Karen Wolfe on the Joe the Plumber of 2016
Karen Wolfe, blogger and public school parent in Los Angeles, watched a CNN town hall discussion last week and saw a gentleman ask a question...
Month : February 2016
Idaho: Boise Superintendent Stands Up to the Privatizing Albertson Foundation
Dr. Don Coberly, the superintendent of the Boise, Idaho, school district, wrote a blunt letter to the district’s staff telling them not to believe the smears...
Gene Glass: The Shame of Arizona’s Elitist Charter Schools
Gene Glass, renowned researcher of education, lives in Arizona, where charter schools are proliferating without accountability or transparency. They are certainly not serving the children...
William Doyle: What Makes Finnish Schools So Successful?
William Doyle recently returned from a Fulbright year in Finland, and he spent his year studying education. His own child attended a Finnish school. ...
Mercedes Schneider: Why Jeb Bush’s Presidential Campaign Fizzled
Mercedes Schneider is a close Jeb! watcher. She recognized that he was the godfather of many of today’s most damaging corporate reforms. He linked arms...
Ed Boland Responds to Critics
Ed Boland, whose interview in the New York Times set off a flurry of negative responses, commented on the blog: “With all due respect, Diane...
Paul Thomas: Bad Journalism and the “Hero Teacher”
Paul Thomas has written a series of posts about how poorly the media covers education. In this post, he lacerates the New York Times for...
John Warner: Save Us from Saviors
The previous post by Paul Thomas quote a post by John Warner. I read it and wondered, wow! Why didn’t I know this guy before?...
Arizona: Vouchers for All?
A reader in Arizona reports that a State Senate committee just passed legislation that would lift all limits on vouchers by 2020. Every Democrat and...
Hoboken, New Jersey: ACLU And Education Law Center Sue to Block Charter Expansion
Hoboken is a town in New Jersey that is one-mile square. The charter industry is opening schools there, draining away white and middle-class students. The...