Mike Klonsky's Blog

Linda Darling-Hammond thinks that passage of a new bipartisan ESEA bill is "really possible". I doubt it. But I don't run ...

Rahm Emanuel ...said Saturday that nonbinding referendums calling for an elected school board on next month's mayoral ballot are a p...

Lots of teachers among 400,000 who marched in N.Y. yesterday.  Linda Darling-Hammond “The poverty rates of countries in PISA are assoc...

Principal Troy LaRaviere So when people ask me, “Aren’t you afraid of losing your job if you speak out?” this is my answer: I did not...

Stanford prof  Linda Darling-Hammond , who should have been our Sec. of Education, shares her thoughts on Common Core. We should use t...

Darling-Hammond Yesterday, on my Schooling in the Ownership Society blog , I wrote a sharply critical review of the new so-called "...

UTLA Pres. Fletcher I guess the teachers union in L.A. isn't buying into Randi Weingarten's  new unionism . Instead the union i...

Darling-Hammond A special report released yesterday by the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science in Washington ...

Linda was a featured speaker at Saturday SOS rally in D.C. "We have produced a larger and more costly prison system than any country ...

I'm reprinting this speech by Linda Darling-Hammond in full because -- well read it and you will know why. -- M.K. The Service of De...

The great WaPo columnist Valerie Strauss has been reporting on the first ever International Summit on Teaching, convened last week in New Y...

Linda Darling-Hammond While students in the highest-achieving states and districts in the United States do as well as their peers in the hi...

This fall, the F...

Australia contracts with Teach for America. U.S. researchers, like ASU's David Berline r, ask: "What in the world are you thinking...

The A merican Federation of Teachers' Quality Educational Standards in Teaching (QuEST) conference starts today at the Marriott Wardman ...

Duncan vs. Darling-Hammond Looking back and looking ahead, a lot of us can't help wondering how different things might be had Obama chos...

I like Weingarten's new pro-active policy initiative , so long as she brings her base of classroom teachers along with her. Why shouldn...

Looking ahead to next month's AERA meeting in San Diego, be sure and attend this panel sponsored by teacher/activists from the Critical ...

Chicago school reformer Don Moore on Mayor Daley's picks for new school board president, Michael Scott and schools CEO, Ron Huberman :...

Linda Darling-Hammond , who led Obama's transition team in setting its education agenda, is leaving D.C. and heading back to the campus....