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 fighting for decent pay, small classroom sizes, and to retain the ability to strike. This...
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This op-ed about the growing use of physical restraint and torture in public schools should outrage us all: Among the recent instances that have attracted attention: Children in Middletown, Conn.,.
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 of Michigan shirt inside-out. News 9 in Oklahoma city reports the boy's mother is now...
In discussing Hyatt Hotels heir Penny Pritzker's support of Obama while UNITE-HERE has called for a boycott because of the terrible way the chain treats its housekeepers, it's worth pointing.
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 are not going onto college has a full-time job is terrible. And there's nothing wrong...
To expand on the arguments made by Erik and a couple commenters, I had a schizophrenic reaction to Diane Ravitch's essay on Arne Duncan. I'm inclined to think that her.
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, but it is not. Teachers will be ranked on a scale of 1-100. Teachers will...
The blog over at the LSE, British Politics and Policy at LSE, has an interesting post on the relationship between teacher pay and educational attainment outcomes. A fuller summary of the.
I thought everyone might need their feelings reassured for Thanksgiving. Luckily, the Denver Westword has provided us with some extra-special classroom posters from 1973. Now, let's all gather around and.