Here is the information about how to register for the second annual meeting of the Network for Public Education.
There will be terrific speakers and panels about issues you care about. Meet your favorite bloggers.
I will moderate a panel with Lily Eskelsen Garcia and Randi Weingarten and explore the major controversies of the day.
Join us in Chicago, April 24-26. I will see you there!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Will Weingarten be called out on her hypocracies and fealty to the 1% ?
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Pardon the impertinence, but I am sure that the owner of this blog used her personal influence to persuade Randi Weingarten to sit on a panel at the NPE meeting.
Thank you.
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With all due respect to the opinions of others that comment frequently on this blog—and reminding folks of my own critical remarks on threads of this blog—I feel it is a good sign that Ms. Weingarten is not just attending but will be an active part of the discussion.
I am glad she is participating. And it is yet another sign that the movement for a “better education for all” is gaining traction.
I look forward to seeing the proceedings via live streaming.
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Good piece on income inequality and education:
“There remains a plausible solution to rising inequality that avoids those polarizing ideas: strengthening education so that more Americans can benefit from the advances of the 21st-century economy. This is a solution that conservatives, centrists and liberals alike can comfortably get behind. After all, who doesn’t favor a stronger educational system? But a new paper shows why the math just doesn’t add up, at least if the goal is addressing the gap between the very rich and everyone else.”
I’m glad we’re to the point where we’re admitting that the laser-like focus on public schools as the cure-all for income inequality and wage stagnation lets powerful people in business and government completely off the hook for income inequality and wage stagnation.
If the decline of the middle class and the yawning gap between the 1% and everyone else is the fault of the public school system, our “leaders” in government and the private sector don’t have to address anything that makes them uncomfortable! No wonder they all latched onto it. It’s an accountability dodge. It still amazes me they got away with it for as long as they did.
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I will be there! (Because, literally, I am here already, so registered a looong time ago!)
Again, if anyone needs free housing &, perhaps, transportation, please contact me in some way (you can make contact via the N.P.E.) See you in the Windy City!
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This Ohio teacher is looking for a roommate. If you are looking, too, reply here, and somehow we will connect.
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