Laura Chapman on Bill Gates’ Hubris, Ignorance, and Folly
A couple of days ago, Bill Gates said he has a new plan to reform education. As I pointed out in a post, Bill Gates...
Category : John King
Bruce Baker on the Hoax of Tech-Based Solutions to the Cost of Education
Bruce Baker of Rutgers University shows in this post that the dream of cutting costs by replacing teachers with computers has been oversold and is...
Success Academy, Known for Harsh Discipline and Skimming Students, Wins Broad Prize
Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy charter chain, known for its harsh discipline and cherryocking students, won the Broad Prize for Charter Schools. http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25920011&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Fblog%2F129%2F%3Fuuid%3D72531 In the past...
Here Are John King’s Accountability Regs, Revoked by Senate
The U.S. Department of Education may pull this off its website. Download it now. These are John King’s accountability regulations, based on FLORIDA accountability, including...
The Republicans in Senate Did Something Right!
Give credit where credit is due: Even though the Republican majority in the Senate seems eager to privatize public schools, for fun and credit and...
SomeDam Poet: Recap of Education Reform, in Rhyme
Thoughts on the recent events in education reform, by our blog Poet: “The Maestro” (A brief historical recap for those who...
New Advocacy Group Condemns Federal Teacher Prep Regulations as Costly and Harmful
A new advocacy group weighs in on the toxic efforts by John King to control teacher education and exacerbate the nation’s teacher shortage. King is...
What John King Said at His Press Conference Yesterday: He Still Doesn’t Care About Public Schools
Sam Husseini of the Institute for Public Accuracy invited me and several others to submit questions for John King’s press conference at the National Press...
John King: Secretary of Privatizing Public Education?
Brilliant reader Chiara, who lives in Ohio, wrote this timely observation: “U.S. Education Secretary John King on Wednesday weighed in on a swirling schools controversy,...
John King Doubles Down on Importance of Standardized Tests; “Reformers” Cheer
Standardized tests produce results normed on a bell curve. The students who cluster in the bottom half of the bell curves are predominantly poor, children...