‘STUDENTS-FIRST’ HAS AN AGENDA; AND IS A HARSH GRADER OF U.S. STATES ON THEIR COMPLIANCE WITH THAT AGENDA. Michelle Rhee, former Chancellor of Washington D.C. schools, heads the advocacy group that pushes an “education reform” movement based on downgrading of teacher tenure and promotion of teacher evaluation based on student performance on standardized tests. [...]
PROBLEM OF THE DAY FOR PARENTS OF 350,000 CHILDREN IN CHICAGO: HOW TO GET THROUGH A MONDAY WITHOUT SCHOOLS. Chicago Teachers Union begins a strike today as negotiations between school board and teachers breaks down. There is bitter acrimony between the Mayor, Rahm Emanuel and the head of the CTU, Karin Lewis, who calls [...]
HAPPY (?) LABOR DAY!!! JIM HIGHTOWN PUTS THE “JOBLESS RECOVERY” ON THE SKEWER FOR YOUR HOLIDAY BARBECUE. The Dow Jones is up, corporate profits and CEO salaries are sky-rocketing, so the U.S. economy is “booming,” right? Well, says Hightower, only if you ignore the economic plight of middle and working class Americans, who are [...]
MIGRATION: CAN’T WE ALL JUST GO WITH THE FLOW? (Culturestrike) The Earth Summit Rio + 20 has involved some intelligent discussion about migration not as a crime or as something to be “controlled,” but as the natural result of changes on earth, especially environmental ones. Michelle Chen embraces this “ecological” view of migration, treating [...]
A “LAKE SIDE SETTLEMENT” IN AFRICA HAS “MOVED” 22 KILOMETERS FROM THE BANKS OF THE CONTINENT’S LARGEST WATER RESERVOIR. (Africa News) Lake Chad in Nigeria and Chad continues to dry up at an alarming pace. The extended drought put the lives of 30 million people in the Sahel region at risk and precipitates an intense struggle [...]
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