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Will This Historic School Live or Die?

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DWC High: How A School Can Teach Us All (Trailer)
This is a preview of a new hour-long documentary about the fight to keep New York’s DeWitt Clinton High School alive. Based in the Bronx, home of the NY Yankees, “The Bronx Bombers” It has educated more than 200,000 students over a hundred years. It is now being faced with plans by “Educational Reformers” to scale it back in a threat to it’s tradition of excellence. Help us get the word out. See our Facebook page, Facebook.com/dwcfilm for how you can order and help distribute the whole film by Clinton grad Danny Schechter “The News Dissector.” Help us save DeWitt Clinton and public education.


Good News! Texas Republicans Turning Against Testing Fever

Texas Republicans are hearing from their constituents–in the grocery store, at the barber, wherever they go.
People think that testing in Texas is out of control.
The last state commissioner Robert Scott said so. He called the testing obsession a “vampire,” sucking the life 

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Diane Ravitch's blog: [image: Click on picture to Listen to Diane Ravitch] Why We Need Public Schools! by dianerav Why do we have public schools? Would we be better off, as certain reformers now think, if everyone had school choice and went to a charter or used a voucher to go to a private or religious school? Do we need public schools? I asked Carol Burris, principal of South Side High School in Rockville Center, New York, how she would answer these questions. How would you answer? This is what Carol wrote: “When I think of the purpose of public schooling I always think of Dewey’s... more »