I was marching for Martin Luther King day today--amazing march! At one point after the big main march, group of bike cops set up a line to keep us from marching. Some people walked through the line, but I didn't. When my phone rang, I turned away from the cops and began walking away to answer the phone. A cop then pepper sprayed me right in the face. The milk has helped a lot and I'm beginning to feel better. Wish we had a better world.
End the play gap in education! #PlayIsAHumanRight!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/our-misguided-effort-to-c…/
Lead testing not standardized testing!
http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp…
#RyanLochte is not a "kid." But #TamirRice was a kid. #FitTheDescription
Lay off 1,000 teachers. Hold a job fair to hire 1,000 teachers at lower salaries. Repeat next year.
Professor Wayne Au writes: "Hey, all you anti-Union, free market, pro-merit pay, pro-charter, pro-testing corporate education reformy peoples, guess what? TRUMP IS YOUR BOY when it comes to education. I'm looking at you, Stand for Children, LEV, the Gates Foundation, most of the democrats, and pretty much all the republicans. Chew on that for a minute."
The great political sports write Dave Zirin conducts an interview during the Olympics with Brazilian teachers fighting corporate education reform! It's so important that we expose the global attack of corporate education reform and highlight these amazing examples of resistance. And I'm so glad to know they are following the opt out movement here in the US.
Read about these brave Rio teachers who occupied their schools, faced police violence for the right to an extra planning period, are following the opt-out movem...ent in the United States and WON THE RIGHT TO ELECT THEIR OWN PRINCIPALS "Teachers and Students Occupy Schools In Shadow of Olympic Rio"
See MoreGo Brazilian teachers!
I will be doing a full write-up of this interview Zach Zill and I just did with these remarkable badass teachers in Rio who went on strike, occupied their scho...ols with their students, and won the right to elect their principals. They didn't win everything they wanted, but won more than they had.
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Prosecutors say jail staff lied at least 32 TIMES about checking on #GynnyaMcMillen who died in their custody.
Yet they won't admit that police KILLED this young woman from a martial arts hold 12 hours earlier.
http://www.wdrb.com/…/prosecutor-staffers-lied-32-times-abo…
Thank you, again, to Paul Ortiz, for the link, and this comment: "8 hrs ·
One of my former students wrote a thesis that touched on this topic. France and the U...nited States blocked earlier Haitian efforts to come to the aid of German Jews attempting to flee Germany after the Nazis took power in the early 1930s. Instead of actually helping the refugees however, France and the US did something which we are all too familiar with today: they took the occasion to lecture the world about human rights."
On this day in 1964, the bodies of three lynched civil rights workers (James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman) were found, after disappearing more ...than a month before. The CRMvet.org website provides a detailed description of their arrest, the complicity between law enforcement and the Klan, their murder, and the fight to have their bodies found, autopsied, and the murderers charged: http://bit.ly/gwDSHu
For a list of more people murdered in the fight for voting rights and human rights in the U.S., see this page from the Southern Poverty Law Center: http://bit.ly/1DV7olL Read "The Voting Rights Act: Ten Things You Should Know" here: http://zinnedproject.org/…/the-voting-rights-act-ten-thing…/
Powerful! Check out this important statement on education and against corporate education reform from the Movement for Black Lives: "Key stakeholders, such as parents, teachers, and students are left out of the decision making process.Their concerns and needs are ignored by those appointed to run the school districts — individuals who are more accountable to the institutional leaders who have appointed them than t to the communities they are tasked to serve. This leaves room ...for corporations, lobbyists, and big philanthropy to play influential roles on education policy at the local, state, and federal level where their money can buy access into a cash-strapped system. Their aims are to undermine Black democracy and self-determination, destroy organized labor, and decolor education curriculum, while they simultaneously overemphasize Standardized Testing, and use school closures to disproportionately disrupt access to education in Black communities."
https://policy.m4bl.org/community-control/
https://policy.m4bl.org/platform/
I'll be giving local context and introducing Peter Gray, one of the leading researchers and authors on the role of play in human development, at this forum in Seattle tomorrow. This information is crucial to our ongoing struggle for more recess time and play based curriculum.
JUST RELEASED from The Movement for Black Lives: #Vision4BlackLives platform.
Join the twitter townhall Tuesday at 2pm
Sign up for the national call on Wednesda...y night at 8pm eastern.
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/…/re…/LOVVKGMLF4NCLZS
En español aquí:
https://policy.m4bl.org/m4blplatformspanish/
Here's the amazing @thenation cover and here's my cover story about Olympic Rio on the edge. https://www.thenation.com/…/budget-failures-displacement-z…/
