THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE ANGRY by Senator Bernie Saunders
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NATIONAL EDUCATION REFORMERS
LA Progressive
Dick Price and Sharon Kyle
http://www.laprogressive.com/
Dick and Sharon dick_and_sharon@yahoo.com
Dick
and Sharon are a pair of citizen journalists and information activists
who were fed up with mainstream media. Rather than just kvetch about the
media, they decided to try to become the media. So, together they
founded the LA Progressive. Dick is the editor and Sharon is the
publisher and webmaster, handling all technical aspects of the site.
This
site was launched in March 2008, with Dick and Sharon doing most of the
writing. Today, a host of gifted writers contribute to the LA
Progressive's daily offering which typically amounts to about 45
articles a week. Dick and Sharon continue to write for as well as edit
and publish the LA Progressive and distribute its daily e-news each
morning.
Jo Scott Coe Riverside, California
Jo.Scott-Coe@rcc.edu
www.joscottcoe.com
Excellent Video Interview about Professor Coe
http://vodpod.com/watch/4959969-jo-scott-coe-teacher-at-point-blank
Assistant
Professor of English at Riverside Community College and former high
school English teacher. She is the author of Teacher at Point Blank and
has been a teacher of English and literature in California since 1991.
Her writing on intersections of gender, violence, and education has
appeared in the Los Angeles Times as well as literary venues including
Hotel Amerika, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Ninth Letter, Memoir(and),
Bitter Oleander, and Green Mountains Review. Her essay, "Recovering
Teacher," won the NCTE 2009 Donald Murray Prize, and other selections of
her work have received a Pushcart Special Mention as well as Notable
listings in Best American Essays 2009 and 2010. As an independent
researcher, Jo authored and published the most extensive study to-date
of Adams v. LAUSD, a nearly 10-year legal case of student-on-teacher
sexual harassment, in (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in
Women's Experience (Cambridge Scholars Press). Jo values the aesthetic,
political, and socially transformative powers of literary
narrative--especially to dispel unhealthy silences and witness cultural
blindspots. She works currently as an assistant professor of English at
Riverside Community College in SoCal, and her book, Teacher at Point
Blank (Aunt Lute 2010), has been selected as a Great Read for Fall 2010
by Ms. Magazine. Punk rock? Yes. Hockey games? Yes. Coffee? Always
black. Find Jo on the web at joscottcoe.com and on Twitter @joscottcoe.
Betsy Combier New York, New York
betsy.combier@gmail.com
Betsy Combier's blog http://www.parentadvocates.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=488
is
a jewel that chronicles the corruption in NYC's Dept of Educations
(DOE) . She has accomplished a wonderful piece of journalism, and
created one of the rare places where corrupt educational governance is
chronicled and revealed
Professor Samuel Culbert Los Angeles, California
<nobull2u@gmail.com>
is
a professor at the UCLA Andersen School of Business who also teaches in
the Education Department's Principals' Leadership Institute. Check out
the following 3 minutes on ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/conversation-performance-review-11126992
Stuart Goldurs Los Angeles, Califonia
StuartComputers@gmail.com
Don't send LAUSD Librarians to the Inquisition, send the downtown bureaucrats
Tests, What Are They Good For? Absolutely Nothing!
LAUSD students to attend school on contaminated land, again!
Some schools teach only to the tests, so how are the students being prepared for the next grade and for life?
New LAUSD superintendent adds six-figure positions to management team
http://www.examiner.com/public-education-in-los-angeles/lausd-test-scores-up-to-failure-levels-what-are-the-students-learning
Has
been a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District for 30 years.
He is greatly aware of the district waste, large bureaucracy, and other
major issues of the time. He started his blog with the sole purpose of
informing the world about the truths of education in LAUSD. E-mail him
at: StuartComputers@gmail.com.
LAUSD has selected a new Superintendent of Schools
Karen Horwitz Chicago, Illinois
wccbook@gmail.com
Former
award winning teacher who co-founded NAPTA, National Association for
the Prevention of Teacher Abuse, and wrote the book White Chalk Crime:
The REAL Reason Schools Fail to expose how teacher harassment and
terrorization maintains a system of deeply hidden corruption. Disposing
of dedicated teachers forms the core of the White Chalk Criminal's
agenda since dedication and white collar crime do not mix. Given that
all agree that good teachers are essential to good teaching, a system
that cannot tolerate good teachers is worthless. This is what we have in
place. With Bernie Madoff-like leaders - he was as much about investing
as our school leaders are about educating - anointed with unlimited
power, including the ability to fill the airwaves with propaganda,
education is no longer about education. It is about money and power for
those who play a very corrupt game and with an agenda of privatizing
schools so their power will increase. (Privatization may have merits.
NAPTA does not take a position on that. But privatizing a system that is
rotten to its core - where quality teaching cannot survive, where a
cover up of pretense that they do not know this despite so many of us
reporting these truths prevails - documents that those advocating
privatization cannot be trusted! It shows they want our schools for
their own interests, not the children, nor the community.) NAPTA
welcomes parents, teachers, students, citizens or anyone who understands
that without a real system of education, we no longer have a democracy.
Membership is free. Go to: EndTeacherAbuse.org or WhiteChalkCrime.com.
Become educated about what is going on.
Jerry Mintz Director
Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO)
417 Roslyn Rd., Roslyn Hts., NY 11577
For
those of you who cannot wait for corrupt public education to be turned
around, AERO offers an excellent source to get connected with viable
alternatives right now.
www.EducationRevolution.org
info@EducationRevolution.org
800-769-4171
(domestic)
516-621-2195
(international)
Susan Ohanian Charlotte, Vermont
susano@gmavt.net
http://www.susanohanian.org
She
is a longtime public school teacher who, after 20 years, became staff
writer for a teacher magazine and then went freelance. I've maintained a
website of activism for nearly 9 years--ever since the passage of NCLB.
People can subscribe to the website and then they get updates about new
content. I answer all the mail I get through the website and with the
answer, people have my e-mail. I also try to stir things up on Twitter,
though I find this medium frustrating. I have a Facebook page--just so
people can find me. I don't initiate anything on it, The website keeps
me busy.
http://susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.php?id=9593
Susan Lee Schwartz Suffern, New York
Susan
studied literacy education, English literature, and fine arts and holds
a BA ('63) and MS ('65) from Brooklyn College, and has the equivalent
of two master's degrees, earned in graduate studies of literacy, arts
and education. She taught literacy skills and art, for four decades in
NYC in elementary and secondary school. In 1998 she won the New York
State English Council (NYSEC) Educator of Excellence Award for her
successful teacher practice, studied by Harvard and the LRDC at the
University of Pittsburgh for the New Standards research. At the end of
her research, her unique curriculum was selected by the LRDC to be used
in their national staff development seminars for school superintendents.
She was among six teachers -- from among the thousands across the
nation-- observed during the research project, and her teaching practice
met all the principles of learning. In the nineties, she rose to
prominence in national educational circles, while teaching at a new
magnet school, East Side Middle School. The reading scores of her
seventh grade students were at the top of the city, and on the first
ELA, which two thirds of city students failed, her former students (then
in the eight grade) were TENTH IN THE STATE.
She writes often
about what she learned about the genuine standards for learning, in an
attempt to begin a national conversation about the authentic standards,
so that there can be genuine reform. Her experience that ended her fine
career in the NYC Public Schools has led her to write about the process
that removed the top educators, silencing the voices of the classroom
practitioners who would not accept anti-learning policies. Her essay
here on Perdaily, is one that describes this process. Read more as she
talks about education, literacy and learning on her site, from the
perspective of the experienced teacher-practitioner of pedagogy. She is
the voice of dedicated and talented classroom teachers who know why the
schools are failing.
Her website is:
http://www.speakingasateacher.com/Susan_Lee_Schwartz_(Steiner)_/index.html
Joel Shatzky: Brooklyn, New York
Joel.Shatzky@cortland.edu
Professor of English Emeritus--SUNY, College at Cortland (1968-2005)
Adjunct instructor-Kingsborough CC (CUNY) 2006-- )
Regular contributor to the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/searchS/?q=Joel+Shatzky
Author of "The Thinking Crisis" with Ellen Hill (Authors Choice Press: New York, 2001)
Numerous articles on education in Jewish Currents.
Script-writer for three YouTube satires on educational "reform."
"The Lessons": www.youtube.com/watch?v=D712J1V2Jsg&feature=player_embedded
"Numbers Lie": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57BRNLviVTQ
"The Charter Starters": www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnrrw5CV3Gw<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnrrw5CV3Gw>
Here's
Joel's latest post about the low percentage of "college ready" high
school graduates.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-shatzky/educating-for-democracy-t_2_b_821410.html
Lorna Stremcha Havre, Montana
<lornastremcha@yahoo.com>
http://www.endteacherabuse.org/Stremcha.html
http://twitter.com/lornapstremcha
lornastremcha.com
callmescarlet.blogspot.com
facebook
HER STORY:
"I
know first hand the financial, personal, emotional and physical damage
that can result when school administrators, the Montana Education
Association and the National Education Association put their own
interests above the students, teachers and the taxpayers of the State of
Montana My files contain mountains of paperwork including depositions,
declarations of truth, notarized documents and exhibits resulting from
an arduous legal process that finally ended when the Havre (Montana)
School District settled two lawsuits - a Federal suit and one filed in
State District Court. These documents also include a letter from a union
representative stating, " This is nothing more than a witch hunt." Yet
the union continued to allow the school administration to harass, bully
and bring harm to me.
These two lawsuits resulted from a single
incident that, had it been handled differently and under the light of
public scrutiny, would not have snowballed into awards of more than
$200,000 worth of damages. Funds that eventually came from the
taxpayers' pockets. Ironically, as a taxpayer in Hill County, my family
and I are helping to pay for the damages awarded to me. This covered the
attorneys' fees. The settlement did not include my attorney fees,
however the district, insurance and taxpayers paid the defendants
attorney bills, which exceeded mine. The settlement was made on March 2,
2006."http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Jim-Taylor/125893225652
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Jim-Taylor/125893225652
http://twitter.com/search?q=DrJimTaylor
Lois Weiner Jersey City, New Jersey
Professor, Elementary and Secondary Education
New Jersey City University
2039 Kennedy Blvd.
Jersey City, New Jersey 07305
drweinerlo@gmail.com
Blog
http://newpolitics.mayfirst.org/blog/5
Democracy Now
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/3/educators_push_back_against_obamas_business
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Impact of urban school characteristics on teachers' classroom practice
How race, class, and gender mediate academic achievement
Teachers' work and the school as a workplace. Effects of changes in global political economy on teaching, teachers, and schools.
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