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NPR Whitewashes Charter Schools and Disaster Capitalism in New Orleans
Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: It was bad enough when NPR whitewashed the “grit” narrative, but now NPR is whitewashing charter schools and disaster capitalism in New Orleans. Framed as “remarkable changes,” erasing public schools and firing all public school faculty (a significant percentage of the black middle class in New Orleans) are whitewashed beneath a masking narrative embracing all…
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Milwaukee: Ruth Conniff on the Disgrace of Voucher Schools
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Last May, Ruth Conniff, editor of “The Progressive,” joined a group of other women on a tour of voucher schools in Milwaukee. The others included another journalist, a state legislator, and Milwaukee grandmothers Gail Hicks and Marva Herndon. “Herndon and Hicks formed a group called Women Committed to an Informed Community, also known as…
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Speaking Sexual Harassment Truth versus the Corruption of Power
Anita Hill agreed to take a polygraph test, and the results supported her claims. But Clarence Thomas refused to take the polygraph test.
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George R. Stewart, THE YEAR OF THE OATH
Originally posted on the EARTH ABIDES project: After several months, the Earth Abides Project weblog is back. The long “vacation” was necessary as this writer wandered for a time, then settled in to a summer of volunteering as a Camp Host in an isolated Forest Service Campground. But the volunteer summer is ending, so there’s time to write more about…
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Deceptive PR Machine in Action
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: The art of manipulation and fooling people has become an industry of deception. For instance, Katie Couric interviews Melinda Gates about the Gates Foundation’s pledge to donate $1 million to DonorsChoose. Melinda Gates says that million will go to help teachers. To discover the obvious, The Journal.com reports “Public school teachers…
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Running with the Enemy on a Kindle Countdown starting August 24
Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime members can read this novel for free.
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Facts that reveal Obama’s Manufactured Crises of College-Career readiness and the alleged Failure of Public Schools
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: What is the role of the public schools? The Center for Ethical Leadership (founded in 1991) says that public education is foundational to a healthy democracy and developing our humanity—not to have every student achieve high scores on standardized tests. After you read this post, you decide if the U.S. public…
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90 sites to advertise your book
Originally posted on James Calbraith: As far as I’m aware, this is the most comprehensive list of book promo sites anywhere on the internet. The list was compiled from various online sources, most notably – Rachelle’s Window (go there and thank her! 🙂 she also lists Alexa rankings for the sites) and my own research. As of posting this on August…
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The politics of the 10 most corrupt states in America
I wanted to know more so I set out to determine the political party strength in each of the ten most corrupt states.
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Looking at the Bill Gates Common Core “Rank and Yank” agenda to Reform Public Education through the lens of the Vergara verdict
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: In the Vergara trial, the judge’s verdict was based on unproven theories that a few incompetent teachers would ruin a child’s ability to earn an education. The numbers presented in one theory were one to two percent of teachers might be incompetent—not “are incompetent” but “might be incompetent” because of classroom…
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