Daily Archives: May 31, 2011

Some Reading for the Week

Posted on May 31, 2011 by seattleducation2011 | Leave a comment

I opened up my mail this morning with some great articles being sent my way.

These essays deserve more than a link in the right-hand column. Peruse at your leisure.

Dora

Education Policy Should Honor the Obvious by Anthony Cody.

The Corporate Dream: Teachers as Temps by Glen Ford.

Beware of Economists Bearing Education Reforms by William Mathis.

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Posted in Education Reform, Race to the Top, Teach for America, Teachers and Teaching

Tagged Broad Foundation, Charter schools, education reform, High Stakes Testing, Race to the Top, Standardized test, Teach For America, Teachers

"American education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?"

Diane Ravitch
Events and Actions

Parents Across America presents:

Moving Forward in Public Education: Ideas That Work

A Panel Discussion

Thursday, May 31st at 6:30 PM
Rainier Beach High School Auditorium
8815 Seward Park Ave. S.
Seattle, WA 98118

Featuring:

Dr. Margit McGuire, Professor and Director, Seattle Universityʼs Teacher Education Program

Sharon Okamoto, Principal, Seattle Urban Academy

Rita Green, parent and PTA vice-president, Rainier Beach High School

Marquita Prinzing, teacher, Sanislo Elementary School

For more information e-mail seattle.paa@gmail.com or call 206-724-5556.
Chris Hedges

"There is something grotesque about the fact that education reform is being led not by educators but by financiers and speculators and billionaires."
Anti charter school resolutions to date

5th District Democrats
27th District Democrats
32nd District Democrats
34th District Democrats
36th District Democrats
37th District Democrats
45th District Democrats
46th District Democrats
Washington State Democrats
Metropolitan Democratic Club of Seattle
Ballard High School PTSA
Ingraham High School PTSA
Jane Addams Elementary PTSA
Nova High School PTSA
Olympic View Elementary School PTSA
The League of Women Voters
UW Alumni Association Multicultural Alumni Partnership

Please send me your resolutions as they are passed (dora.taylor@gmail.com) and I will post them and add the resolution to the list.
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Frederick Douglass

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”
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Danny Weil, 2009

"...charter chains would prefer national standards... This would allow them to use prepackaged curricula across their charter outlets no matter the location...for dummied down standardized curriculum keeps costs down and the dispensation is formulaic and repetitive. This is the Walmart model of education."
"Choice"
- "Choice" and the language of reform
- School choice? A rose by any other name still spells privatizing education
- The Rhetoric of Choice: Segregation, Desegregation, and Charter Schools
1%
- $7.7 Trillion to Wall Street – Anything to Keep the Banksters Happy!
- Bill Moyers: Winner-Take-All Politics
- Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Say
- Formr Senate Investigator Says: We’ve Got To Start Taxing Corporations
- Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools
- Mitt '1%' Romney: "I'm Not Concerned with the Very Poor"
- The Greatest Hoax in the History of Money
- the writing on the wall
99%
- 'Cash Mobs' profit locally owned stores
- 10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free
- 11 telling charts from 2011
- America’s Unlevel Field
- Another subpoena to Twitter for Occupy related account
- ‘Wild Old Women’ Close San Francisco Bank Of America Branch
- Crises of Capitalism
- Finding Just Enough Food to Not Be Poor Enough
- Line Grows Long for Free Meals at U.S. Schools
- Nearly Half of Americans Struggling to Stay Afloat
- Nearly Half of Americans Struggling to Stay Afloat
- Park Police stun Occupy D.C. protester Sunday
- Top 1% Tax Cut Bigger Than 99% Income : The Young Turks
- Unpaid Bills Land Some Debtors Behind Bars
- US Congress Seeks to Cut Food Stamp Program
- You Tube: Mavis Staples "99 & 1/2"
A Better Way
- A Look at Finnish Schools and Teacher Preparation
- Build on schools' strengths to challenge pupils
- Finland puts bar high for teachers, kids' well-being
- Finnish educational safety net is wide, strong
- Gabe Lyon, 2011 Chicagoan of the Year
- Holding Onto The Joy In Teaching
- It's no miracle — 'miracle schools' cost money
- Moving beyond 'blame the teacher'
- My Favorite Genuine Education Reform Stories of 2011
- Oakland's McClymonds High is a full-service school
- Public prep school in Lakewood earns IB designation
- Teacher Tom
- Urban Academy
- Warring learning theories: Choose yours
- Why Are the Rich So Interested in Public-School Reform?
- Why Are the Rich So Interested in Public-School Reform?
- Will San Diego's Public Schools Survive?
Acheivement/Opportunity Gap
- A superintendent calls school reformers’ bluff
- Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Say
- How to fix our schools
- Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School Factors and School Success
- School Performance Depends on Close Attention to Social Equity
- Schools in a Banana Republic
- The Commander-in-Chief — and the Battle for Public Education
- The corporate takeover of American schools
- The Future of Black History
- THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP INCREASES FOURFOLD
Achievement First
- Would I Send My Child To This School?
ACTA
- Thousands Take to the Streets to Protest ACTA
- Why SOPA is a bad idea
Alabama
- What Changes Wardynski Hath Wrought
ALEC
- A Smart ALEC Threatens Public Education- Ed Week article
- A smart ALEC threatens public education.pdf
- ALEC and Illegal Immigrants
- ALEC and Innovation Schools
- ALEC Corporations
- ALEC Education "Academy" Launches on Island Resort
- ALEC Exposed
- ALEC Exposed: The Koch Connection
- ALEC in Arizona, Democracy in Peril
- ALEC Reports on the War on Teachers
- ALEC Watch: What I did on my Summer Vacation
- ALEC's disturbing level of influence
- ALEC, Koch and the Conservative Cabal – How they lobby and get away with it -
- American Legislative Exchange Council | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Bush Foundation Advisor Compares Teachers Unions to Hitler’s Forces in ALEC Report
- Busted! Rep. Leaves ALEC Wording In Corporate Tax Resolution
- Corporate Education Reform and ALEC's Definition of Acceptable Risk
- Inside ALEC: Naked Contempt for the Press and Public in Scottsdale
- Lobbyists, Guns and Money
- Meet the 28 Lawmakers Who Have Quit ALEC This Month
- Meet the ALEC Staffers Who Help Corporations Write Our Laws
- The Koch Brothers, ALEC and the Savage Assault on Democracy
- the writing on the wall
- UW-Madison School of Education Dean Julie Underwood Discusses ALEC
- Warning to parents about ALEC and its draft education legislation
- Who really runs Florida education?
All of Our Favorite Posts
- Diane Ravitch, Wayne Au, Jesse Hagopian and Dora Taylor in “Race to Where?” a Seattle Ed 2010 forum on the misdirection of ed reform
- How to tell if your School District is infected by the Broad Virus
- How to tell if your School District is infected by the Broad Virus
- I Met With Arne Duncan Yesterday
- Should the School District Be Allowed to Give Our Kids’ Phone numbers, Addresses and Photos to Every Tom, Dick and Pollster?
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- The Battle for Seattle, Part 3
- The Battle for Seattle, Part 4
- The Battle for Seattle, Part One
- The Battle for Seattle: Part Two, Hijacked!
- The Lines of Influence in Education Reform
- Where Do We Go From Here
All Studies and Papers re: Edicts of RTTT
- 'Measures of Effective Teaching' report is based on flawed research and predetermined conclusions, review shows
- A revolving door for charter teachers
- CHARTER SCHOOL PERFORMANCE IN PENNSYLVANIA
- Charter schools: Finding out the facts: At a glance
- Civil Rights Project’s Response to “Re-analysis” of Charter School Study
- CMO's: New Charter Study by Mathematica With More Bad News for Corporate Ed Reform
- CREDO Report
- Current Test-Based Incentive Programs Have Not Consistently Raised Student Achievement in U.S.
- Does Teacher Preparation Matter? Evidence about Teacher Certification, Teach for America, and Teacher Effectiveness 1
- EPIC Report: Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers
- Great Lakes Center for Education, Research and Practise: Brookings Report too Flawed to Guide Federal Policy on Charter Schools
- How teacher turnover harms student achievement
- Is Choice a Panacea? An Analysis of Black Secondary Student Attrition from KIPP, Other Private Charters, and Urban Districts
- Mathematica: Charter School Study Shows No Significant Overall Impacts on Achievement
- Mathmatica Study on Merit Pay
- MIT Publication: Who Benets from KIPP?
- NCPI Studies on Performance Pay
- NEPC Policy Brief: GETTING TEACHER ASSESSMENT RIGHT
- NEPC: Review of Learning About Teaching
- NEPC: Teach For America: A False Promise
- Panel Finds Few Learning Gains From Testing Movement
- Problems with the use of student test scores to evaluate teachers
- Research Warning Label: Analysis contains inadequate measurement of student poverty
- REVIEW OF THE LOUISIANA RECOVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT: LESSONS FOR THE BUCKEYE STATE: The NPEC Report
- Schools Without Diversity
- Study: Chicago’s Democratically-Led Elementary Schools Far Out-Perform Chicago’s “Turnaround Schools”
- Teacher Turnover in Charter Schools
- Teacher Turnover in Charter Schools
- Texas Study on Merit Pay
- The Privatization Infatuation
- The Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT)
- The Year In Research On Market-Based Education Reform
- Truthiness in Education
- UCLA Report Says Charters Are Causing Resegregation Of American Schools
- Vanderbilt: Instructional Conditions in Charter Schools and Students’ Mathematics Achievement Gains
Alternative Learning
- Warring learning theories: Choose yours
Alternatives to Race to the Top
- A Better Way to Assess Students and Evaluate Schools
- Anneliese's Schools
- Judy Chu: Here is How to Strengthen Struggling Schools
- Needed: A Reversal of Figure/Ground
- Non-traditional schools help revive kids yearning to learn
- The Creativity Crisis: Solutions
- The Whole Child Initiative
- Unlikely Allies Call for Shifting Spending from Prisons to Schools
- Warring learning theories: Choose yours
American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
- AFT: Don’t put full burden of achievement on teachers
- Attending the AFT convention in Seattle and protesting with BAMN and others, the horrific policies of Race to the Top
- Bill Gates at the AFT Convention – 1984
- Educating for Democracy: A Split in the Teachers Unions
- The wrong partner for our schools
Arlene Ackerman because she is a real piece of work and on the Broad Board of Directors
- Ackerman files unemployment, swaps last bastion of sympathy for additional $15K
- Business leaders solicited for Ackerman buyout donations
- The Broad Foundation's Superintendent's Academy Faculty and Speakers
Arne Duncan : Secretary of Education
- 'Edupreneurs' now the way for U.S. Department of Education to waste billions on 'innovation'… Duncan and Harvard team up to push toxic 'innovation models' on public schools
- "The Nation" Education Issue: A New Vision of School Reform
- A Letter to Arne Duncan
- A letter to Secretary Arne Duncan
- A Look at Arne Duncan’s VIP List of Requests at Chicago Schools and the Effects of his Expansion of Charter Schools in Chicago
- A teacher pushed to the edge
- A True Wake-up Call for Arne Duncan: The Real Reason Behind Chinese Students Top PISA Performance
- Arne Duncan and the Chicago Success Story: Myth or Reality?
- Arne Duncan at ED: Year One
- Arne Duncan's Brand of Equality
- Assessments of Schools Are Flawed, Report Says
- Bill Gates Listens to the Wrong People
- Black Chicago Teachers Win Discrimination Lawsuit Against Arne Duncan's Mass Firings
- Black Chicago Teachers Win Discrimination Lawsuit Against Arne Duncan's Mass Firings
- Bye, Bye Duncan
- Can Our Schools Run on Duncan?
- Charter school cooks the books
- Chicago School Closings Found to Yield Few Gains
- Chicago Teachers Wise Up to Obama School Privatizations
- Civil Rights Groups Call for New Federal Education Agenda
- Common Sense Reform, Evidence, and Faith Based Education
- Common Sense Reform, Evidence, and Faith Based Education
- David Obey: I Leave More Discontented Than I Started
- Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Education in the Name of Reform (Part I)
- Duncan declares war on teachers
- Duncan silent on Florida’s education mess
- Fast Times at Recruitment High
- Federal Program Blamed For Long Island City High School Scheduling Chaos
- Finally, the Arne Duncan Chicago Schools reform myth is exposed
- Flunking Arne Duncan
- Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy
- How ed reformers push the wrong theory of learning
- Labor Beat: Secretary of Education Duncan – Pushing the Chicago Plan
- Local School Board Members Play Hardball With Duncan
- Master of Myth: What Arne Duncan Says and Does
- Moving like a cancer — ‘free schools’ and ‘free markets’ – dateline England
- NCC delegation meets with U.S. Secretary of Education on the need to provide equal education to all children
- Newspaper Flunks State Test
- Nineteen Points and One Very Bad Idea
- Number 1 in the World, Mr. Duncan? Really? You Have Got to Kidding Me
- Obama and Duncan's Education Policy:
- Obama speech debacle proves Arne Duncan does not know how schools work
- Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling
- Obama's ESEA Plan Short on Research, Authors Allege
- Parents beat back Rahm's re-segregation at LaSalle Academy
- Say what, Secretary Duncan?
- Schooling Arne Duncan
- Schools confront poverty, why don’t education policies?
- Shutting Out Parents Obama's Disappointing Blueprint for Reform
- Study: No real progress in CPS grade school reading in 20 years
- Teach
- The Audacity of Arne Duncan
- The Corporatization of Public Education
- The Duncan Doctrine The Military-Corporate Legacy of the New Secretary of Education
- The Education Reformers: Willfully Blind
- The myth of US charter schools
- The Nation Exposes Obama's Cynical Education Gambit
- The New Segregated Buses Are Lining Up for Arne Duncan's Rosa Parks Moment
- The real Chicago "miracle" — Arne Duncan still has a job
- Wanna be a School Reformer? You Better do Your Homework!
- Will Public Education Be Militarized?
Atlanta
- Atlanta Starts New School Year Under Cloud of Cheating Scandal
- The Atlanta Scandal: Teaching in “A Culture of Fear, Intimidation and Retaliation”
- The Atlanta Scandal: When Teachers are Disempowered & Abused
Atrocities
- Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit
- Charter law forced school's closure
- Charter law forced school's closure
- Coconut Grove Charter School Raising Eyebrows
- Compton Parents Charge Barr and Austin's "Parent Revolution" with Deception, Manipulation, and Lies
- DOE's "happy hour" celebrating school closures and charter co-locations
- GE, Exxon Paid No U.S. Income Taxes in '09
- money
- Money From Donors, iPads for Free: How Is it That Teach For America's Struggling Corps Are Broke?
- New Orleans parent says her eighth-grader was put in a 'cage' at school
- No "payoff" so D.C. cuts "investment" in school libraries
- NYC releases teachers’ value-added scores — unfortunately
- Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children
- Punishment First at Brooklyn Charter School
- Rachel Maddow on the Governor of Wisconsin and His Attack on Unions, Part 1
- Rachel Maddow on the Governor of Wisconsin and His Attack on Unions, Part 2
- Rahm's Rent-A-Preacher and Rent-A-Protest exposed, even to elected state officials
- Reactionary Governor Walker of Wisconsin declares war on working people and kids
- School Performance Depends on Close Attention to Social Equity
- State English tests dissed deaf students: educators
- Tax Rates for Top 400 Earners Fall as Income Soars, IRS Data
- Teacher’s Death Exposes Tensions in Los Angeles
- Test-prep giant Princeton Review is charged with ripping off the feds for millions
- The Financial Crisis, the Recession, and the American Political Economy
- The Problem With New Orleans’s Charter Schools
- Top DOE official proposes happy hour to celebrate lawsuit news
- Where is Superman on This One? Or at least Arne Duncan's cash
- Why Republicans are acting so crazy
Australia
- Growing Corporate Control of Education Policy
- Teachers ban basic tests in protest at My School site
- Teachers ban basic tests in protest at My School site
Baltimore
- Baltimore teachers reject proposed contract
- Teachers in the crosshairs
BAMN
- Attending the AFT convention in Seattle and protesting with BAMN and others, the horrific policies of Race to the Top
Ben Austin
- 14 of 15 Green Dot schools are "failing," by Parent Revolution's definition
- Another charter school scam?… 'Parent Revolution' charged with misleading parents about signatures on 'close this school' petition
- Ben Austin: The Six Figure Salary Man – Green Dot
- Compton Parents Charge Barr and Austin's "Parent Revolution" with Deception, Manipulation, and Lies
- Connections between Eli Broad, the Parent Union (aka Parent Revolution, the creators of the "Parent Trigger"), and Green Dot
- Corporate Charter Trigger Compton Chronicles
- Effort to convert Compton school to charter draws fire
- Green Dot revolution targets school that outperforms current Green Dotters
- Hundreds Of Angry, Confused Parents Show Up To District Board Meeting
- Parent Empowerment or Parent Manipulation?
- Parent Trigger charlatan Ben Austin booted off The State Bar of California
- Powerful “Parent” Trigger operators target vulnerable school; attack misfires
- Say you want a revolution?: Parents Revolution, ‘Astro turf’ organizations and the privatization of public schools
- The 'Parent Trigger' doesn't help schools or parents
Bill Gates
- 'Edupreneurs' now the way for U.S. Department of Education to waste billions on 'innovation'… Duncan and Harvard team up to push toxic 'innovation models' on public schools
- "With Arms like an Octopus, Gates Foundation Reaches in all Directions"
- A Look At The Education Programs Of The Gates Foundation
- A teacher pushed to the edge
- Aging Geeky Oligarch Front and Center in Education Takeover
- Attending the AFT convention in Seattle and protesting with BAMN and others, the horrific policies of Race to the Top
- ‘Race to the Top’ and the Bill Gates Connection
- Behind Grass-Roots School Advocacy, Bill Gates
- Bill Gates and the Corporatization of American"Public" Schools
- Bill Gates at the AFT Convention – 1984
- Bill Gates Listens to the Wrong People
- Bill Gates' Big Play: How Much Can Money Buy in Education?
- Bill Gates' support of GM crops is wrong approach for Africa
- Bill Gates, have I got a deal for you!
- Bill Gates: 'Charter schools should lead innovation'
- Bill Gates: Don't Monetize my Students!
- Bill Gates: One of the World's Most Destructive Do-Gooders?
- Bill Gates: Popping Up with Compulsory Proactive Help
- Bill Gates: We Need Genetically Modified Seeds Gates' yield-increasing claims widely refuted by studies
- Billionaire titans take aim at urban school systems
- Billionaires Target Teachers—and Take the Gloves Off in Illinois
- Cornering the education market
- Delegitimizing Public Education
- Fact-Challenged Policy
- Gates Document Details Plans for Influence Peddling and Propaganda War for Corporate Ed
- Gates Foundation nearly doubles Wal-Mart holdings
- Gates Foundation Puts Millions Into Online College Created by Rick Perry
- Gates Foundation ties with Monsanto under fire from activists
- Gates spends millions to sway public on ed reform
- Gates spends millions to sway public on ed reform
- Gates, the Bizarro Foundation
- Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools
- Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy
- Grading 'Waiting for Superman'
- Hired Guns on Astroturf: How to Buy and Sell School Reform
- How ed reformers push the wrong theory of learning
- Is deficit commission guilty of criminal misconduct?
- IS THE GATES FOUNDATION INVOLVED IN BRIBERY?
- Joanne Barkan on How Billionaires Rule Our Schools
- Microsoft Funds Koch’s Climate-Denying Tea Party Conference
- Microsoft wins TEACH campaign from Education Dept
- Monied interests try to seize public education
- National PTA gets $1 million from Gates Foundation
- NEPC: Review of Learning About Teaching
- Obama Ramps Up Bush's No Child Left Behind Policy & the Privatizing of Education 1/3
- Obama's Right-Wing School Reform
- On national standards, the Gates Foundation gets what it pays for
- Oprah and her warrior woman, Michelle Rhee
- Questioning the Convergence on National Standards
- School of the Future: Lessons in failure
- School Turnaround Blitzkrieg Mires Down
- Sorry Gates: GMO Crops Proven to be Ineffective at Fighting World Hunger
- Teacher Evaluations Based on Test Scores Will Requires Dozens of New Tests
- The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) and Bill Gates: Just another way to create your own "data"
- The Gates’ Foundation and the Future of U.S. Public Education: A Call for Scholars to Counter Misinformation Campaigns
- THE INFLUENCE GAME: Bill Gates sways government dollars
- The Outrage of the Week
- The real force behind mayoral control
- The wrong partner for our schools
- We’re being steamrolled into one-size-fits-all
- What Shelton's Waiver Tells Us About the Gates Foundation and DOE
- What’s Behind the War on Class Size
- When Generosity Hurts: Bill Gates, Public School Teachers and the Politics of Humiliation
- Where Does Billionaire Monopolist Bill Gates Get Off Saying Bigger Class Size and Fewer Teachers Is the Education Solution?
- Why Bill Gates is Wrong On Class Size
Blogs to Follow
- An Urban Teacher's Education
- BAMN
- BELLEVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET
- Bridging Differences
- Broad Report
- Charter School Scandels
- Class Size Matters
- Coalition for Better Education
- DFER Watch
- Education and Public Interest Center
- Education Notes Online
- Education Radio
- Education Talk New Orleans
- Educational Justice
- FAIR
- Fair Test
- Gotham Schools
- Great Schools for America
- Great Schools for America
- Grumpy Educators
- Kennewick School District Citizens (A Parents Across America affiliate)
- KSDC
- Leonie Haimson on The Huffington Post
- Miracle Schools
- New York CORE
- NYC Public School Parents
- Parents Across America- Rockford
- Public Advocates: Making Rights Real
- PURE: Parents United for Responsible Education
- Rethinking Schools
- Schools Matter
- Seattle School Facts
- SEE Social Equality Educators new website
- SEE: Social Equality Educators
- Social Equality Educators
- Stop National Standards
- Susan Ohanian
- Teacher Tom
- Teachers Lead
- Teachers Letters to Obama
- Testing Abuse
- The New Orleans Imperative
- The Perimeter Primate
- Truth in American Education
- United Opt Out National
- Welcome to the REAL Washington State Budget!
- Where's the Math?
Boston
- School Committee Vote Draws Outrage, Grief
- The Fight for Boston Public Schools
Brilliant Commentary
- Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System
British Columbia
- Web of control
Broad Foundation: The "Underground Department of Education"
- 'Edupreneurs' now the way for U.S. Department of Education to waste billions on 'innovation'… Duncan and Harvard team up to push toxic 'innovation models' on public schools
- "Featured graduates"
- A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s training programs and education policies
- A teacher pushed to the edge
- Angry parents drive Bobb from Town Hall
- Another Broad Bailout?
- ‘Race to the Top’ and the Bill Gates Connection
- Billionaires Target Teachers—and Take the Gloves Off in Illinois
- Broad Effect
- Broad Foundation, Center for Reform of School Systems Leave Antioch Unified School District
- Broad News Flash:Senior military officials chosen for national training to become urban public school superintendents
- Broad's Superintendent Academy: Brigadier General Anthony J. Tata
- Broad's Superintendent Academy: Entrepreneurs and Military Generals Wanted
- Bully in Search of a Pulpit
- Cathie Black and the privatisation of education
- Connections between Eli Broad, the Parent Union (aka Parent Revolution, the creators of the "Parent Trigger"), and Green Dot
- Eli Broad describes close ties to Klein, Weingarten, Duncan
- Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools
- Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy
- How Broad gets the word out in Seattle, see page 38
- How ed reformers push the wrong theory of learning
- Joanne Barkan on How Billionaires Rule Our Schools
- Judge Rules Broad's Stooge, Robert Bobb, Must End Illegal Takeover of Detroit Schools
- KIPP Board of Directors
- KIPP National Partners
- Obama's Right-Wing School Reform
- One of Broad's Finest, General Tata, Now Wake County's New Superintendent
- One Surreptitious Way That Broad Gets the Word Out in Seattle
- Oprah and Eli
- Private funds sway public school reform
- Record Number of Broad Residents Take on Local, State, Federal Roles Managing Education Reform
- Rhee's Reward: an Ethics Probe
- School Turnaround Blitzkrieg Mires Down
- Schools closings planned in secret, parents charge… Another 'Broad Foundation Fellow' guilty of teacher bashing and bashing public schools… Rochester teachers voting no confidence in superintendent
- Superintendents, Inc.
- Teacher Evaluations Based on Test Scores Will Requires Dozens of New Tests
- The BROAD Foundation vs Parents & Teachers in Seattle
- The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Awards $23.3 Million to Grow Quality Public Charter Schools in Los Angeles
- The Nation Exposes Obama's Cynical Education Gambit
- The Rise of Venture Philanthropy and the Ongoing Neoliberal Assault on Public Education: The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
- Why Charlotte-Mecklenburg Parents Should Sue Peter Gorman and the C-M School Board
Broad Superintendents
- A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s training programs and education policies
- Another Broad Foundation Ed Deformer Bites the Dust: Illinois
- Chicago Schools CEO Choice Shows Problem With Mayoral Control
- What Changes Wardynski Hath Wrought
- Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System
Broad Toads
- Another Broad Foundation Ed Deformer Bites the Dust: Illinois
- Teacher Evaluations Based on Test Scores Will Requires Dozens of New Tests
- Why Charlotte-Mecklenburg Parents Should Sue Peter Gorman and the C-M School Board
- Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System
Bushonomics and how that has affected public school education
- Trickle-Down Cruelty and the Politics of Austerity
California
- Above the Law: OC Charter School Retaliates Against Journalism Teacher, Violates State Law Again
- Broad Foundation, Center for Reform of School Systems Leave Antioch Unified School District
- Brown sharply differs from Obama on education policy
- Brown sours on rigid reforms for schools
- California Governor Puts the Testing Juggernaut On Ice
- Collapse of 60 Charter Schools Leaves Californians Scrambling
- Congresswoman Announces New Framework and Principles for School Improvement Grants
- Education Leonard J. Martin for State Superintendent of Public Instruction for California
- Jerry Brown: "My Hunch is that Principals and Teachers Know the Most…"
- Judy Chu: Here is How to Strengthen Struggling Schools
- Parent Empowerment or Parent Manipulation?
- Promises, promises about education
- State Board of Education puts the brakes on parent-trigger law
- State looks into loss of funds by start-up charter schools
- State withholds charter school data
- Testing, one, two, three : Summary of the Chavez Education Conference 4/30-5/1/2010
- UC Berkeley Cyber Resistance
- Will California Start a National Revolt Against Bad Ideas?
Cashing In On Ed Reform
- 10 Northeast Ohio charter school boards sue White Hat Management firm
- Albany charter cash cow: Big banks making a bundle on new construction as schools bear the cost
- Another super-mugging? NY State Education Department to award $27 no-bid contract to Joel Klein and Rupert Murdoch
- “Poverty Is the Problem”: Efforts to Cut Education Funding, Expand Standardized Testing Assailed
- Bala Cynwyd investors donate $1.5M to Williams
- Cathie Black and the privatisation of education
- Cathie Black on Board of Harlem Village Academies, HVA Head Makes 450 Grand, and Check the Pushout and Teacher Turnover Rates
- CEO Pay in Charter School Chains
- Charter discipline policy under fire
- Charter financial analysis draws fire
- Charter school accused of scrimping on student supplies and support under state investigation
- Charter school fails and bondholders get bailout
- Charter school leader sentenced for tampering
- Charter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed Results
- Charter schools seek construction money
- Charter Schools Tied to Turkey Grow in Texas
- Charters schools' windfall is public kids' loss as state has city on hook for $32 million
- Coconut Grove Charter School Raising Eyebrows
- Comptroller Di Napoli and Harry Wilson: where do they stand on fiscal oversight of charter schools and DOE?
- Cornering the education market
- Corporate Charter Lobbyists Go After Florida School Construction Money
- Diane Ravitch on Nation Grit TV
- Dirty job: charter teachers janitors
- Education Inc. : How private companies are profiting from Texas public schools.
- EDUCATION REFORM IS THE BEST STOCK ON THE MARKET
- Entertainment Properties is Now is the Act of Charter Schools: Let the Good Times Roll!
- Entertainment Properties Trust
- Ex-cop gets 3 years for stealing from charter school he ran
- Federal reviewers: Minn. 'Race to the Top' application illegible, missing information
- Florida charter schools: big money, little oversight
- For-profit charter companies perform worse than peers
- Freedom Rider: Charter School Lobby Buys Elections
- George Carlin:The American Dream (R rated)
- Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy
- High Tech Testing on the Way: a 21st Century Boondoggle?
- Inexperienced Companies Chase U.S. School Funds
- Juan Gonzalez: Big Banks Making a Bundle on New Construction as Schools Bear the Cost
- K-12 Marketplace Sees Major Flow of Venture Capital
- KIPP Indianapolis: Too Connected to Corporate Power to Fail
- L.A. charter school group secures $10.5-million bailout
- Massive Education Cuts In Pennsylvania
- Mavericks High Schools Hope to Profit From Education – But at What Cost?
- Michigan researcher keeps tabs on charter school companies
- Murdoch buys education technology company
- New revelations and timeline of Sharpton, Klein and Bloomberg's political machinations
- New York State Department of Education awards News Corp. company $27M no-bid contract
- Newark Charter School Fund spending more on itself than it's giving out
- NeXtup
- No Educator Left Behind: Pearson, Leading Scorer of Standardized Tests, Subpoenaed
- Now We Know Why Banks Have Taken So Much Interest in Charter Schools
- Online Courses: When For-Profit Companies Do Not Work in Non-Profit Charter Schools
- Pourier admits stealing more than $1 million from school
- Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schools
- Schools under scrutiny for financing private school with taxpayer dollars
- Seligman's Brainwashing Is Not Just for Captive KIPPsters Anymore
- Test-prep giant Princeton Review is charged with ripping off the feds for millions
- The bait and switch of school "reform"
- The Big Bucks in School Privatization
- The Business Behind Florida’s Internet Schools
- The Corporate Cash Which Fuels Jeb Bush’s Education Empire
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Test Scorer
- The Outrage of the Week
- Tom Corbett Crushes The Poor And Rewards Campaign Donor With Education Budget
- Tom Corbett Crushes The Poor And Rewards Campaign Donor With Education Budget
- Tom Nida, DC Bankster and Charter School Board Chair
- UPDATED: Joe Biden's Brother Is President and "P.T. Barnum" for SoFla Charter School Chain
- Waiting for Superfraud
- When You're Rich and Connected, Call the US Treasury!
- Who profits from for-profit charter schools in Florida?
- Who really benefits from putting high-tech gadgets in classrooms?
Charleston
- Charter school sues district
Charter or Education Management Organizations (CMO's) (EMO"S)
- Charter School Industry Running Amok in Florida with Taxpayer Dollars
- Charter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed Results
- League of Women Voters: Subcontracting Public Education
- Pennsylvania Schools’ Financing Fight Pits District Against ‘Charter on Steroids’
- Profiles ofNEPC: For-Profit and Nonprofit Education Management Organizations: Thirteenth Annual Report
Charter school abuses
- City Seeks to Close Two Charter Schools
- New Orleans schools: A nexus of poverty, high expulsion rates, hyper-security and novice teachers
Charter School Closures
- Finances, Underperformance Top Reasons For Charter School Closures
- New York City Charter School Finds That a Grade of ‘C’ Means Closing
- What happens when charter schools close?
Charter school scandals
- Charter law forced school's closure
- Charter School Scandals & Stimulus $$
- New Orleans schools: A nexus of poverty, high expulsion rates, hyper-security and novice teachers
Charter Schools
- (Uncertified) Teacher sacked after attack on student posted on YouTube
- A Revolving Door
- Above the Law: OC Charter School Retaliates Against Journalism Teacher, Violates State Law Again
- Access Denied: New Orleans Students and Parents Identify Barriers to Public Education
- Another Broad Bailout?
- Another charter school bailout
- Another Detroit is Happening—But Which One Do We Need?
- Arne Duncan's Brand of Equality
- Bill Gates: 'Charter schools should lead innovation'
- Bye, Bye Duncan
- Case against Charter Schools Commission heads to state Supreme Court
- Cathie Black and the privatisation of education
- Cathie Black on Board of Harlem Village Academies, HVA Head Makes 450 Grand, and Check the Pushout and Teacher Turnover Rates
- Charter financial analysis draws fire
- Charter School by Day, Nightclub by Night?
- Charter school charged with embezzling over $200K
- Charter school cooks the books
- Charter School Not Making the Grade
- Charter School Reform Bill Dies in Senate Subcommittee
- CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS
- Charter Schools Aren't the Solution for Virginia
- Charter Schools Iced, Los Angeles Teachers Win Bids To Run New Schools
- Charter Schools Increasing Racial Segregation in Classrooms
- Charter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed Results
- Charter schools: Finding out the facts: At a glance
- Charter schools: Vehicles for privatization
- Charters 'nix 23%' of kids
- Chicago charter schools produce wildly uneven results on state tests
- CMO's: New Charter Study by Mathematica With More Bad News for Corporate Ed Reform
- Collapse of 60 Charter Schools Leaves Californians Scrambling
- COMPILATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS
- Compton Parents Charge Barr and Austin's "Parent Revolution" with Deception, Manipulation, and Lies
- Comptroller Di Napoli and Harry Wilson: where do they stand on fiscal oversight of charter schools and DOE?
- Corporate Charter Trigger Compton Chronicles
- Coupons for Kids
- Credo Report on Charter School Performance in 16 States
- Deception 101 – Charter Schools: from co-location to astro-turf parent groups
- Diane Ravitch on Charter Schools
- Diane Ravitch: The Myth of Charter Schools
- Education Secretary Arne Duncan Pushes to Aggressively Expand Charter Schools While Admitting Problems
- Educational Dysfunctionality and Discrimination in the World of Bloomberg/Klein
- Entertainment Properties is Now is the Act of Charter Schools: Let the Good Times Roll!
- Finally, Some In-Depth Reporting on Why Students Leave Charters
- Finances, Underperformance Top Reasons For Charter School Closures
- For-profit charter companies perform worse than peers
- Freedom Rider: Charter School Lobby Buys Elections
- Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy
- Head of troubled charter school company resigns
- Hearings on Charter Schools in NY Focus on Corruption
- Hedge funds can only harm education
- Hundreds Of Angry, Confused Parents Show Up To District Board Meeting
- Idaho to shut school involved in Bible controversy
- In Defense of Teachers:What charter schools really tell us about education reform
- Indiana charter schools fail to succeed
- It’s the Poverty, Stupid!
- Juan Gonzalez: Big Banks Making a Bundle on New Construction as Schools Bear the Cost
- KIPP Indianapolis: Too Connected to Corporate Power to Fail
- Local charter schools like Harlem Success is big business as millions are poured into marketing
- Many Chicago Charter Schools Run Deficits
- Massachusetts Charter School Study Not Mentioned in Boston Globe: That Can Only Mean One Thing
- Massive Education Cuts In Pennsylvania
- Mathematica: Charter School Study Shows No Significant Overall Impacts on Achievement
- Michigan researcher keeps tabs on charter school companies
- MIT Publication: Who Benets from KIPP?
- Moving like a cancer — ‘free schools’ and ‘free markets’ – dateline England
- NAACCP's resolution regarding charter schools
- New KIPP Study Flawed: Jim Horn, Schools Matter
- New Orleans Free Academy to be first charter school to close in New Orleans
- New Orleans parent says her eighth-grader was put in a 'cage' at school
- New Orleans parents complain that charter schools are leaving most vulnerable students behind
- New Report Explains that Charter Schools' Political Success is a Civil Rights Failure
- Obama and Duncan's Education Policy:
- Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling
- Obama's ESEA Plan Short on Research, Authors Allege
- One in 10 charter school students transfers out
- PACE issues scathing report of charter schools
- Parents Question Budget Impact on Immersion and Charter Schools
- Parents say special-ed kids falling victim in charter battle for space inside city schools Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2010/03/23/2010-03-23_parents_say_specialed_kids_falling_victim_in_battle_for_space_inside_city_school.html
- Privatization Will Not Help Us Achieve Our Goals: An Interview with Diane Ravitch
- Problems with Illinois charter schools
- Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schools
- Punishment First at Brooklyn Charter School
- Push Back in New Orleans
- Record Number of Broad Residents Take on Local, State, Federal Roles Managing Education Reform
- Resistance building to Rahm's school closings.
- Roundtable: Do Charter Schools Worsen Inequality of Two-Tiered Education System, or Help Address It?
- School Turnaround Blitzkrieg Mires Down
- School's Out
- Schools Without Diversity: Education Management Organizations, Charter Schools, and the Demographic Stratification
- Seung Ok on Charter Schools
- Space-strapped charter school sent students to factory space
- Special Ed Students Need Not Apply
- Special-Ed Problems Continue In District
- Stan Karp: Issues with Charter Schools
- State withholds charter school data
- Study Finds NYC Charters Don't Serve the City's Poorest
- Styling: the Charter School Look
- Teach
- Teacher Turnover in Charter Schools
- Teacher Turnover in Charter Schools
- Teachers union rips outreach to charters
- Testimony of a charter school mom: Michigan and the National Heritage Educational Management Organization
- The Audacity of Arne Duncan
- The Big Bucks in School Privatization
- The Blind Side
- The Equity Project and $125,000 Salaries: the Talent Myth of McKinsey & Co.
- The Failures of Katie Couric as a Reporter: Biased 60 Minutes Report on Zeke Vanderhoek and TEP Charters
- The Fight for Boston Public Schools
- The McEducation of the Negro
- The Myth of “Choice” in New Orleans: How the Recovery School District, Through the Charter School Movement Has Cheated Nearly 5000 New Orleans Students Out of Access to Real “Choice”
- The Myth of Charter Schools
- The Myth of Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch
- The myth of US charter schools
- The New Orleans Imperative
- The Proto-Fascist Future of Education: It’s Here
- This teacher reacts to seeing “Waiting for Superman”
- Tom Nida, DC Bankster and Charter School Board Chair
- Tom Vander Ark’s New York-Area Charter Schools Falter
- UCLA Report Says Charters Are Causing Resegregation Of American Schools
- Unionizing charter schools, bashing teacher unions: how ‘capital’ makes us hate organized working people
- Unions Move In at Chicago Charter Schools, and Resistance Is Swift
- Vanderbilt University: Teacher Turnover and Charter School
- Vanderbilt: Instructional Conditions in Charter Schools and Students’ Mathematics Achievement Gains
- Vanishing Students, Rising Scores: Middle School Charters Show Alarming Student Attrition Over Time
- We’re still waiting for Superman here in Charterland
- What Happens When a Charter School Fails?
- What’s wrong with N.J. charter school policy
- Who profits from for-profit charter schools in Florida?
- Who’s Bashing Teachers and Public Schools and What Can We Do About It?
- Why most charter schools should be called private schools, not public schools
- You Say Charter — I Say Semi-Private School
Charter Schools and a Lack of Oversight and Accountibility
- Charter School Industry Running Amok in Florida with Taxpayer Dollars
- Florida charter schools: big money, little oversight
- Lack of oversight an issue for model charter school system
- Lack of oversight failing Hawaii’s charter school students
- New Orleans schools: A nexus of poverty, high expulsion rates, hyper-security and novice teachers
- Philadelphia: OFFICE OF THE CONTROLLER REVIEW OF CHARTER SCHOOL OVERSIGHT A Fraud Vulnerability Assessment
- State looks into loss of funds by start-up charter schools
Charter schools and co-locations
- Brooklyn parents, teachers & community members speak out: we don't want your charter school!
- Charter law forced school's closure
- Parents fight to keep charter out of Flatbush school with lawsuit
- The battle for the soul of a community: scenes from contentious charter school hearing in S. Williamsburg — and the memory of another controversial co-location 25 years ago
Charter Schools and Corruption
- Education: What happens when charter schools fail?
Charter Schools and Race
- At charter schools, more black teens drop out
Charter Schools and Religion
- Charter schools find homes on church campuses
- Edison board opposes charter school plan
- Nampa Charter School Denies Public Records Request
- Palmetto Christian to become public school
Charter Schools and Special Ed
- Access Denied: New Orleans Students and Parents Identify Barriers to Public Education
- “My special child, pushed out of Kindergarten at a NYC charter school"
- Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities: Preliminary Analysis of the Legal Issues and Concerns
- DC Charters' Selective Admissions: Special Ed Students Need Not Apply
- Educational Dysfunctionality and Discrimination in the World of Bloomberg/Klein
- Harlem Success Academy turns away parent of child with special needs, while battle over HSA invasion of upper West Side heats up
- Hundreds Of Angry, Confused Parents Show Up To District Board Meeting
- Oprah-Backed Charter School Denying Disabled Collides With Law
- Parents say special-ed kids falling victim in charter battle for space inside city schools Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2010/03/23/2010-03-23_parents_say_specialed_kids_falling_victim_in_battle_for_space_inside_city_school.html
- Parents, advocates fear that New Orleans charter schools have rejected students with disabilities
- Penn school special education teacher hits KIPP hypocrisy on special education children
- Special-Ed Problems Continue In District
- The Problem With New Orleans’s Charter Schools
Charter Schools and the Gulen Movement
- Charter Schools Tied to Turkey Grow in Texas
- Charter Schools Tied to Turkey Grow in Texas
- Gulen Charter Schools
- Investigation uncovers federal probe into Ohio charter school tax dollars spent overseas
- U.S. charter-school network with Turkish link draws federal attention
Charter Schools and the Lack of Transparency
- Charter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed Results
- Charters 'nix 23%' of kids
- Dirty job: charter teachers janitors
- For-profit charter companies perform worse than peers
- Michigan researcher keeps tabs on charter school companies
- Trustee questions charter school's finances
Charter Schools and the Military
- Broad News Flash:Senior military officials chosen for national training to become urban public school superintendents
- Fast Times at Recruitment High
- The Chicago Model of Militarizing Schools
- The Duncan Doctrine The Military-Corporate Legacy of the New Secretary of Education
Charter schools and the money
- Coconut Grove Charter School Raising Eyebrows
- Florida charter schools: big money, little oversight
- Follow the Money
- Local Imagine Schools places top executive on leave
- Loopholes In Florida Law Mean Little Oversight of Charter Business Deals
- State looks into loss of funds by start-up charter schools
Charter Schools and the Resegregation of Our Public Schools
- "Framework for Providing All Students an Opportunity to Learn"
- Against Evaluating Massachusetts Teachers Using Student Test Scores
- Challenging Jim Crow schools in Chicago
- Charter Schools and Civil Rights: What Kind of 'Movement' is This?
- Florida charters less diverse than other public schools
- How Education Reform Traps Poor Children
- Institute on Race and Poverty: Failed Promises: Assessing Charter Schools in the Twin Citites
- Is the Assault on Seniority an Assault on Teachers of Color? Will School Closings Lead to College or Incarceration?
- KIPPsters vs. Hipsters: Why so little choice in Downtown schools?
- NAACCP's resolution regarding charter schools
- NAACP to Make Wake County a Test Case for Ending Resegregation Efforts
- Obama's "Laboratories of Excellence" Hemorraghing More Students than "Dropout Factories"
- Schools Without Diversity
- Segregated Charter Schools Evoke Separate But Equal Era in U.S.
- Seung Ok on Charter Schools
- Study: Charter Schools Increasing Racial Segregation in Classrooms
- The McEducation of the Negro
- The McEducation of the Negro
- Three Kinds of Charter Schools: Largely Segregated, Intensely Segregated, and Apartheid
- UCLA Report Explains that Charter Schools' Political Success is a Civil Rights Failure
- UCLA Report Says Charters Are Causing Resegregation Of American Schools
- Why Civil Rights Groups Oppose the Obama Agenda
- Would I Send My Child To This School?
Check This Out
- From "Morning in America" to the Nightmare on Main Street
- Logan Symposium: The New Initiatives
- Unlikely Allies Call for Shifting Spending from Prisons to Schools
Chicago
- 'A victory for the rights of all teachers!'… Judge grants injunction for Chicago Teachers Union in layoffs case, ordering CPS to restore more than 1,000 tenured teachers to working status
- 'Survival of the fittest' mentality in Chicago
- A Revolving Door
- Assessments of Schools Are Flawed, Report Says
- Black Chicago Teachers Win Discrimination Lawsuit Against Arne Duncan's Mass Firings
- Black Chicago Teachers Win Discrimination Lawsuit Against Arne Duncan's Mass Firings
- Bringing it all back home to Rahm
- Call to action at Chicago Teachers Union January 2011 meeting
- Charter school cooks the books
- Chicago Coalition Wants to End Mayoral Control
- Chicago parents pushing back on Rahm's longer school day
- Chicago principals say no to Rahm's "merit pay" scheme
- Chicago School Closings Found to Yield Few Gains
- Chicago Schools CEO Choice Shows Problem With Mayoral Control
- Chicago schools report contradicts Obama and Duncan
- Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1%
- Chicago Teachers Wise Up to Obama School Privatizations
- COMPLETE DECISION REPRINTED… Chicago Teachers Union upholds teachers' tenure rights… Judge Coar's decision shows how completely CPS has lost (again) in federal court
- CORE
- Coupons for Kids
- Cramming for kindergarten tests
- Discrimination Complaint under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Filed on December 8, 2010
- Fast Times at Recruitment High
- How (and why) those Rogers Park high schoolers made their anti-Rahm/pro-Miguel video
- Legislators grill Brizard on school closings, turnarounds
- Many Chicago Charter Schools Run Deficits
- Newspaper Flunks State Test
- One in 10 charter school students transfers out
- Paid to Protest?
- Parents beat back Rahm's re-segregation at LaSalle Academy
- Public Accountability and Renaissance 2010
- Rahm's Army
- Rahm's Attack on Teachers Showdown in Chicago
- Rahm's Attack on Teachers: Showdown in Chicago
- Rahm's Rent-A-Preacher and Rent-A-Protest exposed, even to elected state officials
- Reasons Against Chicago's Longer School Day
- Resistance building to Rahm's school closings.
- School protesters pray, sing at Emanuel’s home
- Study: No real progress in CPS grade school reading in 20 years
- Summary of research studies on Renaissance 2010
- Teacher's Union to Sue Over Larger Class Sizes
- Teachers union gets new leader
- Teachers, other workers protest President Barack Obama's 'Race to the Top' during President's Chicago visit on August 5, 2010
- The Chicago Model of Militarizing Schools
- The CPS Grind on Teachers
- The Duncan Doctrine The Military-Corporate Legacy of the New Secretary of Education
- The real Chicago "miracle" — Arne Duncan still has a job
- Thousands jam Loop streets protesting attacks on public schools, Board of Education budget cuts
- Thousands rally in Chicago’s Daley Plaza for union rights.
- Unions Move In at Chicago Charter Schools, and Resistance Is Swift
- Waiting for Library-Man
- With the Victory in Chicago, How Long Can NEA and AFT Continue to Hide from the Facts??
China
- Education as a Path to Conformity
- Tainted Paint in the PISA Picture?
Chris Hedges
- Harvard Feeds the Putocracy
Cincinnati
- Charter school operator on hot seat
Class Size
- “My special child, pushed out of Kindergarten at a NYC charter school"
- Bill Gates, have I got a deal for you!
- Does Class Size Matter?
- South Shore Elementary School
- Students lose individual attention as class sizes swell across the metro area
- The Whipping Boy
- What’s Behind the War on Class Size
- Why Bill Gates is Wrong On Class Size
- Why class size is such a big deal
Cleveland
- Students walked out of Collingwood High on May 13 in support of their teachers and were arrested
Common Core Standards
- "Common Core" School Standards Roll On Without Supporting Evidence
- Brookings Institute Study on Common Core Standards
- Choking on the Common Core Standards
- Closing the Door on Innovation
- Common Core Standards Leave Teachers Out of the Equation
- Common Core standards pose dilemmas for early childhood
- Common Core Standards Why we object to the K–3 Core Standards
- Cornering the education market
- HAS ARNE DUNCAN JUNKED THE COMMON CORE?
- If Lady Gaga Can be Useful…
- K-12 Marketplace Sees Major Flow of Venture Capital
- New York’s Common Core Pre-K Standards: They’re Not Kidding Around
- Stotsky: yes, parents were excluded from developing the Common Core
- Study: Common Standards Will Not Affect Student Achievement
- Susan Ohanian's list of Common Core Standards articles
- The National Standards Come With No Guarantee
- The Outrage of the Week
- Two Moms Against Common Core
- We’re being steamrolled into one-size-fits-all
- Will National Standards Become the Operating System for our Schools?
CORE
- Teachers, other workers protest President Barack Obama's 'Race to the Top' during President's Chicago visit on August 5, 2010
D.C.
- Arbitrator: Fired D.C. teachers should be rehired
- “Rhee the Reformer: A Cautionary Tale”
- Billionaire boyz club plans to buy D.C. teachers hits a snag?
- Broad, Gates and the Waltons Bail Out Rhee
- Bruce Monroe Elementary: Case Study in Gentrification
- DC Charters' Selective Admissions: Special Ed Students Need Not Apply
- Fenty to Mayors: School Boards Have No Purpose
- Globalization Spits Up Michelle Rhee
- Huge achievement gaps persist in D.C. schools
- Michelle Rhee's Cheating Scandal
- Michelle Rhee: Education reform huckster
- Oprah and her warrior woman, Michelle Rhee
- Progress in closing DC test score gap slows
- Proving Grounds • School “Rheeform” in Washington, D.C.
- Rethinking Schools: The Proving Grounds: School “Rheeform” in Washington, D.C.
- Rhee hedges remarks on laid-off teachers
- Rhee hints that her job as D.C. schools chief hinges on Fenty's reelection: Check out the comments. She is not a popular gal in DC.
- Rhee in D.C.: The myth of the heroic leader
- Rhee to Campaign for Mayor Bill Gates, er Fenty in DC
- Rhee vows to shield D.C. teachers, supplies amid budget cuts
- Rhee's appearance at D.C. Mayor Fenty's rally shows disregard for law
- Rhee's Hard Data or "Single Data Points" Depends on Whose Value Is Being Added
- Rhee's Reward: an Ethics Probe
- Rheehire the Teachers, Rheetire the Chancellor
- Sexual Misconduct Suit Filed Against D.C. Public School Chancellor Michelle Rhee and Former Teacher
- Shame on Michelle Rhee
- Special-Ed Problems Continue In District
- The Gracelessness Of Michelle Rhee
- The McEducation of the Negro
- Tom Nida, DC Bankster and Charter School Board Chair
- Waiting for Superfraud
- When standardized test scores soared in D.C., were the gains real?
- Why Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty Lost
Delaware
- Christina community doubts DE Dept. of Ed's decisions
Democrats for Education Reform (DFER)
- DFER Watch
- John Walton: DFER Catalyst?
- Peas in a pod: Koret Foundation, The Hoover Institution, and Democrats for Education Reform
- Who’s Bashing Teachers and Public Schools and What Can We Do About It?
Denver
- A different view from Denver
Department of Education (DOE)
- 'Edupreneurs' now the way for U.S. Department of Education to waste billions on 'innovation'… Duncan and Harvard team up to push toxic 'innovation models' on public schools
- City took money for nothing as it got aid to cut class sizes, OK'ed packing more students together
- Revelations concerning SED's secret backdoor deal with DOE on class size
- What Shelton's Waiver Tells Us About the Gates Foundation and DOE
Detroit
- "NO" to Mayoral Control in Detroit
- Angry parents drive Bobb from Town Hall
- Another Detroit is Happening—But Which One Do We Need?
- Bob Bobb: $1B budget, Increased class sizes, ballooning deficit
- Bobb's DPS Plan Calls for Changes to Arts Programs
- By Any Means Necessary and Detroit
- Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit
- Detroit Bobb : Bobb, Detroit school board duke it out in court
- Detroit School Board Claims Conflict Of Interest In New Contract
- Detroit Teachers say ‘NO’ to privatization and a state takeovers of public schools
- Detroit Teachers: DFT sponsored picket of Billionaire Boyz Clubs policies in Detroit Schools
- Detroit: Financial Manager to take the stand, the fight against Mayoral control
- Detroit: We Will Defend Public Education! We Will Defend Our Union!
- Diane Defends Detroit
- DPS DEBT BALLOONS
- Eli Broad's Robert Bobb Pleads in Court to Hold On to Bonuses
- Foes of mayoral control for Detroit schools to protest
- From failing badly to failing boldly? Don't expect charter school plan to fix Detroit public education
- In Detroit Schools News It's Democracy 1, Oligarchs 0
- Judge gives Bobb control of DPS academics
- Judge Rules Broad's Stooge, Robert Bobb, Must End Illegal Takeover of Detroit Schools
- Oligarchs' Booker T. in KC Resigns, Leaving Big Broadie Shadow
- Rep. Johnson: It's time for Robert Bobb to leave Detroit schools Read more: Rep. Johnson: It's time for Robert Bobb to leave Detroit schools
- Robert Bobb flees from BAMN, parents, teachers and students
- Robert Bobb must resign! Detroit Schools
- Robert Bobb must resign! Detroit Schools
- Why does the school's CFO, Bob Bobb, need a bodyguard?
DeVos
- Dick DeVos advocates "stealth" strategy, Heritage Foundation
- Michelle Rhee Steps Out With Scott Walker To Accept DeVos Accolades
- Right-Wing Campaign to Privatize Public Ed Takes Hold in Pennsylvania
Diane Ravitch
- "The Death and Life of the Great American School System"
- "What I Did in June" by Diane Ravitch
- A Manifesto by the Powerful
- Are You There, Mr. President? Madison is Calling
- “Poverty Is the Problem”: Efforts to Cut Education Funding, Expand Standardized Testing Assailed
- Bill Gates Listens to the Wrong People
- Book TV: Afterwords: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System"
- Book TV: Afterwords: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System"
- Book TV: Booknotes: Diane Ravitch, "Left Back"
- Diane Defends Detroit
- Diane Ravitch Interview on No Child Left Behind
- Diane Ravitch on Nation Grit TV
- Diane Ravitch On School Reform, Part 1
- Diane Ravitch On School Reform, Part 2
- Diane Ravitch, December 9, 2011 NATIONAL OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN SUMMIT
- Diane Ravitch: The Myth of Charter Schools
- Education expert has suggestions for Black
- Education is Not a Business: A Video
- First, Let's Fire All the Teachers!
- In Houston, Diane Ravitch challenges school reformers face to face
- In Need of a Renaissance
- Is Overemphasis On Testing Hurting Schools?
- Just Say No to the Race to the Top
- New York Book Review of The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch
- NY Times Book Review:The Education of Diane Ravitch
- Obama Defends Sweeping Education Reforms in Face of Criticism from Minority and Teachers’ Groups
- Obama Ramps Up Bush's No Child Left Behind Policy & the Privatizing of Education 1/3
- Ravitch to Obama: 'Change course before it is too late"
- Stop Trashing Teachers!
- Straight talk about charter schools
- Taking Back School Reform: A Conversation Between Diane Ravitch and Mike Rose
- The Education Reformers: Willfully Blind
- The Myth of Charter Schools
- The Myth of Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch
- The Problems With Value-Added Assessment
- The Year in Sanity: Diane Ravitch
- Three books about education reform
- Why Civil Rights Groups Oppose the Obama Agenda
- Why Civil Rights Groups Oppose the Obama Agenda
- Will San Diego's Public Schools Survive?
Disaster Capitalism
- "Blank is Beautiful", an excerpt from The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
- Disaster Capitalism: Revisiting the charter schooling and privatization of education in New Orleans
- From "Morning in America" to the Nightmare on Main Street
- Tax Rates for Top 400 Earners Fall as Income Soars, IRS Data
- The Financial Crisis, the Recession, and the American Political Economy
- The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Dr. Goodloe-Johnson: Poster Child for the Broad
- #13 Rapid changes taking toll on some teachers
- 63% of students qualified for college, Seattle district now says
- Aging Geeky Oligarch Front and Center in Education Takeover
- Dr. Goodloe-Johnson: Poster Child for the Broad
- Goodloe-Johnson and Silas Potter
- McGinley praised in teacher survey
- The BROAD Foundation vs Parents & Teachers in Seattle
- Two Seattle Special Ed Teachers Suspended for Honoring Parent Requests
Ed Reform Push Back
- Corporate Charter Trigger Compton Chronicles
- Detroit Teachers say ‘NO’ to privatization and a state takeovers of public schools
- Michelle Rhee: Education reform huckster
- Who’s Bashing Teachers and Public Schools and What Can We Do About It?
Edicaon charter schools
- Chester-Upland School District: Is state control the answer?
Education and Poverty
- How Education Reform Traps Poor Children
- It Takes a Village, Not a Tiger
- What’s Behind the War on Class Size
Education experts
- RESEARCHERS AS RESOURCES: A LIST OF EXPERTS WHO CAN SPEAK TO THE OVERALL KNOWLEDGE BASE ON IMPORTANT EDUCATION ISSUES
Education Nation
- Book TV: Afterwords: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System"
Education Reform
- "The Nation" Education Issue: A New Vision of School Reform
- A Bizarro World where teachers are to blame
- A Manifesto of Errors: Rhee, Klein and the Gang Strike Out
- Access Denied: New Orleans Students and Parents Identify Barriers to Public Education
- Arne Duncan's Brand of Equality
- Attending the AFT convention in Seattle and protesting with BAMN and others, the horrific policies of Race to the Top
- Cathie Black and the privatisation of education
- Delegitimizing Public Education
- Education Rediscovered
- Gates Document Details Plans for Influence Peddling and Propaganda War for Corporate Ed
- George Carlin:The American Dream (R rated)
- Hired Guns on Astroturf: How to Buy and Sell School Reform
- How & Why a Democratic President Privatized Our School System
- How ed reformers push the wrong theory of learning
- In Need of a Renaissance
- It’s the Poverty, Stupid!
- Monied interests try to seize public education
- My Night at the Kennedy School for A Single Political View on Education Reform
- NAACP to Make Wake County a Test Case for Ending Resegregation Efforts
- Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling
- Obama's ESEA Plan Short on Research, Authors Allege
- School Accountability and Teacher Mobility
- School Turnaround Blitzkrieg Mires Down
- Schoolwork
- Selling Out New York City's Public Schools: Mayor Bloomberg, David Steiner and the Politics of Corporate "Leadership"
- Teach
- Teacher Accountability and the Pathology of Domination
- Teacher Common Sense takes on Education "Reform" Nonsense
- The Education Reformers: Willfully Blind
- The Myth of the “Bad Teacher”
- The test score witch-hunt in LA
- This is How a Tipping Point Feels
- Three books about education reform
- UW-Madison School of Education Dean Julie Underwood Discusses ALEC
- Wanna be a School Reformer? You Better do Your Homework!
- Who’s Bashing Teachers and Public Schools and What Can We Do About It?
- Why Civil Rights Groups Oppose the Obama Agenda
- Why Civil Rights Groups Oppose the Obama Agenda
- Will National Standards Become the Operating System for our Schools?
Education Reform and Race
- "Framework for Providing All Students an Opportunity to Learn"
- How & Why a Democratic President Privatized Our School System
- How Education Reform Traps Poor Children
- Is the Assault on Seniority an Assault on Teachers of Color? Will School Closings Lead to College or Incarceration?
- Racism, Class and the Attack on Public Education: A Talk by Brian Jones
- Why Civil Rights Groups Oppose the Obama Agenda
Eli Broad
- A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s training programs and education policies
- An unsatisfied homeowner
- Bully in Search of a Pulpit
- Class-action lawsuit against KB (Kaufman Broad) Home
- Consumer Affairs
- Frank Gehry Calls Eli Broad a 'Control Freak' on National Television
- Homebuilder KAUFMAN BROAD sued by 18 homeowners in the city of Vallejo over construction defects
- http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2009/05/kb_homes_sued_by_group_affilia.php
- KB (Kaufman and Broad) Home sued over appraisals
- KB (Kaufman and Broad) Home's Bombs
- KB (Kaufman Broad) Home Class Action
- KB (Kaufman Broad) HOME DISASTER
- KB (Kaufman Broad) Home ex-CEO Bruce Karatz accused of stock option fraud
- KB (Kaufman Broad) Homes Are Falling Down
- KB (Kaufman Broad) Homes Shuts Down Sales Gallery
- KB Home/Kaufman and Broad
- Lawsuit claims KB (Kaufman Broad) home, Countrywide inflated home prices
- Target of Bitter Lawsuits : Top Builder Is Accused of Shoddy Work on Homes
England
- Moving like a cancer — ‘free schools’ and ‘free markets’ – dateline England
- Offshoring math? School ‘outsources teaching to India’
- The myth of US charter schools
ESEA Flexibility Waiver
- New Illinois accountability system: 1/2 star (Not Recommended)
ESEA: Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- “Poverty Is the Problem”: Efforts to Cut Education Funding, Expand Standardized Testing Assailed
- Congresswoman Gwen Moore’s Recommendations For ESEA Reauthorization
- Federal Policy, ESEA Reauthorization, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
- Reauthorization of the ESEA Demands Less Rhetoric, More Understanding of Research
- School-to-Prison Pipeline and No Child Left Behind
- Schools confront poverty, why don’t education policies?
- When Did This 'Consensus' Form?
- Why Is Congress Redlining Our Schools?
Events
- Dump NCLB/RTTT You-Tube Protest
Finland
- BBC: Finland's education success
- Diane Ravitch at Duke – Education in Finland vs. the US
- How Finnish schools shine
- Learning from Finland
- School Performance Depends on Close Attention to Social Equity
- Thoughts On Education In Finland 1
- What other countries are really doing in education
- Why do the Education Reformers Ignore Finland's Best Practices?
- Why Education in Finland Works
Florida
- A Dark Day For Educational Measurement In The Sunshine State
- A Teacher's Letter to Obama: A Lesson in Irony
- An Important Letter From Education Research Professor, Diane Ravitch, to New Mexico Legislators – Florida Model Does NOT Work.
- Bobby Jindal vs. Public Education
- Charter schools seek construction money
- Coconut Grove Charter School Raising Eyebrows
- Duncan silent on Florida’s education mess
- Florida charters less diverse than other public schools
- Florida teachers union sues over merit pay law
- Florida: Parent, community member, and tax payer opposition strengthens
- In Florida, Virtual Classrooms With No Teachers
- Lawmaker demands investigation into costs of Orlando charter school rally
- Loopholes In Florida Law Mean Little Oversight of Charter Business Deals
- Mandatory Student Standardized Testing With Punishments is Cruel Privatization Power Play Against Public Schools
- One of Broad's Finest, General Tata, Now Wake County's New Superintendent
- School Accountability and Teacher Mobility
- The Shock of Accountability in Florida
- Who profits from for-profit charter schools in Florida?
- Who profits from for-profit charter schools in Florida?
Fordham Institute
- How to Destroy Public Education — Lesson One
Funding for Educaion of a lack thereof
- Tenth Anniversary of the Bush-era Tax Cuts
Georgia
- Charter School Reform Bill Dies in Senate Subcommittee
- Georgia: The “pillory and the stocks” as math standards
- Seung Ok on Charter Schools
- Teach for America Rejected in Georgia’s Cobb School System
- The Atlanta Scandal: When Teachers are Disempowered & Abused
Greendot Charter Franchise
- 14 of 15 Green Dot schools are "failing," by Parent Revolution's definition
- Another charter school scam?… 'Parent Revolution' charged with misleading parents about signatures on 'close this school' petition
- Ben Austin: The Six Figure Salary Man – Green Dot
- Can Ben Austin Speak for Parent Revolution without Speaking for Green Dot?
- Cheating on state tests found at two Los Angeles schools
- Connections between Eli Broad, the Parent Union (aka Parent Revolution, the creators of the "Parent Trigger"), and Green Dot
- Green Dot revolution targets school that outperforms current Green Dotters
- Green Dot to close Justice Charter High School
- Parent Empowerment or Parent Manipulation?
- Perfidious Petruzzi calls for accurate evaluations of Green Dot Charter Corporation?
- Political Patronage for Green Dot Public Schools’ Chief Propagandist
- Powerful “Parent” Trigger operators target vulnerable school; attack misfires
- Say you want a revolution?: Parents Revolution, ‘Astro turf’ organizations and the privatization of public schools
Gulen Charter Schools
- Federal probe into Gulen charter schools
- Gulen Charter Schools
- Largest charter network in U.S.: Schools tied to Turkey
- WikiLeaks files detail U.S. unease over Turks and charter schools
Haiti
- Shock-Doctrine Schooling in Haiti: Neoliberalism Off the Richter Scale
Harlem Children's Zone
- Charter School Not Making the Grade
- Comment on Wall Street Support of Harlem Children’s Zone
- Diane Ravitch: What 'The Harlem Miracle' Really Teaches
- O Canada, So Inglorious and Untrue
- Serious Questions Raised About Harlem Village Academy Charter School: Is This The Model For Urban Public School Reform?
- The Future of Black History: What we can learn from the Harlem Children's Zone.
- This teacher reacts to seeing “Waiting for Superman”
Heroes
- School helps students fend off bad times
High Stakes Testing
- ALEC Reports on the War on Teachers
- Bloggers Challenge President on Standardized Testing
- Cathie Black and the privatisation of education
- Civil Rights Groups Press for Truly Qualified Teachers
- Confession of a cheating teacher
- Education Reform in the Wrong Direction: High-Stake Consequences for New York State Teachers and Their Students
- In Tennessee, Following the Rules for Evaluations Off a Cliff
- In Texas, a revolt brews against standardized testing
- It Just Got Personal. Join Me. January 7th.
- Kozol: Schools' test obsession robs kids of joy
- LETTER TO SECRETARY OF EDUCATION ARNE DUNCAN CONCERNING EVALUATION OF TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS
- Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children
- Predictably Irrational: A Conversation with Best-Selling Author Dan Ariely
- Problems with the use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers
- Problems with the Use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers
- Q&A: What teachers and parents should make of The Times' rankings
- Review of Learning About Teaching
- Study blasts popular teacher evaluation method
- Study: Error rates high when student test scores used to evaluate teachers
- Survey: N.C. Teachers Say High-Stakes Tests Dominate Classes
- Teachers deserve better
- Teachers, Performance Pay, and Accountability
- The complete list of problems with high-stakes standardized tests
- The New York Principal's APPR Paper
- The Real Cheating Scandal of Standardized Tests
- The test score witch-hunt in LA
- Why I Will Not Teach to the Test
Idaho
- Idaho to shut school involved in Bible controversy
Illinois
- 'Performance Counts' and other billionaires' bullshit…
- Billionaires Target Teachers—and Take the Gloves Off in Illinois
- Problems with Illinois charter schools
- Save Our Schools Million Teachers' March
Imagine Schools, Inc.
- Charter schools: Is this the way it was supposed to work?
- EDUCATION INC. — Part II: It's 'Our school, not theirs'
- EDUCATION INC. – Part I: Private company skirts public boards in running tax-funded charter schools
- EDUCATION INC. – Part III: Local board secretly starts two school corporations in Texas
- For School Company, Issues of Money and Control
- Full text of Imagine Schools memo
- Home / News / Local / Education Parents slow to give up on struggling Imagine schools Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/article_03d837ad-3d6b-58f6-b086-2a5d58db43c0.html#ixzz1cMqKAwkl
- Imagine Charter Schools failing in Missouri, Georgia
- Imagine Schools, Inc.
- Lease adds up at Imagine
- Local Imagine Schools places top executive on leave
- Mo. Board to Close Troubled Charters
- No Charter School Left Behind: Mitch Daniels, Tony Bennett, and Dennis Bakke’s Imagine Schools
- Public Good vs. Private Profit: Imagine Schools, Inc. in Ohio
In Memoriam
- Bill Moyers: Remembering Howard Zinn
- Don Fisher: Union Buster, Egomaniac, Rube, In His Own Words
- Howard Zinn, Studs Terkel, Gerald Bracey and me
- Tribute to Jerry Bracey — Blogger and Friend
Indiana
- Charter school turnarounds?
- Indiana charter schools fail to succeed
- KIPP Indianapolis: Too Connected to Corporate Power to Fail
- Report shows merit pay for teachers is not effective
- Teachers rally in opposition of reform
Innovation Schools
- DPS board 4-3 on FNE schools
Just for Fun
- Data-Driven Education News Channel
- George Carlin:The American Dream (R rated)
Kansas
- Kicking NCLB to the curb
Kindergarten
- Success Academy — news from the playground
KIPP Charter Franchise
- "At KIPP, I would wake up sick, every single day"
- "Irrepressible" Bloggers vs. the Borg
- Another charter school scam?… 'Parent Revolution' charged with misleading parents about signatures on 'close this school' petition
- APA, CIA, Seligman, and KIPP
- Arne Duncan's Brand of Equality
- Bay Area KIPP schools lose 60% of their students, study confirms
- Big Time Self-Plagiarism, Punked Web Lemmings, and Chain Gangs for All? Part 1
- Bronx charter school spent thousands on staff retreats, audit shows
- Charter school faces withdrawals over punishment
- Comptroller Di Napoli and Harry Wilson: where do they stand on fiscal oversight of charter schools and DOE?
- DC Charter Report Takes Shots at KIPP, Imagine?
- Delaware wasting more education dollars
- Documented KIPP Abuser to Speak Sunday at TFA Conference: "Bringing the 'Joy Factor' to Your School"
- DOE Hires Turnaround School Official Who Resigned From Last Job "In Disgrace"
- George Carlin:The American Dream (R rated)
- Humane Schooling vs. KIPP-Genics
- In Houston, Diane Ravitch challenges school reformers face to face
- Is Choice a Panacea? An Analysis of Black Secondary Student Attrition from KIPP, Other Private Charters, and Urban Districts
- Jacobs on Meier on KIPP
- Jay Mathews’ seven myths about the KIPP charter schools
- KIPP Board of Directors
- KIPP Indianapolis: Dropout and Pushout Factory
- KIPP Indianapolis: Too Connected to Corporate Power to Fail
- KIPP Indianapolis: Too Connected to Corporate Power to Fail
- KIPP Indianapolis: Too Connected to Corporate Power to Fail
- KIPP National Partners
- KIPPsters vs. Hipsters: Why so little choice in Downtown schools?
- MIT Publication: Who Benets from KIPP?
- Myths and realities about KIPP
- New Jacksonville KIPP charter scores at bottom in FCAT
- New KIPP Study Flawed: Jim Horn, Schools Matter
- New KIPP Study Underestimates Attrition Effects
- Obama's "Laboratories of Excellence" Hemorraghing More Students than "Dropout Factories"
- On the Wal-Mart Money Trail
- Penn school special education teacher hits KIPP hypocrisy on special education children
- Recess: Happy playtime or hellhole of fighting and bullying?
- Seligman's Brainwashing Is Not Just for Captive KIPPsters Anymore
- Study Finds High Dropout Rates for Black Males in KIPP Schools
- The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Awards $23.3 Million to Grow Quality Public Charter Schools in Los Angeles
- The Equity Project and $125,000 Salaries: the Talent Myth of McKinsey & Co.
- The KULT of KIPP
- Unionizing charter schools, bashing teacher unions: how ‘capital’ makes us hate organized working people
- What Makes KIPP work
- Why I don’t believe in “reform”
- Why most charter schools should be called private schools, not public schools
Koch Brothers
- Koch Brother Buys the Right to Interfere in Faculty Hiring at Florida State University
Korea
- Korean children excel at testing, but at a price
Learning Objectives
- Learning to Hate Learning Objectives
Los Angeles
- A Bizarro World where teachers are to blame
- A major court victory in L.A.
- A teacher pushed to the edge
- Another Broad Bailout?
- Broad Attacks Mayor's Plan for Schools
- Bully in Search of a Pulpit
- Charter and private schools might not make the grade either
- Charter school charged with embezzling over $200K
- Charter Schools Iced, Los Angeles Teachers Win Bids To Run New Schools
- Compton Parents Charge Barr and Austin's "Parent Revolution" with Deception, Manipulation, and Lies
- Getting rid of bad teachers
- Head of troubled charter school company resigns
- Hundreds Of Angry, Confused Parents Show Up To District Board Meeting
- Ivy Academia slapped with 38 fraud counts
- Judging teacher performance is difficult, experts say
- Key L.A. Unified staff positions are funded privately
- L.A. teachers union won't accept pay cuts, 'value-added' evaluations
- LA teacher suicide sparks test-score pushback
- LA teachers union won't sign state's grant app
- Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Parent Group Files Lawsuit Charging LAUSD With Misuse of $2.5 Billion in Federal Title I Funds
- Parent Empowerment or Parent Manipulation?
- PERSONAL TO THE LOS ANGELES TEACHERS UNION
- Q&A: What teachers and parents should make of The Times' rankings
- School Turnaround Blitzkrieg Mires Down
- Teacher’s Death Exposes Tensions in Los Angeles
- The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Awards $23.3 Million to Grow Quality Public Charter Schools in Los Angeles
- The LA Times: Practicing Educational Research without a License
- The Proto-Fascist Future of Education: It’s Here
- The test score witch-hunt in LA
Louisiana
- Exploitation of Hundreds of Filipino Teachers in the U.S.
- March Madness
- New Orleans Free Academy to be first charter school to close in New Orleans
Maine
- Rep. Brian Bolduc Testifies Supporting a Ban on Teacher Merit Pay
MAP test
- How to Destroy Public Education — Lesson One
- Shortcomings of Standardized Testing
- Shortcomings of Standardized Testing
Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Charter School Study Not Mentioned in Boston Globe: That Can Only Mean One Thing
- Monied interests try to seize public education
- Teachers union rips outreach to charters
- The National Standards Come With No Guarantee
- What we know on the standards debate
Mayoral Control
- "NO" to Mayoral Control in Detroit
- “Poverty Is the Problem”: Efforts to Cut Education Funding, Expand Standardized Testing Assailed
- Chicago Coalition Wants to End Mayoral Control
- Chicago Schools CEO Choice Shows Problem With Mayoral Control
- Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy
- JC NAACP blasts Schundler as choice for education commissioner Read more: Hudson Reporter – JC NAACP blasts Schundler as choice for education commissioner
- Mayoral control gets an F from New Yorkers
- Ravitch: Mayoral control means zero accountability
- That Was the Week That Was
- Why Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty Lost
McKinsey & Company
- The Equity Project and $125,000 Salaries: the Talent Myth of McKinsey & Co.
- The Talent Myth
Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project
- NEPC: Review of Learning About Teaching
Merit Pay or "Performance Pay" aka Pay Per Score
- AFT: Don’t put full burden of achievement on teachers
- Another blow for merit pay: Long-awaited Tennessee study finds no impact on student achievement
- Baltimore teachers reject proposed contract
- Chicago principals say no to Rahm's "merit pay" scheme
- Diane Ravitch : Should Teacher Evaluation Depend on Student Test Scores?
- Does Merit Pay Make Sense?
- Failed tests
- Florida teachers union sues over merit pay law
- Harvard study says teacher merit pay does little to boost achievement
- Heavy reliance on test scores for teacher evaluation is misguided.
- Mandates cheat students, educators
- Mathmatica Study on Merit Pay
- Merit pay does not result in quality teaching, learning
- Merit Pay Found to Have Little Effect on Achievement
- NATIONAL CENTER ON PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES Policy Evaluation Report
- NCPI Studies on Performance Pay
- New York City’s Experiment with Schoolwide Performance Bonuses
- No merit in merit pay for teachers
- On New York School Tests, Warning Signs Ignored
- Predictably Irrational: A Conversation with Best-Selling Author Dan Ariely
- Ravitch: Why merit pay for teachers doesn’t work
- Report shows merit pay for teachers is not effective
- Seattle Public Schools wrong to tie teacher evaluation to high-stakes tests
- Study: Teacher bonuses fail to boost test scores
- Study: Texas' teacher merit pay program hasn't boosted student performance
- TEACHER INCENTIVES AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- Teachers, Performance Pay, and Accountability
- Texas Merit-Pay Pilot Failed to Boost Student Scores, Study Says
- Texas Study on Merit Pay
- TFA Teachers: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- The LA Times: Practicing Educational Research without a License
- The National Academy of Sciences:Value-Added Methods to Assess Teachers Not Ready for Use in High-Stakes Decisions
- The Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT)
- There’s a reason I’m no longer a public school teacher
- Thoughts on the Failure of Merit Pay
- Why Pay Incentives Are Destined to Fail
Michelle Rhee: Broad Board Member and Now Entrepeneur
- A $2,000 surplus and "absolute hogwash"
- Arbitrator: Fired D.C. teachers should be rehired
- “Rhee the Reformer: A Cautionary Tale”
- Bruce Monroe Elementary: Case Study in Gentrification
- Can Anita Dunn Put a Human Face to Michelle Rhee?
- Crowd shot from Rhee "Town Hall"
- DC Schools Chancellor Comes Under Fire
- Educational Reform or Ineptitude?
- Foundations reserve right to pull funding if D.C. schools chief Rhee leaves
- Globalization Spits Up Michelle Rhee
- Guess what Michelle Rhee charged a school to speak
- Huge achievement gaps persist in D.C. schools
- I Don't Understand Michelle Rhee
- Joel Klein Writes A Manifesto For Our Time
- Lanier: Only 1 teacher arrested for abuse
- Lawmaker demands investigation into costs of Orlando charter school rally
- Michelle Rhee Is Now Lying About Other People's Test Scores
- Michelle Rhee Steps Out With Scott Walker To Accept DeVos Accolades
- Michelle Rhee Was a Failure: What That Says About Education Reformers
- Michelle Rhee's Cheating Scandal
- Michelle Rhee: Education reform huckster
- My Night at the Kennedy School for A Single Political View on Education Reform
- Oprah and her warrior woman, Michelle Rhee
- Progress in closing DC test score gap slows
- Proving Grounds • School “Rheeform” in Washington, D.C.
- Response from Rhee's CFO
- Rethinking Schools: The Proving Grounds: School “Rheeform” in Washington, D.C.
- Rhee First
- Rhee hedges remarks on laid-off teachers
- Rhee hints that her job as D.C. schools chief hinges on Fenty's reelection: Check out the comments. She is not a popular gal in DC.
- Rhee in D.C.: The myth of the heroic leader
- Rhee talks about her early misadventures in teaching Rhee talks about her early misadventures in teaching
- Rhee to Campaign for Mayor Bill Gates, er Fenty in DC
- Rhee's appearance at D.C. Mayor Fenty's rally shows disregard for law
- Rhee's budget surplus revelation angers teachers unions
- Rhee's Hard Data or "Single Data Points" Depends on Whose Value Is Being Added
- Rhee's Plan: Students (Test Scores) First!
- Rhee's Reward: an Ethics Probe
- Rhee-Action to MichelleFirst in Boston
- Rhee’s problem with D.C.’s new test scores
- Rheeform: Fibs and Firings
- Rheehire the Teachers, Rheetire the Chancellor
- Right-Wing Campaign to Privatize Public Ed Takes Hold in Pennsylvania
- Sexual Misconduct Suit Filed Against D.C. Public School Chancellor Michelle Rhee and Former Teacher
- Sexy time?
- Shame on Michelle Rhee
- Shame on Michelle Rhee
- Teacher firings in DC are the result of budgeting mistakes, Chancellor Rhee admits
- The Gracelessness Of Michelle Rhee
- When standardized test scores soared in D.C., were the gains real?
- Why Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty Lost
Michigan
- Detroit School Board Claims Conflict Of Interest In New Contract
- Michigan Republicans: Let's Privatize Public School Teaching
- Non-traditional schools help revive kids yearning to learn
- Oligarchs' Booker T. in KC Resigns, Leaving Big Broadie Shadow
- Schools unsure of Race to Top
- Sit-In at the Michigan Capitol Building: Our Children Are Not for Sale!
- Students and activists arrested at Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm’s office over the decimation of public education in Detroit
- Testimony of a charter school mom: Michigan and the National Heritage Educational Management Organization
Milwaukee
- MPS Outscores City of Milwaukee Charters By 10%
Minnesota
- An Examination of Charter School Finances
- Charter school fails and bondholders get bailout
- National report finds Minnesota charter schools to be academically challenged
- State charter schools program is 'out of control'
Missouri
- Missouri State Teachers' Association: Race to the Top
Money
- Michael Moore: "America Is NOT Broke"
- Tax Breaks for the rich. Budget cuts for us.
Montana
- Montana Just Says No to More Impossible Testing Targets
- Montana Just Says No to More Testing Insanity
- The Real Cheating Scandal of Standardized Tests
Naomi Klein
- Excerpt from the Introduction: A Must Read
- Naomi Klein on Anti-Union Bills and Shock Doctrine American-Style: "This is a Frontal Assault on Democracy, It’s a Kind of a Corporate Coup D’Etat"
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
National News
- Likely New Head of House Ed Committee No Friend to NCLB
National Standards
- The problem with ‘Race to the Top’ is the race
- What we know on the standards debate
- Will National Standards Become the Operating System for our Schools?
NCLB waiver
- Obama Grants Waivers to NCLB and Makes a Bad Situation Worse
- Parents: make your voice heard on your state’s NCLB waiver!
NCTQ
- Colleges Respond to Report on Teacher Education Programs
- Dr. Lawrence Barnes: The Teachers We Need Vs. the Teachers We Have
- Early childhood programs dispute low ratings on teacher prep
- Group’s report poorly done, lacking in data
- http://W&MJoinsUniversitiesNationallytoOpposeaNCTQStudy
- Illinois Educator Preparation Groups Respond to New Ratings Report
- Misinformed on Teachers' Ed
- NCTQ Teacher Education Study an 'Outrage,' AACTE Says
- NCTQ's LAUSD report's highly questionable veracity shows Bill Gates' pervasiveness and perniciousness
- Payola Policy: NCTQ Prepares its Hit on Schools of Education
- Roosevelt University's Response to Teacher Education Program Study
- School of Education opting out of NCTQ and U.S. News and World Report study because of methodological concerns
- States' Ed. Schools Backing Out of NCTQ Review
- The NCTQ report is designed to embarrass, not to help
- U.S. News Getting It Wrong: Assess Teacher Programs Sensibly
- What is NCTQ
Nebraska
- This is Not Right
New Jersey
- Burning Questions from Teachers: Meet Our Realities, Mr. Duncan
- Christie gets bitch slapped for trying to defund high needs schools
- Columbia High School Walkout
- Edison board opposes charter school plan
- Footage of Students Protesting in New Jersey
- In New Jersey, a Civics Lesson in the Internet Age
- In New Jersey, a Civics Lesson in the Internet Age
- JC NAACP blasts Schundler as choice for education commissioner Read more: Hudson Reporter – JC NAACP blasts Schundler as choice for education commissioner
- Once-promising charter schools go off course – They're favored by reformers, but have a high rate of failure
- Report used to slam schools on 'Oprah' actually praises Newark, N.J. education efforts
- Student Protests – New Jersey News
- What’s wrong with N.J. charter school policy
New Orleans
- Access Denied: New Orleans Students and Parents Identify Barriers to Public Education
- Education Talk New Orleans
- Exploitation of Hundreds of Filipino Teachers in the U.S.
- KIPPsters vs. Hipsters: Why so little choice in Downtown schools?
- New Orleans Free Academy to be first charter school to close in New Orleans
- New Orleans parent says her eighth-grader was put in a 'cage' at school
- New Orleans parents complain that charter schools are leaving most vulnerable students behind
- New Orleans School Experiment Is Not Serving the Needs of All Students
- New Orleans schools: A nexus of poverty, high expulsion rates, hyper-security and novice teachers
- NOLA charter schools: favoritism with community & parents shut out
- Oprah-Backed Charter School Denying Disabled Collides With Law
- Push Back in New Orleans
- REVIEW OF THE LOUISIANA RECOVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT: LESSONS FOR THE BUCKEYE STATE: The NPEC Report
- School Turnaround Blitzkrieg Mires Down
- The Myth of “Choice” in New Orleans: How the Recovery School District, Through the Charter School Movement Has Cheated Nearly 5000 New Orleans Students Out of Access to Real “Choice”
- The New Orleans Imperative
- The Problem With New Orleans’s Charter Schools
- Trial on New Orleans school employee terminations after Hurricane Katrina starts
New Schools Venture Fund (NSVF)
- 'Edupreneurs' now the way for U.S. Department of Education to waste billions on 'innovation'… Duncan and Harvard team up to push toxic 'innovation models' on public schools
New York
- Academic Quits SUNY Board Over Charter Schools
- Analyzing Released NYC Value-Added Data Part 1
- Analyzing Released NYC Value-Added Data Part 2
- Andrew Cuomo: stop listening to the privateers, and start listening to parents
- Another super-mugging? NY State Education Department to award $27 no-bid contract to Joel Klein and Rupert Murdoch
- Applying a Precise Label to a Rough Number
- “My special child, pushed out of Kindergarten at a NYC charter school"
- “Poverty Is the Problem”: Efforts to Cut Education Funding, Expand Standardized Testing Assailed
- Bloomberg’s kids just aren’t learning: What the grim NAEP results are telling us
- Buffalo plans to move 200 teachers
- Cathie Black and the privatisation of education
- Cathie Black claims to have educational experience with charter school board post, but it's moot
- Cathie Black on Board of Harlem Village Academies, HVA Head Makes 450 Grand, and Check the Pushout and Teacher Turnover Rates
- Chancellor Black: Please Consider This
- Chancellor Joel Klein ignores ruling and decides he will move school for autistic children Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2010/08/05/2010-08-05_forget_ruling_i_can_move_school_joel.html#ixzz0vnEMxEsU
- Charter school accused of scrimping on student supplies and support under state investigation
- Charter school in New York kicks public schools kids out of their school library
- Charter school in New York kicks public schools kids out of their school library
- Charter School Not Making the Grade
- Charter schools pawn off flunking students, says public school principal Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2009/07/19/2009-07-19_charters_pawn_off_flunking_kids_ps_big_sez.html#ixzz0o4PkdKjM
- Charters schools' windfall is public kids' loss as state has city on hook for $32 million
- Chris Whittle's latest private school scheme, and why Joel Klein deserves a cut of the action
- City effort to enlist parents in politics began months ago
- City took money for nothing as it got aid to cut class sizes, OK'ed packing more students together
- Court Says City Must Keep Struggling Schools Open
- Culture Of Abuse At NYC Charter School
- Daily News Tries To Humanize Shael Polakow-Suransky
- Dirty job: charter teachers janitors
- Discontent With Mayor at Heart of School Uproar
- DOE Hires Turnaround School Official Who Resigned From Last Job "In Disgrace"
- DOE's "happy hour" celebrating school closures and charter co-locations
- Educational Dysfunctionality and Discrimination in the World of Bloomberg/Klein
- Eli Broad describes close ties to Klein, Weingarten, Duncan
- Federal Program Blamed For Long Island City High School Scheduling Chaos
- GATES' $4 MIL LESSON
- Harvard study says teacher merit pay does little to boost achievement
- Hurdles Emerge in Rising Effort to Rate Teachers
- Is the Assault on Seniority an Assault on Teachers of Color? Will School Closings Lead to College or Incarceration?
- Joel Klein Writes A Manifesto For Our Time
- Lawsuit Over City Class Size Can Move Forward
- Local charter schools like Harlem Success is big business as millions are poured into marketing
- Mayor Bloomberg’s Crib Sheet
- More than 350 Long Island school principals oppose state approach to evaluations
- Murdoch buys education technology company
- New revelations and timeline of Sharpton, Klein and Bloomberg's political machinations
- New revelations and timeline of Sharpton, Klein and Bloomberg's political machinations
- New Video: The Renovation and Heartbreaking Dismantling of the John Ericsson Middle School 126 Library to make way for a Charter School Teacher Lounge
- New York City’s Experiment with Schoolwide Performance Bonuses
- New York CORE
- Now We Know Why Banks Have Taken So Much Interest in Charter Schools
- NY Times publishes 5 letters attacking NCLB
- On New York School Tests, Warning Signs Ignored
- Parents say special-ed kids falling victim in charter battle for space inside city schools Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2010/03/23/2010-03-23_parents_say_specialed_kids_falling_victim_in_battle_for_space_inside_city_school.html
- Patrick J. Sullivan
- Reported test cheating tripled under Bloomberg
- Revelations concerning SED's secret backdoor deal with DOE on class size
- School-Liaison Office Is Accused of Pushing a Political Cause
- Schools closings planned in secret, parents charge… Another 'Broad Foundation Fellow' guilty of teacher bashing and bashing public schools… Rochester teachers voting no confidence in superintendent
- Selling Out New York City's Public Schools: Mayor Bloomberg, David Steiner and the Politics of Corporate "Leadership"
- Senate Dems Under Fire Over Charter Bill
- Sexy time?
- Space-strapped charter school sent students to factory space
- Standards Raised, More Students Fail Tests
- Study Finds NYC Charters Don't Serve the City's Poorest
- Styling: the Charter School Look
- Teacher Evaluation Deal Sparks Ire
- Teachers, Children's Advocates Chant Schooling Demands On DOE's Doorstep
- That Was the Week That Was
- The real force behind mayoral control
- The Renovation and Heartbreaking Dismantling of the John Ericsson Middle School 126 Library to make way for a Charter School Teacher Lounge
- The State Education Department and the Politics of Distraction
- The Testing Mess
- Tom Vander Ark’s New York-Area Charter Schools Falter
- Top DOE official proposes happy hour to celebrate lawsuit news
- Union heads demand right to sue Wall Street firms for pension losses
- We’re still waiting for Superman here in Charterland
- Why NY's test mess is far from over
No Child Left Behind
- "The Nation" Education Issue: A New Vision of School Reform
- Atlanta Starts New School Year Under Cloud of Cheating Scandal
- Diane Ravitch Interview on No Child Left Behind
- Diane Ravitch On School Reform, Part 1
- Diane Ravitch On School Reform, Part 2
- Education is Not a Business: A Video
- Education Rediscovered
- http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2011/09/911-and-slow-death-of-public-education.html
- Kicking NCLB to the curb
- NCLB Waivers get a Reality Check
- NCLB: The Death Star of American Education
- Obama Ramps Up Bush's No Child Left Behind Policy & the Privatizing of Education 1/3
- Obama's ESEA Plan Short on Research, Authors Allege
- Obama’s War on Schools
- On education policy, Obama is like Bush
- Seventeen Percent of Kindergarten Kids Redshirted
- Teachers of the Year: "Change NCLB"
- This is How a Tipping Point Feels
- Why won't Congress admit NCLB failed?
Noble Network
- Charter discipline policy under fire
North Carolina
- Battle Over N.C. Busing Heats Up
- Board opts for favoritism
- Hundreds fight for westside schools; local NAACP president arrested Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/10/12/1757695/hundreds-fight-for-westside-schools.html#ixzz12D4i0V9M
- NAACP to Make Wake County a Test Case for Ending Resegregation Efforts
- Schools lost Wake's trust, report says
- Survey: N.C. Teachers Say High-Stakes Tests Dominate Classes
- The standardized testing dilemma
- Wake County Gang of Five and AFP Push Forward to Corral Poor Children in Charters
- Who's the power behind CMS?
Oakland
- Craig Gordon on Oakland public schools and the Broad's influence
- Oakland Takes Back Its Schools
- Oakland Teacher Strike Solidarity Action
- Oakland teachers strike ends after 1 day
- Strengthening Our Schools takes Persistence — But Firing people is so Satisfying!
Obama's Test Waiver
- State: Obama testing waiver will cost $3.1 billion
Occupation Movement
- Billionaire Bloomberg wants his Wall Street
- Labor Must Choose Between Occupy and the Democrats
- Occupy Education
- Occupy Wall Street protests disrupting ports
Occupy Alabama
- Occupy Mobile: Occupy Wall Street-affiliated protesters angry over removal of toilets
Occupy Atlanta
- Occupy Atlanta Arrests on Bank Transfer Day
Occupy Bellingham and Tacoma
- Occupy Northwest – Bellingham and Tacoma
Occupy Chicago
- 47 senior citizens arrested today in Chicago protest against cuts, 3 in wheelchairs
Occupy DC
- Occupy DC Raided By Police in Riot Gear
- Unemployed residents of D.C. occupied Mitch McConnell's office
Occupy Detroit
- Occupy Detroit march draws hundreds of supporters
Occupy DOE
- Teachers, Children's Advocates Chant Schooling Demands On DOE's Doorstep
Occupy London
- Billionaire Bloomberg wants his Wall Street
- Bishop of London moves to dissociate church from St Paul's legal action
Occupy Oakland
- Occupy Oakland Strike Draws 100,000; Violence Caused By 100
- Occupy Oakland: second Iraq war veteran injured after police clashes
- Occupy Port of Oakland Photo Diary
- Occupy Wall Street protests disrupting ports
- Statement on the Occupation of the former Traveler’s Aid Society at 520 16th Street
- U.S. Vets, Suffering From Unemployment and Homelessness, Support Occupy Protests
Occupy Paris
- violence policiere indignes defense UNCUT
Occupy Wall Street
- A Master Class in Occupation
- Billionaire Bloomberg wants his Wall Street
- Bloomberg Versus Occupy Wall Street
- Colonized by Corporations by Chris Hedges
- DAVID CROSBY & GRAHAM NASH @ Occupy Wall Street "Teach Your Children" Zuccotti Park 11/8/11
- Ehrenreich: Democratic establishment abandoned Occupy Wall Street
- Goldman Sachs & Occupy Wall Street's Bank: The Real Story
- Latino and black protesters march from Washington Heights to Occupy Wall Street Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/latino-black-protesters-march-washington-heights-occupy-wall-street-article-1.973855#ixzz1d4KEWgn8
- New York Janitors Join Occupy Wall Street
- NYPD Directing troublemakers to OWS?
- Occupy America
- OCCUPY Is Not A Managed Brand
- Occupy Oakland
- Occupy Wall Street Begins Hunger Strike
- Occupy Wall Street Gets Free Healthcare For Furry Friends
- Occupy Wall Street parties near Bloomberg’s doorstep
- Occupy Wall Street Protester, Arrested and Jailed for 30 Hours, Tells Her Story for the First Time
- Occupy Wall Street Protesters Occupy Harlem Boiler Room, Get Tenants Heat And Hot Water
- Rural Farmers Unite to Feed Wall Street Protestors
- Whole world watches city’s shameful response to Occupy Wall Street protest : Journalists detained
- Why You Should Attend an Occupy Meeting
Ohio
- Charter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed Results
- Investigation uncovers federal probe into Ohio charter school tax dollars spent overseas
Online Learning
- An Explosion in Lobbying Around For-Profit K-12 Programs
- “Poverty Is the Problem”: Efforts to Cut Education Funding, Expand Standardized Testing Assailed
- Gates Foundation Puts Millions Into Online College Created by Rick Perry
- How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools
- Jeb Bush's Cyber Attack on Public Schools
- Local media outlets were first to examine virtual schools
- My Teacher Is an App
- Online schools face questions over quality, effectiveness
- Online Schools Make Big Profits from Tax Dollars
- Pearson Goes Bold, Acquires Connections Education
- Pearson PLC Says It Will Buy Connections Education for $400 Million
- Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schools
- Rupert Murdoch e-G8 Forum Paris
- Selling Schools Out
- Should Schools Be Run for Profit?
- Students of Online Schools Are Lagging
- The Stealth Campaign to Privatize Education
- Troubled Online Charter Schools
- Virtual schools are multiplying, but some question their educational value
- Virtual schools are multiplying, but some question their educational value
Oprah?
- Oprah and Eli
- The REAL Thieves of Hope: America's War on Teachers
Opting out of standardized testing
- 12 Most Unconventional Reasons to Opt Your Child Out of Standardized Testing
- A rare break from testing madness
- Coalition for Better Education
- Fair Test: Opting Out
- Opt Out Chronicles: Organizing and Bullying
- Parent Opt Out Letter
- Standardized Tests – Your Rights and the Impact on Your Child
- Standardized Tests Hurt Kids and Public Schools: Teachers, Parents Take a Stand Against Corporate-Backed Test Regime
- United Opt Out National
- Welcome to The Opt Out of Standardized Tests Site!
- Why can’t students opt out of PASS?
Options
- My Challenge to the False Prophets of Education Reform
- Rethinking Advanced Placement
Oregon
- Marked absent: Many Oregon students will do without music and art classes
- Parents Question Budget Impact on Immersion and Charter Schools
Parent Trigger/Parent Revolution
- 'Parent trigger' campaign divides families at troubled Adelanto elementary school
- Ben Austin: The Six Figure Salary Man – Green Dot
- Compton Parents Charge Barr and Austin's "Parent Revolution" with Deception, Manipulation, and Lies
- Connections between Eli Broad, the Parent Union (aka Parent Revolution, the creators of the "Parent Trigger"), and Green Dot
- Corporate Charter Trigger Compton Chronicles
- Effort to convert Compton school to charter draws fire
- Florida: Parent, community member, and tax payer opposition strengthens
- How Connecticut Diffused The Parent Trigger
- Hundreds Of Angry, Confused Parents Show Up To District Board Meeting
- Mobilizing and Organizing for Better Schools
- PAA: Why We Oppose the Parent Trigger Law
- Parent Empowerment or Parent Manipulation?
- Parent trigger misfires by disrupting and dismantling local schools
- Powerful “Parent” Trigger operators target vulnerable school; attack misfires
- Profit Empowerment Not Parent Empowerment
- Say you want a revolution?: Parents Revolution, ‘Astro turf’ organizations and the privatization of public schools
- State Board of Education puts the brakes on parent-trigger law
- The 'Parent Trigger' doesn't help schools or parents
- The Parent Trigger fails in California
- The Parent Trigger fails in California
- Trigger Laws • Does Signing a Petition Give Parents a Voice?
- Triggers Create Nothing but Chaos and Division
- What’s really wrong with ‘parent trigger’ laws
- Wrongheaded ideas in California's new education legislation
Parents Across America
- Andrea Mérida, Southwest Denver Quadrant, School Board Director
- Challenging Corporate Ed Reform And 10 hopeful signs of resistance
- PAA: Why We Oppose the Parent Trigger Law
Parents, Teachers and Students Push Back
- "STOP Senator John Thrasher and Senate Bill 6!"
- Arne Duncan's opposition: A partial list
- BAMN Brochure
- Children are more than test scores
- Dear President Obama…Sincerely, Parents Across America
- Does Duncan Really Believe Teachers Support Race to the Top?
- LETTER TO SECRETARY OF EDUCATION ARNE DUNCAN CONCERNING EVALUATION OF TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS
- Letters to Obama
- Moms & Dads Against Senate Bill 6
- Parents Across America Say: Put the Parent Voice Back in Public Education!
- Parents’ Banner Praises ‘Super’ Teachers at Bay Area High School Slighted in ‘Waiting for Superman’ Film
- Pennsylvania Parents Call for Full Court Press with Politicians
- Professors against Race to the Top
- PUBLIC EDUCATION MATTERS
- Save Our Schools Million Teachers March Website
- SOS Million Teacher March
- Speak Up For Education and Kids
- Stop National Standards
- STOP RTTT
- STOP SENATE BILL 6
- Teaching is not Testing
- The Race to … Where?
- UC Berkeley Cyber Resistance
Pearson Foundation
- A Very Pricey Pineapple
- Ay, caramba! Foreign language versions of school exams riddled with errors
- Testing Firm Faces Inquiry on Free Trips for Officials
- The Corporate Cash Which Fuels Jeb Bush’s Education Empire
- The Lone STAAR Rebellion
Pennsylvania
- Confession of a cheating teacher
- Pennsylvania school district runs out of money to pay teachers, but they keep teaching
- Tom Corbett Crushes The Poor And Rewards Campaign Donor With Education Budget
- Tom Corbett Crushes The Poor And Rewards Campaign Donor With Education Budget
Philadelphia
- A Letter from the Philadelphia Student Union
- Bala Cynwyd investors donate $1.5M to Williams
- Charter School by Day, Nightclub by Night?
- Confession of a cheating teacher
- Privatizing Public Education in Philadelphia?
- School of the Future: Lessons in failure
- Who's Killing Philly Public Schools? Underfunded. Overburdened. About to be sold for scrap.
PISA Scores
- Low poverty rates = high scores on int'l tests
Pittsburgh
- The Broad Influence in Pittsburgh
Poverty
- America's Teachers See Growing Poverty Up Close
- Districts Pay Less in Poor Schools, Report Says
- Line Grows Long for Free Meals at U.S. Schools
- Schools confront poverty, why don’t education policies?
- Sen. Sanders gets the facts right on poverty; the fed's solution will make it worse.
President Obama (who I campaigned for)
- "The Nation" Education Issue: A New Vision of School Reform
- Are You There, Mr. President? Madison is Calling
- “It makes no sense”: Puzzling over Obama’s State of the Union Speech
- Black Chicago Teachers Win Discrimination Lawsuit Against Arne Duncan's Mass Firings
- Bloggers Challenge President on Standardized Testing
- Bye, Bye Duncan
- Can Our Schools Run on Duncan?
- Cathie Black and the privatisation of education
- Civil Rights Groups Call for New Federal Education Agenda
- Civil rights groups skewer Obama education policy
- Common Sense Reform, Evidence, and Faith Based Education
- Common Sense Reform, Evidence, and Faith Based Education
- Dear President Obama…Sincerely, Parents Across America
- Does President Obama Know What Race to the Top Is?
- Guest Column: Obama on Education — A-Plus Values, F-Minus Policies
- Hogwash, Mr. President
- How & Why a Democratic President Privatized Our School System
- How to fix our schools
- Joel Klein Writes A Manifesto For Our Time
- Major concerns about Obama's education Blueprint
- Mr. President, We Want Your Children's Education, Too
- Obama and Duncan's Education Policy:
- Obama Defends Sweeping Education Reforms in Face of Criticism from Minority and Teachers’ Groups
- Obama Knows Best, Part One: How Should we Assess Learning?
- Obama speech debacle proves Arne Duncan does not know how schools work
- Obama's "Laboratories of Excellence" Hemorraghing More Students than "Dropout Factories"
- Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling
- Obama's ESEA Plan Short on Research, Authors Allege
- Obama’s War on Schools
- On education policy, Obama is like Bush
- On President Obama and South Korean “Nation Builders”
- Ravitch to Obama: 'Change course before it is too late"
- This is How a Tipping Point Feels
- Why Civil Rights Groups Oppose the Obama Agenda
- Why Civil Rights Groups Oppose the Obama Agenda
- Why President Obama Must 'See Like a State,' Not Like a Teacher
Private Schools
- Private Choices, Public Policy & Other People’s Children
PTA
- "With Arms like an Octopus, Gates Foundation Reaches in all Directions"
- National PTA gets $1 million from Gates Foundation
Puerto Rico
- Student Strike At University of Puerto Rico
- Ugly showdown seems probable in Puerto Rico as student strike paralyzes university
Push Back
- @ The Chalk Face
- Bringing it all back home to Rahm
- Charter School Battle Shifts to Affluent Suburbs
- Corporate Charter Trigger Compton Chronicles
- Crowd shot from Rhee "Town Hall"
- Education Radio
- Florida teachers union sues over merit pay law
- How (and why) those Rogers Park high schoolers made their anti-Rahm/pro-Miguel video
- I’m Sorry I’m a Teacher
- In Texas, a revolt brews against standardized testing
- Knoxville Parent Vows to Fight Use of State Test Scores to Determine Student Grades and Placements
- Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Parent Group Files Lawsuit Charging LAUSD With Misuse of $2.5 Billion in Federal Title I Funds
- More than 350 Long Island school principals oppose state approach to evaluations
- Moving beyond 'blame the teacher'
- My Challenge to the False Prophets of Education Reform
- Occupy Education
- Santa Rosa Teacher Denounces Attacks on Public Education
- School protesters pray, sing at Emanuel’s home
- The Lobateo Case
- Will California Start a National Revolt Against Bad Ideas?
Race to Nowhere
- Parents Embrace Documentary on Pressures of School
Race to the Top (RTTT)
- "The Nation" Education Issue: A New Vision of School Reform
- "What I Did in June" by Diane Ravitch
- A letter to Secretary Arne Duncan
- A Manifesto of Errors: Rhee, Klein and the Gang Strike Out
- A Popular Principal, Wounded by Government’s Good Intentions
- A True Wake-up Call for Arne Duncan: The Real Reason Behind Chinese Students Top PISA Performance
- AFT: Don’t put full burden of achievement on teachers
- Arne Duncan's Brand of Equality
- Attending the AFT convention in Seattle and protesting with BAMN and others, the horrific policies of Race to the Top
- ‘Race to the Top’ and the Bill Gates Connection
- “It makes no sense”: Puzzling over Obama’s State of the Union Speech
- Book TV: Afterwords: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System"
- Buffalo plans to move 200 teachers
- Burn the Blueprint, Send the Billionaire Boys' Club Packing, and Start Over
- Can Our Schools Run on Duncan?
- Civil Rights Framework for Providing All Students an Opportunity to Learn through Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- Civil Rights Groups Call for New Federal Education Agenda
- Civil rights groups skewer Obama education policy
- Coming Soon to a School Near You: Big Ed
- Common Sense Reform, Evidence, and Faith Based Education
- Common Sense Reform, Evidence, and Faith Based Education
- David Obey: I Leave More Discontented Than I Started
- Delegitimizing Public Education
- Despite Veto Threat, House Passes Edujobs With Race to the Top Cut
- Diane Ravitch : Podcast – Play Money
- Diane Ravitch : The Race to Nowhere
- Diane Ravitch On School Reform, Part 1
- Diane Ravitch On School Reform, Part 2
- Did Congress Authorize Race to the Top?
- Does President Obama Know What Race to the Top Is?
- Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Education in the Name of Reform (Part I)
- Educating for Democracy: A Split in the Teachers Unions
- Education is Not a Business: A Video
- Education Rediscovered
- Educators Are Opposed to Obama’s School Plan
- First, Let's Fire All the Teachers!
- Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy
- How Race to the Top is like ‘Queen for a Day’
- In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis
- In Tennessee, Following the Rules for Evaluations Off a Cliff
- Just Say No to the Race to the Top
- Letter from a Teacher in a School Designated for Closing by the DOE in order to receive "Race To The Top Money"
- LI schools opting out of Race to the Top
- Major concerns about Obama's education Blueprint
- Many Wrong Choices Do Not Make Pay For Test Scores Any More Right
- Mass Localism: How Might the Race to the Top Money Be Better Spent?
- Mixed Report Card for Education Stimulus After 2 Years
- Moving like a cancer — ‘free schools’ and ‘free markets’ – dateline England
- NCC pastoral letter urges President and Congress to assure equal access to education for all children
- Nineteen Points and One Very Bad Idea
- Obama Defends Sweeping Education Reforms in Face of Criticism from Minority and Teachers’ Groups
- Obama Ramps Up Bush's No Child Left Behind Policy & the Privatizing of Education 1/3
- Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling
- Obama's Right-Wing School Reform
- Please Don't Shoot the Teachers
- Promises, promises about education
- Ravitch to Obama: 'Change course before it is too late"
- Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy
- School Turnaround Models Draw Bipartisan Concern
- Shutting Out Parents Obama's Disappointing Blueprint for Reform
- State Man Walking To Washington To Protest Federal Education Policies
- Taking Back School Reform: A Conversation Between Diane Ravitch and Mike Rose
- Teach
- The Marvelous Tool of Accountability: Solving Society's Troubles
- The privatization of education, the colonization of subjectivity
- The problem with ‘Race to the Top’ is the race
- This is How a Tipping Point Feels
- What to do with 'persistently underperforming' schools?
- Who’s Bashing Teachers and Public Schools and What Can We Do About It?
- Why Civil Rights Groups Oppose the Obama Agenda
- Why President Obama Must 'See Like a State,' Not Like a Teacher
- Will National Standards Become the Operating System for our Schools?
Race to the Top and Race
- Civil Rights Framework for Providing All Students an Opportunity to Learn through Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- Civil rights groups skewer Obama education policy
- Florida charters less diverse than other public schools
- Freedom Rider: Charter School Lobby Buys Elections
- In Race to the Top, the Dirty Work Is Left to Those on the Bottom
- Major concerns about Obama's education Blueprint
- Obama's ESEA Plan Short on Research, Authors Allege
- The Audacity of Arne Duncan
- Why Civil Rights Groups Oppose the Obama Agenda
Rahm Emanuel
- 'Survival of the fittest' mentality in Chicago
- Chicago parents pushing back on Rahm's longer school day
- Paid to Protest?
- Rahm's Army
- Rahm's Attack on Teachers: Showdown in Chicago
- Rahm's Rent-A-Preacher and Rent-A-Protest exposed, even to elected state officials
- School protesters pray, sing at Emanuel’s home
Randi Weingarten
- The wrong partner for our schools
Rhode Island
- Broad's Deborah Gist Out to Make Teacher Certification Decisions in RI Based on Test Scores
- Central Falls Teachers Fired! – Joann Boss Speaks Out
- Fired teachers defend their positions
- In R.I. schools, October dominated by standardized testing
- RI Teachers Fired at Central Falls High School
Rocketship
- A Retro-Rocketship to the Future: Corporate Education Reform Blasts Off in Silicon Valley
- Rocketship Charter Schools Need Scrutiny
Sacramento
- Sacramento City Schools Will Skip Teach for America
- The Gracelessness Of Michelle Rhee
- Why I Oppose Teach For America Coming To Sacramento
San Francisco
- Educators Are Opposed to Obama’s School Plan
- Replacing the teacher replacements
- School Beat: Let the New School Year Begin
- Teacher layoffs – a destructive annual event
- What to do with 'persistently underperforming' schools?
School Closures/Turnarounds
- 'Survival of the fittest' mentality in Chicago
- "It takes a process to fail a child" — Piccolo 7th grader
- Board opts for favoritism
- Charter law forced school's closure
- Chicago School Closings Found to Yield Few Gains
- Drastic School Turnaround Strategies Are Risky
- Federal Program Blamed For Long Island City High School Scheduling Chaos
- Firing Everyone, Even the Lunch Ladies, to Fix Failing Schools
- For a second year, lawsuits and protests help stop school closings
- Hundreds fight for westside schools; local NAACP president arrested Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/10/12/1757695/hundreds-fight-for-westside-schools.html#ixzz12D4i0V9M
- Legislators grill Brizard on school closings, turnarounds
- Letter from a Teacher in a School Designated for Closing by the DOE in order to receive "Race To The Top Money"
- Marshall community pours its heart out in an effort to save the Portland high school
- Resistance building to Rahm's school closings.
- Study: Chicago’s Democratically-Led Elementary Schools Far Out-Perform Chicago’s “Turnaround Schools”
School Improvement Grant (SIG)
- Spinning the Numbers on Turnarounds: School Improvement Grant Controversy Brews
School Vouchers
- Milwaukee's Voucher Program Discriminates Based On Disabilities, ACLU Says
Seattle
- 'Outsiders' who teach in Seattle fly under the radar to find success with kids
- 63% of students qualified for college, Seattle district now says
- A LETTER TO THE SEATTLE WA. SCHOOL BOARD
- Attending the AFT convention in Seattle and protesting with BAMN and others, the horrific policies of Race to the Top
- Classroom tours aim to find great teaching
- Head Banging
- How Broad gets the word out in Seattle, see page 38
- How SERVE is a tool to deprofessionalize teaching
- Judge rejects Seattle's high school math program
- Message from Sacramento: Resistence is NOT futile
- Mike McGinn's Mayoral Campaign Platform
- One Surreptitious Way That Broad Gets the Word Out in Seattle
- Parents demand ouster of Indian education manager
- Seattle Public Schools wrong to tie teacher evaluation to high-stakes tests
- Special Education: What to Teach, How to Test
- The BROAD Foundation vs Parents & Teachers in Seattle
South Korea
- On President Obama and South Korean “Nation Builders”
- South Korea targets private ‘cram schools,’ citing heavy burden on families
Stand for Children
- Billionaires Target Teachers—and Take the Gloves Off in Illinois
- Chicago Teachers Union Governing Body Supports Changes to SB7
- Emanuel's billionaire donors also bankrolling 'Stand for Children', pushing union-busting organizations in Illinois
- Has the IEA agreed to Stand for Children’s demand to end seniority in layoffs?
- Jonah Edelman on outfoxing teachers’ unions: Transcribed remarks
- Jonah Edelman Spills the Oligarchs' Blueprint for Crushing the Teaching Profession
- Stand For Children – Who do they really stand for?
- Stand for Children or Stand for Profit?
- Stand for Children: A Hometown Perspective of its Evolution
- Stand for Children: A Hometown Perspective of its Evolution
- Thousands rally in Chicago’s Daley Plaza for union rights.
Student Privacy
- Confidential Student And Teacher Data To Be Provided To LLC Run By Gates and Murdoch
Students First
- I Don't Understand Michelle Rhee
- Right-Wing Campaign to Privatize Public Ed Takes Hold in Pennsylvania
- Shame on Michelle Rhee
Success Academy
- Success Academy — news from the playground
TEACH
- Microsoft wins TEACH campaign from Education Dept
Teach for America
- 'Outsiders' who teach in Seattle fly under the radar to find success with kids
- A LETTER TO THE SEATTLE WA. SCHOOL BOARD
- A new look at Teach for America
- A spoof but not too far from the truth: Teach For America Chews Up, Spits Out Another Ethnic-Studies Major
- A TFA alum tells her story
- Are You There, Mr. President? Madison is Calling
- Bilby & Greene: TFA Interns Need Better Preparation
- Civil Rights Groups Press for Truly Qualified Teachers
- Court Curbs U.S. Rule on Alternative Certification
- Deepening the Debate over Teach For America: Responses to Heather Harding
- Delaware wasting more education dollars
- Delaware wasting more education dollars
- Documented KIPP Abuser to Speak Sunday at TFA Conference: "Bringing the 'Joy Factor' to Your School"
- Does Teacher Preparation Matter? Evidence about Teacher Certification, Teach for America, and Teacher Effectiveness 1
- Higher Teacher Pay: How to Kill a Great Idea
- Hyper-accountability, Burnout and Blame: A TFA Corps Member Speaks Out
- In Houston, Diane Ravitch challenges school reformers face to face
- In What World Are Trainee Teachers 'Highly Qualified'? In Mine
- Intern Teachers Not “Highly Qualified,” Says 9th Circuit
- Learning On Other People's Kids – an important book on Teach for America
- Live Blogging from Teach for America 20th Anniversary Summit
- Looking Past the Spin
- money
- Money From Donors, iPads for Free: How Is it That Teach For America's Struggling Corps Are Broke?
- No Excuses
- One Year Ago Congress Defined Untrained Novices "Highly Qualified Teachers"
- Philip Kovacs: Huntsville Takes a Closer Look at Teach For America's "Research"
- Philip Kovacs: Teach For America Research Fails the Test
- Reconsidering TFA
- Recovering from Teach For America
- RENEE V. DUNCAN
- Research Suggests Teach For America Does Not Belong in Huntsville
- Research you can use
- Sacramento City Schools Will Skip Teach for America
- Seattle's Education Reform Hypocrisy
- Sh*t TFA'ers Say
- Teach for America Faces Scrutiny From Texas Lawmakers
- Teach for America Rejected in Georgia’s Cobb School System
- Teach for America's Domestic Corporate Colonialism Becomes a Model for Duncan
- Teach For America: A False Promise a policy brief from the Education and the Public Interest Center and the Education Policy Research Unit
- Teach For America: A Review of the Evidence
- Teach for America: Liberal mission helps conservative agenda
- Teach for America: Liberal mission helps conservative agenda
- Teach for America: Liberal mission helps conservative agenda
- Teach for America’s new partnership with largest for-profit charter network
- Teaching for America's Elites.
- TFA Teachers: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- The 5 Stages of TFA
- The Equity Project and $125,000 Salaries: the Talent Myth of McKinsey & Co.
- The Failures of Katie Couric as a Reporter: Biased 60 Minutes Report on Zeke Vanderhoek and TEP Charters
- The Problem with Lesson Plans
- The Proto-Fascist Future of Education: It’s Here
- The Service of Democratic Education
- Why I did TFA, and why you shouldn’t
- Why I Oppose Teach For America Coming To Sacramento
Teacher Evaluations
- "Highly-Qualified" Temporary School Missionaries for Children Who Need Experienced Teachers
- A Dark Day for New York
- A principal at a high performing school explains why she is "absolutely sick" about the public release of the TDRs"
- An L.A. teacher reviews her review
- Analyzing Released NYC Value-Added Data Part 1
- Analyzing Released NYC Value-Added Data Part 2
- Applying a Precise Label to a Rough Number
- Are half of New York’s teachers really ‘not effective?’
- Battling the "Bad Teacher" Bogeyman
- Bobby Jindal vs. Public Education
- Broad's Deborah Gist Out to Make Teacher Certification Decisions in RI Based on Test Scores
- Can Teachers be Evaluated by Their Students’ Test Scores? Should they Be? The Use of Value-Added Measures of Teacher Effectiveness in Policy and Practice
- Confessions of a ‘Bad’ Teacher
- Delaware wasting more education dollars
- Education Reform in the Wrong Direction: High-Stake Consequences for New York State Teachers and Their Students
- EPIC Report: Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers
- Failed tests
- Follow up on Fire First, Ask Questions Later
- Getting Teacher Assessment Right: What Policymakers Can Learn From Research
- High- Quality Teacher Evaluation or ‘Fetishization’ of Tests? New Report Offers Clear Guidance for Policymakers
- How Race to the Top is like ‘Queen for a Day’
- Hurdles Emerge in Rising Effort to Rate Teachers
- In Tennessee, Following the Rules for Evaluations Off a Cliff
- On Creating a Useful Teacher Evaluation System
- On teacher evaluation: the responsibility of the media to dig a little deeper
- Review of Learning About Teaching
- Teacher Evaluations Based on Test Scores Will Requires Dozens of New Tests
- The New York Principal's APPR Paper
- The Test Generation
- Under education reform, school principals swamped by teacher evaluations
- Value-Added Evaluation Hurts Teaching
- VAM gets Slammed: Teacher Evaluation Not A Game of Chance
- Whitney Tilson, Banana Republic & Public Education
Teachers and Teaching
- 'Outsiders' who teach in Seattle fly under the radar to find success with kids
- 180 Days A Year
- 62 Percent of American Teachers Work Two Jobs
- A Better Way to Assess Students and Evaluate Schools
- A Bizarro World where teachers are to blame
- A Letter to Arne Duncan
- A retired teacher writes why she supports unions.
- A Revolving Door
- A teacher pushed to the edge
- A Teacher's Letter to Obama: A Lesson in Irony
- A Teacher's NEWPrint for School Change
- A Tough Week for Magic Wands: 60 Minutes goes in Search of the Superteacher
- America's Teachers See Growing Poverty Up Close
- American Teacher: A Documentary
- Are You There, Mr. President? Madison is Calling
- Assessing teachers without fetishizing test-based reforms
- Back to School: An Interview With Bill Ayers
- Battling the "Bad Teacher" Bogeyman
- Broad's Deborah Gist Out to Make Teacher Certification Decisions in RI Based on Test Scores
- Buffalo plans to move 200 teachers
- Burning Questions from Teachers: Meet Our Realities, Mr. Duncan
- Call to action at Chicago Teachers Union January 2011 meeting
- Chancellor Black: Please Consider This
- Classroom tours aim to find great teaching
- Critical thinking: what the ruling class fears most
- Does Duncan Really Believe Teachers Support Race to the Top?
- Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Education in the Name of Reform (Part I)
- Duncan declares war on teachers
- Educating for Democracy: A Split in the Teachers Unions
- English teacher: Data can drive us down wrong road
- Exploitation of Hundreds of Filipino Teachers in the U.S.
- Getting rid of bad teachers
- Has Ontario taught its high-school students not to think?
- Higher Teacher Pay: How to Kill a Great Idea
- Holding Onto The Joy In Teaching
- How & Why a Democratic President Privatized Our School System
- How ed reformers push the wrong theory of learning
- How teacher turnover harms student achievement
- I am Educator, Hear Me Roar! An Interview with John Kuhn
- I’m Sorry I’m a Teacher
- In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis
- In Defense of Teachers:What charter schools really tell us about education reform
- In Florida, Virtual Classrooms With No Teachers
- Incompetent Teachers or Dysfunctional Systems?
- Jerry Brown: "My Hunch is that Principals and Teachers Know the Most…"
- John Kuhn: Why Shouldn't Teachers Be Graded, Too?
- Judging teacher performance is difficult, experts say
- L.A. teachers union won't accept pay cuts, 'value-added' evaluations
- Lawsuit Over City Class Size Can Move Forward
- Learning to Hate Learning Objectives
- LETTER TO SECRETARY OF EDUCATION ARNE DUNCAN CONCERNING EVALUATION OF TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS
- Letters: Who Will Rescue America’s Schools?
- Long Days, Growing Challenges
- Many Wrong Choices Do Not Make Pay For Test Scores Any More Right
- Mathematical Intimidation: Driven by the Data
- Moving beyond 'blame the teacher'
- My Challenge to the False Prophets of Education Reform
- My Favorite Genuine Education Reform Stories of 2011
- New film fights negative perception of teachers
- New York Book Review of The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch
- No merit in merit pay for teachers
- Non-traditional schools help revive kids yearning to learn
- On Facebook, Telling Teachers How Much They Meant
- Pennsylvania school district runs out of money to pay teachers, but they keep teaching
- Q&A: What teachers and parents should make of The Times' rankings
- Replacing the teacher replacements
- Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy
- Robin Reynolds Barre: An Open Letter to New Teachers and Those Wishing to Become Teachers
- Santa Rosa Teacher Denounces Attacks on Public Education
- School Accountability and Teacher Mobility
- Seattle Public Schools wrong to tie teacher evaluation to high-stakes tests
- Stop Trashing Teachers!
- Taking Back School Reform: A Conversation Between Diane Ravitch and Mike Rose
- Teach
- Teach for America’s Recruits and Mission
- Teacher Common Sense takes on Education "Reform" Nonsense
- Teacher Evaluations Based on Test Scores Will Requires Dozens of New Tests
- TEACHER INCENTIVES AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- Teacher job satisfaction drops as school budget cuts and layoffs rise
- Teacher layoffs – a destructive annual event
- Teacher Love
- Teacher Turnover in Charter Schools
- Teacher Turnover in Charter Schools
- Teacher’s Death Exposes Tensions in Los Angeles
- Teachers
- Teachers ban basic tests in protest at My School site
- Teachers Be Damned: Payout to save teaching jobs gets mild support from White House
- Teachers in the crosshairs
- Teachers Letters to Obama
- Teachers of the Year: "Change NCLB"
- Teachers rally in opposition of reform
- Teachers union gets new leader
- Teachers: Must we be Saints or Sinners?
- Teaching Social Issues in Elementary School
- TED 2010: Sir Ken Robinson, Bring on the learning revolution!
- That early morning phone call telling you that school has been canceled today!
- The Atlanta Scandal: When Teachers are Disempowered & Abused
- The Conservative Tradition of Attacking Teachers and Education
- The CPS Grind on Teachers
- The Creativity Crisis
- The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Test Scorer
- The McEducation of the Negro
- The Myth of the “Bad Teacher”
- The Problem with Lesson Plans
- The Proto-Fascist Future of Education: It’s Here
- The Rift Between Teachers and Democrats Widens
- The Service of Democratic Education
- The Shock of Accountability in Florida
- The State Education Department and the Politics of Distraction
- The test score witch-hunt in LA
- The VIVA Project
- This is How a Tipping Point Feels
- Under education reform, school principals swamped by teacher evaluations
- Union heads demand right to sue Wall Street firms for pension losses
- Vanderbilt University: Teacher Turnover and Charter School
- Wanna be a School Reformer? You Better do Your Homework!
- What other countries are really doing in education
- What’s Behind the War on Class Size
- What’s Up with All the Teacher Bashing?
- When Did Teachers Become the Enemy?
- When Generosity Hurts: Bill Gates, Public School Teachers and the Politics of Humiliation
- Why America's teachers are enraged
- Why I don’t believe in “reform”
- Why I Will Not Teach to the Test
- Will National Standards Become the Operating System for our Schools?
- With the Victory in Chicago, How Long Can NEA and AFT Continue to Hide from the Facts??
Teachers and Unions
- A retired teacher writes why she supports unions.
- California Governor Puts the Testing Juggernaut On Ice
- Florida teachers union sues over merit pay law
- How Education Reform Traps Poor Children
- Michigan Republicans: Let's Privatize Public School Teaching
- That early morning phone call telling you that school has been canceled today!
- Unions Move In at Chicago Charter Schools, and Resistance Is Swift
Teaching First
- Gates spends millions to sway public on ed reform
- The Test Generation
Tennessee
- In Tennessee, Following the Rules for Evaluations Off a Cliff
- Knoxville Parent Vows to Fight Use of State Test Scores to Determine Student Grades and Placements
Tests and Testing
- "What I Did in June" by Diane Ravitch
- 12th Grade NAEP Scores Are Meaningless
- A Better Way to Assess Students and Evaluate Schools
- A Dark Day For Educational Measurement In The Sunshine State
- A Letter to Arne Duncan
- A letter to Secretary Arne Duncan
- A Pause in Testing Madness
- A rare break from testing madness
- A teacher pushed to the edge
- A True Wake-up Call for Arne Duncan: The Real Reason Behind Chinese Students Top PISA Performance
- Against Evaluating Massachusetts Teachers Using Student Test Scores
- Assessments of Schools Are Flawed, Report Says
- Atlanta Starts New School Year Under Cloud of Cheating Scandal
- Ay, caramba! Foreign language versions of school exams riddled with errors
- “Tell us a secret” – another creepy test question
- Bloggers Challenge President on Standardized Testing
- Britain: Nearly half of schools to boycott SATs as teachers rebel
- Broad's Deborah Gist Out to Make Teacher Certification Decisions in RI Based on Test Scores
- Christie misses the mark on grading teachers, author says
- Confession of a cheating teacher
- Cornering the education market
- Cramming for kindergarten tests
- Critical thinking: what the ruling class fears most
- Current Test-Based Incentive Programs Have Not Consistently Raised Student Achievement in U.S
- Diane Ravitch: The Great Accountability Hoax
- Don't rush to link teacher evaluation to student achievement
- Don’t Romanticize Testing in China
- Educating for Democracy: A Split in the Teachers Unions
- Education Reform in the Wrong Direction: High-Stake Consequences for New York State Teachers and Their Students
- English teacher: Data can drive us down wrong road
- Failed tests
- Fair Test: Opting Out
- Guest Commentary: Everything they didn't tell you about CSAP Read more: Guest Commentary: Everything they didn't tell you about CSAP – The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_17692326#ixzz1IWxoHmvk Read The Denver Post's Terms
- Halt standardized tests, elementary teachers say
- Has Ontario taught its high-school students not to think?
- Head Banging
- High Tech Testing on the Way: a 21st Century Boondoggle?
- High Test Scores, Low Ability
- Hurdles Emerge in Rising Effort to Rate Teachers
- If Lady Gaga Can be Useful…
- In R.I. schools, October dominated by standardized testing
- In Texas, a revolt brews against standardized testing
- Is Overemphasis On Testing Hurting Schools?
- John Kuhn: Why Shouldn't Teachers Be Graded, Too?
- Judging teacher performance is difficult, experts say
- Knoxville Parent Vows to Fight Use of State Test Scores to Determine Student Grades and Placements
- LA teacher suicide sparks test-score pushback
- LETTER TO SECRETARY OF EDUCATION ARNE DUNCAN CONCERNING EVALUATION OF TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS
- Many Wrong Choices Do Not Make Pay For Test Scores Any More Right
- Mathematical Intimidation: Driven by the Data
- Mathematical Intimidation: Driven by the Data
- Montana Just Says No to More Impossible Testing Targets
- Montana Just Says No to More Testing Insanity
- Mother hopes others will opt out of standardized testing
- Nearly half of schools to boycott SATs as teachers rebel
- Newspaper Flunks State Test
- No Value Added: The Mismeasurement of Teaching Quality
- None of the above? Colorado could ditch more school tests, joining national trend
- NY Parents Crazed to Land Gifted Kindergarten Seats
- NYC releases teachers’ value-added scores — unfortunately
- Obama Knows Best, Part One: How Should we Assess Learning?
- On education policy, Obama is like Bush
- On New York School Tests, Warning Signs Ignored
- Our schools exam system is no longer fit for purpose
- Panel Finds Few Learning Gains From Testing Movement
- Problems with the use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers
- Q&A: What teachers and parents should make of The Times' rankings
- Racial Justice and Standardized Educational Testing
- Report: Students learned only math, reading
- Reported test cheating tripled under Bloomberg
- Research Warning Label: Analysis contains inadequate measurement of student poverty
- RESOLUTION CONCERNING HIGH STAKES, STANDARDIZED TESTING OF TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS
- Review of Learning About Teaching
- Rhee’s problem with D.C.’s new test scores
- School Accountability and Teacher Mobility
- School report cards, millions in bonuses, undermined by 'phony' test scores on state exams
- Seventeen Percent of Kindergarten Kids Redshirted
- Shortcomings of Standardized Testing
- Standardized Testing and the Flight to Homeschooling
- Standards Raised, More Students Fail Tests
- State English tests dissed deaf students: educators
- State Officials Throw Out Another Pearson Test Question
- States Where Parents Oppose Teaching to the Test
- Study: Error rates high when student test scores used to evaluate teachers
- Survey: N.C. Teachers Say High-Stakes Tests Dominate Classes
- Tainted Paint in the PISA Picture?
- Teacher Accountability? It's About Time!
- Teacher Evaluations Based on Test Scores Will Requires Dozens of New Tests
- Teachers
- Teachers of the Year: "Change NCLB"
- Test boycott in Great Britain successful… Infamous 'league tables' rendered meaningless
- Test scores don’t mean that much
- Testing and miseducation
- Texas schools chief calls testing obsession a ‘perversion’
- The Atlanta Scandal: Teaching in “A Culture of Fear, Intimidation and Retaliation”
- The complete list of problems with high-stakes standardized tests
- The LA Times: Practicing Educational Research without a License
- The Lone STAAR Rebellion
- The New York Principal's APPR Paper
- The President's Radical Comments on Testing
- The Real Cheating Scandal of Standardized Tests
- The Shock of Accountability in Florida
- The standardized testing dilemma
- The Test Generation
- The Testing Mess
- Too Much Testing
- Welcome to The Opt Out of Standardized Tests Site!
- What international test scores really tell us: Lessons buried in PISA report
- When standardized test scores soared in D.C., were the gains real?
- Whoever Said There's No Such Thing As a Stupid Question Never Looked Carefully at a Standardized Test
- Why can’t students opt out of PASS?
- Why I Will Not Teach to the Test
- Why NY's test mess is far from over
- Will National Standards Become the Operating System for our Schools?
- Yes, they’ve done it! Three stupid DC-CAS questions out of three!
- Yong Zhao on testing and the cheating in the Altlanta school district
Texas
- (Uncertified Charter School) Teacher sued for beating a student
- Charter school also blamed in beating
- Charter Schools Tied to Turkey Grow in Texas
- Charter Teacher Who Beat Student Was Wanted
- Education Inc. : How private companies are profiting from Texas public schools.
- Gates Foundation Puts Millions Into Online College Created by Rick Perry
- In Texas, a revolt brews against standardized testing
- Love Those Texas Loopholes
- Report: Students learned only math, reading
- RESOLUTION CONCERNING HIGH STAKES, STANDARDIZED TESTING OF TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS
- Second chance, or second rate?
- Second chance, or second rate?
- Study: Texas' teacher merit pay program hasn't boosted student performance
- Teach for America Faces Scrutiny From Texas Lawmakers
- Texas Merit-Pay Pilot Failed to Boost Student Scores, Study Says
- Texas Merit-Pay Pilot Failed to Boost Student Scores, Study Says
- Texas schools chief calls testing obsession a ‘perversion’
- Texas Study on Merit Pay
- The Lone STAAR Rebellion
- THE TEXAS TEXTBOOK TRAVESTY
- Too Much Testing
The "Be Careful What You Wish For" Category
- Bormann Academy offers glimpse of education's future
- George Carlin:The American Dream (R rated)
- Online Courses: When For-Profit Companies Do Not Work in Non-Profit Charter Schools
- S.Korea schools get robot English teachers
The 1%
- Bailed Out Banks Paid No Income Tax
- Bloomberg Versus Occupy Wall Street
- Oligarchy, American Style by Paul Krugman
- Report: Corporate Taxpayers and Corporate Tax Dodgers, 2008-2010
- Supercommittee of the One Percent Won’t Even Think of Taxing Wall Street
The 99%
- America’s Exploding Pipe Dream
- The Top 1% Vs YOU: The Young Turks
- U.S. Vets, Suffering From Unemployment and Homelessness, Support Occupy Protests
The Big Picture
- From "Morning in America" to the Nightmare on Main Street
- Hey Tea Partiers: We're Ready to Help You Take Our Country Back
- Hired Guns on Astroturf: How to Buy and Sell School Reform
- Tax Rates for Top 400 Earners Fall as Income Soars, IRS Data
The Race to Nowhere
- Preliminary Democratic Party Platform for 2010 Opposes Race to the Top, #57
- The Race to Nowhere
The Shock Doctrine
- Excerpt from the Introduction: A Must Read
- Naomi Klein on Anti-Union Bills and Shock Doctrine American-Style: "This is a Frontal Assault on Democracy, It’s a Kind of a Corporate Coup D’Etat"
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Waltons
- Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools
- Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy
- On the Wal-Mart Money Trail
The War on Kids
- The War on Kids Website
- The War on Kids: Colbert Report
Value Added Assessments
- A teacher pushed to the edge
- Leading mathematician debunks ‘value-added’
- Mathematical Intimidation: Driven by the Data
- Mathematical Intimidation: Driven by the Data
- The Problems With Value-Added Assessment
- VAM gets Slammed: Teacher Evaluation Not A Game of Chance
Vermont
- No Child Left Behind Testing Provision Forces Out Principal
Virginia
- Charter Schools Aren't the Solution for Virginia
- Charter Schools Aren't the Solution for Virginia
Virtual Schools
- Online school seeks to add students
Vouchers
- Right-Wing Campaign to Privatize Public Ed Takes Hold in Pennsylvania
Waiting for Superman
- "Waiting for Superman": Critics Say Much-Hyped Education Documentary Unfairly Targets Teachers Unions and Promotes Charter Schools
- An Inconvenient Superman: Davis Guggenheim's New Film Hijacks School Reform
- Anti Teacher Union efforts and Waiting for Superman
- Considering 'The Same Thing Over and Over'
- Demonizing Public Education
- Diane Ravitch: The Myth of Charter Schools
- Diane Ravitch: The Myth of Charter Schools
- Guggenheim Gets an Earful
- In ‘Waiting for Superman,’ a Scene Isn’t What It Seems
- It's Complicated, Mr. Guggenheim; Lesley Off Base
- Parents’ Banner Praises ‘Super’ Teachers at Bay Area High School Slighted in ‘Waiting for Superman’ Film
- The Myth of Charter Schools
- The Myth of Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch
- This teacher reacts to seeing "Waiting for Superman"
- This teacher reacts to seeing “Waiting for Superman”
- Ultimate $uperpower: Supersized dollars drive “Waiting for Superman” agenda
- Waiting for Superfraud
- Waiting for Superman: The Neighborhood Party Version
- Wasting for Stuporman
- Why Oscar snubbed ‘Superman’ — deservedly so
Washington State
- Court says state must do more for education
- Everett School District's soaring graduation rate
- OSPI: Innovative Schools
- Preliminary Democratic Party Platform for 2010 Opposes Race to the Top, #57
- Report: Wash. gets an 'F' in education spending
- Superintendent Dorn on Education Reform
- The new Quality Counts report is another indicator of just how inadequate education funding is.
- Washington School Class Sizes Act, Initiative 728 (2000)
Wisconsin
- American Corporatocracy: Wisconsin Style
- Governor Scott Walker: Bought and Paid For
- Milwaukee's Voucher Program Discriminates Based On Disabilities, ACLU Says
- Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand
- Race to the Bottom: Ravitch Says ‘School Reformers’ Scapecoat Teachers, Ignore Poverty
- Rachel Maddow on the Governor of Wisconsin and His Attack on Unions, Part 1
- Rachel Maddow on the Governor of Wisconsin and His Attack on Unions, Part 2
- Scott Walker's Top Ten Lies
- The Coming Shutdowns and Showdowns: What's Really at Stake
- The Forum for Education and Democracy
- The Looting of America: How Wall Street Fleeced Millions from Wisconsin Schools
- Why America's teachers are enraged
- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker: Funded by the Koch Bros.
- Wisconsin Power Play
- Wisconsin Teacher in Apparent Suicide, “Distraught” Over Walker’s Cuts
- Wisconsin Teachers Show Us How to Resist the Shock Doctrine
World Views on Education
- George Carlin:The American Dream (R rated)
- Teachers Without Jobs and Education Without Hope: Beyond Bailouts and the Fetish of the Measurement Trap (Part 2)
Emily Miller, 2nd grade teacher, Brooklyn

"When the country was debating the economic-stimulus plan, policy makers asked economists for advice, and the press frequently provided a forum for them to express their opinions. Yet when discussing education, the experts, those who work with children every day in classrooms, are rarely consulted. It seems to me that if this is a genuine concern, those who best understand the challenges and problems in our schools, namely teachers, should be asked what they think."
DIANE RAVITCH ON SCHOOL CLOSURES

"It is odd that school leaders feel triumphant when they close schools, as though they were not responsible for them. They enjoy the role of executioner, shirking any responsibility for the schools in their care."

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