Who Demoralized the Nation’s Teachers? Readers Respond
Last week, I posted my thoughts on “Who Demoralized the Nation’s Teachers?” I sought to identify the people and organizations that spread the lie that...
Category : John King
Laura Chapman: Education Trust and Its Well-Funded Demands That the Biden Administration Deny Waivers from the Tests
As readers are well aware, the federal law called the Every Student Succeeds Act continued the mandated annual testing of students in grades 3-8 in...
Who Signed the Pro-Testing Appeals?
Education Trust, led by former Secretary of Education John King, sent two letters to the Biden administration, urging the administration not to allow states to...
Laura Chapman on Bill Gates’ Hubris, Ignorance, and Folly
A couple of days ago, Bill Gates said he has a new plan to reform education. As I pointed out in a post, Bill Gates...
Bruce Baker on the Hoax of Tech-Based Solutions to the Cost of Education
Bruce Baker of Rutgers University shows in this post that the dream of cutting costs by replacing teachers with computers has been oversold and is...
Success Academy, Known for Harsh Discipline and Skimming Students, Wins Broad Prize
Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy charter chain, known for its harsh discipline and cherryocking students, won the Broad Prize for Charter Schools. http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25920011&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Fblog%2F129%2F%3Fuuid%3D72531 In the past...
Here Are John King’s Accountability Regs, Revoked by Senate
The U.S. Department of Education may pull this off its website. Download it now. These are John King’s accountability regulations, based on FLORIDA accountability, including...
The Republicans in Senate Did Something Right!
Give credit where credit is due: Even though the Republican majority in the Senate seems eager to privatize public schools, for fun and credit and...
SomeDam Poet: Recap of Education Reform, in Rhyme
Thoughts on the recent events in education reform, by our blog Poet: “The Maestro” (A brief historical recap for those who...
New Advocacy Group Condemns Federal Teacher Prep Regulations as Costly and Harmful
A new advocacy group weighs in on the toxic efforts by John King to control teacher education and exacerbate the nation’s teacher shortage. King is...