Poorest states. . .

We fail and fail and fail to acknowledge that demonizing schools and teachers is a convenient mask for acknowledging POVERTY. . .

Poorest states outlined @ Huffington Post

New work from Giroux at Truthout

Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability

Berliner on the achievement gap

From The Washington Post:

New analysis of achievement gap: ½ x ½ = 1½

Ignroing poverty from the top. . .

See this excellent article at The Washington Post:

The elephant that Obama and Lauer ignored: Poverty and student achievement

Misinformation: Masking the problems caused by poverty

The season for bashing teachers and schools is also the season for masking the impact of poverty on the lives of children and their families. . .

The jewel in the crown of this bashing is the misinformation-documentary "Waiting for Superman."

See a well supported refuting of the doc HERE.

28 September 2010 Op-Ed in OpEdNews

The great charter compromise: Masking corporate commitments in educational reform

CLP sponsored by IAE and PVS at Furman Univeristy