Why We Need the Dream Act Now

"Why are you on Twitter?" I get asked this question all the time. Most of my friends and colleagues tell me that they’ve tried it, but they don’t get it. Or they tell me, “I don’t care if someone had a tuna sandwich for lunch, what’s the point?” I’m writing this post to help folks think about ways that Twitter might be able to work for you. There are 5 main reasons why I find Twitter a useful tool – I expand on each below with some examples and names of folks who you might want to start by following as well. I’m also providing a glossary of twitter symbols and abbreviations to help you get started if you decide to set up an account and join the twitterverse!

Standardized Students, Silenced Teachers: The Un-American Education Agenda

http://dailycensored.com/2011/04/06/meritocracy-myth-v-the-advantages-of...

Just thought I'd share this great song from Kev Carmody - an Aboriginal singer-song writer - who also used music as a means of teaching oral history in the university classroom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6fem7-ucxg&feature=related

 In capitalist America, our worth is too often attached to what we earn. For writers, public speakers, and teachers, our value is determined by how much one is willing to pay to temporarily indulge in our oftentimes murky, yet beautiful worlds.

The Paulo Freire Democratic Project (PFDP), and College of Educational Studies, Chapman University has nominated 
Shirley Steinberg to receive its annual Social Justice Award. 

Thomas, P. L. (2011, March 18). Test scores fail students, teachers, but remain a political prop. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2011/03/18/test-scores-fail-students-teachers-but-remain-a-political-prop/

"A Question of Power": Of Accountability and Teaching by Numbers
The speaker in Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck" confronts the contrast between land and sea--"the sea is another story/ the sea is not a question of power"--leaving the clear message that our world is "a question of power." 
Over the past thirty years, the education reform debate and the rising calls for education reform have exposed themselves as a question of power.

 Ronald Reagan's infamous "it's morning in America" slogan, used as part of his 1984 presidential campaign, paved the way for a set of market-driven policies that historians faithful to the human record will be compelled to rename twilight in America to signal a historical crisis fueled less by a spirited hope for the future than by a shocking refusal to be held accountable to and for it. The policies that informed Reagan's neoliberal agenda have given way to the intense assault now being waged by his more extremist governmental descendants on all vestiges of the democratic state.

My Challenge to the False Prophets of Education Reform