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Striking Teachers Targeted by Kochs |  | Women's March Organizer Tithi Bhattacharya discusses the teachers leading revolts across the nation are taking on their union leadership, and being targeted by a powerful network funded by the Koch and the DeVos money April 13, 2018 |
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The Marc Steiner Show: Bill Ayers |  | In the first episode of the Marc Steiner Show on the Real News Network, Marc talks with Bill Ayers, former member of the Weather Underground and author of the new book, "You Can't Fire the Bad Ones," about the policies that have re-segregated and privatized our schools and the wildcat teachers' strikes rising up against them. April 13, 2018 |
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Oklahoma Teacher Strike Enters Third Day |  | Inspired by a historic strike in West Virgnia, educators are demanding better pay and more funding for schools, says Tulsa teacher Taylor Painter-Wolfe April 4, 2018 |
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West Virginia Teachers Offer a Lesson in Organizing |  | With a deal reached in the West Virginia teachers strike, there is talk of revived labor activism nationwide. But is the deal fair to all, and will anti-union forces push back? We speak to West Virginia teacher Brendan Muckian-Bates and education scholar Dr. Curry Malott. March 6, 2018 |
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The Early History of 'Segronomics' |  | In part two, Noliwe Rooks says wealthy philanthropists first influenced public education for African Americans in the post-reconstruction South March 7, 2018 |
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Three Generations of Apartheid Schooling |  | In part one, author Noliwe Rooks discusses how her family's experience with apartheid and segregated schooling inspired her to write Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education March 6, 2018 |
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West Virginia Teachers Strike Redefines Teacher Unionism |  | Every public school in the state is closed for a fourth day as thousands of teachers demand better pay, pensions, and healthcare. TRNN speaks to Dale Lee, president of the West Virginia Education Association, and union activist Lois Weiner February 27, 2018 |
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Militarizing Schools, Criminalizing Students |  | Since 1999, 10,000 additional police officers have been placed at schools, with no impact on violence. Meanwhile, about one million students have been arrested for acts previously punishable by detention or suspension, and black students are three times more likely to be arrested than their white peers, says policy analyst Samuel Sinyangwe February 26, 2018 |
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Back to the Basics: Backpack Giveaway at Tubman House |  | TRNN Producer Dharna Noor speaks with grassroots activists and residents of Gilmor Homes projects about the importance of social programs and political education in creating a healthy community. September 5, 2016 |
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Are Teachers Unions Fighting for Social Justice? (2/2) |  | In the second of a two-part discussion, education professor and author Lois Weiner and the AFT-MD's Ray Baker discuss the role of teachers unions in Baltimore and their relationship to students movements fighting for educational justice and #Blacklivesmatter October 30, 2015 |
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Is Obama's Education Reversal Political "Theater"? |  | Executive editor and founder of Black Agenda Report Glen Ford says that the Obama administration claim to want a reduction in time spent on standardized tests is election time insincerity. October 26, 2015 |
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Are Teachers Unions Fighting for Social Justice? (1/2) |  | In the first of a two-part discussion, education professor and author Lois Weiner and the AFT-MD's Ray Baker discuss the role teachers unions and their members do and can play in supporting #Blacklivesmatter and other social justice movements October 22, 2015 |
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The Resegregation of American Schools |  | ProPublica reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses her year-long
investigation into how one of desegregation's success stories in Tuscaloosa,
Alabama became one of the most segregated school systems in the country,
as well as the high levels of segregation in northern schools 60 years after
Brown v. Board of Education April 17, 2014 |
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Teachers on Strike from the UK to Argentina |  | Education Professor Lois Weiner breaks down what connects tens of
thousands of striking teachers in the UK, and why American
teachers have not been launching their own major strikes March 26, 2014 |
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Debate: Are Maryland Schools Ready for the Common Core Standards |  | Marc Steiner hosts a debate whether to delay implementation of the
Common Core curriculum in Maryland schools and to cancel this year's
MSAs (Maryland School Assessments), with: Dr. Jack Smith, Chief Academic
Officer of the Maryland State Department of Education, and Cheryl Bost, Vice
President of the Maryland State Education Association. February 9, 2014 |
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Debate: Baltimore Teachers Vote On A New Contract |  | Marc Steiner hosts a debate between the President of the Baltimore
Teachers Union Marietta English and dissident teacher Iris Kirsh on the
merits of the new Baltimore teachers union contract, being voted on
Thursday by union members February 6, 2014 |
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Seattle Teacher Jesse Hagopian Schools NBC's Education Nation |  | Jesse Hagopian, a leader of Garfield High's historic test boycott, given rare
opportunity to challenge corporate education reform policies at the Gate's
funded Education Nation, a testament to the growing national opposition to
high stakes testing October 9, 2013 |
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Romney's Education Policy |  | Second in a three part series about education policy in the US Presidential elections July 11, 2012 |
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Obama's Education Policy |  | First in a three part series about education policy in the US Presidential elections June 25, 2012 |
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Occupy Wall Street bangs pots and pans with students in Quebec |  | Occupy Wall Street activists took to the streets of New York to march for affordable education and against police repression, in solidarity with the massive, ongoing student uprising taking place in Quebec and now spreading across the world. June 1, 2012 |
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Quebec's Maple Spring |  | May 1st in Montreal was a display of how the student strike is part of
Quebec's larger struggle against neo-liberalism May 12, 2012 |
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Shills and Cruel Jokes |  | Labor Beat: Parents and teachers protest "show trial" hearings they say are being used close their Chicago schools February 8, 2012 |
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