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Robert Jensen : The Job Formerly Known as Teaching
Delivering educational products:The job formerly known as teaching By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / May 9, 2011 Hi, I’m Robert Jensen, a provider of educational products to consumers at the University of Texas at Austin. I used to … Continue reading
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Rick Ayers : Letter to a Young Teacher
Helping students to learn their own power. Image from Art Smart.The ritual of the pink slip:Letter to a young teacher By Rick Ayers / The Rag Blog / March 22, 2011 So my nephew Malik, a fabulous renaissance man who … Continue reading
Anne Lewis : Workers’ Rights and the Fight Against Poverty
Labor leader John L. Lewis testifies before Congress in 1947. Still image from archival film footage.Poverty in America and the attack on public sector unions I want to ask a basic question that unifies religious, labor, and community organizations at … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Lewis, Education, John L. Lewis, Labor Unions, Poverty, Public Schools, UT-Austin
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BOOKS / Harry Targ : The Struggle Continues in the Global South
The struggle continues:People’s history and the Global South Vijay Prashad’s book reframes world history from a ‘bottom-up’ perspective. By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / February 16, 2011 From the streets to the classroom I am teaching a course … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Education, Global South, Harry Targ, Third World, World History
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Lamar W. Hankins : The Bowdlerizing of Huckleberry Finn
Huck and Jim. Image from Teachers.ash.org.The bowdlerizing of Huckleberry Finn By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / January 19, 2011 A recent commentary by Leonard Pitts in the Miami Herald explained a significant problem with publication of a … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Censorship, Education, Fiction, Huckleberry Finn, Lamar W. Hankins, Mark Twain, Racism, Slavery
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Ted McLaughlin : U.S. Students Losing Education Race
Cartoon from Hermes-Press.International standardized test results:U.S. students aren’t making the grade By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / December 7, 2010 The graph below shows how students in many countries did on a standardized test, when the same test … Continue reading
David Bacon : California’s Perfect Storm
Students and teachers march in Oakland, California,to protest the termination of adult education programs. Photo by David Bacon.Fighting to save public education:California’s perfect storm Across California, new alliances of teachers, students, state workers, communities of color, and working-class communities in … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Campuses, David Bacon, Education, Public Schools, Social Action
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BOOKS / Harry Targ : Teach Your Children Well
Raising kids to be radical:‘Annie Shapiro and the Clothing Workers’ Strike’ By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / October 8, 2010 Teach, your children wellTheir father’s hellDid slowly go byAnd feed them on your dreamsThe one they pickedThe one … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Books, Children's Books, Education, Harry Targ, Labor History, McCarthyism, New Left, Radicals
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Carl Davidson : Mondragon Diaries IV: Banking on the Future
Arrasate-Mondragon in the Basque Country of Spain. Image from SolidarityEconomy.net.Mondragon Diaries, Day FourWorker coops, worker banks, worker skills:Weathering today’s crisesBy Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / October 1, 2010 [This is the fourth of a five-part series by Carl … Continue reading
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Tagged Banking, Basque Country, Carl Davidson, Education, Europe, Labor, Socialism, Spain, Workers Cooperatives
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Carl Davidson : Mondragon Diaries II: It Starts With a School
Mondragon Cooperative Corporation in Basque Country. Image from PermcultureCooperative.Mondragon Diaries, Day TwoIt starts with a school:Knowledge and the path to workers power By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / September 23, 2010 [This is the second of a five-part … Continue reading
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Tagged Basque Country, Carl Davidson, Education, Europe, Labor, Socialism, Spain, Workers Cooperatives
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FILM / Rick Ayers : An Inconvenient Superman
An Inconvenient Superman:Davis Guggenheim’s new filmhijacks school reformBy Rick Ayers / The Rag Blog / September 20, 2010 Davis Guggenheim’s 2010 film Waiting for Superman is a slick marketing piece full of half-truths and distortions. The film suggests the problems … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Educational Reform, Film, Labor Unions, Public Schools, Rick Ayers
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BOOKS / Dick J. Reavis on ‘The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains’
A worrisome message from Nicholas Carr:What The Shallows means for the left By Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / July 10, 2010 [The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr (Norton, 2010; Hardcover, … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Books, Cognition, Communications, Dick J. Reavis, Education, Ideology, Internet, Knowledge, Print Media, Psychology, The Left
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