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Sandronsky: Standardizing Learning: Rethinking a policy of one-size-fits-all
Commentary, April, 29 2008
Seth Sandronsky
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Talk about the daily grind of education. Every day in countless classrooms across the U.S., teachers are using standardized curriculum to prepare their students to take and score highly on high-stakes achievement tests. But critics say forcing K-...
Sandronsky: Unionizing UC Davis workers, Community-labor support key
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
Seth Sandronsky
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After a sustained campaign in which police arrested two dozen non-violent protesters in downtown Davis, California, Sodexho food-service workers at UC Davis have won recognition as university employees. The recent decision means that 200 career wo...
Sandronsky: In Davis, Sodexho Workers Struggle
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Seth Sandronsky
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Sodexho food-service workers at University California Davis and social justice groups such as Students Organizing for Change have been busy mobilizing for improved labor conditions. Their goal is for the company’s 500 contracted-out workers to bec...
Sandronsky: New Frontiers in Philanthropy
Znet Article, April, 13 2008
Seth Sandronsky
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U.S. public schools have been getting help from the New Schools Venture Fund since 1998. It “seeks to transform public education by leveraging the power of entrepreneurs to effect change,” its Web site said. How? NSVF determines “the most powerful...
Sandronsky: Meet America's Promise Alliance
Znet Article, April, 06 2008
Seth Sandronsky
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Before U.S. forces attacked Iraq in March 2003, former Secretary of State Colin Powell argued at the U.N. for the armed removal of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, whose weapons of mass destruction threatened the American people. Iraq’s WMDs have yet ...
Sandronsky: Rethinking New Mexico History
Commentary, March, 10 2008
Seth Sandronsky
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In 1967 author, historian, human rights activist and professor Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz was working on a Ph.D. in Latin American history at UCLA when a TV report drew her attention. Armed men of the Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres had captured a sma...
Sandronsky: Halting California Tuition Hikes
Znet Article, February, 16 2008
Seth Sandronsky
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Making ends meet is a fight for Valencia Henley, an ethnic studies major graduating from California State University, Sacramento this spring.
Sandronsky: California's Health Care Crisis
Commentary, February, 08 2008
Seth Sandronsky
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Nearly seven million Californians lack health insurance, or about every fifth person in the state. Big papers such as the San Jose Mercury News and the Sacramento Bee urged the state Senate Health Committee to pass the Núñez-Perata health-care ref...
Sandronsky: 14 Years of Meanness: Repealing California's Three Strikes Law
Commentary, December, 31 2007
Seth Sandronsky
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Fourteen years is enough. It is time to repeal California's Three Strikes law, passed by lawmakers and voters on the watch of former GOP Gov. Pete Wilson in 1994.
Sandronsky: Reviewing The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great Depression
Commentary, December, 15 2007
Seth Sandronsky
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Can a recent history of the U.S. economy read a bit like a crime story? Yes, in the hands of Michael Perelman, an author and economics professor at CSU Chico.
Sandronsky: Ann Wright
Znet Article, November, 28 2007
Seth Sandronsky
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Ann Wright, a retired Army colonel and State Dept. diplomat, recently spoke at Sacramento City College, wearing a black t-shirt with white letters that spelled out
Sandronsky: California's Good Medicine for Health Care?
Commentary, November, 08 2007
Seth Sandronsky
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The political clash of reform plans for health care insurance coverage in California, hardly affordable and available, is not resolved. When it will be is unclear. Much hangs in the balance.
Sandronsky: Reviewing The Search for a Civic Voice
Commentary, October, 25 2007
Seth Sandronsky
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[The Search for a Civic Voice: California Latino Politics, Kenneth C. Burt, Regina Books 2007]
Sandronsky: Want Financial Stability? Hands Off Social Security!
Commentary, September, 25 2007
Seth Sandronsky
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Say it loud. Social Security is rock-solid. Contrast that with the financial instability of the housing and stock markets exposing lenders and borrowers near and far to bankruptcy. No small number of creditors and debtors are caught in this financ...
Sandronsky: To rent or own in the U.S.?
Znet Article, September, 17 2007
Seth Sandronsky
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To rent or own in the U.S.?
Sandronsky: Reviewing Scott's Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes
Commentary, September, 07 2007
Seth Sandronsky
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[Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes By Jonathan Scott ( Columbia , University of Missouri Press, 2006), 272 pp. Hardcover, $39.95.]
Sandronsky: Organizing Nurses: Interviewing Ed Bruno, National Nurses Organizing Committee
Znet Article, August, 06 2007
Seth Sandronsky
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Ed Bruno is the national organizing coordinator for the National Nurses Organizing Committee, a labor union founded by the California Nurses Associat...
Sandronsky: Reviewing Baker's The United States Since 1980
Commentary, August, 01 2007
Seth Sandronsky
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[The United States Since 1980 By Dean Baker (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007), 288 pp. Paper, $19.99.]
Sandronsky: Reviewing The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media
Commentary, July, 15 2007
Seth Sandronsky
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[The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American media By Lila Rajiva (New York, Monthly Review Press, 2005), 224 pp. Paper, $14.95.]
Sandronsky: Cheap Motels and a Hotplate: An Economist's Travelogue by Michael D. Yates
Zmag Article, July, 01 2007
Seth Sandronsky
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Can an academic engage readers in a book about a 60-month road trip across the United States? Yes, when the author has a grassroots tilt on work, inequality, and ecology. In Cheap Motels and a Hotplate: An Economist’s Trav...
