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Shorter a lot of "progressives" today: "I usually support unions, but these Chicago teachers [insert Republican talking point about unions.]" People are complaining--these teachers are highly paid, how dare they.
Tomorrow morning, the Chicago teachers are going on strike. This is a power struggle between the union-busting mayor and Democratic National Convention speaker Rahm Emanuel and the teachers who are.
Kristina Rizga's piece at Mother Jones on her experiences in a supposedly failing San Francisco high school is just fantastic. Following a Salvadoran immigrant who saw some pretty horrible stuff.
This is incredibly stupid, even for Oklahoma. OKLAHOMA CITY (WXYZ) - Last week the principal at Wilson Elementary in Oklahoma City elementary school made 5-year-old Cooper Barton turn his University.
My good friend Michelle Rhee is at it again: Rhee, the former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools and Founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, told the capacity crowd that businesses evaluate.
Dana Goldstein's latest column about youth unemployment is deeply problematic. Certainly youth unemployment is a gigantic problem. The new statistics showing that only 1/6 of recent high school graduates who.
Diane Ravitch rips Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in the New York Review of Books, grading him an F on every front: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan loves evaluation. He.
Diane Ravitch's piece is so essential I'm reluctant to excerpt from it at all. But these key points stand out to me: The new evaluation system pretends to be balanced,.