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I Teach The Toughest Kids, and I Love ItBy: Steven Singer, Director BATs Blogging and Research Originally published on his blog...
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Charter Schools: The New Private Prisons?By: Mitchell RobinsonOriginally published on his blog at http://www.mitchellrobinson.net/2016/08/18/charter-schools-the-new-private-prisons/A new report from...
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Field Trip Reflectionsby Becca Ritchie, BAT Leadership Team and Washington State BATThe year was 1978. I went to school at McNeil Island Elementary School. It was a remote necessary school in...
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A quick note to all of my Deadhead friends and family...this summer tour isn’t quite what you would expect, but stick around and give it a read...you may appreciate it!After NEA RA last year I wrote a...
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Do Unions Belong in the Fight Against Corporate School Reform?By: Steven Singer, Director BATs Blogging/Research CommitteeOriginally published on his blog here...
View ArticleWhen You Get to Meet Your Hero... by Brett Bigham
This has been a summer to remember. I thought, when I spoke at the Lincoln Memorial for Save Our Schools, that not much could top a day like that. Following Diane Ravitch and Jonathan Kozol and...
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The Displacement of School #1 Children in Rochester: A Parent’s StoryBy: Walida Monroe-SimsPlease support the Parents and Students of School #1 by signing and sharing this petition...
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Charter School Funding Fiascos: Misplaced Priorities and Warped ValuesBy: Dr. Mitchell Robinson, BATS Research/Blogging TeamOriginally published on his blog...
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Pledge to Shop union for Back to SchoolPlease join BATs and UFCW as we stand in national solidarity to tell everyone to shop union for Back to School and all year long! Pledge to Shop Union! I pledge...
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Saturday, I attended a session that was hosted by Black Lives Matters - Atlantic City titled Beyond the Slogan/Conversations on Race, Privilege, Power. https://www.facebook.com/BlackLivesMatterAC This...
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Report from a First Time Union DelegateBy: Chris Willems“We are fighting a battle of immense proportions that threatens to destroy all we and others in the labor movement have worked for. This battle...
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#TEAMPAIGESTRONG: AN OPEN LETTER TO MY LEGISLATORSBY: RACHAEL HOPEORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON HER BLOG http://www.readysethope.com/2016/08/teampaigestrong-open-letter-to-my.htmlTo Whom it May Concern,I...
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Yes, Social Impact Bonds. AgainBy: Julie BorstOriginally published on her blog here http://elfasd.blogspot.com/2016/08/yes-social-impact-bonds-again.html I've written about Social Impact Bonds, aka,...
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The Idiocy of AYPBy: Dr. Mitchell Robinson, Member BATs Blogging/Research TeamOriginally published on his blog here http://www.mitchellrobinson.net/2016/08/24/the-idiocy-of-ayp/AYP, or "Adequate...
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Shouldn’t Our Schools At Least be as Logical as Dental Floss?By: Steven Singer, Director BATs Blogging/Research TeamOriginally published on his blog here...
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REVOLVING DOOR: Former NY deputy commissioner now running Jeb Bush’s ed reform groupBy: A N.Y. BAT After all the suffering New York students, parents and educators have gone through in rejecting...
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Common Core’s New New Math has the Same Problem as the Old New MathBy: Steven Singer, Director BATs Blogging/Research TeamOriginally published on his blog...
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A Simple Solution to Fix the Problem of our Failing Public Education SystemBy: Dr. Mitchell Robinson, Member BATs Blogging/Research teamOriginally published on his blog...
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What’s More Important – Fighting School Segregation or Protecting Charter School Profits?By Steven Singer, Director BATs Research/Blogging CommitteeOriginally published on his blog here...
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State Senator: Get Ready to Sue the PA Department of Education Over Common Core TestingBy Steven Singer, Director BATs Blogging/ResearchOriginally published on his blog...
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