In November 2024 Massachusetts voters ended the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System as the graduation requirement for students.
Education in Massachusetts from the Old Deluder to the MCAS
"Moving the infrastructure bill forward without the popular Build Back Better Act risks leaving behind working people, families, and our communities."
The California Department of Education is developing the nation’s first statewide ethnic studies curriculum model.
Community education cannot be considered an “add-on” — we must center it as an integral part of our ongoing organizing. We need to understand the need for political education-- taking lessons from work on Israel/Palestine and anti-Islamophobia.
The owners of private and charter schools are waging war against their public school competition.
Winners and Losers; Trump's Media War; Google Walkout; Cable News Myths; China's Great Firewall; AOC vs Fox News; Zuckerberg's Gift
Like Bargaining for the Common Good, TURN members also believe teachers need to approach bargaining more creatively and boldly. Specifically, TURN wants to see unions negotiate over policies that “advance student learning,” such as reducing the number of standardized tests students must take while also pushing for new kinds of assessments that measure skills like creativity.
The jokes in the HBO comedy may not be all that funny, but the show reveals something raw and authentic about public-school dynamics.
(Orginally published in Spanish on SubVersiones, see links at the end.) If the national teachers movement in Mexico manages to bring down the educational reform, there will be a path to bringing down all the structural reforms that are occurring in the country’s strategic sectors, such as the energy sector. This is the assessment that teachers are making. This is precisely the fear of the federal government.
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