Gary Rubinstein: NYC’s New Chancellor Runs a Chain of Low-Performing Schools
Gary Rubinstein, a math teacher at Stuyvesant High School, has no patience for overblown claims. For a few years, he maintained a website devoted to...
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Maurice Cunningham: Phony Parent Groups Lead Attacks on Critical Race Theory
Maurice Cunningham is a political scientist with a deep interest in how Dark Money influences education policy. His motto is: “Dark Money never sleeps.” He...
Laura Chapman: TCM Reviews Bias in Films
Here is an excellent suggestion from our reader Laura Chapman, whose original research and writing will always find a home here. We have already missed...
John Merrow: Bad Reporting about the Pandemic and School Reopenings
John Merrow is exasperated by the media narrative that it’s only the teachers’ unions that are blocking the reopening of schools. Of course, students should...
Why Amazon Shut Down Right-Wing Site Parler
The New York Daily News published messages released by Amazon to defend its decision to boot the right-wing Parler off its site. Amazon sought to...
An Epitaph for Donald Trump’s Twitter Account
This is a clever farewell to @realDonald Trump, banished for life from Twitter, at last! As someone said on Twitter in response, how will people...
Peter Greene: The Washington Post Editorial Board Are the Know-Nothings of U.S. Education
Major newspaper editorial boards love standardized testing. They write from a position of complete ignorance of how useless these tests are and how little information...
Twitter Temporarily Suspends Trump’s Account
At the end of a shameful day, in which Trump claimed falsely (again) that he had won in a landslide, Twitter announced that it was...
Lou Dobbs Forced to Retract Libelous Claims on Air
The Washington Post reported that FOX Business News commentator, Lou Dobbs, a big fan of Trump’s, was compelled to air a segment retracting his statements...
FAIR: Why Is the New York Times Cheerleading to Reopen Schools?
The organization Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting writes that the New York Times has become a “cheerleader” for reopening the schools as the COVID surges...