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  • seattle teachers
    Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
    Seattle Teachers Boycott of Unfair & Unnecessary High Stakes Tests Spreads to Second High School
    30 Jan 2013
    Teachers in Seattle are standing up to the high stakes testing regime and refusing to administer an unnecessary test. Students and parents have lined up to support them, and the boycott has already…
  • Ten Years of No Child Left Behind: Disaster Capitalism in the Schools
    04 Jul 2012
    A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
  • chicago teachers strike
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    Chicago Teachers Gear Up for a Fight
    13 Jun 2012
    The Chicago Teachers Union has gotten permission from its membership to strike.
  • Charters Have Nothing to do With Community Control of Schools
    09 May 2012
    A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
  • The Corporate Anti-Education Sham of Teach For America, Part 1 of 2
    25 Apr 2012
    by Education Radio Founded in 1990 by Wendy Kopp, Teach For America has become the personnel agency for corporate school reform.  School districts fire experienced, often black teachers to hire…
  • The Ongoing Sham of Teach For America, Part 2 0f 2
    25 Apr 2012
    by Education Radio Teach For America hijacks the catch-phrases of the social justice movement in the service of corporate "school reform" and ultimate privatization of public education.  In Part 2 of…
  • greedy teachers
    Dr. Robert McChesney , Diane Ravitch
    Diane Ravitch: Charters, Privatization, and How Obama's Race To The Top is Really a Race To The Bottom
    11 Apr 2012
    A Media Matters Interview by Dr. Robert McChesney Diane Ravitch, a former Clinton and Bush advisor, ex-charter school, voucher and No Child Left Behind supporter explains the evidence that changed…
  • High Stakes Testing in Schools: Who’s Cheating Who?
    14 Sep 2011
    A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
  • Corey Booker: A Clear and Present Threat to Public Education
    29 Sep 2010
    A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford What media call "philanthropy" for the public schools are actually seed monies to establish a private "market" in publicly-financed education - an…
  • chicago teachers strike
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    Chicago Teachers Wise Up to Obama School Privatizations
    16 Jun 2010
    Reformists won control of the teachers union in the town where Barack Obama became a fan of corporate schooling: Chicago.
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