Save+Our+Schools+Rally

= SAVE OUR SCHOOLS RALLY = =//All About the Washington, D.C., Rally!//=

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= Video 2 = =Matt Damon Defends Teachers Against 'Sh***y' Reason.tv Cameraman= media type="youtube" key="WFHJkvEwyhk?version=3" height="390" width="640" =Following his keynote address, actor Matt Damon took offense to a Reason.tv reporter who contended that, as opposed to the environment faced by teachers in a tenure system, the lack of job security in acting functions as an incentive for hard work.= =Here's what Damon had to say:= > = So you think job insecurity is what makes me work hard? I want to be an actor. That’s not an incentive. That’s the thing. See, you take this MBA-style thinking, right? It’s the problem with ed policy right now, this intrinsically paternalistic view of problems that are much more complex than that. It’s like saying a teacher is going to get lazy when they have tenure. A teacher wants to teach. I mean, why else would you take a shitty salary and really long hours and do that job unless you really love to do it? = =The interview got a little tense from there.= = = = Video 3 = =Diane Ravitch Speaking at Save Our Schools Rally= media type="youtube" key="JI3_FkNB8Qg" height="510" width="853"

= Video 4 = = Jonathan Kozol's Speech at the Save Our Schools March On Washington, July 30, 2011 = media type="youtube" key="Sl8ESi_XPT0" height="510" width="640" media type="youtube" key="BPDLiB3J2Wc" height="510" width="640" ="High people in Washington insist to me that class size doesn't matter; and I always ask them where their own kids go to school; they usually go to very costly private schools where class size rarely rises higher than fifteen...."= ="Senators and the President send their own kids to those kinds of schools; fifteen children in a class. if very small class sizes and the individual attention this allows a teacher to devote to every child. If this is good for the children of a senator or President or corporate executive or CEO than its good for the poorest child in the poorest part of America."= ="Don't let our leaders get away w/ this hypocrisy. It cannot compensate for inequalities by putting good teachers under the sword of narrow accountability."=

= Video 5 = =Matt Damon's keynote speech at SOS March= media type="youtube" key="n0kWGsPWoiA" height="510" width="853"

= Video 6 = = Jon Stewart's Teacher Tribute For the Save Our Schools Rally = media type="youtube" key="RJxqtWh1uis" height="510" width="853"

= Video 7 = = Jose Vilson Rocks the Save Our Schools March in DC, 7/30/2011 = media type="youtube" key="fEVLkDDPByo" height="510" width="640" =Jose Vilson performs "This is Not a Test" at the Save Our Schools March.=

= Video 8 = =Education Week's Video for Teachers March on Washington= media type="youtube" key="odm3O-iPSLg" height="510" width="853" =At the "Save Our Schools" rally, teachers and others critical of standards- and test-based accountability bring their complaints to the Obama administration's front door.=

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