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Blog Post Ross: Texas Education Board extremists target social studies

Blog Post, May, 04 2009 E. wayne Ross
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Texas Education Board extremists target social studies

Blog Post Ross: The Rouge Forum News - Call for Submissions

Blog Post, May, 01 2009 E. wayne Ross
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The Rouge Forum News - Call for Submissions

Blog Post Ross: May 1: International Worker’s Day - Día Internacional de los Trabajadores

Blog Post, May, 01 2009 E. wayne Ross
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May 1: International Worker’s Day - Día Internacional de los Trabajadores

Blog Post Ross: Global citizenships

Blog Post, April, 30 2009 E. wayne Ross
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Global citizenships

Blog Post Ross: Historians Against the War adopt new, broader statement

Blog Post, April, 29 2009 E. wayne Ross
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Historians Against the War adopt new, broader statement

Blog Post Ross: One way NCLB transforms public money into private profit

Blog Post, April, 07 2009 E. wayne Ross
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NCLB makes $21 million for one New York City tutoring company, in less than 2 years.

Blog Post Ross: The political compass and the vanishing political spectrum

Blog Post, April, 06 2009 E. wayne Ross
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The political compass and the vanishing political spectrum

Blog Post Ross: The big lie that "progressives" tell themselves about Obama

Blog Post, March, 21 2009 E. wayne Ross
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How Obama is failing to live up to progressives' expectations, particularly on education issues

Blog Post Ross: As the economic crisis sparks upheaval globally, analysts fear possibility of class war in the USA

Blog Post, March, 20 2009 E. wayne Ross
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As the economic crisis sparks upheaval globally, analysts fear possibility of class war in the USA

Blog Post Ross: Update on Rouge Forum 2009: Education, Empire, Economy, & Ethics at a Crossroads

Blog Post, February, 26 2009 E. wayne Ross
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Update on Rouge Forum 2009

Zmag Article Ross: British Columbia Teachers' Strike

Zmag Article, January, 01 2006 E. Wayne Ross
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I n British Columbia 42,000 teachers walked out of the classroom and on to the picket line in October, demanding improved working and learning conditions from the government, as well as salary...

Zmag Article Ross: School Segregation Redux

Zmag Article, March, 01 2003 E. Wayne Ross
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W hile public schools were continuously desegregated from the 1950s to the 1980s, the past 12 years has seen a rapid retreat from these efforts as federal courts terminated major and successfu...

Zmag Article Ross: The Schools We Want

Zmag Article, January, 01 2002 E. Wayne Ross
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One month after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, corporate executives and state governors descended on IBM's Executive Conference Center in Palisades, New York to devise the next round of “standards-based” reforms at the 200...

Zmag Article Ross: Resisting the Tyranny of Tests

Zmag Article, July, 01 2001 E. Wayne Ross
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The spring testing season produced widespread resistance by test-weary students, parents, and teachers even as President George W. Bush's education plan, which requires doubling or tripling the required number of tests students take in many states...

Zmag Article Ross: The Spectacle of Standards & Summits

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 E. Wayne Ross
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In 1989, President Bush called the nation’s governors together for the first national education summit. They set goals and tried to develop ways to measure progress, but were stymied by resistance to federal interference in local school deci...

Zmag Article Ross: Resisting Test Mania

Zmag Article, September, 01 1999 E. Wayne Ross
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The use of "high-stakes" standardized tests as the primary tool of school reform is sweeping the United States. Proponents of standardized tests-including most state legislatures, the President, Governors, boards of education, and the leadership o...

Zmag Article Ross: Re-segregating Schools

Zmag Article, April, 01 1999 E. Wayne Ross
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Current efforts to reform public education are driven by a fervent desire to improve student test scores. For many states and local school districts the only thing that counts when judging the effectiveness of schools are the scores students produ...

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