Crisis
My heart breaks over comments that if teachers just believed in their students, they could bring them out of poverty.
February 2, 2012 : Sam Coleman A New York City teacher and activist responds to a slanderous article written by a New York Post columnist.
January 30, 2012 : Elizabeth Schulte The No Child Left Behind law ushered in a new era in our schools—an era of high-stakes testing, school closures and attacks on teachers’ unions.
January 26, 2012 The occasion of a day to honor Dr. King is an annual opportunity to remind ourselves that equity in education--and elsewhere--is possible.
January 16, 2012 : Emily Giles New York City school officials came face to face with the Occupy movement at a Panel for Education Policy meeting.
October 31, 2011 : Adam Sanchez When Scholastic partnered with the coal industry to market anti-science materials, teachers and environmentalists spoke out.
June 28, 2011 : Jeremy Sawyer Teachers and education justice activists made a film to counter the propaganda of the teacher-bashing Waiting for "Superman".
May 18, 2011 : Leia Petty Hundreds of students, parents and school staff pack meetings of New York City's Panel for Education Policy--but their voices are seldom heeded.
May 16, 2011 : Brian Chidester A Rhode Island teacher replies to Education Secretary Arne Duncan's "appreciation" letter to the teachers he's been bashing.
May 4, 2011 More than 200 people attended a documentary showing of Race to Nowhere, a film about the state of education, at The College of New Jersey.
March 28, 2011 Under pressure, the Seattle School Board voted to fire Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson amid a financial scandal.
March 21, 2011 : Randy Childs Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is blasting United Teachers Los Angeles as an obstacle to the corporate-driven "reform" of public schools.
January 6, 2011 Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to appoint a corporate executive as schools chancellor throws the war on public education into sharp relief.
November 30, 2010 : Jesse Hagopian Seattle has an abundance of teachers with teaching certificates struggling to get positions, So why is the district bringing in Teach for America recruits?
November 22, 2010 Teachers deserve to be respected, included in educational discussions and decisions, paid and treated like any other professional.
November 18, 2010 : Gary Lapon Why should individual workers be saddled with obscene debts in order to obtain a basic right like higher education?
November 2, 2010 : Randy Childs A proposed legal settlement to limit teacher layoffs in some heavily minority schools in LA is being exploited by school "reformers" for their own ends.
October 28, 2010 We should all be angry about the state of public education in this country--but we shouldn't be afraid to direct our outrage at school deformers like Michelle Rhee.
October 14, 2010 We should all be outraged at how our society allows kids born to affluence to dream big while repressing the dreams of working-class and minority children.
October 12, 2010 The sacrificial teacher on a televised panel discussion packed with advocates of anti-union school "reform" has a few more points to make.
October 8, 2010 : Doniella Maher While state colleges and universities are facing tough times at every level, one sector of the higher education system is doing quite well--for-profit universities.
October 5, 2010 : Sarah Knopp A veteran teacher who was publicly--and wrongly--singled out on a list of ineffective teachers published by the Los Angeles Times has committed suicide.
October 1, 2010 : Megan Behrent The "documentary" Waiting for Superman is the latest installment in the campaign to smear teachers as the main obstacle to better public schools.
September 30, 2010 : Adam Sanchez We should counter the calls to tie teachers' pay to students' test scores with our own demand: Abolish standardized tests.
September 28, 2010 A SocialistWorker.org columnist explains what he wants to say--if he gets the chance--at a televised panel discussion on the future of teaching.
September 27, 2010
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