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Two years ago my fellow blogger Glen Brown began writing teacher/poet/musician glen brown. 730 days and 230,000 page visits later Glen shares a poem he wrote in celebration.
Ken Davis’ Chicago Newsroom. Ken is joined by Angela Caputo, Chicago Reporter and Salim Muwakkil, WVON Radio to talk about school closings.
Is the idea of the American gun culture a myth?
Does the Mayor’s call for neighborhood investment match his actions? Hell no.
Jersey Jazzman: “Lord knows I’ve had my disagreements with Randi Weingarten in the past – good faith disagreements, yes, but strong disagreements nonetheless. Let me be among the first to say, however, that this took a lot of guts.”
One in ten children in Bloomberg’s New York slept in a shelter this winter.
Melissa Harris-Perry: Why is Bloomberg spending $400,000 to shame and blame poor teens who are pregnant?
Louder than a Bomb. Poems from this years Chicago festival of high school poets.
How Many Reformers Does it Take to Really Fix a School? If you’re an American teacher it’s likely you’ve noticed a depressing trend. Deep into a second decade of all-out school reform, or third, depending on who’s counting, we’re still going nowhere fast.
“Backward” doesn’t count.
School reformers seem baffled; but baffled school reformers don’t stay baffled long. When one reform plan doesn’t work they conjure up another plan.
They’re school reformers for god sakes.
Fred Klonsky 
The reforms do not work unless they address poverty. They sound good, but they do not work unless the parents have jobs and support education as a vehicle to a prosperous life on many levels. The high correlation between successful education and socio-economic conditions is known to all, yet so-called reformers, instead of addressing this fact, continue to ignore it. It must be they are doing so on purpose.