A new documentary, narrated by Matt Damon and based on a book by Dave Eggers and Nínive Calegari, shows another facet of the troubles teachers in the US face.
Michelle Chen, In These Times. September 26, 2011.
Teachers standing up for their rights on the job are providing a good example for their students, not "politicizing" education as the so-called reformers do.
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. August 26, 2011.
Education expert Diane Ravitch and New York schoolteacher Brian Jones discuss the real problems with--and real solutions for--our public school system.
While Obama pushes for a deal on the debt ceiling, jobs numbers make plain that the focus in Washington is in the wrong place: jobs, not deficits, are the crisis.
Pedro Noguera, Michelle Fine, The Nation. April 29, 2011.
Because current reforms have been designed to promote school choice and weaken the unions, they have been exacerbating the challenges rather than fixing them.
Gates' suggested short-changing of the nation's education system is just another strain of the oligarchs trying to take over another sector of society.
Something is really screwed up when we award billions to Wall Street elites for doing things we don’t comprehend, even as we lay off teachers by the thousands.
