Jeff La Noue has an interesting piece about how to "fix" the Rust Belt cities. Using Toronto as a model, he asks why the Canadian side of the Great Lakes is booming and the American side is in a decades-long slide. There are complex reasons...
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Less than three months after Rahm Emanuel closed 50 Chicago public schools to bust the teachers union move resources around efficiently, the august mayor has issued a call for new.
Gary Rubinstein does some number crunching from New York school test report that showed declining scores and what he finds exposes more Rheeism lies: In the Stephanie Simon report she.
What a surprise that those supposedly "measuring" school success change their data for political convenience. Former Indiana and current Florida schools chief Tony Bennett built his national star by promising to hold "failing" schools accountable. But when it appeared an Indianapolis charter school run by...
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.
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 seated notions among 21st century young people about the ability of the empowered individualism to...