Teaching Tolerance hosts webinar with “New Jim Crow” author Michelle Alexander
Released in 2010, "The New Jim Crow" outlines the use of the justice system in the United States as a form of racial control that especially impacts young African American males.
State of Florida itself at stake on November 4
Florida's governor, Rick Scott, has either stood by and let the degradation of the state occur or has actively contributed to it.
Detroit Labor Day: Democracy not for sale!
"The concentration of wealth in too few hands and growing inequality is hitting hard at working families."
Arizona voters dump two right-wingers
The majority of Arizonans were delighted to see the state's incumbent attorney general, Tom Horne, and Superintendent of Public Instruction, John Huppenthal, defeated.
An interview with USSA's Maxwell Love
According to Love, students need to build "relationships with unions - on and off campuses, to build bridges in the community, students are workers."
Despite parent protest, Simeon closes electricity-training class
On a near perfect summer evening here, July 31, about 75 parents along with a number of students filled the Simeon Career and Technical Education auditorium.
Chicagoans take to the streets against school cuts
The meeting came on the heels of the announcement that CPS was cutting over $50 million from neighborhood schools and diverting it to politically connected charter school.
Teachers unions to Education Secretary Duncan: Leave!
The AFT convention has a blunt message for Education Secretary Arne Duncan: You flunk the test of helping the nation's schools and kids, so leave.
Elizabeth Warren stumps for Tennant in West Virginia
Ms. Tennant is in a tight race with outgoing Republican Congresswoman Shelly Moore Capito for the seat. The race could be a decisive one in this year's national battle for control of the U.S. Senate.
NEA’s Eskelsen-García promises tougher line on public school critics
"No commercial, mass-produced, industrial-strength standardized factory test should ever be used as the determining factor for any student or adult."
