Jeff Snyder: What’s Wrong with Teaching “Grit”?
Ever since Paul Tough popularized the idea of “grit” (e.g., determination, persistence) in his best-selling book How Children Succeed as the key ingredient in how...
Category : Education Reform
Dallas: “Reform” Takeover Collapses…for Now
Corporate reformers don’t like democracy. They don’t like elected school boards. They like mayoral control, state takeovers, all-charter districts, emergency managers. Anything but democracy. In...
Alan Singer: Does Andrew Cuomo Have a Problem with Educated Women?
Alan Singer recognizes that Governor Andrew Cuomo doesn’t like teachers. In New York as in the rest of the nation, about 75% of teachers are...
George Joseph: Black Lives Matter in School
George Joseph is rapidly becoming one of our best education writers. In this article in The Nation, he shows how education “reform” is contributing to...
New Yorker Reviews Jeb’s Record on Education: A Must-Read
The Néw Yorker has a long article about Jeb Bush’s passionate interest in reforming public education by high-stakes testing, report cards, and privatization. Since his...
Lawmakers Propose End to Annual Testing
Congressman Chris Gibson (R-NY) and Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) are sponsoring legislation to banish federally mandated annual testing. Everyone who is opposed to the overuse...
Camins on the Federal Role: Should It Be Curtailed or Redirected?
This is one of Arthur Camins’ best articles about education and its ills. He poses the question of whether there is too much federal meddling...
China’s Opportunity Gap
I don’t know how I missed this article when it appeared in The New York Times. It was written by Helen Gao, and it supports...
Education Writers Association to Anthony Cody: You Are Not a Journalist
Anthony Cody was stunned to be rejected by the Education Writers Association when he applied for an award. Only last year, he won a first...
Join Me in Manhattan on January 21st
To M: We are talking two different matters: 1) You suggest that: “…go down in a very big public place…” That is a reason I...