Pearson Protest in NJ Changed to Thursday May 23
by freetoteach
DEMAND CORPORATIONS PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE THURSDAY,
MAY 23, 12:00PM Hoboken Ferry, 1 Hudson Place Hoboken, NJ
Tell Governor Christie:
Quit the corporate welfare and fund our public schools!
Protest Governor Christie’s giveaways to corporate ed giant Pearson!
High-stakes testing giant Pearson Education, Inc. was offered an $80 million payday from the state of New Jersey to relocate workers from Bergen County to Hoboken – even though they’re already getting millions more from the state for their standardized testing plans.
And what did Pearson do? They turned around and moved over 600 jobs to New York!
Pearson is everything that’s wrong with the corporate education reform movement. While they get pay offs for lay-offs and rake in state dollars for their high-stakes testing programs, our public schools are being underfunded by $3.6 billion.
On May 23, join us at the Hoboken Ferry as we protest Chris Christie’s giveaways to Pearson and call on our legislators to fight for New Jersey’s public schools.
For more info: Call NJ Working Families Alliance 973-273-3363 or email rob@njworkingfamilies.org
@HuffingtonPost and @educationweek: Time to Walk?
by Timothy D. Slekar
Full Sail University advertising in Huffington Post.
MATH 180 advertising in EdWeek
Does writing for EdWeek and HuffPost really reach “other” audiences? I ask this question with all sincerity. And I recognize the valuable writing provided by the various authors that consistently post pieces in EdWeek and HuffPost that pierce the corporate reform armor.
But I wonder if we really reach other audiences or if we just provide “extra” readers for two publications that “allow” some dissent but are really supportive of corporate reformers’ destructive policies.
Are we sending EdWeek and HuffPost “our” (I posted quite a few blogs for HuffPost in the past) readers to be used as fodder for the advertising cannons of these publications?
A few months ago I pondered this question in this post. I received some feedback that felt I was attacking authors writing for EdWeek. I didn’t think I was “attacking” but after some reflection it is clear that I was agitating.
And I guess I am doing it again here. I want to know: Why write in favor of progressive education policies and against education reformers but post in
