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We Say Fight Back! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Susan Ohanian Will be a Keynote Speaker at the Rouge Forum Conference <\/strong>Susan’s advocacy work keeps at its core her 20 years as a teacher. Her more than 300 essays on education issues have appeared in periodicals ranging from Phi Delta Kappan cover stories to The Atlantic, Nation, USA Today, Washington Monthly, Extra! (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), and numerous education journals. One of her 26 book on education policy and practice introduced the word Standardisto.<\/p>\n

Although currently censored at the NCTE online discussion site, Susan’s website received NCTE’s George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honest and Clarity in Public Language. She has delivered the annual MacClement Lecture for Excellence in Education, Queens University, Ontario, Canada, the Helen Oakes lecture at Temple University, and the Biber Lecture, Bank Street College, New York.
\nSusan notes that although she’s been a featured speaker at both the International Symposium for the Educational Welfare in Seoul, Korea, and British Columbia Teachers’ Federation events, her talk to the Progressive Caucus of the AFT was closed down by angry hoots from the audience.<\/p>\n

Susan started a website to protest the passage of NCLB. She had hoped to shut it down by now, but things keep getting worse, so she persists.<\/p>\n

Call for Proposals<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
\nRouge Forum 2012
\nOCCUPY EDUCATION! Class Conscious Pedagogies for Social Change<\/strong>
\nJune 22-24, 2012
\nMiami University
\nOxford, OH
\nProposals Due April 15, 2012<\/p>\n

The Rouge Forum 2012 will be held at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The University\u2019s picturesque campus is located 50 minutes northwest of Cincinnati. The conference will be held June 22-24, 2012.
\nProposals for papers, panels, performances, workshops, and other multimedia presentations should include title(s) and names and contact information for presenter(s). The deadline for sending proposals is April 15. The Steering Committee will email acceptance notices by May 1. (details rougeforum2012.wordpress.com\/rf-2012-call-for-proposals\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n

March 1 Student Action <\/strong>Hundreds of students, faculty and staff at four San Diego colleges took part in marches and rallies Thursday as part of what was billed as a nationwide protest against cuts in education funding.
\nAt UC San Diego, approximately 200 students marched from a rally in front of Geisel Library to the administration complex where they entered an unoccupied conference room.
\nA smaller group of students said they planned to stay there overnight. Thursday night university officials said they had made no attempt to oust them but would continue to monitor the situation. \u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2012\/mar\/01\/sd-college-students-stage-walkout-to-protest-cuts\/<\/p>\n

The education aganda is a war aganda. It is a class war and empires war aganda. The government is an executive committee and armed weapon of the rich–a coporate state. Schools are not being privatized. They are simply machines for capitalism. To demand to raise taxes, which is what this false flag operation is designed to do, is to demand to increase the power of that state, and its ability to make imperialist and class war. Those taxes will be aimed, assuredly, at poor and working people, deepening existing divisions within the class. Walkouts are great as schools closed by civil strife are better than open schools, but think twice about the real goals of this struggle. Don’t dance on the spider’s web.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Britain’s Dave Hill on Capitalist Schooling <\/strong> Schools and universities, echoing Althusser (1971) are ideological state apparatuses whose purpose, for the capitalist class, is to preach and instill pro-capitalist and anti-socialist beliefs and, as Rikowski (for example, 2001, 2004) argues, to re-produce tiered hierarchicalised and socialized \/quiescent labour power for the workplace.
\nThe same is true of the media. Those who own the Press, control the Press. Views alternative to capitalism are mocked, vilified, and ignored, if they are fundamental rather than cosmetic alternatives \u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/philosophers.posterous.com\/<\/em><\/p>\n

Condemn the Raid on Haiti U Campus <\/strong> <\/em>We the undersigned, students, professors, teachers, and
\nother workers, condemn the brutal armed raid on the School of Ethnology campus of
\nthe State University of Haiti (UEH), carried out by the Haitian President
\nMichel Martelly\u2019s armed supporters, members of his security services, and
\npro-Martelly students, on Friday February 17. (See story at Ha\u00efti Libert\u00e9, www.haiti-liberte.com<\/a>, 2\/26\/12.)<\/p>\n

The Petition is at \u00a0http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/condemn-raid-on-haiti-university-campus
\nBACKGROUND: This attack on the campus tore down fences, smashed
\nprofessors\u2019 car windows, trashed the Department of Ethnology office, looted
\ncomputers and printers and students\u2019 personal property, and beat up students
\nand campus workers, sending several to the hospital, while security forces
\nfired automatic weapons into the air. Martelly has been demonizing the students at this campus since he came to power. They are leaders in fighting for a decent budget and necessities at UEH like courses, library books, a cafeteria, and a dormitory, as well as for radical social change.<\/p>\n

Sudan: Cops Attack Student Protestors in Dorms <\/strong> The police arrested hundreds of students in a predawn raid on dormitories in the University of Khartoum on Friday, in a crackdown on a campus that has been at the center of recent antigovernment protests, activists said. The police entered the student housing early Friday, beating and detaining hundreds, a witness said. A member of a committee of student activists said 317 students had been arrested and were being held at 11 police stations. The campus had been closed for about two months since students staged demonstrations over rising prices, unemployment and other issues. The police did not immediately comment on the raid. \u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/18\/world\/africa\/sudan-hundreds-of-students-held.html?ref=internationaleducation<\/p>\n

New York Times Workers Protest <\/strong> Please join us at 3:50 p.m. on Wednesday for a quiet, 10-minute display of unity, around the entrances to the Page One meeting room on the third floor.
\nThe point is to show our common dismay over contract negotiations in which management seems determined to seriously compromise our financial welfare, our access to health care and our security in retirement. We hope that senior editors who witness and understand our mutual resolve will convey the gravity of the situation to management. \u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/broadcastunionnews.blogspot.com\/<\/p>\n

The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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San Diego Demands More School Worker Concessions <\/strong> <\/strong>The San Diego Unified School District made an eleventh-hour plea to its unions Thursday to accept concessions that would protect class sizes from ballooning and save more than 1,600 teaching positions that have been tapped for elimination next year.
\nThe teacher union president said no discussions should take place until the state produces more solid budget figures this spring. \u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2012\/mar\/01\/sd-unified-again-asks-for-teacher-concessions\/<\/p>\n

Obamagogue, Gates, And Duncan on the Release of School Worker Ratings <\/strong> Though Bill Gates wrote an oped against the public release of the TDRs last week, it was too little and too late. In fact, he and Arne Duncan supported the LA Times release of similar unreliable ratings in 2010, which named teachers with low ratings, with Duncan saying, “What’s there to hide?”
\nIndeed, he and Duncan have pushed relentlessly for states to create numerical teacher rating systems based at least in part on value-added student test scores. The feds made this condition for states to be considered for Race to the Top funds and now, in order to obtain a waiver from NCLB. \u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com\/<\/p>\n

Rahm takes Chicago’s Big Lie version of history and reality on the road to a Washington D.C<\/strong>. forum featuring Arne Duncan and the mayors of Los Angeles and New York City \u00a0http:\/\/www.substancenews.net\/articles.php?page=3118&section=Article<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney attended a Public Elementary School, Walled Lake El, in Bloomfield Hills Michigan, then he went to this private–compare it to your school. Cranbrook’s Motto: “Aim High”<\/strong><\/p>\n