Education – Page 57 – People's World

Teachers union leaders split as panel starts rewriting education law

April 17, 2015 By PAI

Leaders of the nation's two large teachers' unions are split on a bipartisan effort by a key Senate committee to rewrite the federal aid-to-education law.

GOP House panel OK’s partisan rewrite of education law

February 20, 2015 By PAI

"In reality, it would rob poor and struggling students of the resources, supports, and funding they need to succeed."

Walking with the poor

February 13, 2015 By Rev. Jim Conn

"The poor you have with you always." Jesus is said to have spoken these words, but he certainly didn't mean that his followers should aim to keep it that way.

Adjunct Prof. Leleua Loupe’s office: the trunk of her car

February 12, 2015 By David Bacon

"At the beginning of the semester," explains historian and lecturer Leleua Loupe, "students don't know history or understand the world around them."

Teachers, unions weigh in as Senate panel starts rewrite of federal education law

February 6, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Ever since Bush's No Child Left Behind, teachers, parents, administrators and lawmakers have been at odds over how to judge schools, kids and teachers.