Monthly Archives: March 2009

The Dog Eats Its Tail: Oversized Classes, Overpopulated Prisons

By Jesse | Published: March 7, 2009
Common Dreams (3/7/09) – by Jesse D. Hagopian http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/07-2 ———————— One in thirty-one. As a public school teacher I am quite familiar with this figure—it’s a typical teacher to student ratio in the classroom. But now that proportion has taken on new significance: A report released on March 2nd by the Pew Center on the [...]
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Madness to their Method?

By Shawn | Published: March 2, 2009
Madness to their Method? – by Sue Peters Originally published at http://eatthestate.org/13-10/Madnesstotheir.htm The day before the Thanksgiving break, my son came home with a letter from his school. It announced that the school district was going to close his school, cut his program in half and move it to two other schools, and scatter the [...]
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