Monday, August 20, 2012

So You Say You Like Parent Empowerment? Careful What You Wish For...

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All the hype around the coming release of a heart-wrenching, pro-privatization film "Won't Back Down" has got me thinking.  I ...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

Choosing Solidarity not "Choice"

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I've been reading UIC professor Pauline Lipman's book The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism,Race, and the Righ...

Do Parents Know What They Are Choosing With "School Choice"?

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The other day, I was speaking with the administrative assistant for my floor at the psychiatric hospital where I work.  She happens to be a ...
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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Seeing Teach for America Through Different Eyes

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I started this post with something much different in mind, but it veered into a very personal story of why it matters to me what happens in ...
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Sunday, July 8, 2012

Controversies and Cults: Teach for America

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This will be the most controversial piece I have ever written.  I put it out there, not because I fully agree with the argument I am about ...
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The Chicago Board of Education Speech I Never Gave

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A little over a week ago, on June 27, I attended the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting with some parents from the school where I wa...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Rahm's Longer School Day Tearing an Elementary School Apart

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McPherson Elementary school on Chicago's northwest side is in chaos.  Thanks to the unfunded longer school day, massive changes to the s...
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