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Texas : Rick Perry Throws Kids Under the (School) Bus
Image from ConnectAmarillo.Governor Perry ignores student needs:Turns down $700 mission in fed funds Among the Republican leadership in Texas, politics is much more important than educating children or solving social problems. By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / January … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Public Schools, Republican, Rick Perry, Right Wing Extremists, Ted McLaughlin, Texas
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Textbooks in Texas : Rehabilitating Joe McCarthy?
Sen. Joseph McCarthy displays one of his many reports on Communists he found in the woodwork. Photo from Wisconsin History.What did you learn in school today?Efforts to vindicate commie-hunting senator By Justin Elliott / January 15, 2010 See ‘Who stays … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Censorship, Conservatives, Diversity, Education, Henry Cisneros, Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, Religious Freedom, Republican, Texas, Textbooks
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Rush Limbaugh : Get Well, Class Clown
Rush Limbaugh. From “Republican Clowns” / Daniel Kurtzman / Ask.com.Sick, sick, sick…Rush Limbaugh, Class ClownBy Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / December 31, 2009 There’s one in every classroom. Competing with the teacher for attention, cracking jokes, disrupting … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadcast Media, Carl R. Hultberg, Clowns, Education, Indigenous People, Public Schools, Republican, Right Wing Media, Rush Limbaugh
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U.S. Schools : Segregation Worse Today Than in the 1950’s
“The Problem We All Live With” by Norman Rockwell. Photo courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts.U.S. schools are more segregated today than in the 1950s In California and Texas segregation is spreading into large sections of suburbia as well. … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Civil Rights Movement, Education, Public Schools, Segregation
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Children March for Education in South Africa
Now this is grassroots organization. We could take a lesson from their effort. You don’t get anything if you don’t ask for it. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog South Africa schoolchildren marched to City Hall in Cape Town this … Continue reading
Robert Jensen : Teaching Journalism with a Mission
Can journalism schools be relevant in a world on the brink? By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / September 15, 2009 Journalism schools have much in common with the mainstream news media they traditionally serve. As the business model … Continue reading
The ‘Double Consciousness’ of Race
Graphic: Blair Kelly.Meet the New Elite, Not Like the OldBy Helene Cooper / July 25, 2009 WASHINGTON — They are the children of 1969 — the year that America’s most prestigious universities began aggressively recruiting blacks and Latinos to their … Continue reading
Texas ‘Experts’ : Axe Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall from Textbooks
‘Experts’ hired by Texas State Board of Education:Chavez and Marshall don’t belong in school books Evangelical minister Peter Marshall said, ‘To have Cesar Chavez listed next to Ben Franklin is ludicrous.’ [Chavez] is not a role model who ‘ought to … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Censorship, Civil Rights, Education, Evangelical Christians, Religious Right, Social Conservatives, Texas
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Revising History in Texas : Christ in the Classroom
Cartoon from San Francisco Sentinel. Last week, Stephen Colbert tipped his ironic hat to the Texas State Board of Education. The board had already allowed creationism to be considered in Texas biology classes, the comedian said approvingly, and now it … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian Right, Civil Liberties, Education, Religious Right, Texas
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Jonah Raskin : Class of ’09 Speaks Out on New Media
For four months, from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. every Wednesday, freedom of speech seemed to be alive and well in an old fashioned classroom where students asked questions, talked in small groups and wrote with pens and pencils on … Continue reading
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Tagged Communications, Education, Electronic Media, New Media
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