Education under the Democratic/Republican Uniparty

Updated 2024

A decline in public education and making higher education largely unaffordable except to those willing to become indentured servants for most of their lives means we are becoming more and more like a third world country.

The very idea of fully funded public education has been declining for some time and will have a calamitous effect on our future if not reversed.

The reason I have so many references is to show this is a steadily increasing trend that I continuously update. It is not a vanishing blip on the radar. Failure to deal with this trend will have disastrous consequences for the future.

Help make your progressive case by using this documentation which is continuously updated. https://www.newprogs.org/make_your_case

The Democrats Are Not the Answer

I offer no defense of Trump or republicans who have also been trying to systematically destroy public education for decades. See Beware the Trump Administration. Rhetoric aside, however, in actions the democrats have been voting for the same objective. See The Democratic Party is the More Effective of Two Evils.

There is a bipartisan tradition to appoint to the post of Secretary of Education someone who has no experience teaching beyond a few college courses and believes the best way to improve education is to cut funding and get tough on teachers and their unions. Obama not only continued this tradition, by appointing Duncan as Secretary of Education, he has appointed the most hostile person to public education in the history of the office. The actions of his crony Chicago Mayor Emanuel against public schools is equally shocking. Of course Trump and his Education Secretary DeVos are just as bad or worse, but the bigger point is downgrading public education has been a bipartisan activity for decades.

The only public comment Obama has made on education (not counting generalities and sound-bites) praised a principal for firing teachers in mass and suggests teacher unions are the sole cause of all of our educational problems and charter schools the sole solution. If we are serious about addressing declining educational standards then those with no educational experience or background have to stop blaming, micromanaging, and underfunding teachers. We cannot "win the future" by underfunding and disrespecting teachers. Of course Republicans are doing the same thing. The point is this is one of many areas where democrats pretend to be different but in policy are not different. See references 1, 2, 35, 48, 49, 54, 55, 80, 85, 114, 124, 149, 150, 170, 171, 183, 192, 193, 219, 240, 277, 297, 304, 311, 338, 345, 381, 389, 408, 413, 416, 419, 436, 495, 583, 698, 700, 735, 738, 739, 743, 745, 759, 773, 807, 808.

Education Problems Documented in Below References

Downplaying social studies, constitutional civil rights, art, PE, history
"Teaching" science by memorizing facts rather than using critical thinking
Omitting climate change or evolutionary biology
Emphasizing common core so rich people and corporations can get richer by undocumented testing
Privatizing education by eliminating evil public school teachers in favor of charter schools
taking away tenure by laws and federal agencies such as Teach For America (TFA)

The below references indicate declining education is a nation wide problem and the policies of the Democratic/Republican Uni-Party are only making it worse. Turning our back on the public school system and making a higher education increasingly unaffordable are sure ways to pave the way for long term decline.

The March 2015 issue of National Geographic headlined "The War on Science" and covered increasing superstition on climate change, evolution. the moon landing and vaccinations. We are on very dangerous ground and this is a worrisome trend. Making the public schools a scapegoat will only worsen things.

Clearly the powers that be are playing a long game. We need to as well.

References
1-Why President Obama Must Remove Arne Duncan As Secretary of Education
2-The Obama Paradox
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6-Teacher Pay: U.S. Ranks 22nd Out Of 27 Countries
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9-You Made a Difference
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11-When Reforming Education Means Destroying Communities
12-The Attack on Public Education
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15-Teacher Salaries and the Medieval Bloodletting of the Public Schools
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17-Black Teachers Fired En Masse
18-Rick Santorum's 'Snob' Lob Against Obama Brings GOP Governors To President's Defense
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26-The Assault on Public Education
27-Why Isn't Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools National News?
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29-School Closings Come To Atlanta This Week, To Your City Next Week: It's Time To Dump Arne Duncan
30-Chicago Teachers Gear Up for a Fight
31-The Continued Destruction of Public Schools by Profit Seeking Charter Schools
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33-The For-Profit College Racket
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35-Democratic Split Over Education Reform Tested By Hollywood Movie
36-‘Won’t Back Down’: Realities the Movie Ignores
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39-Selling the Soul of Public Education
40-Pearson 'Education' - Who Are These People?
41-Texas GOP Platform Opposes Teaching "Critical Thinking Skills" in Schools. The Stupid, IT BURNS!
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43-Four Reasons Chicago's Teachers Are On Strike
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46-Chicago Teachers Swiftboated by For-Profit Charter School Operator
47-Stand Against Rahm!
48-The Real Problem with Rahm’s School Reforms in Chicago
49-Stubborn Facts About Obama Education Policies That No Amount of Convention Sugarcoating Can Cover Up
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54-How Things Look to a Returning Chicago Teacher
55-Rahm: President Obama Supports Me Against Striking Teachers
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61-Charters Do Not Outperform Unionized Schools
62-The Death of the Golden Dream of Higher Education
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69-Downward Mobility Haunts US Education
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72-Is Education a Human Right or a Privilege for the Wealthy?
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74-The War Against Teachers as Public Intellectuals in Dark Times
75-In Teaching Climate Change, Politics Trumps Science
76-Privatizing Public Schools: Big Firms Eyeing Profits From U.S. K-12 Market
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78-The New Tests Will Survive Even if the School Doesn't
79-Michelle Rhee to Actually be Held Accountable by Press for Once
80-Obama's Race To The Top Drives Nationwide Wave of School Closings, Teacher Firings
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84-Melissa Harris-Perry Buries The Lead Story on National Wave of Public School Closings
85-Obama facing school “turnaround” civil rights complaints
86-Desperate US students seek “arrangements”
87-School turnarounds prompt community backlash
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89-Why judges say charters are NOT public schools— students and parents should be nervous
90-Anti-Science Bills Weighed in Four States
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103-Fighting Creeping Creationism
104-Getting rich off of schoolchildren
105-Has another venue of education scholarship sold out?
106-Interactive Map: Voucher Schools Teaching Creationism
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111-Why Does the US Chamber of Commerce Want to Train or Replace Your Elected School Board, If They Haven't Already?
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114-Chicago Public School Closings to Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion
115-Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System
116-Climate debate cut from national curriculum for children up to 14 - Exclusive: New draft guidelines for key stages 1 to 3 criticised by scientists for 'abdicating duty to future generations'
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120-Journey for Justice: Mass School Closings and the Death of Communities
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122-L.A. Teachers Block Corporate Donor Attempt to Buy School Board
123-Protest Of CPS School Closings: Arrests, Tangled Evening Commute Stem From Loop Rally
124-Race to the Top : Obama's War on Public Education 1/2 (YouTube)
125-School Closures Pit Race And Poverty Against Budgets
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129-Brown v. Board Reduced Crime: And now re-segregation is leading to a spike in violent crime among young black men.
130-Detroit Schools Emergency Manager Gets Accolades as Children Fall Further Behind
131-As Tuition Rises, Opportunities Shrink
132-The Test Score Racket
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135-The Growing Burden of College Fees
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137-Why The State Board Will Have To Revisit REPA II Teacher Licensure Rules
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142-Brooklyn Charter School Targets Rich, White Parents, Enrollment Plan Shows
143-Walmart heirs 'invest' $8 million in StudentsFirst's school privatization agenda
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146-Henry A. Giroux | The War Against Teachers as Public Intellectuals in Dark Times
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148-Lincoln Park High School Students Walk Out in Support of Fired Teachers
149-Obama education secretary, Michigan governor promote school “reform”
150-Obama’s Race to the Bottom
151-Secret Teacher: are you teaching in a climate of fear? - Pressure of Ofsted inspections and a data-driven culture is destroying staff morale at Secret Teacher's school
152-Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System
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159-Yoo hoo to the AFT and NEA: Support the Garfield teachers, for real
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163-Education Reform in the New Jim Crow Era
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167-Time to Stop Waiting for Superman
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170-Obama Student Loan Policy Reaping $51 Billion Profit
171-Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling
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173-TheExhaustion of the American Teacher
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179-Where Does Data Come From? Replacing "Teach"er with "Test"er!
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183-Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
184-Moyers Moment (2012): Heather McGhee on Student Debt
185-New data shows school “reformers” are full of it: Poor schools underperform largely because of economic forces, not because teachers have it too easy
186-Noam Chomsky on Democracy and Education in the 21st Century and Beyond
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189-Sallie Mae’s Profits Soaring at the Expense of Our Nation’s Students
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192-Chicago School Closings And The Joyce Foundation: The Obama Connection
193-Chicago Teachers Union blasts mass firings dictated by post-strike contract
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197-Editorial: Bennett's credibility called into question
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199-Fighting for Our Classrooms, and for the Human Beings Inside Them
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204-New data shows school “reformers” are full of it - Poor schools underperform largely because of economic forces, not because teachers have it too easy
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210-The True Size of the Student Debt Crisis
211-The Student Loan Debt Crisis in 9 Charts - Nearly $1 trillion in debt, millions in unpaid loans: the numbers behind how Americans are struggling to pay for college.
212-“Indescribably insane”: A public school system from hell

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215-Pearson 'Education' -- Who Are These People?

After Student Protests, Sallie Mae Becomes 50th Corporation to Dump ALEC - See more at: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/09/12237/after-student-protests-sallie-mae-becomes-50th-corporation-dump-alec#sthash.v3OBZagf.dpuf

216-After Student Protests, Sallie Mae Becomes 50th Corporation to Dump ALEC

217-Anti-piracy curriculum for elementary schools decried as ‘propaganda'

218-Charter School Gravy Train Runs Express To Fat City

219-Chicago Teacher: Inhumane Working Conditions are Inhumane Learning Conditions

220-Diane Ravitch: School privatization is a hoax, “reformers” aim to destroy public schools - Our public schools aren't in decline. And "reformers" with wild promises don't care about education — just profits

221-For All Our Good, Let Student Debtors Go Bankrupt

222-For-Profit Colleges Thrive, Veterans Suffer

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224-INSANE: Common Core forces new kindergarteners to bubble in test answers
225-Mercedes Schneider Explains: Who Paid for the Common Core Standards
226-Newsflash: 800 Ed Reformers Meet in Boston Today

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231-Tired Teachers - What TN teachers really think about new evaluations (YouTube)

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233-Why ALEC Fabricated Public School Failures (and Why We're Not Surprised)

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235-4 Myths about Teacher Unions

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240-Does Arne Duncan Realize that Teachers and Students Are Dying?

241-Alexandria teacher fired despite no negative evaluations

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245-(updated) Ohio charter school fail, and fail, and fail, and future fails

246-Five years in prison for homeless mom that sent her child to school

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248-Dumbing Down America: The Decline of Education in the US as Seen From Down Under

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253-Historians speak out against proposed Texas textbook changes

254-How ‘Limited Government’ Is Burying a Generation in Debt

255-Indiana: GOP Plan to Privatizatize Public Schools Revealed

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257-'It Feels Like Education Malpractice' - What one woman learned from 10 years of teaching in a New York City public school

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259-K-12 student homelessness in US hits record high - report

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261-Meet the Bullies

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee Voucher School Shut Down As Republicans Introduce Bill to Expand Private Charter Schools - See more at: http://occupyriverwest.com/us/voucher-fraud#s

264-Mom packs kids homemade lunch; school fines her and feeds kids Ritz Crackers

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267-Lawsuit filed today in NY State Court to block inBloom and protect student privacy

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269-Our Schools Are Not For Sale

270-Poor ranking on international test misleading about US student performance, researcher finds

271-Study: Almost Half of Public School Students Are Now Low-Income - A new study reminds us that poverty is the giant backpack dragging down American students.

272-The Real 21st-Century Problem in Public Education is Poverty

273-A Call to Arms From Oz to American Academics

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275-The Seven Blind Mice of Education Reform: A Field Guide

276-How Teachers Can Save Their Careers - What Veteran Teachers Should Do to Protect Themselves From Being Driven out of the Profession

277-Sorry, Michelle Rhee, but our obsession with testing kids is all about money - Rhee, Nicholas Kristof and Arne Duncan exaggerate test results again to advance an ugly anti-public school agenda

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281-Ripping Off Young America: The College Loan Scandal

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286-These 11 Leaders Are Running Education But Have Never Taught

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294-Father Arrested for Trying to Pick up His Special Needs Children from School

Father Arrested for Trying to Pick Up his Special Needs Children from School
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/father-arrested-pick-special-children-school/#DFwS3uDSoJf3eP3y.99

295-any book by Diane Ravitch

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297-9 things the mayor doesn't want you to know about charter expansion in Chicago

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300-Bronx teacher thrown in jail after criticizing principal

301-Charter School Pirates of Privilege Plunder Public Schools

302-Charter Schools and the Destruction of Public Education

303-Charter Schools Gone Wild: Study Finds Widespread Fraud, Mismanagement and Waste

304-Arne Duncan slams teachers, says they come from the bottom of the academic barrel.

305-Chris Hedges: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System

306-Columbia Tosses Out Star Faculty Researchers for Failing to Pay 80% of Their Own Way

307-Corporate School Reform Equals Educational Malpractice

308-Crunching Test Scores Isn’t Enough to Educate Our Kids

309-CURMUDGUCATION

310-UPDATED: For-profit charter celebrates "Teacher Appreciation Week" w/ compulsory teacher humiliation

311-Despite Community Pleas, Three Chicago Schools Slated for Privatization

312-Do Poor Kids Deserve Lower-Quality Education Than Rich Kids? Evaluating School Privatization Proposals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

313-DOJ to Schools: Stop Sending Kids to Jail for Breaking the Rules

314-Education Hackers: They’re Heeere

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316-Teachers were never the Problem: Percent of Low Income Students in the Public Schools

317-Scholastic and Big Coal Team Up to Bamboozle 4th Graders

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322-Has Teach for America reached its Waterloo?

323-Beyond Neoliberal Miseducation

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326-Indiana withdrawing from Common Core standards

327-Infographic: Why Corporations Want Our Public Schools

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332-Appeal Court Vindicates 7,000 Fired Educators

Appeal court vindicates 7,000 fired educators

333-Newark school boss Anderson cracks down on critics, suspends five principals in one day

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335-Pay Our Teachers or Lose Your Job. North Carolina is pushing its best educators out. We have to do something.

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338- Obama’s Lawless Ed-Reform Push

339-Oprah’s Star Charter School in New Orleans Is Closing Down

340-Paul Horton: Why Obama's Education Policies Will Not Change and Why "Change is Hard"

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342-Baton Rouge’s Rich Want New Town to Keep Poor Pupils Out: Taxes

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345-President Obama Throws Teachers Under The Train

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349-Public Education Going the Way of Netscape Navigator? Common Core, Bill Gates and BATs

350-Public Education: Who Are the Corporate Reformers?

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355-Stop Blaming Black Parents for School Achievement Gaps

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01/20/3550057/charter-school-to-open-near-gated.html#storylink=cpy355-

356-Death threats and denial for woman who showed college athletes struggle to read

357-Teach for America’s hidden curriculum: The history of TFA reveals the ironies of contemporary education reform, class inequality and the liberal agenda

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359-Teacher misconduct in CPS?

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362-The American Public School Under Siege

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367-Glen Ford: Corporate Assault on Public Education (YouTube)

368-Public Schools for Sale?

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Voucher School Takes Mone

374-Newark parent leader arrested, jailed, after criticizing state plan to close schools.

375-Wyoming is 1st state to reject science standards

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378-Charter Schools Fail: New Reports Call Their ‘Magic’ Into Question

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380-Alternative Visions – Billionaires vs Teachers: The Vergara Court Decision in California – 06/14/14

381-Arne Duncan Threatens Entire State Of Oklahoma Because State Backed Out Of Common Core

382-Scholastic and Big Coal Team Up to Bamboozle 4th Graders

383-Boston Public Schools to Eliminate History & Social Science Departments

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385-California court ruling signals nationwide attack on teacher tenure, seniority rights

386-Are Charter Schools Todays Version of Sub Prime Mortgages? (video) (YouTube)

387-CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS

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389-SEC hits Chicago charter school operator with fraud charges

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392-Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition, bankrupt generations, and hypnotize the media - Tuition is up 1,200 percent in 30 years. Here's why you're unemployed, crushed by debt -- and no one is helping

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394-Conflicts Of Interest, Public Education, The AFT/NEA Corruption Through Non-Profits (video) (YouTube)

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398-States are fighting new science curriculum teaching climate change and evolution

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400-For-profit education chain Corinthian College implodes

401-FORMER CTC ATTORNEY KATHLEEN CARROLL LAYS OUT UNHOLY ALLIANCE BETWEEN UNION AND PUBLIC EDUCATION PRIVATIZERS

402-Gresham Elementary Principal No Longer Has Keys To School After Sit-In

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406-How to Pay for a Free, Non-Racist Higher Education

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408-Is "Democrats For Public Education" Just a Toothless, Cynical Sound Byte?

409-Fuzzy Math - The guesstimate that struck down California’s teacher tenure laws.

410-KS-Gov Brownback Expels Teachers..

411-LA Judge Objects to School Police Getting Millions Reserved for Struggling Students

412-Age of Ignorance

413-Mayor Rahm to Prosser High: Beat it!

414-Mississippi Cuts $1.3 Billion from Schools, Gives $1.3 Billion to Nissan

415-New York City’s Teachers Adrift, Victims of Reform

416-Obama alums join anti teachers union case

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419-One Year After Chicago Closes 50 Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union Assesses the Lies and Lasting Damage

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421-Principals Given Just 24 Hours to Make Way for New Success Academy Schools

422-Protections of Teacher Tenure Do Not Hurt Students

423-Report: Charters Creating Two-Tier Education

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425-Five Ways Charter Schools Are Bad for Children and Other Living Things

426-School That Banned Honors Night For Being Too ‘Exclusive’ Decides Not To Be National Laughingstock

427-Serial School Privatizer "Chainsaw Paul" Vallas Gets Ready For His Next Job

428-Sixty Years After Brown V. Board,Black Teachers Are Disappearing---Again The desegregation of American schools put Black teachers on the chopping block. What's taking them out of schools now?

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431-The Con Artistry of Charter Schools - Once an effort to improve public education, the charter school movement has transformed into a money-making venture.

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433-The Federal Hand Behind Common Core

434-The greening of the American teacher: Scarcity of experienced educators is not a chance development, and it is ruining US schools

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436-The Obamas’ Race to the Bottom

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438-The Whole Problem With Education In America, Explained By One Teacher In 6 Minutes

439-University of Illinois fires professor Steven Salaita after Gaza massacre tweets

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441-Why Hedge Funds Love Charter Schools

442-America's teachers some of the hardest working lowest paid in the world, check that, selfish, greediest and laziest around.

443-How Higher Education in the US Was Destroyed in 5 Basic Steps - Higher education is not what it used to be, and that's no accident.

444-Lies My Corporate Ed Reformers Told Me: The Truth About Teacher Tenure and the Civil Rights Movement

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446-NPR Whitewashes Charter Schools and Disaster Capitalism in New Orleans

447-Gates Funding Spurs Doubts over Pubmedia's Impartiality in Education Reporting

Gates funding spurs doubts over pubmedia’s impartiality in education reporting - See more at: http://www.current.org/2014/09/gates-funding-spurs-doubts-over-pubmedias-impartiality-in-education-reporting/#sthash.oR0NKP7d.dpuf

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449-States are fighting new science curriculum teaching climate change and evolution

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452-Proposed Texas textbooks teach climate change skepticism - "Scientists disagree about what is causing climate change," one newly proposed textbook reads.

453-Why I hate standardized tests: A teacher’s take on how to save public education: Thanks to tests, my students' minds have been downsized -- while corporate interests profit. Here's the answer

454-The California PAR Program- How Teachers Unions Have Collaborated in the Removal of Veteran Teachers and Helped “Whiten” The Teaching Profession.

455-Wealthy Donors and Corporations Set Think Tanks’ Agendas

456-Questioning the Charter School Hype

457-A Chronicle of Echoes

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459-American Teachers Spend More Time In The Classroom Than World Peers, Says Report

460-Another Study Finds Unaccountable Charter Schools Dogged by Corruption

461-Charlotte School Shuts Down 20 Days into School Year

Charlotte charter school shuts down, 20 days into school year - See more at: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2014/09/19/charlotte-charter-school-shuts-down-20-days-into-school-year/#sthash.Jjj0jBH6.dpuf

462-Charter School Power Broker Turns Public Education Into Private Profits

463-Chomsky: There's an Overt Corporate Effort to Indoctrinate American Children: The academic talks about education and indoctrination, ISIS, and the media in a new interview.

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467-German universities scrap all tuition fees

468-How Rich Old White Men Are Taking Lunch Money Away From Inner-City Black Kids

469-Noam Chomsky: Corporate business models are hurting American universities - The linguist and philosopher on the Walmartization of higher education, and what we can learn from John Stuart Mill

470-Parents pay the price for children’s student debt

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472-Say goodbye to public schools: Diane Ravitch warns Salon some cities will soon have none: "Why destroy public education so that a handful can boast they have a charter school in addition to their yacht?"

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474-Texas’ New Public School Textbooks Promote Climate Change Denial and Downplay Segregation

475-The Joys of Abolishing Debt

476-The Resurgence of the Public Education Nation

477-The University of Illinois Fails on Academic Freedom and Free Speech: Why the Salaita Case Matters

478-The witch-hunting of Steven Salaita and the new McCarthyism

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480-Why Government Spends More Per Pupil at Elite Private Universities Than at Public Universities

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483-America’s Schools: Still Separate and Very Much Unequal

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489-Anti-intellectualism is taking over the US: The rise in academic book bannings and firings is compounded by the US's growing disregard for scholarship itself

490-Henry A. Giroux | Barbarians at the Gates: Authoritarianism and the Assault on Public Education

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492-Why College Is Necessary But Gets You Nowhere

493-West Virginia school board alters climate change education standards - Because “West Virginia coal... has been taking on unfair negativity.”

494-West Virginia’s sneaky climate denial: School board alters state science standards - Last-minute changes to the state's climate change education requirements fly in the face of science

495-Exposing the charter school lie: Michelle Rhee, Louis C.K. and the year phony education reform revealed its true colors - Charter schools promised new education innovations. Instead, they produced scam after new scam

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497-Harvard Law School: Three Proposals to Curb Its Role as Hedge Fund and Corporate Shill

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499-More Than Half Of American Public Schoolchildren Now Live In Poverty: Study

500-These Are The States Where Poor Students Are Most Likely To Have Inexperienced Teachers

501-Public School Now Programming Children to Celebrate Police State and Dress in Blue to “Thank Cops”

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504-WHO WILL TEACH?

505-We Coddle Bad Cops, Vilify Good Teachers. We defer to cops even when they kill, and scapegoat schools for the ills America has given up on. This must change.

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Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article11101289.html#storylink=cpy

510-Fear, Ridicule, Danger: Is It Safe to Be a Climate Scientist? (Op-Ed)

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514-Kansas Senate wants to imprison teachers who assign books it dislikes

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517-Mark Naison: When Civil “Rights” Are Civil Wrongs: Where is the Obama Administration?

518-NYC Public Pension Fund May Invest with Charter Backer

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520-Education 'experts' may lack expertise, study finds

521-Poll finds gaping chasm in views between U.S. public, scientists

522-“We Are Entering the Age of Infinite Examination”

523-Punishing schools for child poverty doesn't help students

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525-Scott Walker urges professors to work harder

526-Should Pearson, a giant multinational, be influencing our education policy?

Pearson, a business that sells education products and services, seems to be gaining an ever-growing influence on school life. But whose interests is the company promoting – students' or its shareholders'?

527-Tests above average, but teacher fails - Suit challenges computer rating as "ineffective"

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530-Why does the Arizona Legislature hate public schools?

531-ADHD Kids must move to learn – so much for ‘no excuses’ charter schools

532-America dumbs down: The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking. Has the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind?

533-America is criminalizing Black teachers: Atlanta’s cheating scandal and the racist underbelly of education reform - Our educational system stacks the deck against Black children -- now we're throwing their teachers in jail

534-American teachers, more demoralized than ever, are quitting in droves

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536-South Miami-based charter school management company under federal scrutiny

537-Bill Gates’s Double Standards and High Tech High K-12 Schools

538-Black Students Feeling Especially Crushed By Student Debt

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541-Public Schools Are a Public Good - The rapid growth of market-driven charter schools erodes a cornerstone of American democracy.

542-Chicago asks school teachers to take 7 percent pay cut: union

543-Chicago Teacher Pension Money Invested With Rahm Emanuel's Friends and Donors

544-Chicago teachers union says schools probe sign of bigger problem

545-Conservative Failure: Kansas Schools Close Early Due To State Budget Cuts (VIDEO)

546-NY: Teachers Can Go To Hell, With a Heavy Heart

547-Dear NYT, Better Teachers? How About Better Journalism?

548-Demonizing Teachers, Privatizing Schools: The Big Lies and Big Plans Behind the Atlanta School Cheating Scandal

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550-From “Bad” Teachers to Teachers as Cheaters: The Burden of the Impossible

551-New Orleans Corporate Education Reform 101 - What they won’t tell you about the education reforms in New Orleans

552-The Racist History of the Charter School Movement

553-Former DC Whistleblower Principal, Adell Cothorne, on the Atlanta Cheating Verdict

554-Four Reasons Young Americans Should Burn Their Student Loan Papers

555-Infographic: Why Corporations Want Our Public Schools - Where’s the big money in privatization? Take it from the teachers.

556-Koch Mandates to Cut Education Spending Spread Like a Cancer

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559-Principal gets off easy after ‘revenge’ review on teacher

560-Media-video: Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig on Al Jazeera America discussing Teach For America (YouTube)

561-Professor's Outrage at Son's "Terror-Based" Sex Education Goes Viral - Alice Dreger's live-tweets about son's high school lesson in abstinence became a national news story

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565-Why Has Teacher Morale Plummeted?

566-Why Is (Some) Test Cheating Wrong, But “Miracle” School Lies Are OK?

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568-Why Was Atlanta's Beverly Hall Indicted For Racketeering While Michelle Rhee Won't Be?

569-The Straw that Broke the Teacher's Back

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574-The Student Loan Crisis and the Debtfare State

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579-Arne Duncan’s children to attend private school in Chicago

580-As the School Year Ends, Public Education is in Doubt

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583-The Democrats May Have Just Aligned Themselves With Test and Punish – We Are Doomed

584-Bob Braun to Star-Ledger: Stop Defaming Teachers!

585-Charter schools are cheating your kids: New report reveals massive fraud, mismanagement, abuse - Millions of dollars are being vacuumed out of public schools and into the corporate pockets -- or fraudulent execs

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587-The Vampire Squid Turns to Education

588-Dumbing Down the Kids

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590-Education: The Next Corporate Frontier

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593-How a Right-Wing Political Machine Is Dismantling Higher Education in North Carolina

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595-Kansas Is Becoming A Hard Place To Teach, So Teachers Are Crossing The State Line

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597-KIPP charter schools and the behavior modification of…teachers

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599-Meet the Latest Secret Free-Market Group That Wants to Take Over Your Public School - The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has been an invisible player in the free-market education reform movement.

600-No pay, no play! Poor kids banned from school carnival

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602-Big business declares war on science: The secret story of the Chamber of Commerce’s battle against the environment, global warming action - Driven by a fervor for profit and an anti-government frenzy, the Chamber is a fighting force for the 1 percent

603-Report: Federal Education Funding Plummeting - Congress has cut spending for K-12 education by nearly 20 percent since 2011, a new report says.

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605-Senate Passes Bill Letting Schools Give Education Money To Financial Consulting Firms

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607-SHOCKER! Corporate front group Mackinac Center wants to turn all Detroit Public Schools over to charters

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609-State school board vote eliminates minimum number of school nurses, librarians, counselors, arts teachers

610-Stunning revelation Bill Gates has spent $2.3 Billion on Common Core – #PARCC

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614-The great charter school rip-off: Finally, the truth catches up to education “reform” phonies - Fraud, financial mismanagement, lousy results: Reports highlight awful charter schools and people are catching on

615-The Student Loan Crisis and the Debtfare State

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620-Whitewash: New Texas history books will downplay slavery, omit KKK and Jim Crow

621-Why America Demonizes Its Teachers

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625-Charter schools are a ‘gravy train,’ say researchers - A new report examines the methods charter school operators can use to enrich themselves

626-Greenpeace Sting Shows Academics Selling Themselves To Polluters

627-Philly Schools Sacrificed on the Altar of Pennsylvania Budget Compromise

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629-Washington Post Promotes Dickensian Marketing Experiment on Poor Children

630-What Every Millennial Wishes You Understood About Student Loan Debt

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633-Where in the World Is Climate Change Denial Most Prevalent?

634-Let's Get Serious About Education Policy

635-Where are Washington’s K-12 dollars? Just ask Microsoft shareholders

636-Overwhelming Percentage of Science Teachers Confused About Climate Change

637-Climate Denying GWPF Academic Chairman Ross McKitrick Resigns In Wake of Greenpeace Sting

638-Rice University’s Baker Institute and the Academic Cover It Provides for Fossil Fuel Interests

639-Emergency for Democracy: Unelected Manager Who Caused Flint Water Crisis Now Runs Detroit Schools

640-Ex-EAA principal pleads guilty: I betrayed public trust

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643-Government books $41.3 billion in student loan profits - Figures come as concerns mount about growing loan debt for students, graduates.

644-Illinois legislators continue assault on public higher education

645-In North Carolina, Teachers Work Second Jobs to Make Ends Meet

646-Koch Brothers View Universities As Propaganda Machines

647-Michigan bills aim to make sick-outs illegal strikes

648-Professor Who Exposed Flint Crisis Says Greed Has Killed Public Science - Academic pressure and financial motives has prohibited scientists from asking important questions

649-Professors in homeless shelters: It is time to talk seriously about adjuncts - Adjunct abuse is one of higher education's great sins. So why is a leading writing conference not discussing it?

650-Stop Humiliating Teachers

651-Betrayed by the Dream Factory - My life and career have been scarred by the naïve exchange I made at college: an education of questionable value for a dangerous amount of debt.

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654-Teaching About Political Prisoners Will Get You Fired! An Exclusive with Marylin Zuniga

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658-The most important fact about student debt, explained in 2 maps

659-The Troubled Academic Job Market for History

660-Top 10 Reasons School Choice is No Choice

661-U.N. Experts Seem Horrified By How American Schools Treat Black Children - Schools have a lot of work to do.

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664-Vouchers and the Destruction of America’s Public Schools

665-With A Brooklyn Accent

666-Oregon Spends Nearly Four Times More on Incarceration than Higher Education

667-Zimmer accuses Broad charter plan of strategy to ‘bring down’ LAUSD

668-'Not Worth It': Why NC College Students Are Turning Away From Teaching | WUNC

669-‘We’re Sorry Teachers are Unfairly Blamed’ says John King – Man Responsible for Unfairly Blaming Teachers | gadflyonthewallblog

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671-Are charter schools the new mortgage crisis - Business Insider

672-Don’t teach “sensitive topics” or anger students, Houston professors are warned after “campus carry” gun law passed - Salon.com

673-One-Third Of U.S. Science Teachers Bring Climate Change Denial Into the Classroom | IFLScience

674-Teachers Need to Communicate the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change - US News

675-Hedge funds tell Puerto Rico: lay off teachers and close schools to pay us back | World news | The Guardian

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678-Is the Scientific Process Broken? | Foundation for Economic Education

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680-Most Charter Schools Are Public In Name Only | PopularResistance.Org

681-On National Adjunct Walkout Day, Professors Call Out Poverty-Level Wages & Poor Working Conditions | Democracy Now!

682-Should lawmakers lower the standards for only those who can teach in Detroit? - WXYZ.com

683-Student loan delinquencies reveal racial disparities - CSMonitor.com

684-Success Academy undercover video shows no-excuses discipline at its ugliest.

685-Success Academy's War Against Children

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687-The Decline of Play and Rise in Children's Mental Disorders | Psychology Today

688-The dismantling of public education through legislative segregation

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690-US Marshals make arrests over non-payment of student loans — RT USA

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694-Why Student Loans Are Creating A Permanent U.S. Underclass | PopularResistance.Org

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698-Department of Education Cooperates with ALEC and Others to Privatize Public Education

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700-Less Resources, Harder Tests: Common Core in the Last Days of Obama

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702-CUNY and NYS hypocrisy on academic freedom: okay to boycott North Carolina and Mississippi, but not Israel

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704-Detroit Public Schools May Close After April 8 Due To Lack Of Funds

705-Drastic Public School Cuts in Memphis—The New America

706-Education In Crisis And The Threat Of Privatization

707-College Could Be Free In America If Corporations Paid Reagan-Era Taxes

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710-Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools

711-Homework is wrecking our kids: The research is clear, let’s ban elementary homework: Homework does have an impact on young students — but it’s not a good one

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714-Texas School Funding Stands Alone as Worst in the United States

715-Illinois cuts off funding for its public universities

716-PC Hysteria Claims Another Professor - A University of Kansas professor was turned in by her students after using the ‘n-word’ in class to discuss her own white privilege.

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719-Solving the Mystery of the Schools

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724-The motive of “reformers” laid bare via MiDian Holmes

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726-We Won’t Improve Education By Making Teachers Hate Their Jobs

727-What ‘white folks who teach in the hood’ get wrong about education

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729-Why Finland has the best schools

730-You will be shocked at how ignorant Americans are - What Americans don't know and don't understand is an obstacle to progress

731-'Tolerant' educators exile Trump voters from campus: Glenn Reynolds

732-7 Reasons You Might Not Want to Teach Anymore

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735-Cornel West on the "shameless silence" of progressives about Obama and education reform - video

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738-The dismantling of public education and Obama's education legacy

739-Bill Clinton’s pay at for-profit education company topped $17.5 million

740-America the Illiterate by Chris Hedges

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742-Deal for $1 that upended Nevada’s education system has cost us dearly

743-Dear Mayor Emanuel: I resign my position as principal of the #1 rated neighborhood school in Chicago

744-Detroit Teachers Strike Against Disaster Capitalism

745-Diane Ravitch’s devastating Arne Duncan critique: The education secretary earned his F - It will take years to recover from the damage that Arne Duncan's policies have inflicted on public education

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747-Education "Reform"

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749-A small country with big ideas to get rid of fossil fuels - TED Talks

750-A Plan to Defend against the War on Science - The challenge of creating a public able to parse evidence-free “facts” rests with the press, educators and other thought leaders

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753-How Hedge Funders Built the Pro-Charter Political Network - School board elections have graduated from quaint races to big-money contests, thanks to well-funded education reform advocacy groups succeeding at the local level.

754-Corporate Privatization of Education

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756-21st Century Detroit-style Power and Struggle: The Detroit Literacy Case

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759-Meet the New Leader of Chicago’s Principals Who’s Taking on Rahm Emanuel and Corporate School Reform - Troy LaRaviere is an award-winning educator and a fierce critic of Emanuel’s education agenda.

760-New Study Concludes Charters Harm Public Schools

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762-Pay is Climbing Fast for Texas University Leaders: In the past four years, the total pay for chancellors and presidents of Texas universities and systems has grown 70 percent, from an average total compensation of $565,000 in 2012 to an average of $955,000 now.

763-Poll: Faith in schools hits record low

764-Savannah-Chatham hiring 450 teachers, no education degree required

765-Out of options - School choice gutted Detroit’s public schools. The rest of the country is next.

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767-Older Americans Pushed Into Poverty as Feds Garnish Social Security for Student Debt

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769-America’s Largest Student Loan Firm Abused Borrowers And Broke The Law, Officials Say - Navient Corp., formerly Sallie Mae, encouraged call center workers to rush struggling borrowers off the phone rather than explain debt-relief programs.

770-The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States, 1945-2016 Hardcover – Dec 15 2016 by Henry Heller (book)

771-The complicated history of America's first 'union-backed' charter school authorizer

772-The Decline of Play and Rise in Children's Mental Disorders: There's a reason kids are more anxious and depressed than ever.

773-The Obama legacy Part III: Destroying Public Education As We Know It

774-Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, Will the Millennial Movement Rebuild the Ivory Tower or Be Crushed by It?

775-Top 10 Reasons School Choice is No Choice

776-Turkey post-coup purge: Licenses of 21,000 teachers revoked, 1,577 deans ordered to resign

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778-Wall Street Firms Make Money From Teachers' Pensions — And Fund Charter Schools Fight

779-Want to Kill Your Economy? Have MBA Programs Churn out Takers Not Makers. - Why has business education failed business?

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781-In Chicago, Teachers and Black Lives Matter Activists Partner to Build a Bigger Movement

782-PBS Runs A Three-Hour Series Glorifying The DeVos Education Agenda - Funded by conservative foundations devoted to privatization, this program is the definition of paid propaganda.

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784-Another school rating system, more data on racial, ethnic disparities

785-6 Ways This Ivy League University Is Acting Like a PR Firm for Junk Food, GMOs and Pesticides - Consumers lose when professors get their marching orders from Big Ag and Big Food.

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788-Poll: Most Republicans say colleges have negative impact on US

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790-Schools throughout the country are grappling with teacher shortage, data show

791-Science journalist retires at 98 and warns of generation of Americans who suffer from a thinking 'disability’

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793-Study: US is slipping toward measles being endemic once again - Just a tiny increase in vaccine refusals will triple measles cases, cost US millions.

794-What to Do When You See Science Denial at the Science Museum

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797-A Teacher’s Dilemma: Take a Stand Against Testing or Keep Abusing Children

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799-How U.S. News college rankings promote economic inequality on campus - Once ladders of social mobility, universities increasingly reinforce existing wealth, fueling a backlash that helped elect Donald Trump.

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801-Continuing coverage of Vermilion Parish teacher arrest- KATC (YouTube)

802-Essay writing companies are a threat to higher education.

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804-Gutting Wisconsin teachers unions hurt students, study finds

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807-As Lawmakers Accuse DeVos of Lack of Regard for Students, Her Own Staffer Admits 'Things Have Gotten Pretty Awful Here' "What do you mean, there's no data?" a lawmaker asked Secretary of Education during tense hearing. "There is study after study after study."

808-Betsy DeVos was “confused” about protections for students with disabilities — so she scrapped dozens The Trump administration is rolling back guidelines meant to protect students with disabilities

809-Is Paddling Legal? Arkansas Students Paddled For Taking Part in National School Walkout Against Violence

810-It's Time To Worry When Colleges Erase Humanities Departments

811-Here's what happened to teachers after Wisconsin gutted its unions

812-Louisiana teacher handcuffed, arrested after bringing up brass salary at school board meeting

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817-New York's Greatly Hyped Success Academy Tainted by Racist Board Members and Radical Right-Wing Money:

Yet another Success Academy Board member has a long history of making incendiary racial comments.

818-Opinion: Where have all the good teachers gone? Retiring earlier.

819-Sen. Knollenberg shocked by Michigan's teacher shortage. Let me explain what happened.

820-Shame on Harvard for welcoming Sean Spicer – but spurning Chelsea Manning

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823-Teacher handcuffed, arrested and removed from school board meeting after challenging teacher pay

824-Teacher Strikes Are About More Than Salaries. And They’re Not Over.

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826-The Biggest Difference Between Private, Charter and Public Schools Isn't Test Scores—It's Marketing: All the braggadocio about the so-called success of private and charter schools is just “concentrated privilege."

827-The Disinformation Playbook - How Business Interests Deceive, Misinform, and Buy Influence at the Expense of Public Health and Safety

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831-WATCH: Teacher questions school board about superintendent’s big raise — and gets hauled away in cuffs

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834-Why School Choice is the Last Thing America Needs to Solve Its Huge Racial Wealth Gap - Federal housing policy segregated cities and created today's staggering racial wealth gap. Charter schools won't fix that.

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837-Tomgram: Steve Fraser, Teaching America a Lesson

838-Houston’s flooding shows what happens when you ignore science and let developers run rampant

839-Tomgram: Belle Chesler, A Teacher Listens to Her Students

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842-Betsy DeVos Just Gave $12.6 million to Rocketship Charter Schools. Bad Idea.

843-Cashing In On Trump’s War on Universities - Republicans are gutting U.S. education; Canada — with boldness — can reap the benefits.

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846-Kentucky Enflames The Republican War On Science To A New Level

847-In Defense of Refusal: Teacher Rebellion Rejects Corporate Assault on Public Education

848-Striking Teachers Beat Back Neoliberalism’s War On Public Schools

849-Texas Teacher of the Year suspended for ‘pushing homosexual agenda’ by wearing Disney costume

850-Tomgram: Erin Thompson, In Debt to the Law (at $100,000 a Pop) - The Failure of law Schools

851-NYT: For-profit college fraud investigations scaled back under Betsy DeVos

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854-Policy changes needed to reduce teacher turnover rates in Minneapolis Public Schools

855-National Teachers Group Confronts Climate Denial: Keep the Politics Out of Science Class The association urged science teachers at all levels to emphasize that 'no scientific controversy exists regarding the basic facts of climate change.'

856-First thing we do, let’s kill all the experts - Tom Nichols' book describes how experts are no longer ignored—they're attacked.

857-Betsy DeVos Is Working Hard to Make Student Loan Forgiveness an Impossibility

858-K-12 students should be taught climate science, teachers' association says 'No scientific controversy exists.'

859-Little Rock, Arkansas teachers’ union relinquishes due process rights

860-The Language of Neoliberal Education

861-Teacher Strikes Are Exposing The Corrupt Charter School Agenda

862-'Horrendous situation': America's teachers are suing the federal government over student loans

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864-‘Red State Revolt’ offers an inside look at the recent wave of teacher strikes

865-‘The joy of why I got into this profession has been shattered': Teacher shares why she quit her 'dream' job

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867-$50 million in state funds reportedly stolen in charter school scheme

868-'It hurt so bad': Indiana teachers shot with plastic pellets during active shooter training

869-America’s educational system is an ‘aristocracy posing as a meritocracy’

870-Billionaires v teachers: the Koch brothers' plan to starve public education

871-School lessons targeted by climate change doubters

872-Charter Schools Are a Major Dividing Line for the 2020 Democratic Candidate Education Fights in Pennsylvania Point the Way - Charter schools now cost Pennsylvania taxpayers over $1.8 billion annually and account for over 25 percent of the state’s basic education funding

873-Charter Schools Are Mired in Fraud and Failure

874-Charter schools are starting to look a lot like payday lenders and for-profit colleges The daily drip of charter school scandals is revealing an industry that often preys on those they claim to be trying to help.

875-Charter Schools Fail: New Reports Call Their ‘Magic’ Into Question

876-The decline of trust in science “terrifies” former MIT president Susan Hockfield - If we don’t trust scientists to be experts in their fields, Hockfield says on the latest episode of Recode Decode, “we have no way of making it into the future.”

877-Flat Earthers, and the Rise of Science Denial in America

878-Florida: The Graveyard of American Public Education - Remember that Betsy DeVos points to Florida as a model.

879-Ford warns teachers’ unions not to dare protest class-size increases

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883-Charters and Consequences: An Investigative Report

884-Number Of Teachers Quitting The Classroom After Just One Year Hits All-Time High

885-Parents told they could lose kids over unpaid school lunches

886-Poverty & Reading: The Sad and Troubling Loss of School Libraries and Real Librarians

887-School vouchers expand despite evidence of negative effects

888-Schools getting more police but at the expense of counselors, nurses: Report

889-CEO tries to play hero, pay for students' late lunch bills: School board says no

890-Teacher Salaries Fell 4.5% Over the Last Decade - The gender gap contributes to disparities in pay between teachers and similarly educated professionals.

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892-The Decline of Play and Rise in Children's Mental Disorders - There's a reason kids are more anxious and depressed than ever.

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894-Things Didn’t Go Well When Betsy DeVos Was Confronted With Her Department’s Charter School Fraud - One billion awarded by the federal government’s Charter Schools Program (CSP) went to charter schools that never opened or opened for only brief periods

895-DeVos Denounced for Student Debt Relief Rule Change That Critics Say 'Takes a Scythe to Defrauded Borrowers' - "With this policy overhaul, Secretary DeVos has cemented her legacy as best friend to predatory colleges and enemy to the students they rip off."

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897-Betsy DeVos cancels Obama-era regulation aimed at holding for-profit schools accountable

898-Watch Donald Trump Jr. Call Teachers ‘Losers’ at His Father’s El Paso Rally

899-Resisting the Weaponization of Ignorance in the Age of Trump

900-Trump administration proposes $7.1 billion funding cut to Education Department

901-Two Indiana virtual schools face swift closure as they shrug off blame for enrollment scandal

902-Underpaid Adjunct Professors Sleep in Cars and Rely on Public Aid

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904-We asked Indiana teachers why they’re leaving the classroom: ‘Death by a thousand cuts’

905-West Virginia Senate passes sweeping education bill to ban teacher strikes - The bill would allow schools to fire workers for striking and withhold pay on strike days.

906-Why billionaires love charter schools

907-Zombie Nation – The War on Schools, Teachers, and Children

908-Educator: There's A Mass Teacher Exodus, Not Shortage - Tim Slekar, Dean Of The School Of Education At Edgewood College, Says Testing Accountability To Blame

909-Public education: A working class issue

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912-Betsy DeVos To Promote School That Bans Transgender Students And Staff The education secretary is set to visit a Catholic elementary school in Pennsylvania that has an explicit anti-trans policy.

913-Who Cares about Knowledge—or the Public Good?

914-Betsy DeVos Forced Students Defrauded by For-Profit Colleges to Repay Loans

915-Beyond the Books: People who regulate charter schools also make millions off them

916-Chicago Teachers vs. Billionaire Privatizers

917-87 Percent of Americans Unaware There's Scientific Consensus on Climate Change

918-Sweden Provides Free Higher Education, Universal Healthcare, Free Daycare — Why Can’t the U.S.?

919-USA ranked 27th in the world in education and healthcare — down from 6th in 1990 America continues to tread water in healthcare and education while other countries have enacted reforms to great effect.

920-Librarians could be jailed and fined under a proposed censorship law

921-Most Americans don’t realize state funding for higher ed fell by billions

922-Non-White School Districts Get $23 Billion Less Funding Than White Ones A new report finds that funding gaps between white and non-white districts persist across all poverty levels.

923-Ohio Senate Education Committee Blames Educators While Underfunding Schools in the State’s Poorest Communities

924-Oil Sector Propaganda Invades The Classroom

925-Exclusive: ‘Older teachers bullied to breaking point' Union says bullying is 'rife' in order to drive out expensive older teachers, while psychotherapist reports 'massive increase' in teachers seeking counselling

926-White House Moves to Strip Free School Lunches From 500,000 Kids

927-Poverty levels in schools key determinant of achievement gaps, not racial or ethnic composition, study finds

928-Prof Brian Cox: ‘Being anti-expert – that’s the way back to the cave’

929-Propaganda works – 58 percent of Republicans believe education is bad

930-Teachers are walking away from their careers in Alabama because of unruly students

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932-The Education Reform Movement Has Failed America. We Need Common Sense Solutions That Work.

933-The Life And Death Of The Terrible Education Reform Movement

934-The problem with thinking you know more than the experts

935-'Flat-Out Corruption': DeVos Accused of Scheming to Stop Next President From Canceling Student Loan Debt "Normally the rich are moderately more subtle about rigging the system in their favor. They're scared."

936-Betsy DeVos Wants Larger Class Sizes and Fewer Teachers

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938-Trump administration quietly cuts funding to the nation’s poorest schools

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942-Teacher shares 'huge difference’ between schools in Denmark vs. America: ‘A million times better’

943-Coronavirus: ‘These attacks on experts are going to haunt us,’ doctor says

944-Texas Governor Signs Law To Stop Teachers From Talking About Racism

945-‘Threats Are Being Made Against Teachers Who Are Teaching the Truth’

946-We All Know Teachers Are Underpaid. But Who Imagined It Was This Bad? New data shows how much teachers rely on side hustles simply to survive.

947-School Privatizers Are Leaning Hard Into the Culture Wars

948-Censorship Wave in US Education

949-They Crush Our Song for A Reason The powerful keep those they exploit from knowing who they are, where they came from and the crimes of the ruling class. As social inequality mounts, so does the campaign to keep us in darkness.

950-The Charter School Real Estate Scam - Publicly funded private schools can rake in millions from state facility grants and then keep any profits from the sale if the school closes.

951-The Culture War on Public Education - It’s time to recognize the real target of the book bans and gag orders dominating national headlines: your local school.

952-Taking Back Our Universities From Corporate Apparatchiks - American universities are appendages of the corporate state. Educators are increasingly poorly paid, denied benefits and job security while senior administrators pay themselves obscene salaries.

953-Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Bad American Engineering (YouTube)

954-Chris Hedges at Moravian College: The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies (YouTube)

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commented 2020-09-08 12:48:02 -0700 · Flag

Yikes. We are in trouble in area we do not even know about. Education is the basic of survival.