Three New York Regents: The Tests Are Failing, not the Students
In an article in Long Island Business News, three members of the New York State Board of Regents criticized the state tests, on which 70%...
Month : May 2015
Marc Tucker: Time for the Civil Rights Community to Rethink Its Support for Annual Testing
In this brilliant article, Marc Tucker explains why the civil rights community is making an error by supporting annual testing as a “civil right.” He...
Jon Pelto: Connecticut Governor Malloy Says No State Budget Without Money for New Charters
Jonathan Pelto reports that Governor Dannel Malloy has let the legislature know that he will not accept a new state budget unless it includes money...
Peter Greene on Frank Bruni’s Uninformed Defense of Arne Duncan and ED
Peter Greene performs a valuable dissection of Frank Bruni’s uninformed defense of the U.S. Department of Education and its current occupant, who has done so...
Peter Greene: How to Recognize a Charter Fan
Peter Greene, a master of metaphor and analogy, has written a field guide explaining how to recognize a charter school fan. For example, “If every...
Activist Leadership Wins Presidency of San Francisco Teachers’ Union
Lita Blanc, a veteran teacher in San Francisco, won election as President of the United Educators of San Francisco, the union representing 6,000 employees of...
Wendy Lecker: The Hoax of Turnaround Schools
Wendy Lecker,civil rights attorney,says that claims made on behalf of school turnarounds—firing the staff and leaders—are usually inflated or false. “With their narrow focus on...
Arthur Camins: Have We Lost the Capacity for Collective Action?
Arthur Camins writes in response to Marc Tucker’s article about the failure of annual testing: “One of the contributors to the problem that Mark Tucker...
Chris Christie Abandons Common Core, but Not PARCC
Chris Christie came up with a clever strategy to deal with the political hot potato called Common Core. He had long been a vocal supporter....
Jersey Jazzman Reviews Chris Christie’s Abysmal Record on Education
Jersey Jazzman was struck by the hypocrisy of Governor Christie’s recent statements. He is against the Common Core because there is no teacher “buy-in.” Since...