi Attack, 'New York Times' Reports by  KRISHNADEV CALAMUR December 28, 2013  8:38 PM The...

See the post- Room at the Inn. ( Link on the left) http://www.dsausa.org/democratic_left

The column by Dan Walters in the Sacramento Bee entitled “California’s School Wars Heat Up” in the print edition for Dec.20, and “Powerful...