While I don't doubt that Chicago has a real budget crisis coming from unfunded pension requirements, this is pretty telling of how Rahm Emanuel plans to use Teach for America as a way to undercut the teachers' union. Last week, Emanuel laid off 1036 teachers,...
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If the students of Hoover, Alabama want the government to provide bus service so they can get to school, they are basically moochers anyway and we don't need them getting.
Jeff Guo has a good piece at The New Republic on how Michelle Rhee's StudentsLast First organization has centered on Tennessee to push its anti-teacher union agenda. Yet despite the.
Last month, I attended a session dedicated to the Chicago Teachers Union struggle at the Labor and Working Class History Association conference in New York. A couple of members of the New York teachers union were on the panel, talking of the struggle to retake...
Teach for America gets played at this great progressive thing. You, young bright-eyed college graduate, can go and change the world through your willpower and optimism. It taps into deeply.
This weekend was the anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, one of the most horrifying episodes of organized violence against African-Americans after emancipation. Linda Christensen, a high school teacher.
I have one thought about this study questioning the value of Advanced Placement testing. I graded AP U.S. History exams for 3 years. The pass rate was about 55% (assuming a 3 is a pass). I would argue the number of students who wrote a...
Like most elite supporters of destroying public eduction unions and handing the future of education over to capitalists and flawed testing systems that make or break people's careers, Michelle Rhee.
Like many school districts, Attleboro, Massachusetts privatized its school meals, hiring the Whitsons Culinary Group. Then this happened: Students at an Attleboro, Massachusetts, middle school went hungry this week, if.
The end of an era in Boston, as school busing is officially ended. It's true that busing didn't really work very well. It was a clunky approach to a horrible problem of school inequality. It was an incredibly brave plan, particularly in the face of...
Among the many problems with decentralized charter school systems is that students end up being taught anything that the crazy people who often run them want. Such is the case.
Much credit to Seattle teachers at Garfield and Ballard High Schools for refusing to give a flawed standardized test to their students. Laura Clawson: The MAP appears to be a.