EDUCATION

The Grayzone reports from Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. Nicaraguans discuss their improved quality of life, President Ortega condemns the dictatorial US “empire that wants to dominate all countries,” and Vice President Murillo declares poverty an imperialist “crime against humanity.” MANAGUA, NICARAGUA – 42 years after the victory of the Sandinista revolution, Nicaraguans are still celebrating the gains of the leftist movement, and hoping to take the transformative process to another stage. This July 19, tens […]

[We are publishing below the full response of Concerned Historians to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, regarding certain proposed changes.] RESPONSE OF CONCERNED HISTORIANS On the CALL FOR REVISIONS IN SCHOOL HISTORY BOOKS IN INDIA To be shared with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education pertaining to school history books.

I’m often asked if there are good resources out there for introducing children to the ideas of liberty, economics, self-ownership and other important topics. One book series that I’ve begun reading with my own children and that I can recommend is The Tuttle Twins. This series of books recounts the adventures of an intellectually precocious …

I am of the opinion that people have the right to decide whether to accept vaccines or not, especially since these are experimental vaccines … My concern is I know there are risks but we don’t have access to the data … We don’t really have the information we need to make a reasonable decision. […]
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One view of change when it comes to charter schools is that charter schools are awful for various reasons, especially when it comes to funding arrangements, and that what is needed is better oversight, regulation, and accountability of privately-operated charter schools so that they stop “bilking the system” and stop harming public schools that educate […]

La destruction méthodique de l'Éducation nationale depuis de nombreuses décennies, ainsi que du programme du Conseil national de la Résistance ! Le PDG d'EDF, Jean-Bernard Lévy, est intervenu le 3 juillet 2021 au côté de Laurent Berger, le « leader » de la CFDT qui est également le président de la Confédération européenne des syndicats (CES), lors des 21e Rencontres économiques d'Aix-en-Provence. J.G. LIRE AUSSI... - Tous les articles et brèves sur (...)

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La destruction méthodique de l'Éducation nationale depuis de nombreuses décennies, ainsi que du programme du Conseil national de la Résistance ! Le PDG d'EDF, Jean-Bernard Lévy, est intervenu le 3 juillet 2021 au côté de Laurent Berger, le « leader » de la CFDT qui est également le président de la Confédération européenne des syndicats (CES), lors des 21e Rencontres économiques d'Aix-en-Provence. J.G. LIRE AUSSI... - Tous les articles et brèves sur (...)

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Balance. Inside out, outside in. From science driven diving, environmental warrior in the 1970s — in AZ, in Mexico, in the Sea of Cortez —  to small-town daily newspaperman: Tucson, Bisbee, Wilcox, Sierra Vista, and all these small towns in several rural counties south, on the borderline. El Paso, New Mexico, Mexico, Central America. Teacher, […]
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In June 2018, when the North Carolina state legislature enacted a law that allowed four affluent, majority-white suburbs to secede from the racially diverse Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district, or CMS, and establish their own municipal charter schools, with admission priority given to students living in the local communities, critics called the law “a new way to […]

There is a rapidly-growing body of scholarly and popular literature exposing, analyzing, and rejecting charter schools. While the analytical rigor and overall quality of this expanding content is steadily improving, it remains riddled with conceptual, ideological, and theoretical shortcomings that undermine the public interest. One of the most stubborn themes in this regard is the […]