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Education
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Kate Randall , WSWS
13 March 2010
The Obama administration is spearheading an unprecedented assault on public education in the US. The White House and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are promoting a nationwide wave of school closures, teacher and staff layoffs, attacks on teachers’ wages and conditions, and an expansion of privately run charter... » read this article
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Jerry White , WSWS
4 March 2010
President Obama’s public support for the mass firing of teachers at a Rhode Island high school is a declaration of war on all teachers and on the working class as a whole.
No US president has so openly supported the mass victimization of workers since Ronald Reagan... » read this article
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Sandy English , WSWS
In citywide public hearings sponsored by the New York City’s Department of Education (DOE), parents, teachers and students voiced their anger and opposition to the plans of the DOE to close 20 schools. Dozens of demonstration have taken place throughout the city to protest the DOE’s move.
With virtually no... » read this article
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Jerry White , WSWS
24 December 2009
The Obama administration is spearheading an unprecedented assault on public education in the United States. While providing trillions of dollars to Wall Street, Obama has starved states and local governments of funding and pressed them to address their soaring budget deficits by closing public schools and opening... » read this article
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Tom Eley , WSWS
"Make no mistake, Obama has proposed a class-based system of education."
25 July 2009
On Friday, President Barack Obama announced an assault on public education that would go beyond the Bush administration’s “No Child Left Behind” program. He outlined an education “reform” that would link teacher pay to the test... » read this article
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Editor's Note: In 2003 we joined others, mostly people of color, in Jackson Square to protest the "English Only" rule about to be introduced in Boston's Public School System. The campaign to deny children the right to bilingual teaching was led by Ron Unz, a wealthy and politically-connected California multi-millionaire. Unz' racist, cross-country show demanded... » read this article
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Steve Light , WSWS
18 March 2008
Teachers, parents, students and their supporters are rallying March 19 at City Hall in New York City under the slogan keep the promises in opposition to a new round of budget cuts to public education being imposed by state and city governments in an attempt to offset... » read this article
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Wiki Report , Wikipedia
The standard of education in Venezuela is among the highest in the region. Of Venezuelans aged 15 and older, 93.4% can read and write, one of the highest literacy rates in the region. The literacy rate in 2003 was estimated to be 93.8% for males and 93.1% for females. Although... » read this article
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Steven Gray , Time
Megan Coulter, a Mascoutah, Ill., eighth-grader, served two after-school detentions last week. Her offense? Hugging two friends and therefore violating the Mascoutah Middle School's ban on public displays of affection.
Coulter's case drew dozens of newspaper headlines and landed her on NBC's Today Show. But it also illustrates a... » read this article
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