Mercedes Schneider on Virginia’s New Secretary of Education
Mercedes Schneider digs into the background of Virginia’s new Secretary of Education. She is a data collector, not an educator. On the good side, she...
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Chicago Picks a Corporate Reformer as New Superintendent
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot selected Pedro Martinez, Superintendent of the San Antonio School District, as the Windy City’s public schools. Martinez is a “reformer.” In...
Texas Eliminates Accountability in Charter Schools for ELLs and SPED
Texas has gone overboard for charter schools, even though they consistently post worse results than public schools. In the state’s new plans, charter schools will...
My Signal Contribution to the U.S. Department of Education
When I served in the George H.W. Bush administration, I was Assistant Secretary for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. OERI, as it was...
David Berliner: Why Religious Schools Should Never Receive a Dollar of Public Funding
Since the 2020 election, when Republicans won many seats in state legislatures, there has been an explosion of proposed voucher laws, to allow people to...
Jan Resseger: Trust The Teacher to Tell You How Your Child Is Doing, Not Big Data
It is posted at OpEd news https://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Big-Data-on-Learning-Loss-in-General_News-Education_Education-Testing_Educational-Crisis_Learning-210216-186.html with 2 comments I made: Here is one:The testing companies (like Pearson) are making a fortune because people...
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...
Ann Cronin: Miguel Cardona, What Is Your Vision for American Education?
Ann P. Cronin is a former Connecticut Distinguished English Teacher of the Year, a school district administrator, and creator of award-winning programs for the teaching...
Will Jeff Bezos Seek Control of American Education?
This is the scariest article of the week or month, not counting the violent rampage of Trump allies on January 6. Dominik Dresel writes in...
John Thompson Reviews “A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door”: A Frightening Future Ahead
John Thompson, historian and retired teacher in Oklahoma, reviews historian Jack Schneider and journalist Jennifer Berkshire’s A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door. Schneider and Berkshire...