I found this great animation by Ryan Sluggett on the web. Hopefully, with Betsy DeVos’ confirmation hearing postponed a week, new disclosures will save us from this nightmare scenario. –Vincent
Buffalo Board Member Carl Paladino stands behind his racist remarks about the Obamas. Read about it here. See the rest of the interview here.
Richard Rorty seemed to predict strongman Donald Trump’s rise to power nearly two decades ago. For those of us who can’t wait to get their copies of his sold-out Achieving Our Country here is a clip from Noëlle McAfee’s 1997 interview with the philosopher, who died in 2007. Find the NYT article …
The chilling rumor of Michelle Rhee becoming Trump’s Secretary of Education put me in mind of education activist Hannah Nguyen. I met Hannah after fortuitously video-taping her throw-down of Michelle Rhee in Los Angeles. The vid went viral with over 20,000 hits. Here is an edited version I used in my …
John H. Jackson, President of the Schott Foundation, at “Is School Choice the Black Choice?” Town Hall at Howard University. For more click here.
From Troy LaRaviere’s “What Makes Charter Schools So Toxic?” See the rest of it here.
Attorney, activist and Selma survivor, Faya Rose addresses the Save Our Schools Rally at the Lincoln Memorial.
Chuck Pascal, Randi Weingarten, Troy LaRaviere and others at the Democratic platform meeting in Orlando. Democrats on Charters and Testing from Schoolhouse Live on Vimeo.
By Susan DuFresne. This is the 4th and final post in a series on childhood trauma. In the 1st post, I expose my personal reasons for being an example in this struggle to create Compassionate Schools. In the 2nd post, I tell the stories of how children who have walked through my classroom doors have been impacted …