Garrison Keillor: A Grim Anniversary in Detroit
This entry appeared today in Garrison Keillor’s “The Writers’ Almanac.” It was on this night in 1967 that an uprising began in Detroit. An all-white...
Category : Detroit
Nancy Bailey: How Betsy DeVos Fostered Squalid Learning Conditions in Detroit
Nancy Bailey just keeps getting better and better as she points her pen and her blog at malfeasance in education. In this post, she points...
A Statement by the Center for Educational Equity on the Landmark Detroit Decision
The Center for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University, issued this statement on the landmark decision in Michigan that students in Detroit have a...
Michigan: Federal Appeals Court Rules that Students in Detroit Have a Fundamental Right to Literacy
In a major decision affecting students in Detroit, a federal appeals court overruled a lower court decision and concluded that students have a fundamental right...
Detroit: A Cautionary Tale of a Promising Charter School That Was Doomed to Fail
This is an extraordinary story, which I hope you will read to the end. It was published by Chalkbeat. A group of concerned leaders in...
Nancy Bailey: Students Should Sue Betsy DeVos and the Other “Reformers” Who Ruined or Closed Their Schools
Nancy Bailey explains here that if you are dissatisfied with your public school, blame the Disruption Machine, the ones who call themselves “reformers,” like Betsy...
Eli Broad Pays Yale University $100 Million to Take Charge of His Controversial Broad Leadership Academy
Many school districts have had unfortunate experiences with “Broadies,” the graduates of Eli Broad’s management program for future school leaders. The Broad Leadership Academy has...
ProPublica: How a Tax Break Meant to Help the Poor Benefited a Billionaire Trump Donor
ProPublica, the invaluable investigative journalism website, tells a sorry story about how a billionaire developer who donated large sums to the Trump campaign and won...
Michigan: State Takeover of Detroit Schools was a “Costly Mistake”
Koby Levin of Chalkbeat reports that a study of the state takeover of Detroit’s public schools–which lasted for 15 years–was “a costly mistake.” The state...