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By John Howard
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By Robert Richie and Steven Hill
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With e-books, educators can see whether you’ve skipped pages or even bothered to open your textbook; a Spanish study claims there will be fewer people living on earth in the next century than now; meanwhile, although Portugal’s government has failed to impose austerity, it’s now come up with equivalent replacement measures. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Apr 10, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Dec 27, 2012
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today and the Fort Myers News-Press —
Posted on Dec 23, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Teachers are heroes, not villains, and it’s time to stop demonizing them.
Posted on Sep 18, 2012
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Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges stopped by “Democracy Now!” to talk about the Chicago public school teachers’ strike, “arguably one of the most important labor actions in probably decades,” which “illustrates the bankruptcy of both traditional labor and the Democratic Party.”
Posted on Sep 11, 2012
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By David Sirota — In recent years, major studies suggest that, on the whole, charter schools are producing worse educational achievement results than traditional public schools.
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AP / Gerald Herbert
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By Bill Boyarsky — Countering the efforts of educational reformers—including President Obama and his Race to the Top crew—to blame teachers for student failures, researchers are finding that the growing gap between the affluent and the poor is the real villain.
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AP / Seth Perlman
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It’s one of the most maligned domestic relics of the George W. Bush era, and now President Obama has stepped in to let 10 states off the hook, at least for the time being, from the experiment in educational standardization known as “No Child Left Behind.”
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Flickr / Antony Adolf (CC-BY)
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President Barack Obama stressed the importance of quality education in a speech Friday when he announced that any states willing to commit to higher standards of education can get a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law. (more)
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today —
Posted on Aug 13, 2011
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Every educator should have this video cued and ready to play for every CEO who wants to reinvent the classroom even though they’ve never taught in one and every politician who calls the underpaid and overworked teachers of America lazy.
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The actor, standing next to his educator mother, does away with a camera crew from Reason.tv and it retaliates with amusing editing.
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Flickr / Liz (perspicacious.org)
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The Tennessee Senate has passed legislation that would keep teachers from educating their students about homosexuality, with language in the bill asserting that “some subjects are best explained and discussed at home.”
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — In the ever-so-smug company of the rich and powerful, it is a given that there is never to be any expression of remorse or other acknowledgement of the pain they have inflicted on the lesser mortals they so cavalierly plunder.
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Photo illustration by PZS based on an image by Lin Pernille Photography
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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.
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey
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Truthdig Radio is broadcasting nationally today, Wednesday, April 6. We put together a very special show on the labor movement, covering the gamut from farmworkers to teachers and even millionaire athletes. Hop past the jump to find listings and a rundown of our guests.
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Mar 22, 2011
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Bill Boyarsky — While Republicans race to cut spending, including outlays for education, health care and social services, they never mention one of the real reasons for the deficit: the cost of the war in Afghanistan and the mess we’ve made in Iraq.
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White House / Pete Souza
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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.
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Let’s get a couple of things straight about this situation going down in Wisconsin: First, yes, the clash between thousands of union-friendly employees and Gov. Scott Walker is a big deal, but no, this conflict is not at all like the one that just occurred in Egypt. Or Tunisia.
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AP / Andy Manis
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By Bill Boyarsky — The demonstrators in Madison, Wis., are fighting to preserve American hopes for opportunity and security that conservative Republicans are trying to destroy.
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BlatantNews.com (CC-BY)
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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)
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Flickr / edEx
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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.
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AP / Carlos Osorio
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A $26 billion aid package was passed by the Senate on Thursday that aims to ensure that school districts and states do not have to can tens of thousands of teachers and government workers. Just two Republicans crossed the ideological aisle to support the bill, which now heads to the House.
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Dave Parker / WikiCommons.
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Economists used data on 12,000 Tennesseans to conclude that while test score gains built by successful elementary teachers had faded by high school, more meaningful outcomes (income, college, divorce, savings) seem to show a strong link between quality education as a child and success in the “real world.”
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Flickr / frozenchipmunk (CC-BY)
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With a relative drop in the bailout bucket, the president thinks he can save 300,000 teachers who would otherwise be kept by economic calamity from annoying America’s children. The money would go to state and local governments struggling to make ends meet.
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AP / Rich Pedroncelli
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By Mike Rose — The Obama administration has committed serious money to education reform, but many of the Department of Education’s big ideas are flawed.
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Courtesy Wellford Wilms
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By Wellford Wilms — The director of the Education Leadership Program at UCLA forcefully argues that public education funds must be diverted from bloated bureaucracies and redirected into the schools, where principals, teachers and parents can meaningfully influence what is being taught.
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