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The heroes of Newtown | Baltimore Sun
Montgomery Co schools chief calls for three-year moratorium on standardized testing
Cliff Notes: The Education Policy Cliff of 2014 | Whiteboard Advisors
Schools across US step up police presence in wake of Connecticut shooting | Free Speech Radio News
NEA and AFT: Let’s Apply the Lessons of NCLB to the Common Core
First we mourn, then we organize | Public Education: This is what democracy looks like
He “Barely Said a Word”
A Culture That Condones The Killing Of Children And Teaches Children To Kill | Common Dreams
Three Common-Sense Gun Bills That Can’t Pass Congress | The Nation
CTU Launches ‘Stand Up to the Fat Cats’
Rethinkin’ Lincoln on the 150th Birthday of the Emancipation Proclamation
Students First spends three hours in Opposite Day | Maureen Reedy on Plunderbund
Right To Work In Michigan: Labor’s Options For Repeal | Huffington Post
Why we filed with the Ethics Board: The public deserves to know what’s happening here
The Silent Treatment: A Day in the Life of a Student in ‘No Excuses’ Land
Classes a la carte: States test a new school model | Reuters
Get Ready For America’s Next ‘Education Crisis’ | Campaign for America’s Future
How Many Billions Are We REALLY Spending on Testing?
Philadelphia Parents Take a Stand for Public Control of Public Education
How to Speak Out Against Race to the Top
Why a Louisiana judge ruled school vouchers unconstitutional
Book Review: The Future of Our Schools; Teacher Unions and Social Justice
Why the School Turnaround Experiment Is Failing | Thompson, Nat’l Education Policy Ctr
Karen Lewis and Randi Weingarten Write an Article about the Strike in the Wall Street Journal
We fought the invasion of PS 15: a real-life “Won’t Back Down” story
What We Won in Chicago | Truthout
Contact NBC’s “Education Nation”
Changing the World in One Contract | Jacobin
Chicago teacher-parent alliance highlighted key parent issues | Parents Across America
Rethinking the Classroom: Obama’s overhaul of public education | Washington Post
“Won’t Back Down” Film Pushes ALEC Parent Trigger Proposal | PRWatch
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis: Deal Ending Strike a Victory for Education
Anti-Union Ads in Chicago Paid for By Hedge Funds, Billionaires
Chicago school teachers give us all a lesson
Day 7 Strike suspended. Big victory for teachers
Chicago Teachers Union | Strike Central
Chicago contract details
‘Shadow strikers’ marched with CTU
Standing up for teachers
Chicago teachers ‘not happy’ with proposed contract; strike continues
CPS fails to get immediate court order ending teachers strike | Chicago Tribune
Why OTL Advocates Walk the Line in Chicago
Chicago’s Emanuel goes to court over teachers strike | Reuters
Democracy breaks out in Chicago. Many surprised, not having seen it before. Updated: Rahm seeks an injunction.
Chicago Teachers Strike Continues Into New Week As Union, City Fail To Strike Deal | Huffington Post
The underlying issues in the Chicago teacher strike | NYC Public School Parents
Ed Notes Online | What’s in the CTU Contract and Will There Be a Backlash?
Chicago Teachers Union | House of Delegates Votes to Continue Strike
CTU prez speaks at today’s massive rally
Who Is Victimizing Chicago’s Kids?
Chicago Teachers Strike: Union, City Fail To Reach Contract Deal
Chicago teachers rally support
Chicago Teachers Strike: Wealthy Donors Changed Education Policy Landscape In Illinois | Huffington Post
Chicago teachers’ strike nears end as City Hall and union close on deal
Two Visions for Chicago’s Schools by Diane Ravitch | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
A Chicago Teacher Writes: The Joy of Finally Fighting Back
Their Fight Is Our Fight
A Battle Between Education and Business Goals | Room for Debate - NYTimes
Unions Are Striking Back, at Last | Room for Debate, NYTimes
The real problem with Rahm’s school reforms in Chicago
On school reform: Broad’s misleading response to critics
Thousands Rally in Chicago Teachers’ Strike, Pushing Back Against Corporatized Education Reform
Analysis: Striking Chicago teachers take on national education reform
Chicago teachers strike and challenge corporate reform model of education
Chicago’s Teachers Just Went On Strike -- Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Why | Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)
Live streaming news from Chicago -- including teachers’ strike
Solidarity with Chicago Teachers | Network of Teacher Activist Groups
Youtube video | CPS Parent Matt Farmer Puts Penny Pritzker on Trial at CTU’s STANDS STRONG RALLY
Teacher X: Why I’m striking, JCB
My Review of ‘Won’t Back Down’ (spoiler alert)
Stubborn Facts About Obama Education Policies That No Amount of Convention Sugarcoating Can Cover Up
The Schools Chicago’s Students Deserve | Chicago Teachers Union
Missing the Target? The Parent Trigger as a Strategy for Parental Engagement and School Reform
PAA’s Parent Online Toolkit for the WBD* movie and beyond
Democratic Split Over Education Reform Tested By Hollywood Movie | Huffington Post
Honor Labor Day – On Teaching Who Really Built This Country?
“No Excuses” and the Culture of Shame: The Miseducation of Our Nation’s Children | Altenet.org
Chicago Teachers Solidarity Campaign
Why ‘Won’t Back Down’ Just Doesn’t Stack Up
BREAKING NEWS: CTU files notice of intent to strike
Daily Kos: Chicago Teachers Union Grassroots Campaign Squashing Out-of-Town Billionaires
Chicago teachers draw a line | SocialistWorker.org
Weingarten: ‘Won’t Back Down’ union stereotypes worse than ‘Waiting for Superman’
Judge Invalidates Florida Evaluations
Three ed reforms parents should worry about most
Everything You’ve Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong
Howard Zinn at 90: Lessons From the People’s Historian
Broad Foundation’s plan to expand influence in school reform
‘Won’t Back Down’: Realities the movie ignores
A Parent’s Letter to Frank Bruni of the New York Times
The Chicago Teachers Solidarity Campaign on Facebook
Parent Trigger | Save Our Schools
Chicago teachers stand up to corporate reformers.
FAQ re the movie “Won’t Back Down” and the Parent Trigger
‘Won’t Back Down’ on Facebook
What Parents need to know: FAQ ‘Won’t Back Down’ & Parent Trigger
‘Teachers Rock 2012′: An Insult To Teachers
Beyond the parent trigger hype & propaganda: Just the Facts
Walmart, Right-Wing Media Company Hold Star-Studded Benefit Promoting Education Reform Film
Dear Meryl | Parents United
Time to tweet some stars about the Won’t Back Down movie | Parents United
New school year: doubling down on failed ed policy
SOS12 Jonathan Kozol Keynote
So many big stars on board for CBS Teachers Rock to push Parent Trigger laws. TFA to get proceeds | Daily Kos
Film ‘Won’t Back Down’ sure to increase debate over ‘parent trigger’ school laws
Private firms eyeing profits from U.S. public schools | Reuters
Teachers, Be Silent No More
School Choice Vs Reality | Salon.com
The Next “Waiting for Superman” | EduShyster.com
Beware! Sneaky Reformer Trick in L.A.
A Serious Design Flaw Is Suspected in State Tests | NYTimes
Diane Ravitch Defends Public Education | Youtube video
The New Misogyny: What It Means for Teachers and Classrooms | Alternet.org
Can the AFT meet the challenge?
A strange “parent trigger” court ruling
‘Parent Trigger’ Goes to the Big Screen
Fists of Freedom: An Olympic Story Not Taught in Schools - Education - GOOD
Save Our Schools returns
The hard bigotry of poverty: Why ignoring it will doom school reform
ACLU files ‘right to read’ lawsuit on behalf of students in Michigan school district | CNN
Larger Class Sizes, Education Cuts Harm Children’s Chance To Learn
Part II of The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum: The High Price of Education Reform | Truthout.org
Swift to Hear; Slow to Speak: A Message to TFA Teachers, Critics, and Education Reformers | Huffington Post
Rethinking High-Stakes Testing in Schools | Lake Effect
Public Education’s ‘Shock Doctrine Summer’ Rolls Out Once More
National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing
NEA leader says social justice key to teacher unionism | Public Education: This is what democracy looks like
Andrew Cuomo’s Teacher Evaluation System Mimics Microsoft’s Fatally Flawed Employee Evaluation System
A Sign of Educational Madness?
‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’ by Frederick Douglass
Rethinking the 4th of July | Rethinking Schools Blog
Student-testing pioneer Angermeyr is skeptical about high-stakes trends | MinnPost
How can the Chicago Teachers Union win?
High Stakes Tests Harm Students and Teachers, Undermine Equity in New York’s Schools | NYCLU
Education for Liberation | Voices in Urban Education
Life after recall | Rethinking Schools Blog
Court Rules Educators Were Wrongfully Terminated
States Continue to Deny Fair Funding to Nation’s Public Schools
Change.org Drops Michelle Rhee Group Under Pressure From Progressives | Huffington Post
U.S. mayors back parents seizing control of schools | Reuters
Is teacher churn undermining real education reform in D.C.? | Washington Post
Parents Give “Won’t Back Down” Movie Trailer a Thumbs-Down
Rethinking Schools magazine summer issue
Chicago Teachers Union | Members Vote Yes to Authorization
Wiring our Students with Galvanic Response Bracelets?
Brandishing pineapples, parents and students target Pearson | GothamSchools
A Brutal Night in Wisconsin
“There is always something you can do. Always.” - JSOnline
What Governor Walker’s Win Means… | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Shame on Obama for Abandoning Wis.
Calls to Win in Wisconsin
A Solution to the Testing Mania
“Won’t Back Down” propaganda flick: Truth vigilante time « Parents Across America
‘The New Jim Crow’
Philly schools, up for the highest bidder
Melissa Harris-Perry
Does Ed Secretary Duncan agree with Romney on class size?
March 23 march and rally - Substance News
A pictorial–how billions of dollars from “education” funders don’t go into the classrooms | RheeFirst.com
Chicago Teachers Rally Against the Mayor In Downtown Protest | Huffington Post
Romney’s Disastrous Education Agenda: Reward His Donors, Make Sure Money Dominates Politics | Huffington Post
Glen Ford: Corporate Assault on Public Education
One Teacher’s Perspective: Teachers Cannot Be Bystanders to Walker’s Bullying
Democrats tell DFER to Stop Using Party Name
Studies Suggest Economic Inequity Is Built Into, and Worsened by, School Systems
Misreading the Achievement Gap: A Tale of Bi-Partisan Failure | Education
Wisconsin’s Progressive Tradition at Stake in the Recall Election - JSOnline
Renowned scholar Diane Ravitch takes on public education ‘reformers’
Teacher Appreciation Week: How we can Show Teachers the Love | Bill and Rick Ayers
Politicians on teacher appreciation day keep yr empty words to yourself! « Parents Across America
Teaching Me About Teaching
Public Education: This is what democracy looks like: Honor Teachers, Help Recall Gov. Walker
Open Letter to President Obama
Yong Zhao Interview: Will the Common Core Create World-Class Learners?
Who’s Killing Philly Public Schools? | Philadelphia City Paper | 05/03/2012
The results are in! There’s too much testing.
For the sake of public education, Walker has to go - JSOnline
What You Need To Know About ALEC
Latest skeptic of teachers unions is clothing label’s city billboard | GothamSchools
My visit to Philadelphia
Why Isn’t Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools National News? Where Is the Black Political Class?
When Reforming Education Means Destroying Communities
National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing
Commentary: You’re not speaking to me, Mr. Knudsen | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
Where Teachers Are Replaceable Widgets, Education Suffers | EdWeek.org
Daniel Pinkwater on Pineapple Exam: ‘Nonsense on Top of Nonsense’
Education reform protests pick up steam
OUR Children OUR Classrooms: Montgomery Superintendent Joshua Starr sharpens critique of national reforms
Cui Bono? The Question Rarely Asked, Let Alone Investigated
Changing the Climate in School
Beware the Education–Industrial Complex
A Trayvon Martin Fundraiser Cost a Teacher Her Job—And Showed the Value of Unions - Education - GOOD
Teachers’ Roles as Activists :: Reclaiming Reform
Educators Issue VAM Report for Secretary Duncan
Michigan Teacher Fired For Helping Student Fundraiser For Trayvon Martin
Teacher: Dear students, I’m sorry about that test I made you take
Flipping the Script on Turnarounds: Why not Retain Teachers instead of Reject Them?
Education reform critic’s blog goes viral
A letter from a black mother to her son
The Assault on Public Education
Stephen Krashen Pulls the Rug Out From Under the Standards Movement
Flunking the Test | American Journalism Review
Some of Christie’s biggest bills match model legislation from D.C. group called ALEC
Ravitch: The toll of school reform on public education
Challenging Corporate Ed Reform
Hired Guns on Astroturf -- How to Buy and Sell School Reform
‘A Test You Need to Fail’: A Teacher’s Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students
‘Occupy’ the Ed Department March 30 to April 2
Volume 26, No.3 - Spring 2012 - Rethinking Schools magazine
A million teachers may be on the march — out of the classroom
Another Battle in the War Against Public Schools - Room for Debate
The Power of Recalls in Wisconsin
I dare you to measure the “value” I add
Why Are Teachers So Upset?
The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools
No Funds Left Behind | prospect.org
‘Occupy Education’ Debates the Gates Foundation (and Wins) | CommonDreams
The war on teachers: Why the public is watching it happen
Divided Florida Senate blows hole in controversial “parent trigger” schools bill | jacksonville.com
Arne Duncan-led event interrupted by Occupy Austin | Washington Post
Flunking Arne Duncan by Diane Ravitch | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
Hard-Working Teachers, Sabotaged When Student Test Scores Slip | NYTimes
Bronx Students Occupy Public Education, Release 10-Point Plan - COLORLINES
Test scores mean nothing -- A highly-rated teacher on the follies of using data to evaluate educators
Money Pours Into Coffers of Heartland Institute, The Propaganda Arm of the Right Wing
Wayne Au: Learning to Read: Charter Schools, Public Education, and the Politics of Educational Research
Education Dept.’s Washington Schools Inquiry | NYTimes
The True Story of Pascale Mauclair | Edwize
How to Demoralize Teachers | EdWeek.org
Can’t Blame Teacher Tenure For Failing Schools | Courant.com
The ‘’Schools Chicago’s Students Deserve’‘ report | CTU
No Student Left Untested by Diane Ravitch | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
Outlawing Solidarity in Tucson
In Reality and Film, a Battle for Schools -- Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal in ‘Parent-Trigger’ Film | New York Times
Still Separate, Still Unequal: Racism, Class and the Attack on Public Education
Dear Mr. President
Occupy Piccolo! Chicago Communities Occupy School In Protest of Privatization
Jon Stewart tries to talk to Arne Duncan
Borrowing wise words from those truly market-based, Private Independent schools…
Reclaiming Reform | Education policy of, by & for We the People.
NCLB waivers give bad policy new lease on life
Obama Grants Waivers to NCLB and Makes a Bad Situation Worse
Why states should refuse Duncan’s NCLB waivers
Texas schools chief calls testing obsession a ‘perversion’
Katie Osgood: The Reform My Students Need
Standardized Testing: The Monster That Ate American Education
Corporate Education Reformers Plot Next Steps at Secretive Meeting
Does President Obama Know What Race to the Top Is?
No History Is Illegal!
Under education reform, school principals swamped by teacher evaluations | Christian Science Monitor
The false promise of charter schools | Wayne Au
Daily Kos: The School to Prison Pipeline
Rye Principal Retires to Fight Standardized Tests | The Daily Rye
Arizona Unbound: National Actions on Mexican American Studies Banishment
Teachers Offer the Wealthy an Escape from Poverty
The facts that school reformers ignore
Pa. teacher to sit in First Lady’s box during State of the Union
Great Schools for America Blog | American Teacher — American Hoax
Diane Ravitch Speaks Our Truth - Sacramento City Teachers Association
OPINION | False choices: The economic argument against market-driven education reform
On US Education: It’s the Socioeconomic Segregation, Stupid
Duncan: It’s Time to Create Race to Top for Districts - Politics K-12 - Education Week
Chris Hedges: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System - Chris Hedges’ Columns - TruthDig
Authors banned in Tucson Unified School District respond
Public Education: This is what democracy looks like: Rethinking Columbus Banned in Arizona
Ethnic book ban in Arizona school district includes all books about Mexican-American history, even Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’
‘Rethinking Columbus’ Banned in Tucson
Illinois teacher commits suicide citing working conditions
Why Is Congress Redlining Our Schools? | The Nation
Schools Matter: Nine Years Before Ten Years After
What’s wrong with N.J. charter school policy
The Real Mr. Fitz: A Teacher’s Letter to Obama: A Lesson in Irony
Zombie NCLB still stalking our schools | Rethinking Schools Blog
High Test Scores Make Happy People | Horn | Schools Matter | Common Dreams
NCLB’s Lost Decade Report | FairTest
NCLB turns 10
Chester Upland teachers to work without pay | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/04/2012
Matt Damon and Mother Reject Union’s Award – SchoolBook
My View: Time for the status quo to make room for meaningful school reform
Whose children have been left behind? Framing the 2012 ed debate
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success
An International Diane Ravitch Moment? - Lily’s Blackboard
Lopsided Debate Over Education Reform Reveals a Broken System - Living in Dialogue - Education Week
Marie Levey-Pabst: Will the Teach For America Elite Save the Poor? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week
The Quiz: Test yourself on education in 2011
Philip Kovacs Takes on TFA in Huntsville - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Daily Kos: What if you feel betrayed by your union’s leadership?
What’s Wrong with School Reform: Interview with Diane Ravitch
Matt Damon Slams Obama, Democrats: ‘One Term President With Some Balls Would Have Been Better’
New York City Student Testing Over the Past Decade | NY Times
How Occupy Wall Street is Also an Education Justice Movement « Parents Across America
The Unaddressed Link Between Poverty and Education | NY Times
Online Schools Score Better on Wall Street Than in Classrooms | NY Times
A superintendent calls school reformers’ bluff
Public Education: This is what democracy looks like
Judith Warner: Why Are The Rich So Interested in Public School Reform? | TIME Ideas | TIME.com
Read Diane Ravitch keynote at ‘’‘2011 National Opportunity to Learn Summit’‘’
Revealed: School board member who took standardized test
The Failure of Corporate School Reform: Toward a New Common School Movement | Truthout
When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids
Taking Teacher Quality Seriously: A Collaborative Approach to Teacher Evaluation
ALEC and Bill Gates, the Mask Comes Off
Gates Foundation Grants ALEC A Hefty Sum For ‘Education Reform’ | crooksandliars.com
Zinn Education Project
Turmoil Seems to be Chief Product of Education “Reform” - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
DN Editorial: Ackerman: We’re nickel & dimed | Philadelphia Daily News
We Must Do More Than Merely Avoid the NCLB Train Wreck
Jesse Hagopian Attempts a Citizen’s Arrest of Washington State House At Olympia
Why I Signed: Principals’ Objections to the New Evaluation System
Principals Protest Increased Use of Test Scores to Evaluate Educators | NY Times
Good news in Seattle: corporate education reform tide turned back! « Parents Across America
America’s Education Reform Lobby Makes Its Presence Known At The Voting Booth
How Online Learning Companies Bought America’s Schools | The Nation
Billionaires for Education Reform
Who’s Overpaid, Teachers or the Wonks Who Write About Them?
Research doesn’t back up key ed reforms
Teachers, Students and Parents Against Privatized Education Join Occupy Wall Street
NCLB Waivers get a Reality Check
Tennessee Teachers Will Evaluate Legislators Who Approved Ridiculous Teacher Eval Scheme | Schools Matter
Occupy the Curriculum
Bill Gates’ Big Play: How Much Can Money Buy in Education?
Ravitch updates best-selling book on ed reform
The complete list of problems with high-stakes standardized tests
Why I did TFA, and why you shouldn’t | Gary Rubinstein’s TFA Blog
America’s Exploding Pipe Dream | NYTimes
Teach • Occupy Wall Street
Big Money, Bad Media, Secret Agendas: Welcome to America’s Wildest School Board Race | The Nation
Challenging Corporate School Reform
Education Inc.
Naomi Klein Interview at Occupy Wall St. Grounded News, video report 7
In Less than a Minute Alan Grayson Explains Occupy Wall Street to the 1%
Teachers at Occupy Wall Street
“Columbus on Trial” at Occupy Wall St. Sun. 10/9
More Detail on the Problems of Rating Ed Schools by Teachers’ Students’ Outcomes
Education is about preparing young people to make the world better than it is
Occupy Wall Street with NYCoRE!
Teacher Grade-In at Occupy Wall Street
Interview Of The Month — Stan Karp From Rethinking Schools | Larry Ferlazzo
Northwest Teachers For Social Justice
Students’ Knowledge of Civil Rights History Has Deteriorated, Study Finds | NYTimes
A bet on No Child Left Behind
Obama’s NCLB waivers: Do flaws outweigh benefits?
MisEducation Nation: Corporate Media and Corporate Education Reform
Pearson Sends Education Commissioners on Free Trips | NYTimes
Bad Score, September 20, 2011 | HDNet
Moving beyond ‘blame the teacher’
For or Against Children? | Rethinking Schools
Class Warfare | Edwize
Education: The bait and switch of school “reform” | Salon.com
School ‘Reform’: A Failing Grade by Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books
No Child Left Behind: A conspiracy against public education that too few called out | Get Schooled
An Ode to Teachers | NY Times
NW Teachers for Social Justice, 4th Annual Conference, Sat October 1, 2011
American Schools in Crisis | Saturday Evening Post
Fact Sheet: “Tests, Cheating and Educational Corruption”
Steven Brill’s Class Warfare: What’s wrong with the education reformers’ diagnosis and cures.
BeyondChron: San Francisco’s Alternative Online Daily News » Anti-Teacher Union “Reformers” Hoisted on Own Petard
“Poverty Is the Problem”: Efforts to Cut Education Funding, Expand Standardized Testing Assailed
Arne Duncan’s Twitter Town Hall: Orwell Would Be Proud - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
How badly did Arne Duncan want to talk to Matt Damon? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
The reform movement is already failing
If only the unions were the problem
Why states should refuse Duncan’s NCLB waivers - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
Why do the Koch brothers want to end public education?
The onslaught against schoolteachers needs to stop
Video: Testing the education system
Big Education Ape: Last Week’s Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRank #WIUnion #sosmarch #p2
After school reform march, teachers question what’s next
Pedro Noguera : Stager-to-Go
Diane Ravitch’s speech at the Save Our Schools march in DC, 7/30/2011 (Part 1 of 2)
Matt Damon Defends Teachers at Save Our Schools March
John Kuhn at SOS March
Jonathan Kozol’s speech at the Save Our Schools March in DC, 7/30/2011 (Part 1 of 2)
NYC Public School Parents: Matt Damon on teachers, testing, charters, co-locations and Eva Moskowitz
The Save Our Schools March - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
Matt Damon: Stop The War On Teachers
Matt Damon at the SOS March: I think you’re awesome!
We are in Washington to Save Our Schools and We Want Answers! - Living in Dialogue - Education Week.
Where Is The ‘Middle Ground’ In The Education Debate? | OurFuture.org
Time to Get Off Our Knees: Why Jonathan Kozol will be Marching to Save Our Schools - Living in Dialogue
Teachers Prepare For March On DC, Hoping For A Lasting Movement
- The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
Jonah Edelman Reveals Corporate Education “Reform” at Work in Illinois - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Why I am marching on July 30
Why US education deserves our praise (and funding)
Cancel My Subscription to the New York Times
Holding your nose and closing your eyes. « Fred Klonsky’s blog
Daily Kos: Putting the NEA endorsement of Obama in context
Dissent Magazine - Online Features - Firing Line:The Grand Coalition Against Teachers
This is what solidarity looks like....
Teach for America and Me: A Failed Courtship
Reformers, please listen to what parents want for schools
Frustrated Educators Aim to Build Grassroots Movement
‘Only if they make us more human’
Portland teacher Bill Bigelow leads fights against coal company propaganda
Baltimore City Council Endorses SOS March
The Inconvenient Truths About Turning Around Schools
Duncan’s plans for NCLB
Governors Who Pushed K-12 Overhauls See Popularity Slide
Five myths about America’s schools
NYC Public School Parents: In defense of Diane Ravitch (not that she needs it!)
Interview Of The Month On The Save Our Schools March | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...
Waiting for a School Miracle
U.S. Reforms Out of Sync With High-Performing Nations, Report Finds
Panel Finds Few Learning Gains From Testing Movement
The Service of Democratic Education
Judge strikes down Walker’s collective bargaining law
ELC News Release - Supreme Court Decision Supports SFRA
Refusing to Confront Reality: The Great Harm in Pretending Schools Can Close the Poverty Gap
Why teachers, parents are planning ‘Save Our Schools’ march
The Inconvenient Truth of Waiting for Superman
Class Bias, Class Size and Online Learning
California Governor Puts the Testing Juggernaut On Ice
What Works Best: Help or Punishment?
6 State Battlegrounds in the Right-Wing War Against Teachers, Firefighters, Caregivers and the Entir
Plessy AND Ferguson -- and the Freedom Riders
Why Life in High School Is More Absurd Than Ever
An Interview With Deborah Meier on the Small-Schools Movement
Why the Black-White Gap Was Closing When It Was
The DeVos Family: Meet the Super-Wealthy Right-Wingers Working With the Religious Right to Kill Public Education
Daily Kos: Dear Secretary Duncan
Arne Duncan & The Real Fight for Social Justice
Mathematical Intimidation: Driven by the Data
Diane Ravitch on The Outrage of the Week
An Open Letter from an American Teacher to Secretary Duncan
A Letter to Arne Duncan
Who Pays Teachers Most For their Time?
Poor Teaching for Poor Children …in the Name of Reform
Parents spell out detailed school reform blueprint
Teachers Aren’t the Enemy
Resistance to test-based school reform is growing
A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation
In Public School Efforts, a Common Background: Private Education
Miracle schools, vouchers and all that educational flim-flam
The Corporate Hijacking of Public Education
Why Shouldn’t Teachers Be Graded Too
ZIP code edges are battle lines in FCAT war
The Test Generation
Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System
High Tech Testing on the Way: a 21st Century Boondoggle? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
School reformers’ hypocritical blame game
Accountable for What? « Failing Schools
The Department of Education Cannot Unring the Bell Obama Struck
Obama Knows Best, Part 2: “Too Often we are Using These Tests to Punish Students or Schools.”
“Rhee the Reformer: A Cautionary Tale” « Failing Schools
Obama Blasts His Own Education Policies - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
I am Educator, Hear Me Roar! An Interview with John Kuhn - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Darling-Hammond: U.S. vs highest-achieving nations in education - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
Losing Our Way
Separate and Unequal
Diane Ravitch: Obama and No Child Left Behind
LINKS to the Diane Ravitch Webinar and Stan Karp & Bob Peterson Webinar :: Save Our Schools March
Back to Wisconsin
Just say no to voucher expansion - JSOnline
Refocus, Re-Energize, Recall: Wisconsin’s Mass Movement Considers Next Steps
1,000 rally outside District headquarters | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
Nearly half of signatures collected for recall of Wisconsin GOP state senators, Dems say - The Plum Line
You’ve Got To See This Video From Wisconsin | OurFuture.org
RheeFirst
Danny Westneat: Bill Gates, have I got a deal for you!
I’m Not Your Scapegoat | American Libraries Magazine
Support the Wisconsin Recall!
Only the beginning of the fight
A Front Assault on Democracy
Why won’t you listen, President Obama?
Test Score Fraud Grows
Bill Gates’ Fact-Challenged Policies
Florida Teacher Speaks Truth to Obama
The week that the real reformers finally broke through!
Reclaiming the Table
Diane Ravitch on the Daily Show
A Moment of National Insanity
Matt Damon Calls Out President Obama
Rage Simmering Among American Teachers
Budget Cuts and the Peril for Children
The Republican Shakedown
Teaching About Labor Issues and the Wisconsin Worker Fight Back
We the People Wisconsin
Obama’s Broken Promise
Shock Doctrine, U.S.A
No unions: Government by the rich, for the rich
Why Unions are Good for Children
Paul Krugman: Wisconsin Power Play
The irony of Obama’s ‘help’ for Wisconsin teachers
‎”Why America’s teachers are enraged” by Diane Ravitch
Support Actions Across the Country
Wisconsin Teachers Show Us How to Resist the Shock Doctrine
Dave Zirin: Packers Captain Charles Woodson Stands With Wisconsin’s Workers
Larry Miller’s Blog
Are You There, Mr. President? Madison is Calling
What’s Happening in Wisconsin: Explained
All Eyes On Wisconsin!
Chris Hayes and Naomi Klein Explain Why the Protests in Wisconsin Matter
Wisconsin Protests: Labor Protesters Call On Obama To Join Them In Madison
Wisconsin is America’s Egypt. Madison is Cairo. Get There!
Walker Faces Backlash for Threats
Boycott the Paramount DVD Release
Why teacher bashing is dangerous
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Readies National Guard Against Unions
Waiting for Superman: The Neighborhood Party Version
Parents Across America forum featuring Diane Ravitch
Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers
Answers to the Latest Quiz on the Baltimore-Rhee “Miracle”
LA Times Manipulates the Teacher Evaluation Story
Why I am not a defender of the ‘status quo’ in education — because the ‘status quo’ is failed ed reforms
A Letter to My President- The One I Voted for
The President’s Speech
The Answer Sheet - Why aren’t public school parents protesting?
Education DEFORM and Media Hearing Loss
The Answer Sheet - Letter to President Obama: Who is a ‘highly qualified’ teacher?
What We Believe « Parents Across America
“It makes no sense”: Puzzling over Obama’s State of the Union Speech
A Plea for Partisanship in Education
The education of Michelle Rhee - Politico.com
Top 5 Oscar Nomination Mysteries Solved - The Race
Why Oscar Snubbed “Superman” -- deservedly so
More on the ‘Oscar snub’ of WfS
What’s Wrong with Calls for “More and Better” Tests?
Hurray For Hollywood!
State of the Union’s Schools
Save Our Schools March & National Call to Action July 28, 2011
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Danny Westneat: Bill Gates, have I got a deal for you!
- Saturday, March 12, 2011