Seth Meyers to Obama at last night’s White House Correspondents Dinner, “I’ll tell you who could beat you: 2008 Barack Obama. You would have loved him.”
Dave Eggers once again suggests paying teachers more. “For those who say, ‘How do we pay for this?’ — well, how are we paying for three concurrent wars? ”
The 2011 Teacher of the Year is Michelle Shearer form Maryland. She tells Valerie Strauss that with the steady drumbeat of negative news about it, she said she will try to make people aware of the many successes in public schools.
Failing Schools Blog on the student takeover of the board of ed meeting in Tucson. The kids are alright!
In New Jersey Governor Christie says a teacher’s Masters Degree ain’t worth crap. No more Masters bump in the pay schedule. Governor Christie? Meet Dave Eggers.
The people must be kept in ignorance, for they lose their servility, their modesty and their obedience to the powers that be, as their intelligence increases. The education of a black slave a quarter of a century ago was a criminal offense. Why? Because the intelligent slave would throw off his shackles at whatever cost. Why is the education of the working people of today looked upon by a certain class as an offense against the State? For the same reason! August Spies. Haymarket martyr . October, 1886. Chicago, Illinois.
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