Saturday, August 30, 2014

Tom Torlakson supports teachers rights to teach

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SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today released the following statement regarding the Vergara, et al. v...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Rethinking Schools- Teaching Ferguson

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Teaching Ferguson Compilation of blog posts and resources from Rethinking Schools, Teaching for Change, and Zinn Education Project...

Back to School, and to Widening Inequality

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 Robert Reich   American kids are getting ready to head back to school. But the schools they’re heading back to differ dramatically by f...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Groups protest Pro-corporate policies of Mexican G...

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antiracismdsa: Groups protest Pro-corporate policies of Mexican G... : SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto praised Gov...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Inequality is real, it's personal, it's expensive and it was created

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

The U.S.'s Classist Educational System - And California's

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by Peter Dreier. America's education system is unequal and unfair. Students who live in wealthy communities have huge advantages tha...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Another Opportunity Missed - Civic Education Policy Proposals in California

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California education policy makers have once again written and published a nice looking report on school curriculum – this one on the need ...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs in Public Schooling

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By Anthony Cody and Alan Aja. From the very beginnings of No Child Left Behind, the strongest argument for attaching stakes to tests has...
Saturday, August 09, 2014

Release of DC-CAS Proficiency Scores Affirms Need for Transparency, Change of Policy Strategy | Economic Policy Institute

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Release of DC-CAS Proficiency Scores Affirms Need for Transparency, Change of Policy Strategy | Economic Policy Institute Clearly Michelle...

"Better than the Republicans", Not Good Enough

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by Jeff Bryant, A common admonition progressives have gotten used to hearing over the years is to support more conservative Democratic c...
Thursday, August 07, 2014

The Myth of Teacher Tenure

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by  Diana D'Amico  — July 23, 2014 In the stories of exorbitant costs and incompetence, teacher tenure laws have achieved mythic propo...
Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Let’s Talk about Testing

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Monday, August 04, 2014

Welcome to Sacramento Superintendent José Banda

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Welcome to Sacramento.   We hope that you can establish a positive working relationship with the Board, the community, and the teachers....
Friday, August 01, 2014

New President of NEA and Arne Duncan

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Jeff Bryant: For years, politicians and policy leaders have been running the nation’s public education system basically by the seat of...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

New Senate Bill Fails To Address Root Causes of Central America refugees...

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antiracismdsa: New Senate Bill Fails To Address Root Causes of Ce... : The Republican bill in the House is far worse. http://noticias.univ...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

The Democratic Party's Divide on Education - Teachers Unions

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Democratic Party’s Divide on Education Policy gets Worse Jeff Bryant Political pundits who try to tamp down talk of divisions within ...
Friday, July 11, 2014

US and Finnish Educational Reform Trajectories: a comparison

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Wednesday, July 09, 2014

NEA Delegates call for resignation of Arne Duncan

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by Motoko Rich The long partnership between Democrats and teachers’ unions has frayed in recent years as the Obama administration has pur...

Why Does the Obama Administration Keep Getting It Wrong on Education Policy?

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Why Does the Obama Administration Keep Getting It Wrong on Education Policy?
Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Child refugees on our border

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antiracismdsa: Child refugees on our border : Dear President Obama:  July 3, 2014 We, the undersigned immigration, civil and human ri...