Wrench in the Gears: Incentivizing Pre-K Online Gaming
If you are a parent or grandparent, you know that little children need less screen time, not more. In this alarming post, blogger Wrench in...
Month : February 2019
Linda Darling-Hammond at AASA: Testing Is Not Reform
The newly appointed chair of the California State Board of Education Linda Darling-Hammond spoke to the national conference of the American Association of School...
National Education Policy Center: Has the Tide Turned Against Vouchers?
The National Education Policy Center asks whether the tide has turned against vouchers. i would argue in response to their question that there was...
Sign a Petition to Change the Charter Law in California
Allies who met at the Oakland conference of the Network for Public Educare are petitioning to regulate charter schools so they don’t harm public schools....
Los Angeles: When You Go to a School in a Violent Neighborhood
Whats it like to go to a school in a neighborhood where violence and murder happen often? Sonali Kohli and Iris Lee write about...
Breaking News from Los Angeles: Board Votes to Ask Voters to Approve New Taxes for Schools
From the Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles Board of Education has voted unanimously to place a parcel tax on the June 4 ballot in...
Chicago: Two African American Women Will Be in Run Off in Mayor’s Race
Tonight, history was made in Chicago. Two African American women won the top two slots. Chicago’s next mayor will be an African American woman. Farewell...
New York City: Why the Renewal Schools Program Failed
Leonie Haimson explains in this testimony why NYC’s Renewal Schools Program failed, after spending nearly $800 million. The one Reform it refused to make in...
D.C.: A Rating System Designed to Destroy Public Education
This is not a well-known secret: every distribution will always have a bottom 5%. In D.C., under the control of the Mayor, the school...
Expose: Trump’s Obsession with the Russia Investigation
The two men believed that Republican leaders, who publicly praised the appointment of Mr. Mueller, had been beaten into a defensive crouch by the unending...