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.
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 …
David Greene on his favorite teacher. Find his new book, Doing the Right Thing, here.
I found this on You Tube. H/T KEH9005.
Professor Rosa Rivera-McCutchen on applying Martin Luther King’s four steps for social change to the Common Core. Find her entire talk here.
Teacher/blogger Gary Rubinstein on his visit to a KIPP charter school. For his speech in its entirety click here.
I met teacher and filmmaker Laurie Gabriel while live streaming the Public Education Nation event earlier this month. We needed a cameraperson and she jumped right in to help. We also featured a trailer for her new film “Hear Our Teachers” before the event. I wanted to know how a filmmaker takes on corporate …