Thursday, July 28, 2011

Seattle and Silverdale to Join other Cities in National "Save our Schools" Day

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Editor: We have published several posts on this blog about the National "Save our Schools" March that will be taking place in Wash...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

A DECLARATION OF EDUCATION RIGHTS

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Editor: As many of our readers know, the Educational Institute for Democratic Renewal that houses the Journal of Educational Controversy par...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

March on Washington to Support Public Schools on July 30th

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  There will be a march and rally in Washington, D.C. on July 30 to support and reclaim control of public schools by educators, parents a...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

School Segregation: An Update on our Journal's Continuing Coverage

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One of the purposes of our blog is to provide updates on topics covered in the Journal of Educational Controversy . Indeed, the journal itse...
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Sunday, June 5, 2011

An Update on our Journal’s Article on the USA Patriot Act

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In our special issue of the journal on the theme, “ Schooling as if Democracy Matters ,” we published several introductory essays to provide...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Money, Education and Democratic Voice

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I read two articles today that stood in such stark contrast that I had to share them with our readers on this blog. Both describe their effo...
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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Ten Commitments of a Multicultural Educator

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Editor:  After posting a number of articles on this blog about the external forces against various multicultural movements in the schools, w...
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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Breaking News on Our Coverage of Arizona's Efforts to Ban Ethnic Studies: Chained Ethnic Studies Students Take Over School Board in Tucson

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Editor: I found this latest information from two other blogs and thought our readers would be interested.   They give an account of the late...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

ACLU Attorney to Facilitate Workshop on "Civil Rights in Schools 101" at WWU on April 27th.

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For those of you in the Washington State area, we invite you to join us at a workshop called, "Civil Rights in Schools 101." It wi...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Union vs. Anti-Union Movement: Forum on the Controversy over the Role of Teacher Unions to take place on April 20th at WWU

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The Woodring College of Education at Western Washington University will sponsor the 13th Annual Educational Law and Social Justice Forum a...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Bullying: Breaking the Cycle

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We have posted several items on the problem of bullying and harassment below.   Recently, KIRO TV 7 in Washington showed an interesting prog...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

CALIFORNICATION

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One of the great things about living in Washington is that we have license to be incredibly snotty about all things California. Their earthq...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

School to Prison Pipeline -- Call for Papers from the Journal of Educational Controversy

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The Journal of Educational Controversy announces its call for papers for Volume 7 Number 1. THEME: The School-to-Prison Pipeline CONTR...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Drinking From the Public Trough

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Along with whatever surprises the latest election may have brought, it did reaffirm the age-old verity that Money Talks. Various corporatio...

Blog to Run Regular Column on Washington State Politics and Education

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Editor: Because our journal and blog are published out of Washington state, we get a lot of inquiries about the politics of Washington state...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Our Partner School to Provide Leadership to Community in Promoting Childhood Literacy

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As many of our readers already know, the Educational Institute for Democratic Renewal at the Woodring College of Education at Western Washi...
Monday, March 7, 2011

Diane Ravitch Interviewed on the Jon Stewart TV Show

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Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System ," appeared on the Jon Stewart show on March 3rd.   You...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

A Look at some Unique Schools around the World

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Editor:   I once had a colleague who likened his life as a teacher to a person whom one meets at a fork in the road who provides guidance as...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The Anti-Union Movement in Wisconsin: Myth vs. Fact

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The Forum for Education and Democracy  has set out to distinguish between the myths and the facts around the turmoil in Wisconsin as thousan...
Friday, February 18, 2011

John Dewey: America's philosopher of democracy and his importance to education

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Our journal's consulting editor, A.G. Rud, Dean of the College of Education at Washington State University, has produced a short YouTube...
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