Filmmaker Michael Elliot stirringly documents special education teacher Jia Lee’s historic testimony on the dangers of standardized tests before Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken and other members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. For more on Ms. Lee click HERE.
Join Diane Ravitch, Karen Lewis, Jitu Brown, Yong Zhao, Randi Weingarten and many others at the Network for Public Education Conference, in Chicago, April 24-26. For more info click HERE.
City University Professor Ira Shor, has written extensively on education. Here he is at the first Occupation of the Department of Education, sponsored by United Opt Out, in Washington DC, in 2012. Professor Shor will be speaking at the fourth annual UOO event in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida over the Martin Luther King …
More and more universities are looking beyond standardized test scores, when determining who their students should be. Here’s what’s happening at Hofstra. H/T Neil A. Carousso
Education Inc. Trailer from brian malone on Vimeo. “Education Inc.” puts the spotlight on how corporate interests are controlling our schools. Thanks to Brian Malone for this sneak of his intriguing new film. Find out more about it here.
Chicago Public School Teacher Michelle Gunderson discusses Common Core Standards and standardized education. Thanks to Bill Baykan for this clip from his new documentary “The Public School Wars”.
Anthony Cody discusses The Gates Foundation Education Agenda in this promo for the 2015 education documentary “The Public School Wars,” in production now.
Crenshaw trailer from Lena Jackson on Vimeo. This season we can all be thankful for artists courageous enough to speak the truth about school reform. This October, at Public Education Nation, I was honored to screen together trailers for a number of powerful documentaries about the effects of market-based …
I republish this video in response to the events in #Ferguson. Malcolm London is a Chicago poet who read for us at Occupy the Department of Education in DC, in 2013. His words, like those of BAT Denisha Jones, take this white man, as close as he can get, to a world that he will never really know.