Education And Public Education

Charters Have Nothing to do With Community Control of Schools
09 May 2012
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Why Isn't Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools National News? Where Is the Black Political Class?
25 Apr 2012
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon If some racist made an inappropriate remark about the First Lady or her children our national "civil rights leaders" Obama fans all of them, would be all…
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…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
School Closings Come To Atlanta This Week, To Your City Next Week: It's Time To Dump Arne Duncan
11 Apr 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon A national movement to save public education is coming to life, in the face of a decades-long bipartisan campaign to discredit, de-fund, destabilized and…
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…
David Bacon
Does Signing a Petition Give Parents a Voice in Schools?
05 Oct 2011
by David Bacon The so-called “parent trigger” appears designed to achieve one result: increase the spread of charter schools under the guise of parental empowerment. Charter boosters may use the…
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…
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.