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 : Teach for America
Mercedes Schneider: How TFA Alums Use Their Network to Move into Top Jobs and Score Fat Contracts
This post is Mercedes Schneider at her best, pulling together the strings of a tangled web involving money, power, TFA, Chiefs for Change, John White,...
Mercedes Schneider: Why Does This State Board Member and TFA Official Consistently Fail to File Financial Disclosure Forms?
Louisiana hIgh school teacher Mercedes Schneider is required by law to file a financial disclosure form every year, and she never misses the deadline. State...
How Does Forbes Select Its “30 Under 30,” Who Are Considered Leaders in Education?
This is a fascinating paper published in the peer-reviewed Education Policy Analysis and Archives in 2018. It explores the question of how Forbes magazine selects...
Andrea Gabor: How Big Philanthropy Captured Media Coverage of Their Education Investments
Andrea Gabor is the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Baruch College, which is part of the City University of New York. Gabor has written...
Gary Rubinstein: Why I Left the “Reform” Movement
Gary Rubinstein is well known to readers of this blog, as I have posted almost all of his blogs. He is a career high school...
Gary Rubinstein: How to Pretend to Reform Schools
Gary Rubinstein revisits the past decade of failed reforms and notes how frequently the “reformers” made promises and then failed to keep them. Michelle Rhee...
New Orleans: The Other Side of the Story
I recently interviewed Raynard Sanders, a veteran educator in New Orleans, about his new book The Coup D’etat of the New Orleans Public Schools: Money,...
2016: Hillary’s Dreadful Education Plan
I recently received a copy of Hillary Clinton’s policy book, assembled for her by her most trusted advisors in 2014. This policy book was released...
Ed Johnson to the Atlanta School Board: “America United” and “A Union with Purpose”
Ed Johnson is a persistent, tireless advocate for systemic improvement of the Atlanta Public Schools. As a systems analyst, he opposes school choice, which helps...