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Occupy Education: Tools You Can Use While Occupy protesters across the nation (and internationally) are criticizing economic disparities and political corruption, education activists are applying the Occupy movement's message to education reform. Check out the OTL Campaign's list of resources and tools you can use to join the protest, including talking points and Op-Ed pieces from the New York Times' Nicholas Kristof and The Huffington Post's Joy Resmovits. Read more> |
| Most NYC high school grads not college-ready Only one in four students who enter high school in New York City is ready for college after four years, and less than half enroll, according to the A-through-F high school report cards released on Monday. The statistics also signal that graduation rates, long used by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as a validation of his education policies, are not as meaningful as they seemed. Read more> |
| Primer on corporate education reform Stan Karp, the director of The Secondary Reform project at NJ's Education Law Center, criticizes the corporate attitude pervading education "reform" efforts across the nation. By changing the way schools and classrooms function, attacking teachers' collective bargaining rights, and cutting school funding, Karp argues that these policies "undermine public education and facilitate its replacement by a market-based system that would do for school what the market has done for health care, housing, and employment: produce fabulous profits and opportunities for a few and unequal outcomes and access for the many. Read more> |
| Effective teaching as a civil right "Despite growing evidence that expert teachers are critical to educational achievement, well-prepared and effective teachers are the most unequally distributed educational resource in the United States," writes Linda Darling-Hammond, a professor of Education at Columbia University, in an article for the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. Read more> |
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| Annie E. Casey report: Jailing youths is a "failed strategy" A new report from the Annie E. Casey foundation finds that youth incarceration does not reduce future offending, provides no overall benefit to public safety, wastes taxpayer dollars, and exposes youth to high levels of violence and abuse. Only 12% of incarcerated youths in 2007 were convicted for violent offenses, and of that percentage, a disproportionate number are youths of color. Read more> |
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