Issues of Import

Because a Good Education Can't Be Measured By a Test Score Number of NYC Parents Refusing State Tests Expected to Triple in 2014 What began two years ago as a small pocket of resistance has burgeoned into a full-blown protest movement: public school parents are [...]

Private vouchers purposely divert funding away from our already underfunded public schools, creating a parallel education system without uniform academic standards, accountability or teaching qualifications. Public tax dollars should stay with public schools. Gov. Rick Scott’s allies in the Florida Legislature are [...]

Reference Publication: Seeing Past the “Colorblind” Myth of Education Policy How current education policies are ignoring the racial disparities that contribute to the “achievement 
gap” and are failing to support the vibrant, diverse public schools more parents are demanding Contact: 
William J. Mathis, (802) 383-0058, wmathis@sover.net,
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Ready for Kindergarten Preparing a child for school doesn’t start the moment he or she walks into the kindergarten classroom. The preparations start the moment that child is born. Students’ very first classroom is their home and [...]

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. — On the last Friday in January, 15-year-old Dontadrian Bruce was finishing up his biology project at Olive Branch High School. He and his group had constructed a double helix out of Legos, and his teacher [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 25, 2014 CORE Teachers CONTACT: Sarah Chambers, Special Education Teacher at Saucedo (Ms. Chambers will be teaching throughout the day and will need to respond to voicemail messages during breaks.) 630.618.9009 TEACHERS REFUSE TO ADMINISTER ISAT AT SAUCEDO SCHOLASTIC ACADEMY 4:00 PM [...]

Less Testing, More Learning – #ResistTheTest Our nation can do a much better job of evaluating our children, teachers and schools. High-quality assessments promote better teaching, learning and student engagement and help kids develop their abilities. Current one-size-fits-all tests are misused to produce narrow, misleading snapshots [...]

By YES! Editors | Originally Published at YES! Magazine February 21, 2014 Where’s the big money in privatization? Take it from the teachers. This article is from Education Uprising, the Spring 2014 issue of YES! Magazine.

2nd Annual National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth – May 19 to May 25 2014 For our future please join thousands of others in organizing around this commitment. Founded in 2013, the National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth was [...]