Nancy Flanagan: It’s Time to End Our National Obsession with Test Scores
Nancy Flanagan is a retired teacher with decades of experience. In this post, she remembers when she used to take standardized test scores seriously. Then...
Category : Michigan
Ottawa County, Michigan: Anti-Maskers Disrupt County Commissioners’ Meeting
The state of Michigan allows school districts to determine their policies on masking, which is a terrible idea since it politicizes decisions in each district....
Rachel Cohen: How Advocacy Groups Are Refuting the Critics of CRT
Rachel Cohen wrote an interesting post about how progressive advocacy groups, teachers, and activists are responding to broad-brush attacks on schools teaching Critical Race Theory....
Traverse City: The Success of Common Sense and Decency
Nancy Ackerman Will, a teacher in Traverse City, Michigan, updated my post today about the angry protestors at a recent board meeting, who accused school...
Traverse City, Michigan, Divided Over Racism and Critical Race Theory
The national frenzy over “critical race theory” (CRT) has been generated by a small number of conservatives in search of a hot-button issue that would...
An Honest Man, and Other Heroic Republicans Who Rejected the Big Lie
Ed McBroom is a dairy farmer in Michigan. He is also a Republican state senator who chairs the Oversight Committee of the legislature. It was...
Peter Greene: How a Non-Profit Charter School Can be Run for Profit
Peter Greene reviewed the Network for Public Education’s report on for-profit charter schools in Forbes, where he is a regular columnist. He writes: It has...
Michigan: Former Governor Snyder Charged for “Willful Neglect of Duty” in Flint Water Case
Prosecutors charged former Governor Rick Snyder for “willful neglect of duty” for his role in the Flint water crisis, which led to death and poisoning...