Rebuttal of Waiting for Superman
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Here is a pretty good critique of the infomercial, Waiting for Superman.
UNSUNG HEROES
TEACHERS AND EDUCATION
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According to anti-teacher pundits and demagogues, teachers unions are bad for students because collective bargaining agreements protect bad ...
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The National Education Association (NEA) is spending $15 million to get pro-education candidates elected in November, while the Californi...
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A funny, scary 'education' conversation , posted by Valerie Strauss, at WaPo.
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Massachusetts teachers in the King Phillip Regional School District, Norfolk County, are protesting a contract dispute with their district o...
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Teachers have become the latest political bogey man. We are now officially responsible for everything wrong with public education, even delu...
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In the U.S., we have a plethora of philosophies and methods for educating and raising children, but when things go wrong, particularly for t...
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Prior to my first teaching job I spent the summer in Mexico, in Zinacantan, a Tzotzil village in the Chiapan highlands. I was there to study...
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Letter submitted to the S.F. Chron. and Parade No wonder people buy into the current anti-teacher mass hysteria! On Sunday, Parade uncritica...
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The ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) shut down the Ports of Oakland and San Francisco yesterday in solidarity with the fa...
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I returned home from my trip to Mexico just a week before school started, having heard that San Francisco Unified School District really did...
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