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Originally Published at Bill Moyers and Company. November 22, 2013 Education expert Henry Giroux tells Bill public schools are suffering from an overemphasis on academic testing as teachers are stripped of their powers, in schools with disciplinary systems that resemble prisons. “The discipline, particularly in these urban [...]
By Eric Westervelt | Originally Published at National Public Radio. November 21, 2013 5:15 PM | Listen to the story Photograph; Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican, cut more than $1 billion from the state's K-12 budget, which hit the state-controlled Philadelphia district hardest. This is the [...]
By David Sirota | Originally Published at Salon. November 7, 2013 The right loves to demonize unions, but economic factors are much more important to success in the classroom Google the phrase “education crisis” and you’ll be hit with a glut of articles, blog posts and think [...]
On election night, 2013 the headlines rang out what appears to be a regrettable truth; the people no longer support our schools. Voters Soundly Defeat Columbus School Levy Could it be that we turned a tide? For taxpayers, does money now mean more than the education of [...]
Photograph; Alice Terry Elementary School in Colorado. In the United States, more than half the money for school districts comes from local sources, mostly from property taxes. By Eduardo Porter | Originally Published at The New York Times. November 5, 2013 “There aren’t many things that are [...]
Hurricane Katrina seems to have opened the floodgates. It exposed the veracity of a racial divide as well as the truth of a caste system. Businesspersons do well. The people are punished. With the "Recovery" this did not change. What did change post-Katrina is the tide. Public [...]
Be it personal finances, state or municipal budgets, the debt is the same; human beings. We 'rational,' beings think only of our aversion for loss and the wont to retain what we are already endowed with. Actual costs are never a true consideration. The cash on hand [...]
Intellectually people may know that Charter Schools are not public, although many are identified as such. After all, as the National Alliance for Charter Schools ascribes "Charter schools are independent public schools", ostensibly being one while essentially being the other. Perhaps, a Charter can best be described [...]
It is over. The government shutdown is finally over, the headlines herald, but for millions the pain continues and actually worsens. The prognosis is grim. We have ninety days to find a cure for what ails this country. Meanwhile, The patient is on life-support knowing that this [...]
