New York Times: DeVos Allies Try to Understand Her Abandonment of Local Control
The New York Times wrote about Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ sudden turnaround, from champion of local control to heavy-handed advocate of federal threats to...
Category : Blended Learning
Tom Ultican: iReady, Privatization, Blended Learning, and the Assault on Public Education
Tom Ultican pulls together four divergent strands of the effort to undermine public education, and iReady seems to be the tie that binds them together....
Larry Cuban on the Hype of Blended Learning
Larry Cuban is a keen observer of the marketing of new technologies to schools. In this post, he looks at the common practice of claiming...
Mercedes Schneider: Who Owns the PARCC Copyrights?
Over the past couple of weeks, there have been many articles about PARCC deleting blogs and tweets. In every case, PARCC complains that the offending...
Schools for Other People’s Children: UPDATE: LINK ADDED!
One of our most perceptive essayists Rachel Levy watched John Merrow’s program about Rocketship charters and recoiled with alarm. She said if she put her...
Do Poor Kids Need Art and Music Education?
This is one of the most important posts you will read this year–or next. The Rocketship charter chain hopes to be the mass-produced model for...
Uses and Abuses of Online Learning
The school district in Manchester, New Hampshire, is considering online classes–not blended learning–as Acosta-saving device. The idea is to put kids online and lay off...
Is Rocketship the Wave of the Future?
Experienced journalist Tom Toch visited a Rocketship charter school in San Jose, California, and came away impressed. What impressed him most, however, was not the...
Kids Know How to Game the System
A reader sent this comment: Here is my take. Our school in NYC used an online, computer based reading program for the first time last...
School of One Dropped by 2 of 3 Pilot Schools
A bombshell report about the highly touted “School of One” revealed that students in the program did no better on state tests than those in...