Education Archives - Page 2 of 65

7Mar

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Education, United Kingdom

Our schools need more than money

It is not only cuts that are devastating and gutting our schools but privatisation and outsourcing. School Cuts campaign Subscribe to our channel Headteachers demonstration in September 2018 demanding extra money for schools. The email below was sent to supporters of the School Cuts campaign. ***** School cuts: ‘Schools need more than empty promises’ Our hard work is paying off. The new prime minister, Boris Johnson, claims he wants to address the school funding crisis. But so far his promises are vague. Schools have had enough uncertainty. What we need now is a clear commitment. £12.6bn more per year is exactly how much our schools and colleges need to reverse the cuts and maintain per pupil funding levels as costs rise. We’ve done th...

7Mar

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Education, United Kingdom

Sabotage of state schools

Growing privatisation and austerity is eroding the hard-won right to an education for our children. Ella Rule Subscribe to our channel The increasing use by privatised schools (academies) of exclusion (for behaviour management) and off-rolling (to manipulate results) are removing the right to an education from tens of thousands of Britain's most disadvantaged children. More and more evidence keeps coming in regarding the way educational opportunity for working-class children is being whittled away. Plagued by the need to stay well up in the league tables in order to attract pupils, and therefore funding, and therefore to survive, state schools have naturally enough engaged in all kinds of underhand methods to boost their statistics of ‘success’. Ubiq...

6Mar

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Education, United Kingdom

Support our teachers; save our schools!

It is not only their present ability to exist that Britain’s teachers are fighting for, but our children’s future. Party leaflet Subscribe to our channel Why are so many experienced and gifted teachers leaving the profession? Why is there such an epidemic of stress and mental health issues amongst the profession? Just as in the NHS, the logic of a system that is transforming our schools into business units is increasingly taking its toll on pupils and staff alike. Download this leaflet as a pdf. The present teachers’ strike is not just about fair pay. It is about the future of education in Britain. Essentially, it is a question of class against class. The capitalist crisis and the inflation crisis it has spawned are a ...

Free Speech and Academic Freedom in the American Corporate University

19Jan

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Education, Human Rights

Free Speech and Academic Freedom in the American Corporate University

BY DAVID SCHULTZ Phil Knight Management Center, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Photo Steve Castillo. CC BY 3.0 Free speech and academic freedom are under attack in American higher education. From the right the allegation is that wokeness and political correctness have taken over, articulating a political agenda that is anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-capitalism, and pro LGBTQ. From the left the indictment is that schools continue to replicate stereotypes in their curriculum that perpetuate discrimination against marginalized groups. Efforts by administrators to police curriculum raises concerns of academic freedom among faculty, whereas doing nothing leaves students feeling they are ...

11Dec

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Education, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

The Politics of Palestinian Textbooks

JULIA PITNERISRAEL PALESTINE POSTED Friends of 11-year-old Palestinian student Lian Al Shaer get emotional on the first day of the school year, Aug. 29, 2022, near a picture of Lian, who was killed after sustaining injuries from the recent Israeli air strikes in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. Israel claims that it is the curricula in schools that cause violence, instead of Palestinians’ lived experiences. (PHOTO BY YOUSEF MASOUD/SOPA IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 2022, pp. 24-25 Special Report By Julia Pitner THE ISSUE OF PALESTINIAN TEXTBOOKS is not a new one as indicated by the title of this article, which was taken from an academic piece written by Fouad Moughrabi in 2001. Twenty-one y...

700,000 out of 2m kids out of school in Lebanon

31Aug

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Education, Lebanon

700,000 out of 2m kids out of school in Lebanon

Palestinians school children at a refugee camp in Beirut, in Lebanon on 6 March 2012 [Mohammed Asad/Apaimages]May 10, 2022 at 10:54 am The Centre for Lebanese Studies has called on donor governments to address the unprecedented education crisis in Lebanon at a funding conference in Brussels today. This includes putting pressure on Lebanon to change policies preventing aid reaching schools and on the education ministry to end restrictions on access to schooling for refugee students. School principals have "arbitrarily rejected" Syrian students for reasons such as not having the correct documentation including legal residency or because their schools were full. However, school monitoring found that most schools did have the capacity to take more students at the time, reports...

26Aug

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Education, USA

Yes, We Are Ruled by Fools

ANASTASIA KATZ New York City is paying out nearly $1.8 billion to black and Hispanic teachers who were unable to pass a test that was required for them to get a New York State teacher’s license. Thus far, more than half of the plaintiffs in this decades-old class action suit have won compensatory damages; Silvia Alvarez was awarded $1.1 million for being fired from her teaching job in Brooklyn after failing the test ten times. This gravy train is still on the tracks; teachers’ claims are still being processed. The case goes back to 1996, when a lawsuit was filed against the New York City Department of Education for violating Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by requiring public school teachers to pass the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test (“...

23Jul

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Education, USA

The Nazification of American Education

BY HENRY GIROUX Photograph Source: Matt Johnson – CC BY 2.0 I consider the survival of National Socialism within democracy to be potentially more menacing than the survival of fascist tendencies against democracy.–Theodor Adorno 1959 DeSantis’s View of Education as Propaganda Factories The crisis of education in the United States presents not only a danger to American democracy, but also the ideological and structural foundations for the emergence of a fascist state. The slide towards lawlessness and authoritarianism is now aided and abetted by educational policies that are repressive and dystopian, wedded to social control and the death of the social imagination. An unimagined catastrophe now characterizes how American education is being shaped by...

Weapons of Faith: The Arming of American Schools

18Jun

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Education, USA

Weapons of Faith: The Arming of American Schools

BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: Lorie Shaull – CC BY 2.0 The United States remains a country of tenacious faith. The nature of that faith stretches from the digital pulpits of Silicon Valley, where cool technology occupies the seat of majesty, to the hot Bible Belt of spiritual endurance and suffering, where the good Lord holds sway in stern disapproval. In between, market fundamentalists take time to worship the invisible hand of business and capitalism. The symptoms of that faith can be extraordinary, almost to the point of caustic neuroses. Faith in the sanctity of guns permits a form of tolerable urban warfare, a type of assimilated frontier violence characterised by high death tolls. For all the rage and mourning that takes place after e...

How Jewish Lobby Group Infiltrated US Education

26May

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Education, USA, ZIO-NAZI

How Jewish Lobby Group Infiltrated US Education

How an Israel Lobby Group Infiltrated US Education IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG ICS announcement of "Free Professional Development Opportunity for Educators in Broward, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie Counties." ICS works to inculcate students & teachers with pro-Israel talking points. (photo) The Institute for Curriculum Services (ICS) claims to advocate for accuracy of K-12 instruction on US Jewish history – but backed by the Israel lobby it whitewashes the history of indigenous Palestinians and Israeli theft of their land, and even attempts to delete the word “Palestine” from textbooks. ICS also discourages students from researching the issue on their own. ICS boasts that it has ‘improved public education’ in all 50 states and impacted 11 million students across the country....