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Showing videos filed under: No Child Left Behind
William K. Black, Real Peace Process, and Top Secret America
July 20, 2010Former regulator, savings & loan investigator, and current Braintruster at the Roosevelt Institute William K. Black says that if Elizabeth Warren isn't appointed to head the consumer protection agency passed as part of the financial reform bill, it will be a clear sign that the agency isn't going to protect consumers at all. While Warren has done the research in the field for 20 years, he notes, other candidates preferred by Treasury Secretary Geithner have fallen more into the Rubin/Summers camp of deregulators.The F Word: Top Secret: Privatizing Fails
July 20, 2010The Washington Post has a new series out on “Top Secret America,” investigating the massive security complex that's sprung up around our war industry. While independent journalists like Tim Shorrock and Jeremy Scahill have been reporting on this for years, the Post brings a new level of attention to the contractors—and the blank check they get from our otherwise deficit-obsessed government.Diane Ravitch: Race to the Top or Skim off the Top?
July 20, 2010"We're lying to our kids," says professor and former charter school advocate and supporter of No Child Left Behind Diane Ravitch. High-stakes testing and punishing teachers for low-scoring kids is failing, according to her research; moreover, charter schools are only successful, when they are, because they can select the best students from the failing districts in which they are located.Greg Mitchell, Diane Ravitch on Failing Schools, and the Media on Sexual Assault
July 19, 2010Everywhere you look, jobs are cut, programs are eliminated, and the fat is trimmed as closely as possible leaving only the bare bones of our society. Well, almost everywhere. It seems that for all the costs being cut surrounding education and employment benefits, a disproportionate amount of money has poured into intelligence, better known as the U.S. Military Industrial Complex. This imbalance in public spending and private contractors prompted the Washington Post to conduct a two-year long investigation into this hidden, growing world.Of Presidents and Poets
July 12, 2008Jimmy Carter and Michael Franti, in the United States of Poetry.Let Teachers Teach
July 9, 2008Three NY City public school teachers tell us what it's like to teach today. As public schools fight for resources a testing mandate threatens to destroy creativity and critical thinking. Our panelists are not so sure that their favorite teachers would return to the classroom if they had the chance. Find out why on GRITtv.
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