Mike Klonsky's Blog

We’re in a competition with China and other countries to win the 21st Century. -- Pres. Biden's address to Congress last night  Every gu...

Thousands of Chicago parents and community members protested the 2013 school closings.  CPS’ current Schools Chief Janice Jackson calle...

“High-performing countries have consciously decided to prioritize education over testing.” — State Senator Joyce Elliott, D-Ark. Will a ...

Funniest Quotables: Fariley "I plan to operate independently. That’s how I operated as a federal prosecutor. I would go off and d...

For Immediate Release From Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformative Education (CReATE) February 20, 2015 Contacts: Is...

  In yesterday's post about Barbara Byrd-Bennett's Level 1-5, school rate-and-punish system, I compared it metaphorically to Da...

That's the good news. If you combine Bush and Obama, which is easy to do when it comes to education policy, we're coming up on ...

The Race To The Top is stalling out over testing and evaluation. Common Core roll-out has been an abysmal failure. High stakes testing da...

Maya Angelou on Race To The Top James Forman Jr.   Angelou kept coming back after that first fundraiser. For 17 years, even when her he...

An important new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation highlights the widening gap in opportunity between white and children of color....

I'm heading to Detroit next week for the annual meeting of the North Dakota Study Group . I used to attend every year for at least part ...

As long as we're racing to the top, let's take a look at how the race is going. The theory coming out of the D.O.E., the Gates Found...

Arne Duncan , as usual, is sticking to his misfiring guns. But criticism is mounting over his $5 billion in Race To The Top grants showing ...

Socrates: "We're all mortal", even Diane.  AMAZING DIANE RAVITCH, still blogging from her hospital bed . But she has to ca...

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No Safe Passage for Javier A 14-year-old boy was shot in the back outside a Chicago high school in the city's Ashburn neighborhood Th...

"For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it...

After nearly a dozen years of No Child Left Behind and Race To The Top Remember, back in the day, when all the talk was about leaving no...

On Sunday afternoon, nearly 1,000 people, practically all of them African American, answered Ed Gardner’s call to rally at 95th and Wester...

Arne Duncan's been telling us for years now, that the only problem with current standardized testing mania is the quality of the tests...