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...
Category : Corporate Reformers
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...
Biden Administration Adds “Reformers” to Key Roles in Department of Education
Here we go again. Before either Secretary-designate Miguel Cardona or Deputy Secretary Cindy Marten have been confirmed by the Senate, key jobs in the Department...
EdTrust and Other Groups Ask Cardona NOT to Allow Testing Waivers
One of the first and most important decisions that Secretary-designate Miguel Cardona will make is whether to grant waivers to the states that want to...
Pastors For Texas Children Ask U.S. Department of Education: Please Regulate the Growth of New Charters in Texas
The Pastors for Texas Children sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education seeking relief from the deluge of federal funding for charters that...
Jake Jacobs Reviewed Hillary’s Dreadful Education Plan
Jake Jacobs, an art teacher in New York City, a leader of New York BadAss Teachers, and a writer for The Progressive, read and reviewed...
Steve Hinnefeld Reviews “A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door” by Schneider and Berkshire
Steve Hinnefeld, an Indiana blogger, reviews Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire’s new book A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door and finds that it resonates with...
John Thompson: A Hilarious Novel about Life in the Classroom Today
Who knew that “adequate yearly progress” and “accountability” could be the subject of a comic novel? John Thompson just read that novel and he reviews...