Mercedes Schneider: The Leading Candidate for Mayor of New York City Has a Horrible Plan for the Schools
Mayoral control of the schools was never a good idea. The current race for mayor of New York City demonstrates that it is a horrible...
Category : Class size
AFT & NEA Issue Joint Statement on Actions Needed After the Pandemic to Benefit All Students
WASHINGTON, DC – Today the National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation’s two largest educators’ unions, released a bold, shared agenda to ensure that all...
Leonie Haimson: What Mitt Romney Needs to Know About Class Size
Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters, has some advice for Mitt Romney: Class size matters! Romney criticized President Biden’s plan to reduce class...
Andy Hargreaves: After the Pandemic, Austerity or Prosperity?
Noted education scholar Andy Hargreaves questions the alternatives that are likely to follow the end of the pandemic: Will government impose deep cuts and austerity,...
New York City: Parents Press DeBlasio to Support Outdoor Classes
Chalkbeat reports that many parents are calling on Mayor DeBlasio to endorse outdoor classes. A Brooklyn lawmaker has joined the growing chorus of parents and...
Laurie Garrett: Most Schools Will Not Be Able to Open
Laurie Garrett is a Pulitzer Prize winning science writer. This article in Foreign Affairs explains why Trump and DeVos’s demand to reopen the schools for...
New York City: How Does a District with More than One Million Students Plan to Reopen?
Leonie Haimson writes here how New York Coty hopes to reopen its public schools, which enroll more than one million students. Haimson has chided the...
Peter Greene: How to Replace Distance Learning with Genuine Personalized Learning
Peter Greene knows, as do we, that the tech industry has stolen and misused the term “personalized learning,” which to them means a student in...
Leonie Haimson: Yes, NYC Can Pay for Smaller Classes: Here Is How
Leonie Haimson is a tireless advocate for small class size. At the drop of a hat, she will recite the research showing the value of...
Europe Begins to Reopen Schools, Cautiously
The New York Times has an interesting story today about the varied approaches to reopening schools in Europe. The common threads are testing, smaller classes,...