 | "Report Cards" by Robin
Kirkpatrick (January 31, 2005) |
| "Educating Kids for Jobs for the 21st
Century" by Susan Ohanian (first published in Substance) A
hard-hitting expose that begins: "'Standardistos'--business leaders calling
for 'high standards' for students--blather about schools preparing kids for
jobs for the 21st century at the same time they are outsourcing
jobs overseas faster than we can count." |
| "Capitalism,
Calculus and Conscience" by Susan Ohanian (a link to Phi Delta
Kappan) Ms.
Ohanian accuses the Standardistos of child abuse and urges readers to call
them on it. |
| "Federal Education Reform In Arizona: An Open Letter
to the Tucson School Board" by Debbie Niwa,
October 28, 2002 (not previously published) |
|
Higher Education Free
For All?" by John Spritzler -- taking Jim Hightower to task for
promoting big business's lies about education (NDN* May-August 2002) |
| "Teachers, Parents, Students Rip MCAS,
Education Reform" by Dave Stratman.
(NDN* January-February 2001). |
| "Falsifying History and Ourselves":
Anti-Democratic Propaganda in the Classroom" by John
Spritzler (combining the following four documents into a single document:
A critical look at the "Facing History and Ourselves" phenomenon,
Part I by
John Spritzler (NDN* May-June 2000), Part
II (NDN* July-October 2000), Part III (NDN* March-June
2001), Sources ) |
| "Umm Yeah, So I'm The Valedictorian."
- Don't miss this gutsy speech against the high stakes MCAS test by a Hudson,
MA. public school graduate. (Copied from an Internet discussion list with
the author's permission). |
| "MCAS: Why Is This Being Done To Our Kids?" -
The Boston chapter of New Democracy has distributed this
flyer by the thousands as resistance to MCAS/high stakes testing grows
throughout Massachusetts. |
| "Take This Test And Shove It" by John Spritzler. (NDN* July-August '99). |
| "You'll Never Be Good Enough: Schooling and
Social Control" by Dave Stratman. (NDN* Sept.-Oct. '98) |
| "Corporations Meet Resistance Inside Boston's
Schools" by John Spritzler. (NDN* March-April '98). |
| "School Reform and the Attack on Public
Education" - the text of a speech by Dave Stratman delivered to the
Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents Summer Institute in
July, 1997. Must reading for parents and teachers! |
