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What Could Be Wrong With School Choice?

The consequences of the "choice campaign" are false promises and dashed hopes for children who have suffered enough.

Sick of Inequality: The Case for the Detroit Teacher Strike

National attention is focused on inhumane conditions in two Michigan cities, and two basic public services.

  • Jesse Hagopian

There can be no doubt that Duncan inflicted policies that caused students and educators to cry out for help.

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Teaching Rebellion: Schools Must Cultivate A Struggle for Justice

  • Xian Barrett

They ask me each morning, “When’s the next protest? “Has Rahm Emanuel resigned yet?”

Segregation Now, Segregation Forever?

If Parks were around today, she might be surprised to learn that segregation, via school choice, is now being touted as a “civil right.”

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The new law disproportionately impacts the students and communities with highest needs, while continuing to profit a multi-billion-dollar testing industry.

  • Peter Greene
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There are fundamental differences between the tests I give my students and the tests mandated by the federal government.

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The U.S. incarcerates more people than almost any other nation. But even worse, we incarcerate children.

Puerto Rico's School Crisis

  • Julian Vasquez Heilig

A day strike by thousands of teachers across the island of Puerto Rico on Tuesday demonstrated the intensity of their concern about the new regime.

Teach for America 2, Parents 4: A Tale of Two Elections

Teach for America and its affiliates definitely threw moneyed support behind certain Richfield, Minnesota school board candidates...

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By Wendell Berry

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more 
of everything ready made. Be afraid 
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery 
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card 
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something 
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know. 
So, friends, every day do something
that won’t compute. Love the Lord. 
Love the world. Work for nothing. 
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it. 
Denounce the government and embrace 
the flag. Hope to live in that free 
republic for which it stands. 
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man 
has not encountered he has not destroyed.
Ask the questions that have no answers. 
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested 
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus 
that will build under the trees
every thousand years.
Listen to carrion—put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come. 
Expect the end of the world. Laugh. 
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts. 
So long as women do not go cheap 
for power, please women more than men.
Ask yourself: Will this satisfy 
a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep 
of a woman near to giving birth? 
Go with your love to the fields.
Lie easy in the shade. Rest your head 
in her lap. Swear allegiance 
to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos 
can predict the motions of your mind, 
lose it. Leave it as a sign 
to mark the false trail, the way 
you didn’t go. Be like the fox 
who makes more tracks than necessary, 
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.

Wendell Berry is a poet, farmer, and environmentalist in Kentucky. This poem, first published in 1973, is reprinted by permission of the author and appears in his “New Collected Poems” (Counterpoint).


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