Update June 14, 2015… Louisiana Department of Education allegedly updated their pre Katrina numbers in a High School Performance [PDF] but you'll notice still no methodology. Also, again, they conflate the 2003-04 school year with the 2004-05 school year. More laundering. We’ve [...]
Photographic Credit; Chris Hondros/Getty By Sally Kohn | Originally Published at The Daily Beast. May 16, 2014 Sure, it’s mostly the courts, but as we approach the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, charter schools and testing regimes are reinforcing segregation. Sixty years ago [...]
Photo Courtesy of Don Harder, CC2.0) By Susan Eaton | The Nation. May 15, 2014 Sixty years after Brown, whiter, wealthier communities are breaking away from racially and economically diverse school districts. A new secessionist movement, anchored in the South, provides yet another reminder that “separate” [...]
By Paul Thomas | Originally Published at TruthOut. Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:02 So why do self-styled education "reformers" keep ignoring class issues? Ignoring Poverty as Education Reform As Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan represents both the discourse and policy currently driving education reform in the [...]
Photograph; M.K. Nguyen ends the protest with a Unity Chant as groups protest on the median in front of Sarah T. Reed High School to protest school closure, Monday, December 9, 2013. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune) By Danielle Dreilinger | Originally Published atThe [...]
The families of kindergarten teachers make less in a year than the average top 25 hedge fund manager makes in 15 minutes. Photograph; Blanton Elementary School kindergarten teacher Amy Collins, left with her class on Monday, August 20, 2012 in Lealman, Florida. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, [...]
(AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki) By Zoë Carpenter | Originally Published at The Nation. May 9, 2014 - 3:52 PM ET Between 2003 and 2008, a Minnesota charter school executive named Joel Pourier embezzled more than $1.3 million from his school, the Oh Day Aki Charter School. While students [...]
Kendra Herber teaches at New Choices Community School, which the state is suing to close.| Mark Lyons for The New York Times By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at The Education Opportunity Network. May 7, 2014 When members of the U.S. House of Representatives consider, beginning today, [...]
By Raynard Sanders, Ed.D.. | Originally Published at The New Orleans Tribune. May 2014 The latest scheme from the corporate reformers is that every state needs to adopt the Common Core standards. Common Core is another idea manufactured by a powerful group of wealthy individuals in this [...]
