The Federal Charter Schools Program should be called out and not funded. The Network for Public Education (NPE) is a major research and activist organization. It is dedicated to improving and strengthening public schools. In particular, they are leading the charge to...
With school opening this week in many schools around the country, I thought I would reach into the archive, and explore the issue of how indoctrination plays a role in schooling. I might be off my rocker on this post, but I want to get it out there, and ask you if...
Winners and Losers In his Op-Ed in the Nation, Henry A. Giroux links Donald Trump to the plague of atomization in a neoliberal age. What was important to me, among other things in his Op-Ed was his reference to a 1946 essay by Leo Lowenthal, entitled...
Latest Story Today, the Georgia Senate voted and passed (38 - 15) Governor Deal's "chronically failing" school bill which would turn these schools into charters under the appointment of a "state" superintendent. Senate Resolution 287 proposes an amendment to the...
Ted Terry, State Campaign Director, Georgia AFL-CIO and I have been communicating about the plan being proposed by Governor Deal to take over Georgia's "failing" schools by implementing a Louisiana style state-wide recovery school district. Ted Terry is organizing a...
An Art of Science Teaching Inquiry Charter schools are seen as a cure-all to raise test scores of American students. It kind of like a philosopher's stone, or a 19th century elixir, to serve as an antidote for the ills of traditional public schools. Many policymakers...
