|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
by Fidel Castro (Author), Luis Conte Aguero (Epilogue), Ann Louise Bardach (Introduction)
$11.86
 . '/' . substr('9780810950498',-6,3) . '/' . '9780810950498' . '.jpg'; ?>)
By Gore Vidal
$40.00
$23
|
|
|
|
|
The EU decides to address far-right extremism; education fails to solve poverty and inequality, while Netflix may destroy TV networks. These discoveries and more after the jump.
|
Surian Soosay (CC-BY)
|
By Amy Goodman — “People say that Australia has given two people to the world,” Julian Assange told me in London recently, “Rupert Murdoch and me.”
|
|
By David Sirota — When I heard the news last week that the Department of Education is aiming to subject 4-year-olds to high-stakes testing, all I could do was shake my head in disbelief.
|
YouTube
|
By Bill Boyarsky — Succeeding against all odds certainly describes Ana Ponce, chief executive officer of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, which runs five charter schools, the majority in the most crowded, impoverished and gang-ridden section of Los Angeles.
|
Freedom to Marry (CC-BY)
|
Californians made it easier for their lawmakers to pass a budget, but you might not be able to tell from all the drama. Perhaps you heard that Gov. Jerry Brown (above) vetoed a budget passed by his own party, Republicans managed to block voters from approving new taxes and the state controller stopped paying legislators. (more)
|
imdb.com
|
By Marcia Alesan Dawkins — Let’s be honest. Teachers don’t get into the profession for the money. Nowadays they don’t get into the profession for respect either. So why do they do it?
|
Basheer Tome (CC-BY)
|
By Bill Blum — The country my generation is passing on to my son and his peers is a mean-spirited place of global warming, class warfare and diminishing expectations, where the top 1 percent of households own nearly 35 percent of all privately held wealth and the “bottom” 80 percent lays claim to less than half that.
|
|
Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons, The Denver Post —
Posted on Jun 19, 2011
READ MORE 
|
|
On this week’s episode of Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK, we investigate why so many innocent people end up in prison; find out how much various college majors really pay; look into the future of depression-chic food; and learn why Apple’s high profits threaten teachers. Plus, another special report from the cutting edge by Mr. Fish. Update: Full transcript.
|
Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey
|
On this week’s episode of Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK, we investigate why so many innocent people end up in prison; find out how much various college majors really pay; look into the future of depression-chic food; and learn why Apple’s high profits threaten teachers. Plus, another special report from the cutting edge by Mr. Fish.
Posted on Jun 1, 2011
READ MORE 
|
AP / Jeff Chiu
|
By James Harris — In a recent interview, Oakland Unified School District Superintendent Tony Smith shared with me one of the most mind-numbing statistics I have ever heard.
|
Flickr / Hoboken Condos
|
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie drew enthusiastic cheers from a Harvard audience on Friday when he spoke aggressively against university tenure and teachers’ unions, and promised to build a more conservative state Supreme Court.
|
.jpg)
Creative Commons / Neon Tommy
|
The University of Southern California’s Neon Tommy takes a close look at the people, services and institutions that stand to lose the most in California’s ongoing budget fiasco. (more)
|
Photo illustration by PZS based on an image by Lin Pernille Photography
|
By Chris Hedges — We spurn real teachers—those with the capacity to inspire—and replace them with instructors who teach to narrow, standardized tests. These instructors obey. They teach children to obey. And that is the point.
|
White House / Pete Souza
|
By Bill Boyarsky — With all the evil people in the world, why are public schoolteachers being villainized? And how did they attract such powerful enemies?
|
AP
|
By Jim Mamer —
I’m a retired teacher and I’m pissed. No matter what form of media I look at, I’m confronted with constant references to the various budget crises. The crises are real, but the search for culprits has degenerated into a hypocritical attempt to score political points.
|
|
Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Mar 22, 2011
READ MORE
|
politico.com
|
Insisting that “the best jobs program out there is a good education” and lamenting the U.S.’ slip down the ranks in the global brain trust, President Barack Obama declared Monday that his budget plan won’t include high costs to the American educational system.
|
|
RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, The St. Louis Post Dispatch —
Posted on Mar 11, 2011
READ MORE
|
White House / Pete Souza
|
The statistical evidence is that smaller class size means better education, but smaller class size also means higher taxes. So Education Secretary Arne Duncan chose trickery to divert parents from the clear road.
|
Flickr / dmhergert (CC-BY-SA)
|
Did you realize that the last president to ask for a status report on American women was John F. Kennedy? Eleanor Roosevelt was in charge of that project, which President Obama has updated for our present time. Let’s take a look at the results, shall we?
|
AP / Ted S. Warren
|
By Robert Scheer — “The gift that keeps on giving” should have been the headline on the Pentagon’s decision to award the Boeing Co. a $35 billion defense contract. Defense of the nation, of course, had nothing to do with it.
|
AP / Robert Durell
|
By Bill Boyarsky — In the national battle over the future of unions, labor’s greatest danger is division among liberals over schoolteachers’ rights in dismissals, evaluation testing, assignments, promotions and tenure.
|
AP / Nick Ut
|
By Bill Boyarsky — The budget cuts being proposed in state capitals around the country may sound vague and abstract, but what they boil down to are many scenes of misery.
|
BlatantNews.com (CC-BY)
|
A couple of political scientists out of Penn State University went looking into the way evolution is taught in classrooms, and discovered that the vast majority of teachers are overly cautious in their presentation of the concept, contrary to National Research Council guidelines. (more)
|
|
By Marcia Alesan Dawkins — Kelly Williams-Bolar, an aspiring teacher and mother of two, was sentenced to 10 days in jail for sending her children to school outside her district. But in this time of economic crisis, it is hard to believe that a single mother such as Williams-Bolar is a criminal.
|
Flickr / fatalfuj (CC-BY-SA)
|
Wedged between past years of standardized testing and fixating on applications and a future of paying off hefty loans with no guarantees of employment, first-year college students around the country are registering higher levels of stress and poorer ...
|
|
For-profit schools, some of which are accused of failing to properly educate while loading students with debt, have banded together to fight the introduction of three federal reforms.
|
Wikimedia Commons
|
President Obama is fixing to relax the restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba, but greater access would be granted only to certain kinds of U.S. citizens—namely, students and members of church groups—in the near future.
|
AP / Jason Redmond
|
By Aura Bogado —
Some of the nearly 2 million young people who would have benefited from the Dream Act blame Washington insiders for the legislation’s demise.
|
Lakers / Jason of Beverly Hills
|
The Lakers forward is known for his antics—such as showing up to a talk show in his underwear—but he’s becoming famous for talking about an issue that is often concealed: mental health. Artest is funding therapy and mental health awareness through the sale of his championship ring and possibly the donation of his entire $6.79 million 2011-2012 salary. ... (more)
|
|
Today on the list: The GOP vs. Sarah Palin, what Google charges for government surveillance, and WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange’s political philosophy explained.
Posted on Dec 2, 2010
READ MORE 
|
|
Today on the list: Bribing Israel, the possibilities of precognition, the value of banks (it’s complicated), and the incredible shrinking withdrawal date.
|
|
Today on the list: Cell phone companies conceal a health warning, Michelangelo’s David the way it was meant to be seen, and Hollywood doesn’t care about poor people—or old people.
Posted on Nov 18, 2010
READ MORE
|
Wikimedia Commons / Coolcaesar (CC-BY-SA)
|
Even the California Supreme Court’s conservative contingent agreed Monday to uphold a ruling that gives undocumented immigrants a chance to partake in in-state tuition rates at participating institutions of higher learning.
Posted on Nov 15, 2010
READ MORE
|
AP / Chitose Suzuki
|
By Moshe Adler — Taxes are the best weapon against the kind of self-perpetuating Ivy League elitism so despised by the tea party.
|
|
Today on the list: President Obama confirms that his is a Republican health care plan, Noam Chomsky considers “a level of anger ... like nothing I can recall in my lifetime,” and a random act of culture that brings a Macy’s crowd to its feet.
|
|
Today on the list: How did outside groups manage to spend $3.6 million on one Colorado race in one day? And what the hell happened to Randy Quaid? Plus: The future of books, music and your democracy, after the jump.
Posted on Oct 26, 2010
READ MORE
|
|
Today on the list: PBS is as white as TV gets, the three myths that keep flummoxing America, and the Middle Easterners who conquered Europe with their magic potion—milk.
Posted on Oct 21, 2010
READ MORE
|
|
Today on the list: Meet Karl Rove’s Karl Rove, what happens when you Facebook friend request yourself, and the third-party candidates who still can’t catch a break.
Posted on Oct 19, 2010
READ MORE
|
waitingforsuperman.com/gallery
|
By Marcia Alesan Dawkins — This depiction of our nation’s teachers is typical of those who promote a particular reform agenda calling for charter schools, anti-unionism and merit pay based on high-stakes test scores. While it’s fine to promote this agenda, it’s also ethical to provide a balanced critique.
|
|
On today’s list: Speaking more than one language can delay Alzheimer’s, literary tattoos, why they hate us (hint: it’s not our freedom), and Barbie goes geek.
|
|
Is Islam finding its way into our schools? Christmas carols? How about our soup? Stephen Colbert is on that case, just like everyone on Fox News, in this clip from Monday’s episode of “The Colbert Report.”
|
|
The casting call for Obama’s town hall, dealing with the media’s masturbation shame, and what Stephen Hawking has to say about God.
|
Flickr / edEx
|
What’s bad? September saw 159,000 public sector employees laid off. What’s worse? A good number of those layoffs were teachers, as private sector hiring failed to keep pace with job cuts by federal and local governments.
|
|
Today on the list: The virtual world where Muslims, Christians and Jews all get along, Bob Woodward defends his journalistic integrity, and is Michelle Bachman a compulsive liar?
Posted on Sep 24, 2010
READ MORE
|
|
Why you should always do a test run before a presentation, what America’s war dead say about the class divide, and how air travel in coach could get a whole lot worse.
|
U.S. Agency for International Development
|
Anyone remember the Millennium Development Goals that nations made at the beginning of this millennium? Well, it turns out some people do, and they are meeting Monday to evaluate the efficacy of efforts to reduce poverty, disease, intolerance and inequality.
|
View the most popular tags overall?
|
|
Does Anything Change in Los Angeles With Election of New Mayor?
Newsletter 
Like Us
Follow Us
Get Our Feed
