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Education

Click here to see articles about education with useful information, though not necessarily reflecting the views of New Democracy.

Articles that reflect New Democracy's views:

United Opt Out National: A Movement to End Corporate Education Reform
Video: 2nd grade teacher reads his resignation letter, which says he'd rather leave his $70,000 per year job and tutor children for free than be part of a system that is diametrically opposed to everything I believe education should be.
Current Education Reform Perpetuating, Not Curbing, Inequity, by P. L. Thomas
Whoo-Hoo! Occupy the Schools by Susan Ohanian
"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!
"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!
* "NDN" indicates that the article is from the New Democracy Newsletter.

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Guest Commentary (February 21, 2001): "Problems Of Test-based School Ratings" by Craig Bolon.
Guest Commentary (January 25, 2001): "DOE Calculates Performance Standards...Incorrectly!" by Paul Phillips.
Guest Commentary (August 4, 2000): "Corporate-sponsored Tests Aim To Standardize Our Kids" by Dennis Fox.

Articles by Dave Stratman

Articles by John Spritzler

Turn the World Upside Down (John Spritzler's blog #1)

End Class Inequality (John Spritzler's blog #2)

Books

We CAN Change the World: The Real Meaning of Everyday Life by Dave Stratman

The People as Enemy: The Leaders' Hidden Agenda in World War IIby John Spritzler