Great to see students begin to realize that Teach for America is a way to bust teachers' unions while placing young people in teaching situations that are way over their head. The anti-TFA movement is beginning to have a real effect.
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Between the growth in parents opting their students out of stupid standardized testing, the rapid retreat of the technofuturists and their program of replacing professors with MOOCs, a real push.
Talked about this last week, but Arkansas electing Tom Cotton is going to be horrible. So I don't blame liberals and unions going all in for Mark Pryor, bleh as.
Turning schools into profit-making enterprises has been a disaster, not only in the U.S., but also in Sweden. Applying Taylorism to schools makes perfect sense to the high modernist education reformer like Michelle Rhee or Arne Duncan, but does nothing positive to address the real...
I mostly reject lazy "both parties are the same" rhetoric. But if it fits on one issue, it's education. Obama has long surrounded himself with Rheeists and now that some.
Say what you will about modern conservatives, but sometimes they are at least unintentionally honest. I’ll say this about South Carolina’s historic education reform: It’s bold. https://t.co/mtqJI7UOq1 pic.twitter.com/IEoTjuAnav— Neetzan Zimmerman.
The Boston public school system is eliminating history and social science departments, merging them with other departments that don't matter because they aren't on the standardized tests. No doubt this is paving the way for the same thing to happen on the university level to...
Obama's Rheeist agenda on education again rears its privatizing head: One of the nation’s leaders of the privatization movement, Ted Mitchell, has been confirmed by the. u.S. Senate as Undersecretary.
This is an excellent but depressing piece of reporting on the resegregation of Tuscaloosa schools after a series of Supreme Court decisions rolled back the progress made in integrating America's.
I look forward to Republicans discovering the interstates are a socialist program and thus Interstate 5 Brought to You by Microsoft can be a pothole-ridden road that would make no nation proud: "Socialism, defined on Wikipedia, 'is a social and economic system characterized by social...
The more parents who opt out of making their children go through the pointless and educationally destructive Common Core standardized testing that is the fad of Rheeist politicians of both.
Another sign that most Democratic politicians simply don't care about organized labor outside of writing checks and getting on votes on election day. Illinois governor Pat Quinn has named Paul.