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Well, Romney did mention ‘healing the earth’ once

Here is an interesting read for those who care about the problematic process of instituting educational change. Joe and Carol Reich have just released Getting to Bartlett Street, a book about their tumultuous and ultimately successful efforts to establish one of the country’s first charter schools in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Eleven Bartlett Street is the address […]

The latest attempt to throw a collar on for-profit colleges is the The College Student Rebate Act of 2012. House Representatives John Tierney (D-Mass.) and George Miller (D-Calif.) put it in front of a congressional committee in mid-September. (Truthout.org/Flickr) Should the Act pass, it would require for-profit schools to devote 80% of their revenue to […]

A new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) shows how investments in the green economy produce results far beyond sustainability gains. EPI took the BLS green jobs data and matched it with current employment trends. By doing so, they found: Green industries grow faster than the overall economy States with higher shares of employment […]

When the early New Deal first constructed public housing in New York City and elsewhere, projects for blacks were built in existing ghettos or undeveloped areas where planners wanted to shift existing black neighborhoods.[1] But projects for whites were built in existing white neighborhoods, places like Woodside, where the Klein family lived. By the […]

Expanded Poll Graphs Now Available So many polls are being reported now that the poll graphs are getting cluttered and unreadable.Starting today, when you click on a state, for example,Colorado, the first graph will show only the Sept-Oct-Nov polls on an expanded scale. Below it is the graph of all polls for the entire year. […]

Just as every fall, we are warned about powerful hurricanes that could devastate coastal areas, every four years we hear warnings about an “October surprise” that could upheave the political landscape on the eve of the election. This year, the “surprise” threatens to hit land on November 2: it is the prospect that a million […]

Romney Leads Obama Nationally in New Polls A newPPP poll puts Mitt Romney ahead of President Obama 49% to 47%. While this is a statistical tie, this is the first PPP poll this year showing Romney ahead. Especially noteworthy is that Obama’s lead among women has dropped from 15 points to only 6 points. Most […]

When workers at a Southern California warehouse that stores goods for Walmart walked out on strike last month, it was no isolated incident. The company’s notoriously bottom-of-the-barrel employment practices, imposed on contractors and employees alike, are producing labor unrest up and down the supply chain. This morning produced the most dramatic actions yet, as Josh […]

National Pew Poll: Romney Leads 49% to 45% In a stunning reversal from a month ago, in Pew Research’s poll of likely voters, Mitt Romney now leads President Obama by 4 points. In September, Obama led by 9 points. Other polls have shown that Romney got a bump from the first debate, but most of […]