http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 23 May 2013 20:42:43 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:42:43 bigoted hate-term.

It carries the same negative connotations, and stems from the same hatefulness.

Attacking Democrats for holding Democratic values, for being unwilling to compromise them, is sickening in itself.

Attacking Democrats for upholding the Constitution and Bill of Rights, sugg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/439 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:40:29 If I don't like a particular choice on the ballot, I don't take my vote and go home. I take my vote and find a better.

If there is no better choice, I write one in.

My vote is not a ball, and my rights and responsibilities are not a game I'm playing with you.

Speaking of responsibilities... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/438 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:51:03 Universal National PUBLIC non-profit health care.

Universal pre-school - college/trade school FULLY PUBLIC and FULLY FUNDED education.

FAIR trade based on labor and environmental standards.

A living wage.

Enacting stronger anti-trust laws, and enforcing those already on the books in the ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/437 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:05:21 We live in the real world. We interact with, work with, people who don't share our values every day.

That doesn't mean that we have to capitulate and adopt their value system.

The real world is not 2-dimensional. It's not a thin flat line on which we place ourselves, with a single label to i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/436 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:59:40 [i]n a sense, we are defined by the other opposition—we are resisting “reforms” that don’t make education “better” and don’t remove “faults.” We are “anti-privatization, “anti-business model,” “anti-market-based model” and anti teacher-deproffesionalization. Defining us in oppositional terms may ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/435 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:02:37 You are absolutely correct. I am not a partisan. I am a Democrat, and the vast majority of my votes go to Democrats. None, ever, go to Republicans. I support the Democratic Party platform. But I am not a partisan.

I have always said that DU is fractured by design. When it self-describes as ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/434 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:44:08 I'm sick of the U.S. obsession with 9/11. It gave the bogus Bush administration legitimacy. It created the opening that led to the current economic and social disasters.

It was terrible. It wasn't the only terrible thing that people have done to other people, and certainly not anywhere near th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/433 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:49:24 maybe he should have showed up at the SOS rally and taken the heat he's earned. Publicly.

More from the article:

[div class="excerpt"]Why was the administration so keen on meeting with Damon and march leaders just before the event?

I’ve said before that it is fair to wonder if the sudden i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/432 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:29:12 A new, updated modern version of the fairness doctrine, where every station has to, first of all, distinguish clearly between fact, opinion, and propaganda, and secondly, offer a balanced selection of opinion, with actual facts and evidence given in support.

Their skills in collection development... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/431 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:32:57 I wish I could link this on my classroom webpage without being fired. :D... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/428 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:55:38 FAILED policies that benefit no one but politicians and their neoliberal donors. The article goes on to point out:

[div class="excerpt"]The result in this case? We have wound up betting many of our reform dollars on things like pay for performance, where we are going to pay wonderful teachers wh... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/430 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:11:11 Yes, I know we've all watched Damon's interview by now. While the title is about Damon, it's the reporter's editorial that is significant in this version.

This is the best defense of teachers I've heard in the almost 3 decades of my career.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/429 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:51:16 Sarcasm, or a full-frontal assault? Which is more likely to make people defensive?

Try it out.

Nominating and electing Obama is the biggest mistake the Democratic Party has made in my lifetime (51 years,) and the people who elected him, and who continue to defend him, are not only hypocrites,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/427 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:56:33 That's the reality: our contract specifies a number of days, and pays us for those days. Days we don't work, we don't get paid.

I've never met a teacher that didn't work for free outside of their contractual hours and days.

If I just add the extra hours I work during the work week beyond my ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/426 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:14:50 [div class="excerpt"]2010 was a banner year for bunk, leading to a new record of 24 reviews. Yet our awards can recognize only the true crème de la crème of bunkiness. This year’s victors include contributions from perennial frontrunners like Fordham, Heartland, and Heritage, but surprise winners in... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/425 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:58:00 I just picked this up out of my inbox this morning and came to see if anyone shared it. I've been trying to catch up and clean out. I did some 13-hour days teaching and doing parent conferences this last week, and am just getting around to the home 'puter.

This is an excellent letter. It's t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/424 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:48:39 By Joanne Barkan

This speaks for itself.

[div class="excerpt"]The cost of K–12 public schooling in the United States comes to well over $500 billion per year. So, how much influence could anyone in the private sector exert by controlling just a few billion dollars of that immense sum? Decisive... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/423 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:37:50 I did a search of active posts and didn't find this; my apologies if I missed it earlier. I haven't had much 'puter time recently.

This long article discusses the recent release of 2009 PISA scores. Duncan pointed to those scores as a "massive wake up call" and used them to push for more of the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/422 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:25:33 1. A vibrant, fully public system that offers equal access to high quality education for all is essential to a democratic republic. It's also essential to achieving economic and social justice.

2. Conservative, neoliberal, and religious factions have wanted to destroy public education for decades... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/421 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:36:56 Not any more. "Data" now ranks with terms like "plague," "std," "HIV," etc. when I hear it.

In conversations eerily similar to these videos, first posted here by starry Messenger last week, my district is moving forward with the obsession with "data:"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVXhA_hs2J... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/420 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:57:07 Gary Stager
Posted: October 19, 2010 03:19 AM


Stager makes the clear point that today's most powerful education "reformers" aren't qualified to educate anyone, and he has a list of recommended reading for those that want to "do their homework" and educate themselves about public education and... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/419 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:36:25 They are the reason we keep showing up. It's sure not for the mythical pay, benefits, or, laughably, easy hours.

My student teacher is nearing the end of her time with us; she has a few more weeks. She's gotten attached. She will be moving on to the high school for the next trimester. She alr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/418 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:51:02 [i]My guest is Monty Neill, interim executive director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, a non-profit organization that works to end the flaws and misuse of standardized testing.[/i]

By Monty Neill

Neill points out the failures of NCLB and the high-stakes tes... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/417 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:55:25 She was speaking to a group of teachers about the importance of growing the whole person, rather than focusing on academic achievement only. She's the author of a book, [i]Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essential Virtues That Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing[/i]. According to her book, the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/416 Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:27:11 One of the things the general public never talks about is the amount of time and energy teachers spend outside their classrooms in committee work. It's a catch-22. If we want a voice at the table, we participate. If we participate, it's more time in addition to the long hours we're already puttin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LWolf/415 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:34:57