Who Demoralized the Nation’s Teachers? Readers Respond
Last week, I posted my thoughts on “Who Demoralized the Nation’s Teachers?” I sought to identify the people and organizations that spread the lie that...
Category : U.S. education
Tom Ultican: The Authoritarians Who Ruined Our Schools
Tom Ultican, retired teacher of physics and advanced mathematics, has been studying the spread of the fake “reform” efforts across the nation (aka the Destroy...
Salvatore Babones: The Real Reason that Corporate America, the Right, and Democratic Dupes Have Declared War on Our Public Schools
This is a great article, written in 2015. How could I have missed it! It was written by Salvator Babones, a professor of sociology at...
James Harvey and David Berliner: What “A Nation at Risk” Got Wrong, and What We Must Change
“A Nation at Risk” was published in 1983. It launched the false narrative that American public schools were failing. The nation was in recession,...
William Mathis: What Is the Purpose of School and What Do We Measure?
Please read this wonderful statement! Willam Mathis is Vice-Chairman of the Vermont Board of Education and Managing Director of the National Education Policy Center. Losing...
NPE Action Reports on Fight Against School Privatization
NPE Action exists to fight school privatization and to demand better resourced, more equitable schools. Here is the latest news on the privatization front. Good...
G. F. Brandenburg: Lies Reformers Tell
G. F. Brandenburg, a fearless blogger who taught math for many years in the schools of D.C., writes here about the hypocrisy of reformer rhetoric. ...
Rebecca Mead of The New Yorker: Did the Candidates Forget about K-12 Education?
Rebecca Mead writes in The New Yorker that the presidential campaign has almost entirely overlooked K-12 education. The subject never came up in the presidential...
Jersey Jazzman: The Candidates, School Funding, and Donald Trump Jr.’s Hypocrisy
Jersey Jazzman cringed (I imagine) as he watched Donald Trump Jr. spout off about the failures of American public education. Young Trump wants all children...
High School Graduation Rate Rises Again
The US Department of Education reported that the high school graduation rate rose to another historic high. The rate represents those who graduated in four...