{"id":2375,"date":"2010-03-29T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2010-03-29T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:06:21","slug":"rouge-forum-update-march-madness-spring-break-and-holiday-war-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2010\/03\/rouge-forum-update-march-madness-spring-break-and-holiday-war-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Update: March Madness, Spring Break and Holiday War Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember Proposals are Due, April 15, for the Rouge Forum Conference<\/a><\/p>\n

Send Your Articles, Photos, Cartoons, for the RF News to Community Coordinator Adam Renner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the Little Rouge School Front: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Freep Gets to the Real Conditions of DPS\u2013Critiques Broad\u2019s Bobb\u2019s Moves<\/a>: \u201cWhat works at Ferguson is constant, intense individual attention to the students\u2019 academic, social and economic needs.\u201d But Bob Bobb is closing the school\u2026. <\/p>\n

More Arrests of Detroit Public School Scammers<\/a>: \u201cBell said his office has opened investigations in 248 cases based on 280 complaints that range from theft to mismanagement. More are to come, he said.\u201d <\/p>\n

From The Detroit News: Detroiters Robbed by Broad\u2019s Bobb\u2019s Bond Scheme<\/a>: \u201cThey sold us on a dream,\u201d Hicks-Lark said. \u201cAnd I jumped on board with it, and now we\u2019ve been crushed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marion Brady: 10 False Assumptions and the Ratt<\/a>: \u201c\u201dRace to the Top? National standards for math, science, and other school subjects? The high-powered push to put them in place makes it clear that the politicians, business leaders, and wealthy philanthropists who\u2019ve run America\u2019s education show for the last two decades are as clueless about educating as they\u2019ve always been. If they weren\u2019t, they\u2019d know that adopting national standards will be counterproductive, and that the \u201cRace to the Top\u201d will fail for the same reason \u201cNo Child Left Behind\u201d failed\u2014because it\u2019s based on false assumptions. <\/p>\n

NAEP Results: NCLB Flopped\u2013Nearly No Movement in Test Scores<\/a><\/p>\n

March 4th Action Video<\/a><\/p>\n

More March 4th Video<\/a><\/p>\n

Students, Profs, k12 Educators and Community People Met in Northern and Southern California on March 27 to plan further action including a statewide meet in Fresno on April 24. <\/p>\n

Counterpunch Ran Lies About March 4th<\/a><\/p>\n

Substance Fought for the Truth About March 4th<\/a>: \u201cThe core issue of our time is the reality of the promise of perpetual war and escalating inequality met by the potential of a mass, activist, class conscious movement to transform both daily life and the system of capitalism itself. That is the background, the social context, of the momentous actions on March 4, 2010.\u201d <\/p>\n

Adam Renner on M4<\/a><\/p>\n

Greg Johnson: Medical? What Medical? <\/a><\/p>\n

Against the Vacillating Reactionary Ravitch<\/a>: \u201cPerhaps it is because she floats around in the really thin air that is the field of education that the vacillating reactionary, Diane Ravitch, gets cheers from those who condemned her in her No Child Left Behind days.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Official Program For Gutting K.C. Schools by Broad\u2019s Covington<\/a>: \u201cCovington said dramatic and aggressive changes were urgently needed. That includes longer school days. Teachers would be paid more based on how their students perform.\u201d<\/p>\n

UTLA Takes Concessions, Shorter Work Year<\/a><\/p>\n

Read the full Rouge Forum Update here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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