- Chicago & Oakland: Bits and pieces which compare the two cities and their school districts
- It's just not enough: Comparing teacher salaries in neighboring school districts
- Reflecting on longevity: Comparing teacher turnover in neighboring districts and honoring the teachers I’ve known
- Charter-mania!: About OUSD’s charter schools
- My new hero: Superintendent Kevin Skelly is willing to say that educators are deluding themselves when they claim that they will be able to close the achievement gap on their own.
- National Model or Temporary Opportunity?: Insights about the Oakland reform movement from the reformers’ point of view, presented by the Center for Education Reform
- Seeking Your Perspective Re: K-12 Education Reform + Update: Elijah Anderson confirms the nature of the low-income African American parents who place their children in charter schools
- Hey Oakland, you’re being duped!: The forces at work behind the recent transformation of Oakland’s school district
- Change.org, and Billionaire Miscellany: A vehicle for communicating about change, and a closer look at the relative wealth of the billionaires pushing today’s ed reform
- A NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ON BEHALF OF OUR NATION’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Proposing a national event to Susan Ohanian
- Joel Klein and the Billionaires: Linking the players who are behind the “reforms” in NYC and elsewhere.
- Wishing I Was a Fly: An exchange with another Oakland parent about education reform.
- The National Scene on a Local Scale: New Leaders for New Schools gives an award to a charter school in Oakland connected to the Rogers Foundation, which has in turn made large donations to NLNS.
- Is it Fiction, or Not? Not.: The message from an Oakland government insider who reveals the nature of meetings going on behind the scenes.
- The Battle Begins: The charter blitzkrieg and a look at the board of directors for two local CMOs: Aspire and Education for Change
- If I Was a Billionaire: Alternative ideas for education reform
- In Mourning…: A shocking tragedy for my community when four Oakland police officers were killed while on duty one Saturday
- A Challenge to Charlie Rose: A response when I learn that one of my favorite PBS shows has been bought off to spread education reform propaganda
- Which Crisis Where?: Racial disparity data from the Kirwan Institute, and two opposing factions: the Education Equality Project and the Broader Bolder Approach
- Charter School Tactics: Comparison of the demographics of Oakland’s charter vs. traditional middle schools reveal that the charters have a more educated parent body
- Getting Rid of Those Bad Teachers: Based on my observations over the years
- The Scheming Called "Venture Philanthropy": Revelations from reading Janelle Scott’s report, “The Politics of Venture Philanthropy and Advocacy”
- Where Sociology, Criminology, and Charter Schools Converge
- Pimping for Privatization: A piece by Steve Miller
- Oligarchs, Crime, the Underclass, Neglected Schools, and more: Link to Bill Moyer’s interview with David Simon discussing America’s abandoned underclass, oligarchy, and apathy.
- Why Not a Charter System for Police Departments? : Police aren’t called selfish, lazy failures when cities have high crime rates
- Who's in the Driver's Seat: Ideas for improvement from the people who know the conditions in schools are ignored, and the business schemers are instant know-it-alls.
- The Disadvantages of an Elite Education: Former Yale professor William Deresiewicz offers insights into the mentality of people like Whitney Tilson.
- It's Time To Drive These People Out: A look at the management culture produced by Harvard Business School, and other MBA programs, and its impact on public education policy.
- Linda Darling-Hammond Didn’t Play Basketball: Who is responsible for the charter school push in California and basketball’s role in influencing US public education policy.
- School Board Members in the Old Days: The ruling class, colonialism, and school boards
- The Cliff: Charles Payne on how Chicago reform eroded social capital by marginalizing parents.
- Dear Mr. Finn: David Whitman and Chester Finn at the Fordham Institute need more information about the American Indian Public Charter School
- The Same Old Mud Pies: On the school closure epidemic in Oakland
- Blah, blah, blah...: A canned response from the US Department of Education and on the self-selected charter school family type
- Wanted: A Leader for My Daughter's School: A crisis in the availability of experienced, strong principals, and the inadequate training substitute, New Leaders for New Schools.
- Duncan, Robber Barons, and Victims: Duncan is a lightweight. The oligarchs are really the ones in charge.
- Duncan’s Shaky House of Sticks: Tom Vander Ark helps with the spin, but Parents United for Responsible Education released a fact sheet that presents the truth.
- Brilliance Emitted from the Roots of Grass: Henry Hitz, a local parent activist, clearly knows what will help children do better in school
- A History Lesson About the Sandia Report: Why an important report was suppressed so it wouldn’t interfere with the school privatization agenda of the corporatocracy
- Valuable Skills for the Rising Generation: Diane Ravitch outlines the skills that are really needed
- Teacher Man: A tribute to Frank McCourt, a NYC public school teacher, who could recognize nonsense and was willing to write about it.
- The Big Nut to Crack: The challenges of negative school climates, and how they connect to street culture and the “incarcerated class.”
- Power Hoarding Billionaire Buddies: Billionaire Gates quietly pays $4 million to help Billionaire Bloomberg maintain mayoral control over NYC public schools
- Our Omnipotent's Dream: The wealth of a few billionaires simply overwhelms everyone else.
- The School as a Staging Area: Elijah Anderson explains how some students don’t look at school as a place to learn, but as a place to accomplish something else.
- Under Seige: Neo-liberalism’s strong ties to today’s education reform movement
- Gates-Induced Wariness: Chester Finn and the Global Health Watch are both concerned about the harmful influence of a powerful, unregulated institution: the Gates Foundation
- A High School Teacher Responds: A piece by Steve Miller which presents Gerald Bracey’s insights about the education lies we constantly hear as they relate to the workforce
- My, Oh My, He’s a Cunning Fox: The chronically undisclosed details behind the American Indian Public Charter School’s success
- Introducing "The Broad Report": This new Web site serves as a depository for information about Eli Broad, and his intense stealth manipulation of public education through the work of his foundation
- Paving the Way to Privatization of the School Lunch Program: A guest post by Caroline Grannan about Revolution Foods
- What’s Going On in LA & Eli’s Cake: Green Dot and Parent Revolution called out for their dirty tactics, and a story about Eli Broad squirming out of paying his fair share of taxes.
- More Clues About Good Teaching: An experienced teacher tells the Cornell community why she is skeptical about Teach for America
- Kudos to the Philadelphia Student Union: Students confront Duncan, Gingrich, and Sharpton in Philadelphia
- Jerry Brown’s Two Pet Charter Schools: Part One: Enrollment comparison between these schools and the traditional OUSD schools, and how funding for Brown’s schools seems suspicious
- Jerry Brown’s Two Pet Charter Schools: Part Two: Demographic and test score comparisons reveal that Brown’s schools aren’t doing all that well in comparison to the traditional public schools
- Obvious Conflicts of Interest: Guest poster Caroline Grannan discredits Jay Mathews’ KIPP propaganda and his confessions of love for those schools
- "Get It While The Gettin’s Good": A parent confesses that her attraction for charter schools is because of all the extras they get, and Andy Smarick’s 2008 piece outlines the pro-charter force strategy to destroy public school districts
- The Perry Preschool Project & Reflections on Play: My experience with my daughter’s preschool, and a story on the Perry Preschool’s positive impact, now being analyzed by Nobel prize-winning economist James Heckman.
- Comparing Education Reform to Health Care: What we can learn from a physician’s approach for making a change which was featured in the New York Times magazine.
- Calling Clever Wordsmiths!: The resistance needs to organize a public relations campaign
- OUSD Expenditures Per Pupil: Charter vs. Traditional Public Schools: Analysis of spending documented on official School Accountability Report Cards
- A Real Crisis: The trends in improving racial disparity in education attainment have been steadily improving, but incarceration rates have skyrocketed and are continually ignored
- Geoff Berne & the Privatization of Public Education: The privatization of public education is now well underway, and Arne Duncan is in total cahoots.
- Why Urban School Districts Make Easy Targets: Annette Lareau’s findings on parenting approaches of low income families explains the reason that privatization forces aren’t resisted as they infiltrate their schools
- Education For Change?: A closer look at one of Oakland’s local charter management organizations
- Predatory Pseudo-Philanthropy: In stealth and by trickery, members of the corporatocracy are using their powerful foundations to determine the course of public policy by keeping the public out of the loop
- Poetry: Reading Hayden's Frederick Douglass to the Dealers: On learning how to tie a tie
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