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When testing surpasses teaching as a priority education reform is on the wrong path
Published on 2011-03-05 10:59:00
The Daily ShowTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on FacebookDiane Ravitch, an education historian and member of the first Bush and Clinton administrations’ Education Department, was an early supporter of No Child Left Behind and the promotion of testing and charter schools. However, after reviewing the evidence following the enactment of the legislation became very disillusioned with what she calls the myth of charter schools. She now argues again
Democracy advocates in Burma set up Facebook page to organize against dictatorship
Published on 2011-03-03 08:51:00
While it is easy to over-estimate the role of electronic social media in the recent wave of revolutions challenging and sometimes toppling authoritarian leaders, Facebook and other such sites still can be useful organizing tools of varying importance from country to country. Democracy advocates in Burma have now set up their own Facebook page to emulate what happened in Egypt. This from The Irrawaddy:In an attempt to emulate the democratic revolution in Egypt that was sparked by a Facebook ca
Right-to-work -- a semantic flim-flam
Published on 2011-03-01 23:41:00
The latest assault on working people in this country has been a revival of advocacy for so-called “right-to-work” legislation. In most other countries, right-to-work usually suggests something positive as in a guarantee for safe and meaningful employment with fair compensation for that employment. In the United States it means something different – a semantic flim-flam.Since the enactment of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 right-to-work laws are used to weaken labor unions that represent wo
