Here is a video of Day One of the 2019 Oakland teachers strike. We need to help Oakland teachers win a salary that enabled them to live in Oakland! We need to […]
Students, teachers and community speak up for Roots Academy. OUSD doesn’t hear them.
On Tuesday evening, students, teachers and community residents spoke up for their school in deep east Oakland – Roots Academy. Here’s what some of them said. After it was all said, though, […]
West Virginia teachers defeat corporate politicians
There’s a lot to be learned from the West Virginia teachers’ strike. Is it the start of a new movement in the United States? Will it be followed by similar strikes in […]
Visiting the strike of West Virginia teachers
I just arrived in time for the last day of the teachers’ strike here. Spent the day at the state capitol building with several thousand teachers. I was told that yesterday – […]
Interview: West Virginia teacher discusses strike
Oaklandsocialist interviews Joe Dangerfield, music teacher on strike in West Virginia: Also as a podcast:
Charter schools & budget busting raises – for the top people
Jack Gerson (http://schoolsnotbanks.blogspot.com) follows up his article from yesterday, with a report on the fat raise given to the school chief in San Francisco as well as a report on who is […]
Oakland Schools: Pad the Top, Chop from the Bottom
We repost an article by retired Oakland school teacher, Jack Gerson, from his blog, http://schoolsnotbanks.blogspot.com/2015/02/oakland-school-supt-cuts-bottom-feeds.html#comment-form Antwan Wilson’s Idea of Cutting Administration: Pad the Top, Chop From the Bottom by Jack Gerson Have you […]
Putting Their Children at Risk?
In early April, the Kaufman family set sail across the Pacific from Baja California. On their 36 foot sailboat were mom and dad – Charlotte and Eric – and their daughters: Cora, […]
How the Brain Works, school work and socialism
An article in today’s Wall St. Journal sheds some interesting light on how decisions are made. According to this article, as they say “doing less is more”. It explains that the best […]
Brain washing, torture and child development
In “The Shock Doctrine”, Naomi Klein makes the comparison between shocking an entire population and the psychological theory that was popular in the 1950s that a traumatized individual could be shocked out […]