The Day the Purpose of College Changed
This article in The Chronicle of Higher Education tells a fascinating story about the fate of higher education. On February 28, 1967, California Governor Ronald...
Month : January 2015
Duncan Threatens to Punish Chicago If They Don’t Give PARCC
Remember a few months ago when everyone was wringing their hands and agreeing there was too much testing? Remember Arne Duncan said testing was sucking...
Pro Football Star’s Charter School in Texas Likely to Close
I have never understood the idea that anyone can run a school, even people who have never been educators, even people who are high-school dropouts...
Michigan: Researchers Find That Charters Have Better Selling Points than Public Schools
An article in Huffington Post reports on a study by University of Michigan researchers, led by Professor Sarah Reckhow, who found that the rhetoric of...
Thomas Ultican: The Illusion of “Failing Public Schools”
Thomas Ultican left a good job in Silicon Vally to become a teacher of high school math and physics in a school where half the...
The Miraculous Transformation of a Teacher from Ineffective to Highly Effective
Governor Cuomo wants to evaluate teachers by their students’ test scores. Fifty percent of their evaluation would depend on whether the scores went up or...
California: Districts Object to $1 Billion for Common Core Testing
School districts in California are trying to compel the state to pick up the $1 billion cost of Common Core testing. The districts say it...
Texas: Football Star’s Charter Revoked
This is a press release from the Texas Education Agency about the revocation of the charter of Prime Prep Charter School, the school founded by...
How the Little Rock School District Lost Local Control
Max Brantley, a fearless blogger in Arkansas (and former editor of the Arkansas Times), wrote an analysis of the Arkansas State Board of Education’s decision...
Indiana: Republicans Sneer at State Superintendent Glenda Ritz: “She Was a Librarian, OK?
What is happening in Indiana right now is an outrage. The Republican party holds every statewide office but one: State Superintendent of Education. That...