Little Rock I’m skeptical of many of these so-called public school “reform” efforts because too many seem to really be privatization schemes in disguise or elite stalking horses for charter school operators. Despite numerous studies finding that teachers are the key that unlocks almost all of the educational doors for children, most of these efforts …
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Part of the Point of Minimum Wage Increases is the Bump up from Wage Compression
New Orleans In the continued dumbing down of the Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal as it builds its platform for the far right, a new low was reached in the discussion of minimum wages as Richard Berman, now touting for the Center for Union Facts (sic). In a piece entitled, “Why Unions Want a …
Just the Facts and Watching our Backs on Wikipedia
Vancouver There is little argument anymore that Wikipedia, the on-line, crowd built “encyclopedia,” is the first source in the 21st century for innumerable high school and college term papers and much of the information random people get about most of the rest of us. I can’t count the number of gnarly introductions I’ve gotten in different …