A Massachusetts public school activists coalition–including Citizens for Public Schools, Fairtest, Mass. SaveOurSchools, and Boston-area education faculty–rallied in Harvard Square Thursday, May 26, to tell Arne Duncan what we think about Race to the Top and his other education policies. (Arne Duncan was inside Harvard Yard performing as Chief Marshal of his 25thHarvard Class Reunion.) It was a broad-based coalition–teachers, parents, school committee/board members, city councillor, professors of education, fairtest–it was such a wonderfully broad spectrum.
Speakers included Deb Meier, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Alfie Kohn, Eleanor Duckworth, Larry Ward. Also Ruth Rodriquez-Fay of Citizens for Public Schools; Lisa Guisbond of FairTest and CPS, National Center for Fair and Open Testing; Marc McGovern, Cambridge School Committee member; Whitney Elliot, Boston public school teacher and author of blog, The “Greedy” Teacher; Diane Levin, Professor of Education, Wheelock College; Larry Aronson, retired Cambridge public school teacher; and founder of Social Justice Works!; → Read More