Archives for Best Web OpEds
October 2014
Friday, October 31:
Paul Krugman: Apologizing to Japan
Susan Lee Schwartz: A Kansas Group's Push to Oust Judges Reveals a Gap in Campaign Finance Rules; by Robert Faturechi (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Jon Stewart Thanks the Koch Bros for Advertising on The Daily Show; BILL MOYERS (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Full Show: Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money's Grip on Elections (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Brian Ford Writes a Letter to the Editors of TIME; By Diane ravitch (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Prospect of a Republican Senate; By THE EDITORIAL BOARD, NY Times (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: BATS Respond to TIME; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Thursday, October 30:
Susan Lee Schwartz: CURMUDGUCATION: MA Committed to Chasing Teachers Away; by Peter Greene (3 comments)
Nobel Prize winner: Ebola can be spread by people who show no symptoms (1 comments)
Nurse Hickox works as an Intelligence Officer at the CDC (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Jeff Bryant: TIME Is an Internet Troll; by Diane ravitch (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Myth of the Free Press - Nation of Change; by Chris Hedges (1 comments)
50,000 Missing Georgia Voter-Registration Applications? Nothing to See Here (1 comments)
Wednesday, October 29:
Susan Lee Schwartz: John Thompson: Why Bill Gates Must Read Anthony Cody's Book; by Diane ravitch (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money's Grip on Elections; Bill Moyers (2 comments)
You be the Judge: Is All the Representation Money can Buy the Catalyst for Crony Capitalism? (1 comments)
A pessimism of the mind and an optimism of the will
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Justice for Edward Snowden
The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Officially Here
How Can Dems Be Losing to These Idiots? (1 comments)
Tuesday, October 28:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Banks Again Avoid Having Any Skin in the Game - By FLOYD NORRIS ; NYTimes (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: NY Parents and Educators React to Cuomo; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
If GOP Takes Senate, Climate Change Deniers Will Control Key Committees
Susan Lee Schwartz: Cuomo will push new teacher evaluations, vows to bust school 'monopoly' if re-elected - by BY KENNETH LOVETT ; NY Daily (2 comments)
Could You Be the Next Innocent American to Have Your Bank Account Seized by the Government?
Susan Lee Schwartz: Will This Election Be a Referendum on Privatization ? BY Diane ravitch (1 comments)
'God is not a magician': Pope says Christians should believe in evolution and Big Bang
Susan Lee Schwartz: California: Why Marshall Tuck Should Not Be Elected State Superintendent; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Ebola 2014 is Mutating as Fast as Seasonal Flu (1 comments)
The American Dream Is Leaving America
Monday, October 27:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Here's Something Your State Can Do to Fight Corporate Money in Politics; by Bill Moyers (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Dark Money Makes Our Politics Nastier; by Bill Moyers (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: "More Money Than I Could Count": Mitch McConnell's Very Special Relationship With Lobbyists: by Bill Moyers (1 comments)
The Government Behind the Elected Government acknowledged by Boston Globe
Susan Lee Schwartz: What Does TIME Have Against America's Teachers?; by Diane Ravitch, Lily Eckerson Garcia and Valerie Strauss (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: SRC's Contract Move Isn't About Shared Sacrifice -- It's Looting; BY HELEN GYM (1 comments)
Peter Dale Scott: Deep State and Bias of Official History
Frustrated CIA Blames Torture Report Delays on Senators Who Want It To Be Intelligible
McConnell Reeling After 2 Biggest Newspapers In Kentucky Endorse Alison Lundergan Grimes
How Chris Christie And Other Republicans Would Control The Voting Mechanisms
Susan Lee Schwartz: Will Duncan Raise the Stakes for Schools of Education?; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Late $$$$$ for Marshall Tuck;by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Christian right key to Republican performance in U.S. midterms (1 comments)
Sunday, October 26:
Paul Krugman: Ideology and Investment
Republicans Launch Robo-Calls as Georgia Senate Race Heats Up (1 comments)
Why GOP Control of the Senate Would Be a Disaster
Very harrowing months are ahead for the big, bad wolf by Samuel Vargo
Confronting Battered Citizen Syndrome
Susan Lee Schwartz: Joseph A. Ricciotti: Politics, Profits, and the Common Core; BY DIANE RAVITCH (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Public Education Advocates Rally For Change; by by Jaime Franchi
Saturday, October 25:
Republican Heads Explode As Obama Uses Science To Beat Down Ebola Hysteria (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Legal Scholar: Eliminating Teachers' Job Security Will Damage the Profession without Helping Children; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Friday, October 24:
Susan Lee Schwartz: TEXTBOOKS THAT ARE NEVER OBSOLETE- A SCARY THOUGHT FOR SCHOOL BOOK PUBLISHERS - by Lenny Isenberg,Perdaily.com (1 comments)
Joni Ernst Reserves The Right To Use Her Gun To Defend Herself Against The Government
10 Things To Expect Next Year If The GOP Wins The Senate
Susan Lee Schwartz: Charter Schools: An Experiment Gone Awry - Living in Dialogue; by Wendy Lecker (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: CURMUDGUCATION: Time's Tenure Story; by Peter Greene
Susan Lee Schwartz: Minneapolis: Powerful Kramer Family Destroying Public Education: By Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Forbes: Is Common Core Developmentally Appropriate?; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: Plutocrats Against Democracy (2 comments)
Thursday, October 23:
CA Senate Seat 26: "The Answer To Darkness Is Light"
Susan Lee Schwartz: TIME Magazine Attacks America's Teachers: Write a Letter to TIME, says Diane Ravitch (4 comments)
Ted Cruz Says A Functioning Senate Subverts the Will of The People
Wednesday, October 22:
Shocking New Report: Superrich Have Grabbed Half the World's Assets (1 comments)
Tuesday, October 21:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Dallas: Coalition of Pastors Join to Defend Public Schools Against Defunding and Privatization; by Diane ravitch (1 comments)
Eugene Robinson: Elizabeth Warren Is the Star of This Show (5 comments)
In the Name of the Fight Against Terrorism, Turkey Is Drawn Into the Chaos of War
Susan Lee Schwartz: Toledo: Imagine Charter Rent Stirs Outrage; by Diane Ravitch (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Some DAM Poet on Charters; Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Monday, October 20:
Vote all you want - the secret government won't change (6 comments)
U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS
Susan Lee Schwartz: Why a Leading Professor of Media Studies Banned Electronic Devices from his Classroom; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Keeping Faith in Democracy; BILL MOYERS ON Marilynne Robinson's new book, Lila, (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Prepare Your Children for "a Lifetime of Surveillance;" by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: An Important Message to the New York Board of Regents; by Diane Ravitch and Damon Buffum (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Indiana: Voters Need to Band Together to Fight Destruction of Community Public Schools; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Sunday, October 19:
Paul Krugman: Amazon's Monopsony Is Not O.K.
Saturday, October 18:
Susan Lee Schwartz: DEASY TO CORTINES...FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE FOR LAUSD? - Perdaily.com (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Perdido Street Blog: Here is Andrew Cuomo's New York: "A Cesspool of Corruption"; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Friday, October 17:
Paul Krugman: What Markets Will (1 comments)
Will Ebola Vanquish the MBAs Who Run Our Hospitals? (1 comments)
Thursday, October 16:
The San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco's longest running independent voice, was shut down
Susan Lee Schwartz: The International Statistics That Matter Most, by Diane Ravitch (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Peter Greene: Charter Bait and Switch, by Diane Ravitch & Peter Greene (1 comments)
Operation Inherent Resolve: a war by any other name would smell as foul (1 comments)
Russell Brand: what monkeys and the Queen taught me about inequality (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Nevada: Big Business Wants a Poorly Educated Workforce; by Diane Ravitch (3 comments)
Ted Cruz Quits Screwing With the GOP
Wednesday, October 15:
Fidel Castro: Heros of Our Time (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Bad News: K12 Inc Enters the Preschool Market; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Amy Fried, Ph.D.: An Insider's Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth
Tuesday, October 14:
Susan Lee Schwartz: California: Wall St Profiteers and Waltons Back Tuck; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Keystone Pipeline Would Hike Gas Prices in 15 States
Paul Ryan Still Doesn't Know What He's Talking About On Climate Change (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Richard Brodsky: Public schools need funding focus ; by Richard Brodsky;Times Union (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: An educator challenges the Gates Foundation; by By Valerie Strauss The Washington Post (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Charter schools use Turkish ties, visas to get teachers; by James Pilcher (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Lawsuit: State Education Department's ban on discussing tests violates free speech (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Ernest Anemone: Market Reforms and the Threat to Democracy; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Monday, October 13:
Democrats Are On The Rise So CNN Blames Obama For Ebola, ISIS, and Ferguson (4 comments)
Paul Krugman: How Righteousness Killed the World Economy
Sunday, October 12:
War against Isis: US strategy in tatters as militants march on
President Obama Obliterates Republicans With An Obstruction Annihilating Truth Bomb (2 comments)
Citizenfour review -- Poitras' victorious film shows Snowden vindicated
Wal-Mart Cuts Health Benefits for 30,000 Employees as Profits Continue to Rise
Saturday, October 11:
GOP Civil War Gets Ugly John Boehner Begs Big Business To Neutralize Tea Party Crazies
Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany
Friday Talking Points -- Is There Anybody Out There? (2 comments)
Friday, October 10:
Susan Lee Schwartz: After Elections, Governor Cuomo Plans Major Crackdown on Teachers; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Bob Herbert on "The Plot Against Public Education-Millionaires and Billionaires Are Ruining Our Schools" Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Paying Respects, Pentagon Revives Vietnam, and War Over Truth (1 comments)
Fracking For the Cure: Komen and the Pinkwashed Drill Bit
Susan Lee Schwartz: Glen Ford: For-Profit Colleges Destroy the Lives of African Americans; by Diane ravitch (1 comments)
$500,000 Vagina Tax! -Sarah Silverman Launches Equal Pay Campaign With Hilarious Video (4 comments)
Why is Ben Affleck defending Islam? (9 comments)
Thursday, October 9:
Sweden rebuffs the US on Palestine
Susan Lee Schwartz: Secretly Buying Access to a Governor - By THE EDITORIAL BOARD; NYTimes. (1 comments)
Spanish Ebola nurse contacted officials three times before quarantine.
The Solution Is the Soil: How Organic Farming Can Feed the World and Save the Planet
Wednesday, October 8:
Jimmy Carter slams Obama on IS. Pile-on week at White House? (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Secret Service and the Political Class -by Thomas L. Friedman; NYTimes (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: In Defense of Obama (6 comments)
Conservative Activist Files Petition to Deport Obama: "He's an Illegal Alien" (12 comments)
boo hoo hoo for the blah blah blah guy by Samuel Vargo
Susan Lee Schwartz: Carl Cohn: What's Wrong with the Vergara Decision, by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: NYC Parents Charge Success Academies Underenrolled, Unwanted; by Diane ravitch (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Read Anthony Cody's New Book "The Educator and the Oligarch" (1 comments)
Tuesday, October 7:
Dana Milbank: Leon Panetta, other former Obama subordinates show stunning disloyalty (1 comments)
Bill Clinton Terrifies Republicans by Busting and Exposing Their Obama Scam (1 comments)
Rush Limbaugh: Obama Wants Americans To Get Ebola As Payback For Slavery
The 21st Century Declaration of Independence: How America Can Become a Good Example to the World (9 comments)
Growth and Inequality in the U.S.: when "shared prosperity" means shared
Monday, October 6:
How America's Richest 14 Made More Money Than the Entire Food Stamp Budget (1 comments)
Donald Trump Has Some Corrections to Make to the CDC's Ebola Statements
Humanity Failing the Earth's Ecosystems
Susan Lee Schwartz: This week in the war on workers: Bankruptcy judge calls for impoverishing retirees; by Laura Clawson (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The great charter school rip-off: Finally, the truth catches up to education "reform" phonies ; by JEFF BRYANT, Salon (1 comments)
One Question About Ebola Demonstrates Why Fox News Viewers Are Completely Insane (1 comments)
Sunday, October 5:
Paul Krugman: Voodoo Economics, the Next Generation
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Secret to Eva Moskowitz's 'Success'; by Diane ravitch (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: After Uproar, School Board in Colorado Scraps Anti-Protest Curriculum - NYTimes.com
Susan Lee Schwartz: Here Is Proof that Arne Duncan is a Destructive Force in American Education; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: CURMUDGUCATION: California's Superintendent's Race Defies Sense; by Peter Greene (1 comments)
Lace 'Em Up: Why Neo-Conservatives Are So Anxious To Put Boots On The Ground
Koch-Blocked, short powerful video, tells it like it should be
Saturday, October 4:
Military Companies Likely To Benefit From Airstrikes In Iraq, Syria (1 comments)
NSA defenders think they can make surveillance reform vanish. This is how wrong they are
Will the Republican Party Repudiate the Koch Agenda?
Susan Lee Schwartz: Satirical Video Game Skewers NCLB, Charter Schools, Testing - Digital Education - Education Week (1 comments)
Friday, October 3:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Chicago's legacy of top-down school reform (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Perdido Street School: Cuomo Will Lead A Witch Hunt Of "Failing" Teachers In His Second Term (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Lamar Alexander, Wherefore Art Thou?; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Thursday, October 2:
A Secret Service Agent Leaked President Obama's Schedule To Mitt Romney In 2012
Alison Lundergan Grimes Deploys Big Dog Bill Clinton in New Knockout Ad
Wednesday, October 1:
PAUL RYAN: Mitt Romney's 47 Percent "Wrong"
Bomb Everyone Muslim, Even If They Did Invent Algebra (1 comments)
John Boehner Rewrites History With An Epic Lie That Blames Obama For Republican Obstruction (1 comments)