St. Louis Public Schools: Killed by Reform
Peter Greene wrote a post about the continuing deterioration and abandonment of public education in St. Louis. It is a sad story. Teachers’ salaries...
Month : November 2015
Gates and Friends: Tracking Children from Birth to Third Grade
The New America Foundation has published a report on “early learning” from birth to third grade. The New America Foundation used to be an organization...
Paula Poundstone: Break Your Child’s Addiction to Blinking Screens
Paula Poundstone, comedian, has advice for parents: break your children’s addiction to electronic devices. Is she right or wrong? Who made the decision that all the...
Legislator: Scott Walker Continues the Destruction of Wisconsin
State Senator Chris Larson regularly reports to his constituents. This newsletter describes the latest assaults on Wisconsin’s public institutions and traditions by Governor Scott Walker...
Amanda Koonlaba: The Facts About School Choice
Amanda Koonlaba, a teacher in Mississippi, reminds us of the origins and purpose of school choice: racial segregation. How soon we forget. Only two countries...
Rupert Murdoch Says That Eli Broad is Buying Control of the Los Angeles Times
Rupert Murdoch tweeted that Eli Broad would be buying the Los Angeles Times. The billionaire media moguls keep watch on one another. Among the...
NY Post:Those Evil Unions Control Parents
Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post hates the teachers’ union. It hates the union so much that it blames the union for whatever it doesn’t like....
New Thought: When Tests Are Harder, More Students Fail
New York policy makers saw a problem: too many students were failing the Algebra exam required for graduation. Result: more kids failed. What happens next?...
Sound the Alarm! Tennessee Ready to Give Test to Fail Most Students
The Momma Bears of Tennessee see a disaster coming. It is called TNReady, the new online test that is confusing, requires keyboard skills that many...
Is It Legal for the Department of Education to Endorse Products?
When I worked in the U.S. Department of Education in the early 1990s, there was a strict code of ethics. The Inspector General’s office scrutinized...