Outrage(s) of the Day

  • Value-added in Sunday LA Times vs REAL value added via labour
  • Detroit enlists teacher corps in classrooms
  • How Obama got it right on school reform
  • The Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project: Bill Gates’ Victory, Part 2
  • The Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project: Bill Gates’ Victory, part 1
  • Checkbook Reform Creates Tough Choices for Teachers
  • Who’s teaching L.A.’s kids?
  • Teachers share concerns with teaching to standardized tests
  • What’s the Real Result When Fights in Hallways Are Declared Criminal Behavior
  • Clean Out Your Desk Is firing (a lot of) teachers the only way to improve public schools?
  • What a Collapsing Empire Looks Like
  • The Descartes Variation
  • Camden Closing Library System
  • US Department of Education Announces 2010 Highest-Rated i3 Applicants
  • 2011 Justice & Witness Ministries Message on Public Education
  • Obama’s promises and educational masquerade
  • NCTE Speaks Out on the LEARN Act
  • Is the Gates Foundation involved in bribery?
  • NewSchools Summit 2010 – Speakers
  • David Obey Locks Horns with Obama in Budget Battle
  • D.C. and Massachusetts to vote on national school standards
  • Bias seen in push to new ed standards
  • A Popular Principal, Wounded by Government’s Good Intentions
  • Bill Gates at the AFT Convention 1984
  • Bill Gates’ School Crusade
  • NEWS ANALYSIS… The NEA Representative Assembly Proves the Education Agenda is a War Agenda
  • The most dangerous man in America
  • Teacher: Worst year in the classroom in decades
  • In Need of a Renaissance
  • Charges Against David Pakter Dismissed
  • A Chicago Teacher’s Action Inspires Antitest Crusaders
  • The New York Times in Chicago: Under the Influence?
  • Teacher-Evaluation Bill Approved in Colorado
  • Say what, Secretary Duncan?
  • Parents Across America Oppose the Administration’s Blueprint for Education Reform
  • True Urban Legends: What’s That Smell?
  • Layoff Notices Sent to Thousands of US Teachers
  • The Cartel
  • NEA Tips on Prepping for Testing
  • The Charge of the Obama/Duncan Plan
  • Mass Closures of Public Schools, Promotion of Charters Raise Fears of Privatized Detroit Education System
  • Urgent Call to Florida Teachers
  • ASCD Announces Sponsor of Whole Child Initiative
  • Obama Backs Rewarding Districts That Police Failing Schools
  • Wave of Creative Destruction Swamping U.S. Schools
  • Wordsworth Makes the Common Core Standards Exemplary Text for 9th Graders
  • Broad Foundation Awards $1.5 Million to National Center on Time & Learning to Double Partnerships with Districts, States Expanding School Calendars
  • March 4: Where Will YOU Be?
  • Revisionaries How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids’ textbook
  • Poor Elijah’s 2010 Education Wish List
  • I teach kindergarten and I hate what I am doing in my classroom
  • New Books for Kindergarten Students
  • Finding a Job in the 21st Century Global Economy
  • Parent Permission Slip for the 21st Century
  • Don’t Drink the Tea
  • PTA Makes Big Push for the Common Core Standards
  • New York Finds Extreme Crisis in Youth Prisons
  • National Call for March 4 Strike and Day of Action To Defend Public Education
  • News delayed is news denied…. The Skeleton in Arne Duncan’s Closet
  • Data Sightings
  • Race to the Top in Education
  • From Obama, a new focus on math and science education — and a new plum for prize-winners
  • The National Council of Teachers of English should award the Doublespeak Award to itself.
  • Schools in the Dark About Tainted Lunches
  • COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS INITIATIVE K-12 STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT TEAMS
  • Pfizer deserts its monument to corporate welfare
  • Surprise, Surprise: Someone is Lying
  • It’s the Poverty, Stupid, Not Pre-K Skills
  • Bookless Libraries
  • CREW ASKS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO WHY WALL STREET IS GETTING H1N1 VACCINE AHEAD OF THOSE WHO MOST NEED IT
  • So, You Get a Phone Call
  • Teach Your Teachers Well
  • Call to Action: March 4 Strike and Day of Action To Defend Public Education
  • The Renovation and Heartbreaking Dismantling of the John Ericsson Middle School 126 Library to make way for a Charter School Teacher Lounge
  • The Future of Teaching in America: Teachers as Human Capital
  • No Room for Volunteers
  • Community Leaders Excluded from Duncan and Holder Meeting
  • Who created the conditions for the murder of Derrion Albert?
  • Under ‘accountability’: Blame the bricks
  • Why Won’t NCTE Publish Info About Member Activities?
  • Rhee’s 200-Page ‘Framework’ Spells Out Teaching Guidelines
  • From Compliance to Innovation: Remarks of Arne Duncan to America’s Choice Superintendent’s Symposium
  • An Open Letter to NCTE Members about the Common Core State Standards
  • Gates Gives 15 States an Edge in Race to the Top
  • Connecting the Dots
  • Dear DOE
  • OBAMA IS A CORPORATE MARKETING CREATION
  • Top Meanest Cities
  • Why Are People Acting Surprised by Obama?
  • Bigness
  • Labor Beat: Sec. of Education Duncan Pushing The Chicago Plan