NEA President: Mass Teacher Firings Not the Answer
By Cynthia McCabe and Ramona Parks-Kirby March 26, 2010 — Deploying the most drastic and punitive reform option to turn around low-performing schools, school districts are firing entire staffs, first...
View ArticleWill Corporations Ever Share in the Sacrifice?
By Tim Walker Photo: Getty Images Across the nation, public education, health care, and other critical services are getting slashed because, as many politicians love to say, “We’re broke.” Apparently...
View ArticleAlabama Schools Worry About Effects of Immigration Law
By Rebecca Bright As students in Alabama began a new school year in August, many returned to the same classrooms, cafeterias, and hallways they left in May—yet behind the scenes, their schools have...
View ArticleAlabama Law Drives Children Out of Public Schools
By Alain Jehlen What happens when school personnel are ordered to ask about students’ immigration status? Alabama is carrying out that experiment right now, and the first results are in: Children don’t...
View ArticleEducators Find Themselves Vilified by the States They Serve
by Felix Perez Teachers and education support professionals recently started a new semester that brought with it new students and ideas, lesson plans, schedules and all the other pieces that go into...
View ArticleEducators and Their Unions Help in Wake of Killer Tornadoes
As a tornado ripped a path toward Rainsville, Ala., teacher Kelly Jackson huddled in a neighbor’s safe room with her son. The pressure built in her ears, worse than any airplane take-off, as they...
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