By Lee Fang | Originally Published at The Nation. November 16, 2011Under the banner of high-tech progress, corporate lobbyists have rammed through legislation privatizing K-12 education across the country. This article was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. If the national movement [...]
Inherent within each of us is conflict. Generally speaking, we think growth is good. Progress is a sign of achievement. As George Bernard Shaw so aptly articulated, “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” Indeed, politically, at one time [...]
Photograph By Tony Avelar/Bloomberg; A fifth grade student works on a social studies assignment at Bullis Charter School in Los Altos, California. Old news is not necessarily good or outdated news; nor is improvement inevitability. Indeed, in time, much deteriorates. Please consider the circumstance in Silicon Valley, [...]
We have become accustomed to its face. We hear the phrase "school choice" and say, what does that mean; it is but a theme for those who endorse more privatization. Could it be "school choice" is not what it seems? Perhaps it is an opportunity for a [...]
We want to believe that our children's education resides in the hands of professionals. We place our confidence in our Teachers. Paid pedagogues, we think guide policy. We might never imagine that it is we who entrust our youth to profiteers; yet when confronted with the numbers [...]
Photograph: Students at a magnet school in Chicago wait for the start of classes last year. | Scott Olson/Getty Images Originally Published at Pacific Standard: The Science of Society. November 28, 2010 5:00 AM Miller-McCune interviews two education experts about the promise and betrayal of diversity in [...]
Michigan Multi-Millionaire Betsy DeVos Is A Four-Star General In A Deceptive Behind-The-Scenes War on Public Schools and Church-State Separation By Rob Boston | Originally Published at Americans United. Featured September 2010 In March [2010], a Michigan multi-millionaire named Betsy DeVos announced the formation of a new national [...]
Photograph; Tina Fineberg for The New York Times | Donald Fednyak in Astoria, Queens, holds a palm card given him by George Banning, canvassing for charter school advocates.| Copyright New York Times Over the last many years, Charter School growth soared exponentially. Parents preached. 'America's public schools [...]
We are killing our children! And when we are not we are training them for careers in which they will kill others. We need only look at the numbers. In the name of "school choice" we provide a perspective that research has rejected ; given the freedom [...]
