Equity-based Reform: Moving Beyond Accountability
Partisan political discourse—the language of campaigning and advocating for policy—is trapped in the power and allure of cliche and cultural myths. Even those leaders we might designate as the best or right type of leaders are trapped in a disturbing truism about the power of their messages: "more often than more ...
A Subsidy For Charters
"A Subsidy For Charters" CA Gov Brown's Tax Initiative "Compromise" Danny Weil Speaks In Berkeley Danny Weil, a charter education expert, journalist, former public policy lawyer and activist discusses Governor Brown's so called "compromise" tax initiative and what it will really mean for public education. more ...
Some Ugly Details from the Daley/Duncan/Obama Connection
It is not my custom to spend time on an article from American Thinker, a conservative publication whose political editor brags about appearances on the Dennis Miller show, but Unsolved Mystery: D.C. Public Schools Cheating Scandal by M. Catharine Evans and Ann Kane is informative and important. I'm interested more ...
Equity-based Reform: Moving Beyond Accountability
Partisan political discourse—the language of campaigning and advocating for policy—is trapped in the power and allure of cliche and cultural myths. Even those leaders we might designate as the best or right type of leaders are trapped in a disturbing truism about the power of their messages: "more often than more ...
Making the Case for Economic Relocalization
The Economics of Happiness (2011) Film Review The term “economic relocalization,” which has been around about four years, describes the global movement of loosely knit Transition Towns and other grassroots networks working to strengthen local and regional economies and systems of food and energy production. I more ...
Is collective bargaining dead? 21 Idaho districts impose teacher contracts unilaterally
The Idaho school districts' ability to impose contracts without negotiating with unions comes under Idaho's new but not well-known school reform laws; they rolled back most collective bargaining rights for teachers and limited contracts to one-year terms bringing teachers closer and closer to 'independant co more ...
Equity-based Reform: Moving Beyond Accountability
Partisan political discourse—the language of campaigning and advocating for policy—is trapped in the power and allure of cliche and cultural myths. Even those leaders we might designate as the best or right type of leaders are trapped in a disturbing truism about the power of their messages: "more often than more ...
Largest mass shooting in US history? Try three US massacres on Native Americans
The US government committed the largest mass shootings in national history by opening fire on peaceful families of children, the elderly, women, and men at Wounded Knee, Sand Creek, and Bloody Island. These followed repeated US treaty violations to remove Native Americans by armed military force from their la more ...
Largest mass shooting in US history? Try three US massacres on Native Americans
The US government committed the largest mass shootings in national history by opening fire on peaceful families of children, the elderly, women, and men at Wounded Knee, Sand Creek, and Bloody Island. These followed repeated US treaty violations to remove Native Americans by armed military force from their la more ...
Eroding Social Justice in Spain
Eroding Social Justice in Spain by Stephen Lendman Along with Greece, Spain represents the epicenter of decaying Western societies. Multiple rounds of social spending cuts reflect Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's war on his own people. Complicit parliamentarians go along. At issue is class more ...
