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Turning schools into test-prep centers doesn't improve the quality of education. Neither does repeating the corporate propaganda about our schools being 'dropout factories,' as Arne Duncan does. What works are resources, stability, parent and community involvement and smaller class sizes. Schools in wealthier neighborhoods have all these things. Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics, Education
Topics: Racism, Civil Liberties, Obama Administration
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Posted by: Posted by Patricia Blochowiak - Jun 17, 2009 - 10:09 PM PDT
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Jun 18, 2009 - 12:43 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 18, 2009

The article is well written and draws from the experience ot educators in Chicago who were there as corporations and Arne attacked democratically run public schools.

A group of educators in Chicago put out a grassroots film about this that conveys similar information, along with the faces of the participants.

Public-private partnerships between Chicago’s City Hall, where two men named Richard Daley have ruled more than 40 of the last 55 years, and a gaggle of corporate ... More »

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Patricia Blochowiak
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 by Patricia Blochowiak - Jun. 18, 2009
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