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Someone Has To Say It: Just say “NO!” to Blue Ribbon Panels on School Funding.

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Kohn’s Zone: The problem with Rubrics? Rubrics!

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What Would Matt Damon’s Mom Say about feeding hungry children?

Someone Has To Say It: Social Justice Unions. The time has come.

Feature Interview:  @TheOtherMandela (Mandela Barnes) is running for Lt. Governor in Wisconsin.  Can this Milwaukee native change the narrative?  Let’s just say that @TheOtherMandela speaks some serious truth.

Spotlight Interview: La Crosse Education Association’s president John Havilcek crosses some “boundaries” and derides the latest attempt by the Department of Public Instruction to “revoke” teachers’ licenses without due process.

@TroyForChicago  (Troy LaRaviere) on the Schools Our Children Deserve.

And of course A Moment of Zinn!

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What Would Matt Damon’s Mom Say about No Excuses Schools?

Feature Interview: Milwaukee Teacher’s Education Association president Kim Schroeder.  What does it mean to fight for “our” kids, schools, communities, and the profession?

Spotlight Interview: Green Bay area Library/Media Specialist Amy Bahaynah does way more than stack books and isn’t too happy about teacher deprofessionalization.

The Schools Our Children Deserve: Dr. Ricardo Rosa.

And of course your Moment of Zinn!

From Milwaukee Teacher’s Education Association: Teaching All Children.

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What do you do with “Non Essential Students?”

Someone Has To Say It: It’s time for legislator accountability.

Kohn’s Zone: To lecture or to shut up? That is the question.

Feature Interview: Carol Burris—The Network for Public Education’s Executive Director—talks to Tim about the NPE’s history and current advocacy work.

Spotlight Interview: Ingrid Henry—Milwaukee Teachers Education Association—was removed from a board meeting for speaking truth to power. Why?

And of Course A Moment of Zinn!

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Trending News: Teaching art or porn?

Some One Has To Say It:  Woo Hoo is NOT a sentence!

What Would Matt Damon’s Mom Say about New Zealand getting rid of standards?

Feature Interview: Diane Ravitch.  Warning! Educational Technology could be hazardous to your child.

Spotlight Interview: Union leader—Joanna Rizzotto. Wisconsin Education Association Council Region 7

The Schools Our Children Deserve: Angela Engel

And of course, A Moment of Zinn!

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Trending News: 7 dirty words could be a problem for public schools.

Someone Has To Say It!

What Would Matt Damon’s Mom Say about the “Kindergarten Readiness Gap?”

Feature Interview:  Ethan Seigel is one hell of a theoretical astrophysicist and science writer.  He writes for Forbes.  He is the founder of the Starts with a Bang blog and also the author of Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive.

What the hell is doing on BustED Pencils? Launching photon torpedoes at education reform.

Activist/Blogger of the Week: Paul Thomas talks about the “Segregation Surprise.”

The School Our Children Deserve: Rivera Sun

And of course your Moment of Zinn.

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What Would Matt Damon’s Mom Say about teaching in Nova Scotia?

Feature Interview: She’s a dairy farmer and a state Senator.  She’s a Democrat! And she’s running for governor in Wisconsin.  Welcome to BustED Pencils Kathleen Vinehout.

Kohn’s Zone: Cooperative Learning and Caring Classroom Communities.

The Schools Our Children Deserve:  Astrophysicist and future guest Ethan Seigel.

And of course, A Moment of Zinn,

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1) Betsy DeVos is not going anywhere.

Someone Has To Say It!

What Would Matt Damon’s Mom Say about competency based teacher education?

Feature Interview:  The legendary John Merrow joins us to talk about his new Book—Addicted to Reform—and the crazy world of cheating surrounding high stakes testing.

Breaking News! Wisconsin candidate for governor—Kathleen Vinehout—proposes “free college.”

Kohn’s Zone: We all hate standardized tests. What about other tests?

And of course A Moment of Zinn.

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Trending News: Stop stressing over college. It literally doesn’t pay.

Someone Has To Say It! No Tax Cuts for Teachers.

What Would Matt Damon’s Mom Say about “real” personalized learning?

Feature Interview: BustED Pencils talks to teacher, blogger, and now book writer Steven Singer.  Steven’s new book—The Gadfly on the Wall: A Public School Teacher Speaks Out on Racism and Reform—is out and he’s talking about it.

Blogger of the Week: Denisha Jones talks about why teachers need to play.

The Schools Our Children Deserve: Backpack Full of Cash film makers Sarah Mondale and Vera Aronow.

And of course A Moment of Zinn.

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Trending News: 

1) Kindergarten Readiness Gap.

2) Betsy on the Way Out?

Someone Has To Say It! Democrats and a “Better Deal?”

What Would Matt Damon’s Mom Say about Democrats and Betsy DeVos?

Feature Interview: Linda Nathan talks about her new book: When Grit Isn’t Enough: A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College-For-All Promise.

Activist of the Week:  Teacher JO. She’s badass!

Kohn’s Zone: Merit Pay for Teachers?

A Moment of Zinn…