Choosing Democracy

A discussion of major issues facing our democracy with an emphasis on public schooling.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Democracy and the Economic Crisis in Greece

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Joseph Stiglitz, The rising crescendo of bickering and acrimony within Europe might seem to outsiders to be the inevitable result of the...
Monday, June 29, 2015

Walton Family - Walmart- Pushes to privatize public schools

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Advocates of education privatization—whether through voucher programs that send tax dollars to private schools or through charter scho...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

antiracismdsa: Greece- This Is What Class War Looks Like

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 Greece- This Is What Class War Looks Like : Greek People to Vote July 5 on “Blackmailing Ultimatum” Anastasios Papapostolou  June 26, 2015...

The Big Picture: Reinvent Education

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Thursday, June 25, 2015

SF Teachers’ Union Elects New Leadership

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SF Teachers’ Union Elects New Leadership
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Our Kids : The American Dream in Crisis

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Our Kids: The American Dream In Crisis (2015) Robert Putnam A   Preliminary Review by Duane Campbell This new book is an insight...
Friday, June 19, 2015

President Obama Delivers a Statement on the Shooting in South Carolina

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The Charleston Massacre:

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antiracismdsa: The Charleston Massacre: : We Must Respond to the Right-wing Attempt to Reframe the Charleston Massacre By Bill Fletcher, J...
Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Public schools and the Public Square

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And yet the public square is under attack. Remarks by Randi Weingarten Leo talked about the public square as a metaphor for political ...
Monday, June 01, 2015

The False Dichotomy Between Movement Building and Electoral Politics

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By Tom Gallagher Most people we might think of as being on the American left don’t generally embrace the idea of “American exceptionalis...
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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