New Berlin Wisconsin and the GOP Vision of Education
The supposed purpose of the Walker "tools" has been to save districts money - but the new school handbooks seem to largely be about punishing teachers in the districts. The New Berlin rules include...
View ArticleDo Airliners Need Trained Pilots?
Sent To and Consolidated By: Tom Dillman Below is a picture of a highly automated, giant Airbus 330, similar to the one that recently crashed in the ocean on the flight from Rio in Brazil to Paris,...
View ArticleWisconsin’s Scott Walker Tries to Deflect Devastating Cuts-to-Education Story
Scott Walker was infamously caught on tape scheming and bragging to whom Walker believed was a Koch brother on how Walker was going to "drop the bomb" on Wisconsin workers. Now, Walker, still just...
View ArticleAll Children Together Community Playground Dedicated in Wisconsin Rapids
Jan Captain died on Christmas eve in 2009. A memorial picnic table will be dedicated today in her honor at the All Children Together (ACT) playground, a place of love and kindness where children can...
View ArticleTen Muslim Students Convicted for Disrupting War Criminal’s Speech
In the Occupied territories, they would have shot protesters for questioning Israel; in America we get a heavy-handed, corrupt prosecution instead
View ArticleStrengthening the American Education System
President Obama explains that states will have greater flexibility to find innovative ways of improving the education system, so that we can raise standards in our classrooms and prepare the next...
View ArticleWe Can’t Wait to Help America’s Graduates
In this globally competitive, knowledge-based economy, higher education has never been more important. Simply put, America cannot lead in the 21st century without the best educated, most competitive...
View ArticleA Rallying Point for Student Veterans at College
At San Diego State University, ex-military students rally at a Veterans Center on campus, which provides dedicated living areas and a place where Vets can relax around their combat-tested peers.
View ArticleVA Names Members of National Academic Affiliations Council Panel to Help...
A newly formed Veterans Affairs (VA) advisory committee will provide a forum for joint planning and coordination between VA and the nation’s health professions schools and universities.
View ArticleNursingHomeAbuse Awareness and Prevention Scholarship
The scholarship, “NursingHomeAbuse.net's Awareness and Prevention Scholarship,” - the first of its kind - was created to financially assist US students committed to raising awareness and preventing...
View ArticleNavigating my way to the Post-9/11 GI Bill
Once I received the great news that I had been accepted into DePaul University as a transfer student this past week, I began my trek across the information minefield toward obtaining educational...
View ArticleFor-Profit Colleges Lose Incentive to Target Vets Under Bills
Congress, the Education Department, Justice Department and state attorneys general are scrutinizing the sales practices and student-loan default rates of for-profit colleges, which received almost $32...
View ArticleVeterans Upward Bound Program – Help Improve Your Academic Skills
The Veterans Upward Bound program is a free service for eligible veterans that is funded by the Department of Education. It is designed to encourage and assist you in pursuing post-secondary education...
View ArticleJewish Voice for Peace OccupyAIPAC
Peace and justice are an existential threat to militarism, lawlessness and inequality. AIPAC supports war and bigotry; we support peace and liberty for all
View ArticleWord Order—The Internet as the Toy With a Tin Ear
Absent the force of the human imagination and its powers of expression, our machines cannot accelerate the hope of political and social change, which stems from language that induces a change of heart.
View ArticleMcCarthyism in full bloom in Wisconsin: Are you or have you ever been a teacher?
IVever ceases to amaze people can become so resentful towards people who teach for a living, making less in a year than a hedge fund manager makes in a week - Emily Mills
View ArticleThree Ways the Rich and Powerful Have Cheated Young Americans
My own generation faced the Vietnam War. We were at risk of getting drafted, and then maimed or killed in an unwinnable battle against imagined evils.
View ArticleMonsanto — I Want My Tomatoes from Nature, Not Your Labs
The biotech industry is willing to tamper with our food supply, our kids' minds and our basic consumer rights. Political front for the biotech industry, financed by multibillion-dollar giants as...
View ArticleRon Paul’s Historic Moments As Chairman Against The Fed
“Congress ought to get a backbone, we have a right to know, we have an obligation to defend our currency,” Paul said “We’re in perpetual doldrums and we never change policy. We never challenge...
View ArticleMichael Chertoff gets the truth from We Are Change
Michael Chertoff is confronted with the facts by various members of the public during a speech promoting and propagating the War on Terror.
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