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...
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An Important New Book About New Orleans and Its Schools
Three scholars have recently published a very informative book about the history of education in New Orleans. The authors tell this story by scrutinizing one...
Brookings Study: How D.C. School Choice Intensifies Segregation
The Brookings Institution published a study of the D.C. school system, which is almost evenly divided between public schools and charter schools. It was written...
Kevin Welner: Parents Thrilled with Return of Testing!
Kevin Welner, director of the National Education Policy Center and professor of education at the University of Colorado in Boulder, writes here about the “testing...
A Bold Idea for Testing: Opt-In
The Ossining, New York, school district has a creative response to the federal mandate to administer tests at a time when children’s lives have been...
California: Nearly 50,000 Teachers and Parents Say NO to Biden Testing Demand
UPDATE TO NEWS RELEASE: 50,000 signatures submitted to SBE-parents, educators urge waiving standardized testing California Teachers Association February 22, 2021 1705 Murchison...
New York: A Sample Opt Out Letter
LisaM says: Oh, you tell that to all the administrators and state Ed people I had to deal with. If one didn’t send their child...
Jennifer Berkshire: Will Education Cause The GOP to Lose Arizona?
Jennifer Berkshire writes in this post about the educational awakening in Arizona, the result of #red4ed and the teachers’ revolt of 2018. Proposition 208 is...
Carl J. Petersen: Why Los Angeles Voters Should Re-Elect Scott Schmerelson to the LAUSD School Board
LeftCoastTeacher says: “While the parents whose children attend Granada [Charter] will get to vote in November to decide who will represent LAUSD public school students...
Science Writer: Should I Send My Children to School?
Apoorva Mandavilli is an award-winning science reporter for the New York Times. She is a mother of two children. She lives in Brooklyn. In this...