Breaking News! New York State Asks Feds for Testing Waiver for This Spring!
New York State education officials have agreed to request a waiver from the Secretary of Education from federally mandated testing this spring, due to the...
Join the National Town Hall to Learn About Canceling Testing This Spring
The standardized tests to which our students have been subjected for two decades have not improved American education. They have degraded it into endless months...
Nancy Flanagan: Eight Reasons to Get a New National Anthem
Nancy Flanagan was a music teacher for many years. After teaching and singing the National Anthem thousands of times, she has come to the conclusion...
Will Jeff Bezos Seek Control of American Education?
This is the scariest article of the week or month, not counting the violent rampage of Trump allies on January 6. Dominik Dresel writes in...
Ann Cronin: Miguel Cardona, What Is Your Vision for American Education?
Ann P. Cronin is a former Connecticut Distinguished English Teacher of the Year, a school district administrator, and creator of award-winning programs for the teaching...
Donald Trump: America’s Liar-in-Chief
The Washington Post fact-checkers have kept a meticulous record of Donald Trump’s lies, and there were so many of them that it became a nearly...
A Wonderful Typo! We Need Common CARE Standards!
Recently Tom Ultican responded to something I posted on Twitter. His response contained a typo. He meant to write “Common Core Standards,” but mistakenly wrote...
Leonie Haimson to Mayor de Blasio: Cancel the Tests for Gifted and Talented Programs NOW!
Parent advocate Leonie Haimson has written an urgent plea to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Richard Carranza. They acknowledge that the...
Peter Greene: Republicans in Florida Seek to Gut Public Schools Entirely
Peter Greene here disentangles the latest move to expand vouchers in Florida and the latest attempt to demolish public schools in a state where 80...
Jonathan Swan: Bill Barr Quit Because He Knew Trump Was Lying about the Election
It is late in the day for former Attorney General Bill Barr to rehabilitate his reputation, but he apparently gave journalist Jonathan Swan an inside...