New Orleans Call it what you may, charterization, privatization, or whatever the opposition of business and other elites to the public education system in the United States has gotten the kind of superficial analysis normally reserved for fashion trends and fall season television shows. The basic analysis is contentious and conducted at the high decibels …
Category: Education
Union Leaders Concerned about Schools, Wages, and Medical Debt
Little Rock When the forty leaders at the 34th Annual Local 100 Leadership Conference, held this year in Little Rock, were asked how many of them were carrying medical debt, more than half of the hands in the room went up. When asked how many had family, friends, or neighbors dealing with the burden of …
How Can Shaming Be A Solution?
New Orleans The teaching and testing travesty in Atlanta has been a bitter indictment of almost everything that is off the rails in the US educational system. When mandatory testing becomes the only measurement of teaching and educational standards, and the testing itself is seen as biased, unfair, and unjust, the temptation for administrators …