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student protests in Chile Mexico City World news reports on CNN from Mexico City are featuring huge rallies in Chile once again as students push back over increases in costs and other curtailments. In Quebec several schools have been closed down now in the 12th week of student strikes over the same issues and the [...] New Orleans New Orleans continues, past any notion of reality, to be touted as a model example of educational reform because of the huge number of charter schools, mostly run by separate and independent operators. There are many problems with this so-called model, but a huge, glaring deficiency has been the usurpation of any democratic, [...] Student Strike in Montreal March 2012 New Orleans This fall will undoubtedly see a huge number of students mobilized by the November election, but I’m starting to believe that the student army that is going to be activated this fall is going to be marching to a different tune for a change: their own self-interest. [...] New Orleans HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced that about 132 Head Start agencies charged with providing pre-school education for the poor will go through “redesignation.” Redesignation really means that they will lose their contracts and go through a rebidding process because they have been found deficient in some respect. Many of the deficiencies seem [...] Detroit It is very depressing to read about the inability to make advances in the equity and achievement of all levels of education despite the technological advantages and increasing availability of internet access. Costs continue to soar at both public and private educational institutions. E-education options now seem beleaguered by low standards, scams, and reputational [...] New Orleans News flash from the military of all places! If you create a level of equity and seek to eliminate racism in the classroom, results will shine, and you will out public schools. If you try to teach and actually educate children, rather than “teaching to the test,” their reading and other scores on those [...] |
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