Content tagged: rights
Peter Schmidt: Videos ‘Ripped’ From Online-Course Footage Bring Threats to Instructors
Today the Chronicle of Higher Education posted this story on their website: The University of Missouri system has been besieged with angry letters and phone calls, and top officials at its St. Louis campus have asked an adjunct faculty member...
Teachers have a right to unionize
The recipe is as follows: use “research” and phony evaluation systems to create a wedge between teachers and the public. Then, legally dismantle...
“Best Urban School District in America” Blocks Access to Websites Critical of “Education Reform”
Reports on Gerald Bracey’s Education Disinformation and Detection Reporting Agency email discussion listserv indicate that teachers, students and administrators in the Aldine Independent School District, Houston, Texas are blocked from viewing at least two websites offering alternative views of “education reform” in the United States. Based on...
Education is A Right, Not a Dream: Obama Speech before the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
On March 10, 2009, President Obama gave a major speech before the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce outlining his plans for education. During the speech, Obama emphasized the presence of and showed his support for Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, and Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis. Duncan was highlighted as an enforcer of “innovation” through...
Failure of Rights?
“It is the failure of the present social order to guarantee rights that is at issue…” “Was there ever a time in the history of public education that the guaranteed right of each member was the driving force?” The short answer is no, but it is an unsatisfactory answer because it does not deal with the meat of the question. Rights...
"The Political Economy of Educational Restructuring: On the Origin of Performance Pay and Obama’s “Blueprint” for Education," in The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education Can Hope Audaciously Trump Neoliberalism? (Information Age Publishing)
