Why Johnny can't read

NEA: 2005 Annual Meeting, RA Action Online, New Business Items. Read the list. A good portion of them having nothing to do with schools, teachers or teaching. Regardless of whether these things are good or not, it does not seem appropriate for the NEA to be spending it's time on these issues. Although if the NEA would focus a bit more on teaching, instead of furthering the progressive cause, we wouldn't need to big social programs they seem to love so much. (via Decision '08)