Moral March 14 Point Agenda
14 Point People's Agenda for North Carolina 1. All Children Need High Quality, Constitutional, Well-Funded, Diverse Public Schools. NC must meet its Constitution's requirement of adequate and diverse schools by fully funding Leandro with transparent accountability and creating special [...]
Moral March on Raleigh
Moral March on Raleigh Click HERE for the Facebook event. For the past seven years, a fusion movement has been growing in North Carolina. In 2006, the Historic Thousands on Jones St. (HKonJ) People's Assembly [...]
Moving Photos Show the Not-So-Subtle Effect of Racial Micro-Aggression
For her recent Tumblr photo series, Fordham University student and photographer Kiyun took photos of her friends, each holding a poster that describes an instance of racial micro-aggression personally encountered. The results are powerful. Racial micro-aggressions, as defined by Columbia University professor Derald Wing Sue, [...]
Wow! National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise
Yesterday’s National Day of Action was the largest coordinated action to reclaim the promise of public education in recent memory. Parents, teachers, students and community members took part in the Day of Action because they know that the market-based ideologies of privatization, austerity, division and competition are [...]
I Fell In Love with a Salon Commenter
“I do not know you, but I love you,” I typed. I stared at the words, momentarily letting them linger, then pressed “send.” The recipient of my confession lived thousands of miles away. We had no connection to one another aside from [...]
The Promise and Ways to Reclaim It; National Day of Action!
Throughout this nation there is a sense of frustration. In the land of opportunity much has been lost. At birth, in this democracy, we are promised life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Quality education for all helps ensure the latter two of these. Our [...]
Most States Are Cutting Education
Most States Are Cutting Education Download PDF of this report (14pp.) By Nicholas Johnson, Jeremy Koulish and Phil Oliff Updated February 10, 2009 Thirty-six states have cut education or proposed such cuts because they face massive, devastating budget deficits in this recession. The combination of rising unemployment, [...]
“PISA Day”— An Ideological and Hyperventilated Exercise
By Martin Carnoy and Richard Rothstein | Originally Published at The Economic Policy Institute. December 1, 2013 at 12:39 pm Richard Rothstein Martin Carnoy National average scores of students on the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) will be released Tuesday, and we [...]