It's hardly surprising that a school full of the douchiest basketball fans in the world like Duke would also lead the nation in grade inflation. I mean, when you have worse grade inflation than Harvard, you are really saying something. Do Duke students just get...
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In a comment to Scott's post yesterday, Matt Yglesias said this about evaluation of the Chicago teachers. My point about unions favoring job security for their members per se is.
Rahm Emanuel is outraged. He thought he made a deal with Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers' Union, to end the teachers strike. But see, Rahm doesn't understand very.
Katie Billotte rightfully exposes the decline of the liberal arts in higher education as an important facet of the conservative war on anything institution in this country that might create free-thinking people. Education is a political act. For over half a century, the conservative movement...
1. Sarah Jaffe on the liberal pundits, including Nocera and Kristof at the Times, repeating right-wing talking points about unions. 2. Dave Zirin compares the CTU strike to the plutocrat.
Corey Robin has a great post about why so many liberals hate public school teachers and don't support their labor actions. Corey grew up in a wealthy New York suburb.
Charles Lane pretends to care about the children in public schools which he would never send his kids.
Paul Ryan expresses solidarity with Rahm Emanuel in his efforts to hand the keys to the Chicago schools over to the education capitalists who funded his campaign, destroy the teachers'.
This could not depress me more. Molly Ball's piece at the Atlantic portrays Michelle Rhee as getting close to setting the education agenda for the Democratic Party: Yet there are.
Shorter a lot of "progressives" today: "I usually support unions, but these Chicago teachers [insert Republican talking point about unions.]" People are complaining--these teachers are highly paid, how dare they strike! First of all, I love that even self-identified "progressives" buy into the tear other...
Tomorrow morning, the Chicago teachers are going on strike. This is a power struggle between the union-busting mayor and Democratic National Convention speaker Rahm Emanuel and the teachers who are.
This op-ed about the growing use of physical restraint and torture in public schools should outrage us all: Among the recent instances that have attracted attention: Children in Middletown, Conn.,.