I promised to offer alternatives to CTA’s historic pattern of defeatism and accommodation (discussed in the previous post). So today I’ll list a few fairly general things I think CTA and its parent organization, the National Education Association (NEA), should do to pull out of this long downward spiral of political retreat and increasing weakness. [...]
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Oakland’s Experience with “School Reform”
Posted July 1st, 2009 by Craig Gordon | 4 CommentsWhile Real School Reform will take a broad, national view, it will do so with a distinctly local perspective. “Local” means Oakland, California, where I’ve taught high school social studies since 1990 and have been a union activist for most of that time.
So shortly I’ll begin posting as a delegate from the National Education Association’s [...]