Illinois: Stop Testing K-2 Kids!
IMPORTANT!!! K-2 Testing Bill (PROHIBITING K-2 Testing) will be heard TOMORROW!! Subject: Alert: Sign witness slip in support of this bill–Senate Bill 3986 SB3986 will...
Category : Education Reform
Nancy Flanagan: A Legislator’s Guide to Education Policymaking
Veteran teacher Nancy Flanagan was asked by a candidate for advice about education policy. Nancy wrote a list of ten ideas that she thought would...
Peter Greene: Alabama Republican Hopes to Eliminate Public Schools
Peter Greene reports that a Republican legislative proposal would eliminate public schools, thus wiping out one of our nation’s most democratic institutions. He begins: State...
David Corn: The Inside Story of the Tennessee School Board that Banned MAUS
David Corn, the D.C. Bureau Chief for Mother Jones, read the minutes of the McMinn County, Tennessee, school board that banned Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-Prize winning...
Jesse Hagopian: We Will Not Teach Lies
Jesse Hagopian is an activist teacher in the Seattle Public Schools, a leader in Black Lives Matter at School and editor of the book More...
Gary Rubinstein: Success Academy Attrition Rate Still 75%
Gary Rubinstein has followed the progress of the much-lauded Success Academy charter chain, supposedly the most successful in the nation. He has noted that SA...
Peter Greene on the Diversification of the Koch(topus) Brand
Peter Greene explains how the Koch machine is creating new brands to hide its identity from the unsuspecting. The billionaires Charles and his late brother...
You Are Invited to Join Illinois Families for Public Schools to Discuss School Board Disruptions
On January 27 at 7 p.m. (Central Time), Illinois Families for Public Schools and other groups will sponsor a Zoom meeting on the subject, “Confronting...
Arthur Camins: Stop Filling the Potholes in Education and Healthcare
Arthur Camins, scientist and technologist, warns that public policy in both education and healthcare is deeply flawed and cannot be fixed with patches. No matter...
Heather Cox Richardson Assesses Biden’s First Year
Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian who teaches at Boston College. She writes a blog called “Letters from an American,” in which she brings...