A Teacher’s Dilemma: Take a Stand Against Testing or Keep Abusing Children
What am I? Seriously. What is it I do for a living? When I wake up to go to work in the morning, am I preparing to be a teacher or a test proctor? Am […]
Smashing Apples
Pity the Corporate School Reformers
It’s gotta’ be tough to be a corporate school reformer these days. Betsy DeVos is Education Secretary. Donald Trump is President. Their entire Koch Brothers-funded, ALEC-written agenda is national policy. But their stripes are showing – big time. […]
Teacher Appreciation Week is a Pathetic Joke!
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week, America! All over the country, millions of educators can look forward to a free burrito. Or maybe an Arby’s sandwich. Or a complimentary donut. Because we REALLY appreciate teachers here. What […]
Don’t Trash the Department of Education. Fix It.
How do you get people to refuse a helping hand? Answer: Prove to them that it’s not helping. That’s the strategy of the Trump administration in regard to his cabinet of billionaires. The Reality TV […]
Denying Access: Transforming PASSHE’s Commitment to Working-Class Students
Earlier this week the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (PBPC) and the Keystone Research Center (KRC) released the report, “Pennsylvania’s Great Working-Class Colleges.” The report highlights the success that the Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned university system, […]
Five PASSHE Universities Now Facing Retrenchment
Early today Raging Chicken reported that Clarion University joined Mansfield University on the list of Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) universities facing the possibility of layoffs and program elimination. By the end of […]
Clarion University Gets Notice of Retrenchment
Earlier today, faculty members at Clarion University were told that retrenchment is on the table. That means that administrators are planning on gutting more faculty and programs from a university that a brutal round of […]
Following October’s Faculty Strike, the Student Movement for Public Higher Education Is Growing
Across the 14 universities of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, students are leading a movement for #OurPASSHE—a state system that prioritizes our needs and our futures. We demand living wages for student and […]
What Chance do Future Professors have in Trumplandia?
Here I am two months post gradation from my beloved alma mater, Kutztown University, wondering if a PhD in English is worth fighting for now that our country is being run by an avaricious leader. […]
PA Senate Regulates Union Political Spending But Not Corporate Political Spending
In a display of blatant hypocrisy, the Pennsylvania state Senate voted yesterday to further regulate labor unions political spending but not that of corporations. By a vote of 28-22, the Senate passed a bill blocking […]