Tag: Steve Camron

EVENT: Social Foundations of Education Conference – “The Assault on Common(s) Values: Imagining and Creating Collective Responses to Neoliberalism”

EVENT: Social Foundations of Education Conference – “The Assault on Common(s) Values: Imagining and Creating Collective Responses to Neoliberalism”

This Friday, November 21st, the Social Foundations of Education program at Eastern Michigan University will hold their 2nd annual fall Social Foundations of Education Conference. This year, the title is “The Assault on Common(s) Values: Imagining and Creating Collective Responses to Neoliberalism”. As part of the conference, there will be a panel discussion at 6 p.m. titled “EAA Storytelling and […]

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Open Letter to Eastern Michigan University Regents regarding EMU’s partnership with the EAA from a faculty member

Open Letter to Eastern Michigan University Regents regarding EMU’s partnership with the EAA from a faculty member

“Your support for the EAA is a black-mark on this university’s history” Yesterday, Eastern Michigan University’s Board of Regents met and, as part of the meeting, they took public comments. Below is the commentary of Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the EMU Special Education Department, Steve Camron. It does a fantastic job of outlining why EMU’s partnership with Governor […]

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Eastern Michigan University students and faculty rally to call for severing ties with the EAA

Eastern Michigan University students and faculty rally to call for severing ties with the EAA

Yesterday nearly 50 intrepid souls braved the “raining Slurpees” weather to attend a rally on the campus of Eastern Michigan University. They were there to protest EMU’s partnership with Governor Snyder’s failed education experiment with Detroit students – the Education Achievement Authority. The event was organized by the campus group Students for an Ethical and Participatory Education (SEPE) and was […]

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Educ. Achievement Authority spokesperson in damage control mode over resignation of EMU College of Ed. Dean from EAA board

Educ. Achievement Authority spokesperson in damage control mode over resignation of EMU College of Ed. Dean from EAA board

Methinks thou dost protest too much Yesterday, I broke the news that Eastern Michigan University (EMU) College of Education Dean Jann Joseph had resigned her position on the board of the Education Achievement Authority (EAA), the state-run school district comprised of Michigan’s lowest-performing schools. The EAA is in the spotlight of late because they have given state legislators on the […]

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