June 30: Join Student Data Deletion Day!
Today is the first Student Data Deletion Day. This is a parent’s response to the obscene amounts of personal data collected about every child. Why...
Month : June 2017
Urgent Note to Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan: Hands Off Our Schools and Our Children!
Education Week reports on the plans of billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan to redesign American education. They have launched something called the...
Tomorrow Is My Birthday!
Tomorrow I will be 79! My older sister says that it’s all downhill from here, but I’m not going anywhere, not without raising a ruckus....
Montana Teacher: Questions About AP Courses
This comment by a reader called Montana Teacher continues a discussion of the value of AP courses. My observation: AP courses are a big money-maker...
Nancy E. Bailey: Beware! Computer Instruction is NOT Inclusion!
Nancy E. Bailey writes here about current efforts to put children with disabilities on a computer and call it “personalized learning” and “inclusion.” It is...
National Education Policy Center: New Research on Virtual Charter Schools
The National Education Policy Center has released new research on virtual charter schools that shows variation among those in different states, though all have poor...
Big Oil Sells Fossil-Fuel Love to Children in Elementary Schools
This is an alarming story, prepared by the Center for Public Integrity. . Teaching materials are being distributed by the fossil fuel industry to elementary...
We Lost a Dear Friend of Public Libraries and Public Schools: Joan Kramer of Los Angeles
Joan Kramer, a hero of public libraries, public education, and the common good, died a few days ago. Joan was a hero to all who...
Los Angeles Times: Cheerleading for Privatization and the Trump-DeVos Agenda
The Los Angeles Times editorial board published an editorial today chastising the California Teachers Association for resisting privatization of public education via charters. I assume...
A Proud Graduate of Indianapolis Public Schools Laments “A Sad Day”
Shannon Williams is proud to be a graduate of the Indianapolis Public Schools. She now writes for the Indianapolis Recorder, where she published this article...