"No Child Left Behind sets up a whole high stakes testing regime and holds schools to various standards, one of which enables politicians, school boards, etc., to declare schools “failing.” But the phrase has been made generic, and the term is, importantly, politicized. Politicians run on the basis of fixing the failing schools."

"Media has never been more consolidated. 6 media giants now control a staggering 90% of what we read, watch, or listen to."

loved this ep

via Heather :)

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I'm looking to listen to the masters on 1540 AM radio to see if it is ahead of the television broadcast. I will phone you and you can put the phone next to the radio.
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TAGS: gut-wrenching, heart-swelling,

JUAN GONZALEZ: On Monday, El Libro-Traficante is set to launch a small caravan to bring carloads of ethnic studies books into Arizona that were banned by public school officials in Tucson after the city suspended its acclaimed Mexican American Studies program due to a state ban on the teaching of ethnic studies. The banned books include Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years, edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson; Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire; Occupied America: A History of Chicanos by Rodolfo Acuña_; and Chicano: The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement by F. Arturo Rosales.
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TONY DIAZ: Evidently, he wanted to replace Mexican-American studies with a real, live class on doublespeak, because that’s all doublespeak. Huppenthal knows that Americans would not tolerate a direct ban on literature. So he has actually taken oppression and updated it. At the end of the day, yes, there is actually a law, America, in Arizona, to prohibit courses in high schools. Let that sink in.

people who can't stop thinking about spending but can't see what they are spending on

AMY GOODMAN: Ah, Billy Bragg.

"I thank you for playing the ... clip of Congressmen Issa explaining that I was not an appropriate witness. I can’t think whose voices would be more appropriate than the women who are affected by this policy."

"[T]he popular-music station on her teenage son's dial features creaky announcers, but she does not hear vocal fry on National Public Radio, which targets an older audience."

distracted driving

FoxConn...

on the my mind

ques-tion. why is it. that this song. is so damn good.

弟と彼氏は２人とも日本滞在終わってアメリカに帰っちゃったから私やっとインタネットの遅れを取り戻し…「デモクラシーナウ」日刊ポッドキャストを７月６日の分から聴いてる。英語での進歩的な論調が好きだったらこれがニュースおすすめ！：