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Student Debt Is a National Emergency – Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, June 4, 2014The Zero Tolerance Report – Brasscheck
In the coming weeks and months, we'll be reporting on the insane "Zero Tolerance" policy that's taken root in schools across the US. Schoolchildren are being treated with a harshness over minor infractions in ways that are similar to how prison inmates are treated. Why? Are schools institutions of learning for young people or are they prisons? School administrators need to figure it out... Here's the latest foolishness - but this time parents and children are fighting back.Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, April 26, 2014
What We Lose When We Rip the Heart Out of Arts Education
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, April 21, 2014Truthdig – Israel’s War on American Universities – Chris Hedges
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, March 26, 2014Elizabeth Warren Blasts Government Profits on Student Loans
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, February 9, 2014Fwd: Filmed On A Pier In Oceanside, California
Do you support Carl Marx for President 2016? If this were a joke it would be funny, but this IS California. The sad fact is these people probably vote and reproduce! Here's the well informed, educated public Bette LaytonPosted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, January 21, 2014
The truth about charter schools: Padded cells, corruption, lousy instruction and worse results – Salon.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, January 12, 2014Conservative Groups Plan US-Wide Assault on Education, Health and Taxes
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, December 9, 2013You will be shocked at how ignorant Americans are – Salon.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, November 9, 2013Nathan Heller: How San Francisco’s Entrepreneurial Culture Is Changing the Country : The New Yorker
Posted by Harry Sifton, Sunday, October 13, 2013The Central Issue at the Heart of America’s Growing Education Gap
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, October 7, 2013Poor Preschoolers Suffer During Government Shutdown | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, October 7, 2013West Coast Environmental Law | West Coast Environmental Law
Posted by Harry Sifton, Saturday, September 21, 2013Political action committee – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Posted by Harry Sifton, Wednesday, September 18, 2013BOOK REVIEW: “Reign of Error”: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, September 18, 20131912 eighth grade exam: Could you make it to high school in 1912? – Arithmetic – CSMonitor.com
Posted by Harry Sifton, Wednesday, August 28, 2013School Reformers Give a Lesson in Corruption
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, August 21, 2013Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, August 20, 2013What Passes for Education In America Is Often Just Indoctrination
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, August 9, 2013The Front Line of the Brutal Corporate Assault on Education
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, August 5, 2013FOCUS | Sometimes in Washington, Goliath Loses to David
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, July 22, 2013The Trouble With Testing Mania – NYTimes.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, July 15, 2013Autistic Boy With Higher IQ Than Einstein Discovers His Gift After Removal From State-Run Therapy
With an IQ of 170 he was diagnosed as Autistic with no chance of recovery by school officials. Mom took him out of the government system after years of frustration, and exposed him to the things he had interest and passion for, and creativity exploded. What does this imply for our existing passionless state system of teaching to tests with only government approved language, and lesson plans? Are we stimulating cognitive growth and passion for accomplishment in our youth, or creating worker bees for government needs? The school lost it's per diem for the student, and the world gained an 11 yr old astrophysicist, potentially in line for a Nobel prize. What would remaining in the school system done for this child? Would he have fulfilled the predictions that he would not tie his shoes or be able to read? Probably! What does this mean for your child's education? b.a.Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, July 13, 2013