By Jessica Shiller | Learning on the Edge July 29, 2013 | Students stage a sit-in at Williams Elementary (Credit: OccupyCPS) The battles over school closings have been fierce nationwide. In Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Detroit, Baltimore, and Los Angeles, announcements of public school closings have been [...]
By Rebecca Strauss | Originally Published at The New York Times June 16, 2013 Averages can be misleading. The familiar, one-dimensional story told about American education is that it was once the best system in the world but that now it’s headed down the drain, with piles [...]
Download the fuller report; The School Voucher Crisis. A Position Paper From the Center of Inquiry Office of Public Policy. October 2012 Consider the recent news. In North Carolina headlines read, Private school vouchers at center of House budget debate. In Wisconsin schools chief blasts voucher expansion [...]
New York Times Photograph: Amanda Lindsey, a preschool teacher at the Academy of St. Benedict the African in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, talked with Charlotte Pettigrew, 5, during breakfast there in May. By Motoko Rich |Originally published at The New York Times. June 13, 2013 CHICAGO [...]
Michelle Rhee, right, talks to third grader Kmone Feeling during a visit at J.O. Wilson Elementary School on Aug. 23, 2010 in Washington. D.C | (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)By David Sirota | Originally Published at Salon. June 3, 2013 In the great American debate over education, the [...]
Originally Published By Laurie Bennett at Muckety. May 7, 2013 at 11:11am The below Mapping billionaires and charter schools relationship map is interactive. Click around to explore relations in the map. Enter the name of a person or organizationMapping billionaires and charter schools. While much of the [...]
By Julianne Hing @juliannehing | Originally Published at ColorLines. on May 7, 2013 The Louisiana Supreme Court dealt a major blow to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s education reform agenda today. In a 6-1 vote the Court ruled that funding for school vouchers, a central part of the governor’s [...]
As long as I can remember, there has been a perennial plea for black people to enter the teaching profession, and many of us enthusiastically headed this righteous call. However, as the nation's population and students have grown more diverse, the teaching force has done the [...]
Originally Published on January 30, 2013. By Valerie Strauss. The Answer Sheet. Washington Post. A nonprofit group released thousands of e-mails today and said they show how a foundation begun by Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and national education reform leader, is working with public officials [...]
