By Guest Blogger George,
Many educators feel that the so-called “21st Century Learning” which advocates a more technology based and supposedly student-centered curriculum for the future is the magic bullet of educational reform. In this, they find themselves in perfect agreement with the companies which stand the most to gain from such an approach: those which [...]
By Guest Blogger XX,
The Rhode Island Massacre in which teachers were all fired due to low math and literacy test scores set off a backlash among teachers and those who seem to support them. While some of the corporate media has exploited this for a good human interest story and even as a fairly obvious example of “injustice”, most [...]
By Guest Blogger XX,
The New York Times reports that Obama has escalated his attacks on “failing schools.”
The Times outlines a recent speech in which Obama “favored federal rewards for local school districts that fire underperforming teachers and close failing schools, saying educators needed to be held accountable when they failed to fix chronically troubled classrooms and curb the student [...]
The March 4th protest scheduled to take place in 29 States across America in protest against cut-backs in the education system has been interpreted by CNN’s resident expert as an attack against the overpayment of teachers. Steve Perry, CNN’s “Education Contributor” suggests that the protests are a sign that “There needs to be some honest conversations about what’s [...]
By Guest Blogger Terry Morrone
The good old USA has added another country to its empire. It was an earth quake assisted takeover.
The major media as usual have the story all wrong. While a few stories in the major media covered the ineffectiveness of US aid, most focused instead on the poor, miserable and incompetent Haitians. [...]
A Justice Department subpoena requested that Indymedia.us hand over any information the website had on visitors who viewed the website on June 25, 2008. Indymedia is an independent left-leaning news website that addresses controversial issues such as gay rights. The website was targeted as part of a crime investigation by the state of Indiana. In [...]
Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés
History quiz: Name the greatest robbery committed in the last 100 years.
A: Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme
B: Nazi theft of art treasures from conquered nations
C. Diamonds stolen from Africa by Belgians
D. The Pentagon budget.
This is not a tricky multiple choice question where all the answers could be correct. Only one stands [...]
JBS Swift is the largest beef packing company in the world and has grown at an alarming rate, buying out its competitors and taking advantage of the strong Brazilian currency and weak dollar. Although this story is almost a year old it has flown under the radar due to corporate media ownership. JBS Swift has sought billions of dollars in [...]
As time ticks away and the healthcare reform bill gets pummeled by Blue Dog Democrats and almost every Republican, what the bill is shaping up to be is nothing short of disappointing. Not only has big business kept it’s dirty little fingers on every page of the bill, our big government is blatantly waving it in our faces. [...]
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