We are education scholars, students, teachers, and citizens who support worldwide democratic efforts that demand economic and social justice.
Access to decent education is a fundamental human right that the federal and state courts have recognized as essential to the maintenance and flourishing of a democratic society. Therefore, we oppose the current institutional structure which, instead of taxing the wealthy, diverts millions of dollars from education and denies meaningful educational opportunities, especially, to millions of low income and minority students.
Equally, we oppose today’s “educational reforms” that embrace corporate ideologies and advance privatization while undermining public education. Especially, we oppose NCLB’s test-driven education that truncates, rather than expands, the possibilities of teaching and learning.
We extend our support to a vision of building an education system that works for children, for the public, for social justice, and for the future. We thus declare our solidarity with any movement that exercises the right of all citizens of a democratic society to demand economic and social justice.
[Please join the conversation at http://www.education4.org/]
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Reached 100 supporters
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I am both a university-based scholar and TEACHER at the college and grad school level. I wish that was an option under occupation.
Let the teachers teach. We are not a business!!! Pearson has no right to come in and evaluate, judge and score us! How asinine !
HST subverts the educational process to one of indoctrination and enslavement to the opulent elite's power structure: worker subservient to management.
Corporate greed has no place in our classrooms. Get the billionaires out of our curriculum.
Enough with the standardized testing already. My kids are miserable and schools are turning into test prep centers instead of places for real learning.
Student of Prof. Maxine Greene
Return teaching to teachers!
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We are education scholars, students, teachers, and citizens who support worldwide democratic efforts that demand economic and social justice.
Access to decent education is a fundamental human right that the federal and state courts have recognized as essential to the maintenance and flourishing of a democratic society. Therefore, we oppose the current institutional structure which, instead of taxing the wealthy, diverts millions of dollars from education and denies meaningful educational opportunities, especially, to millions of low income and minority students.
Equally, we oppose today’s “educational reforms” that embrace corporate ideologies and advance privatization while undermining public education. Especially, we oppose NCLB’s test-driven education that truncates, rather than expands, the possibilities of teaching and learning.
We extend our support to a vision of building an education system that works for children, for the public, for social justice, and for the future. We thus declare our solidarity with any movement that exercises the right of all citizens of a democratic society to demand economic and social justice.
[Please join the conversation at http://www.education4.org/]
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Reached 500 supporters
March 4, 2013
Reached 100 supporters
April 29, 2012
9 Comments
This is one of the most important fights we have. Protecting public education is one of the key steps in reclaiming anything like democracy in our society.
I am both a university-based scholar and TEACHER at the college and grad school level. I wish that was an option under occupation.
Let the teachers teach. We are not a business!!! Pearson has no right to come in and evaluate, judge and score us! How asinine !
HST subverts the educational process to one of indoctrination and enslavement to the opulent elite's power structure: worker subservient to management.
Corporate greed has no place in our classrooms. Get the billionaires out of our curriculum.
Enough with the standardized testing already. My kids are miserable and schools are turning into test prep centers instead of places for real learning.
Student of Prof. Maxine Greene
Return teaching to teachers!
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This is one of the most important fights we have. Protecting public education is one of the key steps in reclaiming anything like democracy in our society.