Tag Archive for éducation

Louisiana’s new voucher school program forces revisionist history on students.

Louisiana’s new voucher school program not only enables corporations to turn our public education system into a for-profit gold mine, it also endorses private schools forcing creationist doctrine and revisionist history on students.

We need to teach our students that the ability to reason – to analyze, research, question, articulate, debate, and extrapolate – is the essence of an educated mind. Read a few of the historical and scientific “facts” taught in these Louisiana voucher schools and share your thoughts on whether they should receive millions in public funding.

"Under Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program, considered the most sweeping in the country, Louisiana is poised to spend tens of millions of dollars to help poor and middle-class students from the state's notoriously terrible public schools receive a private education. While the governor's plan sounds great in the glittery parlance of the state's PR machine, the program is rife with accountability problems that actually haven't been solved by the new standards the Louisiana Department of Education adopted two weeks ago." Deanna Pan, Mother Jones

From Mother Jones

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Ousting of a highly-esteemed university president is ‘strategic dynamism’?

The circumstances leading to UVA President Teresa Sullivan’s forced resignation were absolutely absurd. Just as our education curriculum must not be designed to appease political or religious groups, we cannot allow it to be subverted by corporate profiteers.

In our struggle to reform education, it seems we have completely lost our way. How could the Board really think that students, alums, and faculty would accept “strategic dynamism” as a legitimate reason for ousting a highly-esteemed university president? Thankfully, Ms. Sullivan was reinstated as UVA President after nearly two weeks of protest.

From The Huffington Post

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