On this week’s Education Town Hall BUS: Rosalie Friend of Save Our Schools explores the unsuitability of testing for accountability purposes, and United Opt Out
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Students Against Sweatshops, for “TFA Truth”
Leewana Thomas of United Students Against Sweatshops joins host Thomas Byrd on the Education Town Hall, Thursday, October 9, to discuss the group’s “Education Justice”
From Alabama to DC: Teachers, Resources, and Education Gaps
On this week’s Education Town Hall, Jesse T. Smith, candidate for Congress in the 3rd District of Alabama, and Elizabeth Davis, president of the Washington
Rocketship: Business Product or Educational Enterprise?
“DC is being used as an experimental model for something that is failing elsewhere,” says Gordon Lafer, associate professor at the University of Oregon’s Labor
Parents Boycott Newark Schools
Thursday, 9/4, was the first day of the new academic year for Newark (NJ) Public Schools, now implementing the controversial One Newark Plan, which combines
Prosperity, Segregation, and Koch Brothers’ Education Agenda
Update 9/3/14: Debate on educationally-sensitive North Carolina Senate race airs 9/3/14 on UNC TV and Radio, also available via C-Span. This is the first debate
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