National : Laura Taylor Barack Obama has spoken in favor of "rewarding good teachers" with more money. But where I teach, merit pay has been anything but effective.
March 24, 2009 : Marlene Martin New Mexico became the latest state to end its use of the death penalty when Gov. Bill Richardson signed abolition legislation.
March 23, 2009 : Nicole Colson The hope that Barack Obama would undo the damage done to civil and human rights during eight years of George W. Bush seems to be evaporating.
March 20, 2009 : Randy Childs President Obama's speech on education continues a political tradition of ignoring the underfunding, overcrowding and segregation that plague our schools.
March 19, 2009 : Helen Redmond Barack Obama says fixing health care is at the top of his agenda. But supporters of single-payer were at the bottom of his White House guest list.
March 16, 2009 : Nicole Colson Supporters of Dr. Sami Al-Arian are cautiously optimistic after several hearings where prosecutors were left scrambling.
March 16, 2009 The Seattle area got a disturbing look at what goes on behind closed doors at the King County Sheriff's Department.
March 16, 2009 : Elizabeth Schulte The California Supreme Court is due to rule on a lawsuit that aims to overturn the Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban.
March 11, 2009 : Anthony Papa The Scott sisters are serving life sentences in Mississippi for a crime that netted $11--and that they say they played no part in.
March 11, 2009 : Jesse Hagopian The writer Mark Twain once noted, "Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end, you lose at the other."
March 10, 2009 : Marlene Martin One in every 31 adults in the U.S. is behind bars, or on parole or probation--the result of decades of "tough on crime" policies.
March 9, 2009 : Sharon Smith We on the left have to begin to raise our own expectations for struggle and change to match those that exist all around us.
March 4, 2009 : Jamilla El-Shafei Communities in Maine have been engaging in a struggle to protect their groundwater resources from the multinational giant Nestlé.
March 4, 2009 : Jesse Sharkey Hundreds of parents, teachers, activists and students held an angry picket of the Chicago Board of Education in a last attempt to save 16 schools.
March 3, 2009 In a stunt to oppose Barack Obama's stimulus plan, Republican governors are turning down millions of federal dollars intended to help the unemployed.
March 2, 2009 : Adam Sanchez He wants to follow in his father's footsteps of socializing risk and privatizing profit--by getting Portlanders to spend millions on sports stadiums.
March 2, 2009 Standardized testing in public schools is warping students' learning process--and it gives administrators a stick to beat teachers and their unions.
February 27, 2009 : Rebekah Ward Wesley Nelson is one of the many people whose lives have been torn apart by racial bias and prejudicial sentencing in the criminal justice system.
February 26, 2009 : Leonard Peltier Robert Robideau, the longtime Indian rights activist and leader of the struggle to win justice for Leonard Peltier, died at the age of 61.
February 25, 2009 : Martina Correia The sister of a Georgia death row prisoner explains why her brother's case is one injustice among many others.
February 25, 2009 : Elizabeth Schulte It's awful enough to lose your job, but more and more workers face a second hit--when their eligibility for unemployment is challenged by former employers.
February 23, 2009 The students who organized an occupation at New York University to call for change at their school are facing the threat of expulsion.
February 23, 2009 : Adam Turl Corporate leaders see the proposed Employee Free Choice Act as a grave threat--and they'll say and do just about anything to prevent its passage.
February 20, 2009 Two Pennsylvania judges are going to jail for taking millions in exchange for wrongfully incarcerating juveniles in two for-profit detention centers.
February 19, 2009 : Justin Akers Chacón The Bush administration's stepped-up immigration raids targeted vulnerable immigrants indiscriminately. Can we expect better from Obama?
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