The Failure of the Obama-Duncan “School Improvement Grants” and Its Lessons for Today
A while back, I read a vitriolic article in a rightwing publication that expressed contempt for the public schools and congratulated Betsy DeVos for trying...
Category : Corporate Reformers
Bob Braun Explains the Opposition to Billionaire-Funded “Reform”
Bob Braun was an education reporter for 50 years. After he retired from the New Jersey Star-Ledger, he began blogging and paid close and critical...
Gary Rubinstein: Why I Left the “Reform” Movement
Gary Rubinstein is well known to readers of this blog, as I have posted almost all of his blogs. He is a career high school...
Maurice Cunningham: The Marketing of the “National Parents Union”
Maurice Cunningham watches the flow of “Dark Money” into the privatization of public funding for schools. A professor of political science, he has recently followed...
An Interview with Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider About ”A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door”
This interview was recorded by Town Hall in Seattle, which is a great venue for speakers but in COVID Times was recorded remotely. I interviewed...
Who Signed the Pro-Testing Appeals?
Education Trust, led by former Secretary of Education John King, sent two letters to the Biden administration, urging the administration not to allow states to...
Bill Gates Invites You to Learn About “The State of Education”
Let’s just say it upfront. If you wanted to know more about “The State of Education,” and how to “rebuild a more equitable system,” the...
Maurice Cunningham: How Billionaires’ Dark Money Shapes Education Policy
Maurice Cunningham is a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts who specializes in unmasking the influence of billionaires’ dark money. “Dark money”...
Ed Deform Groups Congratulate Biden on Decision to Test
Review the list of organizations that signed a letter thanking the Biden administration for insisting on tests this spring. Some outspoken enemies of public education...
Peter Greene: Disaster Capitalism and Kids Today
Peter Greene notes the emergence of a new narrative among “reformers”: Whereas schools have long been failing kids, now the kids themselves are failures because...