Milwaukee Targeted As Next New Orleans-Style “Recovery Zone”
Milwaukee's public school system, already hit hard by devastating budget cuts and teacher firings, has become the next big urban school system to be targeted for privatization. MPS, the home of the nation's first crippling school voucher system, is now threatened with a New Orleans-style [...]
Students Resisting Teach For America
Why Are We Campaigning For years, college campuses across the country have been the core recruiting ground for Teach for America (TFA). For many soon-to-be graduates, concerned as they should be with the rampant inequality embedded in American public schools, TFA appears to be an opportunity [...]
Michael Klonsky, PhD.
Michael Klonsky, PhD. Michael Klonsky, Ph.D. teaches in the College of Education at DePaul University in Chicago. He currently serves as the national director of the Small Schools Workshop. Dr. Klonsky is a teacher educator who has spoken and written extensively on school [...]
Mismatches in Race to the Top Limit Educational Improvement
The Broader, Bolder Approach to Education (BBA) in partnership with the Economic Policy Institute released a comprehensive research report titled Mismatches in Race to the Top Limit Educational Improvement. The extensive study reveals a reality that is too often customary; in America we propose policies, pass Bills [...]
#OurMarch Observations
Might we consider a world where we no longer bicker and banter, a place where together we build the beauty other generations imagined and yet, never authentically pursued. Could it be that they, as we, adopted the precepts of peace and love, but we chose not to [...]
Sandra Khalifa; “My 2 Minutes #OurMarch #WeReady #WeComing”
#OurMarch Sandra Khalifa Defends the Dream; in a reflection, a recitation meant to awaken a sleeping nation. Her prose are powerful, profound; they are the poetry of pain felt and released. In "My 2 Minutes #OurMarch #WeReady #WeComing" we hear the words of a Dream Defender who [...]
Most States Funding Schools Less Than Before the Recession
By Michael Leachman and Chris Mai[1] | Originally Published at Center on Budget Policy. September 12, 2013 States’ new budgets are providing less per-pupil funding for kindergarten through 12th grade than they did six years ago — often far less. The reduced levels reflect not only [...]
The ABC’s of Achievement Gaps Policy Brief
Download the Flyer The ABC's of Achievement Gaps Policy Brief By the time they reach fifth grade, many disadvantaged students lag their wealthier peers by one to two years in reading and math achievement. Policy responses often include standardized tests and teacher evaluations [...]