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Columnist Mary Mitchell: "But the privileged class doesn’t get to tell the oppressed class how they should react to oppression."...

My old and dear friend Deb Meier  and her former Mission Hill School colleague and co-writer, Emily Gasoi  have a new book out and it'...

Holy Cross prof, Jack Schneider , writing at EdWeek , makes a pretty fair assessment of the small schools movement. In the eyes of Gates...

Special thanks to my friend Deb Meier for spending time with our group of local educators Wednesday and my doc students last night. Disc...

I had no idea that my reference to  George Counts' little book would arouse such passionate arguments (see comments section) against th...

Parents 4 Teachers Jambalaya... We dined at Wishbone last night, along with hundreds of others who came out to honor and support ISAT-...

Yesterday was the first official day of basketball practice. Alexander Pope said, "Hope springs eternal." Well, at least in No...

My favorite S-T headline. But just who is EVERBODY anyway? "If you want to throw something at the cameras, go ahead, have at it. Y...

Diane Ravitch The embargo seems as antique as the now ancient slogans.The sooner the embargo is lifted, the sooner there will be normal re...

There was a good turnout of students and faculty Monday night at Lake Forest College, to hear Deborah Meier speak on the topic of "...

Keynoters Deb Meier & Nancy Carlsson-Paige Asleep at the wheel bloggers I tried to explain to Teaching Now blogger Liana Heitin ...

Rupert Murdoch (left) with his boy, Joel Klein. Joel Klein's email dump For me, the other interesting point is that they are so af...

Deb Meier In her latest post on her Bridging Differences blog, ( "The Left Wing of the Possible") Deborah Meier poses the q...

Chicago Mayor (right) with Krupp CEO Torsten Gessner Rahm Emanuel “By combining transportation, infrastructure, and the best workforc...

Harvard Public Affairs & Communications Office Vito Perrone Sr., in 1997 with students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, w...

From Deborah Meier in Madison  Mike, It was anything but an "angry crowd"! There is something joy-prodcing about this kind of...

My latest on Huffington But now, with Chicago's schools in a state of leaderless limbo, the problems of having a single autocrat runnin...

Gray vs. Rhee "Frankly, we live in a city that has been oppressed," Gray said after a 2007 list of prospective school closings ap...

Deborah Meier was in town yesterday. So we went out to visit Telpochcalli, a small neighborhood elementary school in Chicago's Little Vi...

Pres. Obama "We can't allow the corporate takeover of our democracy." ( Weekly Address) Diane Ravitch responds "What abo...