Wednesday, May 27, 2015

These Students Want an Education

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 Children and young adults need to see themselves in the curriculum.  Students, particularly students of color, have low levels of atta...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

The Big Picture: Reinvent Eduction

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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

California Schools get Significant New Funding

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California is expected to get $6.7 billion more in revenue than originally anticipated in the January budget, bringing the total budget fo...
Monday, May 18, 2015

None of these "reforms" work - they make this stuff up

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We've suffered under the factory model of school reform for the past dozen years under No Child Left Untested. The pillars are sim...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Peg with Pen: A Quick Guide to Resisting from Within for Educato...

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Peg with Pen: A Quick Guide to Resisting from Within for Educato... : I get asked a lot about what it’s like to teach in the public schools ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Writer Off Track in Assault on Teachers' Unions

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by Duane Campbell Bill Whalen of the Hoover Institute recounts the difficult issues of riots in our cities and then blames Democrats ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Opting out of testing mania

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Network for Public Education Today,  The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights led 11 civil rights groups into a national dis...
Monday, May 04, 2015

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Standardized Testing (HBO)

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Students First sue California Teachers' Unions

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The latest  legal assault  on the right of the state’s public-sector unions to collect dues was filed in Los Angeles  earlier this month  ...

California Children in Poverty

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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Subverting Big Money's Attacks on Public Education

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Debbie Meier Sixty years ago, I was active in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) as well as the democratic socialist movement, and...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Worse than Texas : Chicano History Ignored in California State Textbooks

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But, you can do something about that this week ! Mañana is now ! See prior post.  "You cannot oppress a people who are not afraid...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

You cannot oppress people who are not afraid anymore

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   "Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.  You can not un-educate the person who has learned to read.. You cannot oppre...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Working Class Under Siege

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SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: CampusProgressive AllianceThe Progressive Forum Pr... : Campus Progressive Alliance The Progressive Foru...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Working Class Under Siege- Progressive Forum

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Working Class Under Siege: Organized labor and students fight for a brighter future. Forum:   April 16, 2015.    3 PM. Speakers,...
Friday, April 10, 2015

antiracismdsa: American Exceptionalism v Teaching History of Mino...

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antiracismdsa: American Exceptionalism v Teaching History of Mino... : Ed. Below, the writer makes a good argument about history.  This is t...
Thursday, April 09, 2015

Letters on the inclusion of Mexican American History in the History/Social Science Framework

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Cesar Chavez and Duane Campbell 1972 History /Social Science Framework Committee   (Sample letter) Re: Inclusion of   Mexican Amer...
Monday, April 06, 2015

Teachers- ( and allies) We need your letters on inclusion of Mexican American History

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Cesar and friends at Sac State. 1972.   "Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.  You can not un-educate the person who...
Sunday, April 05, 2015

Teachers Cheating on Tests - Atlanta

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Taking the Fall in Atlanta Posted April 3, 2015 at 11:10 am by RICHARD ROTHSTEIN   Eleven Atlanta educators, convicted and impriso...
Thursday, April 02, 2015

California School Funding Gap is Reduces

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Proposition 30 Has Increased  California School Funding - and we passed it ! A valuable way of comparing states’ investment in schoo...