LI Superintendent Blasts Board of Regents for “Educational Apartheid”
Steve Cohen, superintendent of the Shoreham-Wading River School District, published an editorial in the local newspaper blasting the New York Board of Regents. Many educators...
Month : November 2013
Jersey Jazzman Schools Frank Bruni
Jersey Jazzman has words of wisdom for Néw York Times columnist Frank Bruni. Bruni recently wrote, in defense of the Common Core standards, claimed that...
Do You Shop at Walmart? Don’t.
If you are a parent of public school children; if you care about your local public schools; if you are a teacher or administrator or...
Dissidents in Chicago Create Their Own Board of Education
Parents, educators and other Chicagoans disgusted with authoritarian control of public education organized their own Board of Education, which held a public meeting one day...
Vicki Cobb: How to Put the Joy Back into Learning
Vicki Cobb is an accomplished writer of nonfiction books for children. Here she describes her own education, the high points and the low points. Her...
PolitiFact Rhode Island Corrects Its Error
When I spoke in Rhode Island in October, I said that test scores were at their highest point in the past 40 years. I also...
Resist Educational Apartheid Now or Get More of It
Superintendent Steve Cohen’s article, posted this morning, got a huge response and many tweets and retweets. Here he speaks directly to a reader of his...
Reader: Douglas County Wants Its Own Version of inBloom
This is very odd. The public schools of Douglas County, Colorado, are controlled by one of the most conservative school boards in the nation, which...
Report: Charters in Columbus, Ohio, in Trouble
The Columbus Dispatch reported new charter school troubles. Ohio is known for its lack of oversight for charter schools, especially if they are owned or...
Derek Bok: A Reform Agenda for Higher Education
Derek Bok, former president of Harvard University, has some concrete suggestions to improve higher education. His most prominent suggestion is that Ph.D. Candidates should be...