Showing videos filed under: Education Policy

• Melissa Harris Lacewell: Progressive Identity Politics

  June 22, 2010

  Melissa Harris Lacewell quotes South Pacific, a progressive musical of its time, saying, “You have to be taught to hate and fear, you have to be taught from year to year, it has to be drummed in your dear little ear.” Alarmingly, schools in Arizona and Texas have incorporated Rogers and Hammerstein’s ideas into their educational policies

  • Arizona
  • Education Policy
  • ethnic studies
  • homosexuality
  • Identity Politics
  • jan brewer
  • melissa harris-lacewell
  • racism
  • South Pacific
  • Texas
  • Texas laws
  • tolerance

• Richard Kim, The Future of Labor and Melissa Harris-Lacewell

  June 21, 2010

  Republicans discuss their values as if they are defending small government and private property, but they’ve evolving much more towards being the defense line of corporate America in recent years. Despite the enormous growth under Andy Stern’s leadership, current president Mary Kay says that the SEIU is still fighting for paid sickdays. None of the laborers cleaning up the gulf coast are even under a union contract in the first place.

  • andy stern
  • Arizona
  • barack obama
  • bp
  • bp oil spill
  • climate bill
  • climate legislation
  • corporate america
  • corporate business
  • democrats
  • Education Policy
  • ethnic studies
  • FireDogLake
  • gulf spill
  • homosexuality
  • Identity Politics
  • jan brewer
  • Joe Barton
  • labor organizing
  • labor politics
  • legilsation
  • Mary Kay
  • Max Fraser
  • melissa harris-lacewell
  • Michael Whitney
  • politics
  • private property
  • racism
  • republicans
  • Richard Kim
  • seiu
  • shrimpers
  • shrimpers in the gulf
  • South Pacific
  • Texas
  • Texas laws
  • The Nation
  • tolerance
  • Workers
  • working class

• Education and Incentives

  September 1, 2009

  Do incentives work? And are they a way to improve education? Well, Ayele Shakur, Executive Director of the Boston Learning Center, and Gary Bracey, Project Director of Building Inspiration to Fight Failure (BIFF) say that it is one way of motivating students. They are co-founders of the Smart is Cool campaign and have developed a model that they say not only keeps kids in school but keeps them engaged.

  • arnie duncan
  • ayele shakur
  • boston learning center
  • building inspiration to fight failure
  • Charter Schools
  • Education
  • Education Policy
  • gary bracey
  • Obama
  • Public Schools

• The F Word: The Miseducation (policy) of John McCain

  September 10, 2008

  Here’s a big surprise: John McCain does not give education a high priority. What with wars to plan and carry out, a Bush tax cut to implement, blue prints for oil drills to sign off on, and whiny nay-sayers to discipline, who can blame him? Says Lisa Graham Keegan, McCain adviser and former Arizona education commissioner:

  • Education
  • Education Policy
  • grittv
  • john mccain
  • laura flanders
  • Sex Education