Mike Klonsky's Blog

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” -- Napoleon Bonaparte Three U.S. presidents, Bush, Obama, and Trump, have bought and sold t...

Reformers say: "But there's no research on benefits of smaller class size." I'm increasingly confronted by some loc...

Election Results "Mitt Romney is the president of white male America." -- Maureen Dowd, NYT   Rehabilitating Michelle Rhee  ...

"CPS and Mayor Emanuel want to do to our schools what Mayor Daley did to the parking meters." -- Windy Pearson (Action Now) at F...

"Throw out the [public school] system." Ann Romney I've been a First Lady of the State. I have seen what happens to peop...

Funny. I continually get mailings from a company called CREDO Mobile asking me to switch from AT&T over to their company, which claims...

"There were no binders full of women at the final presidential debate on Monday, but there were certainly horses and bayone...

"Candy, I don’t have a policy of stopping wind jobs in Iowa." -- Mitt Romney "I went to a number of women’s groups and sai...

"I once thought classroom size was … [the] only thing I could do to make our schools better." -- Mitt Romney "Come be i...

Rauner's revolution In any case, Rauner sees the strike as the start of "a multi-year revolution." His reactionary ...

This from ABC10 in Philadelphia: "Teachers unions have too often made plain that their interests conflict with those of our childr...

Checker Finn (right) and his Fordham Foundation crew are upset at White House report. “So it should concern everyone that right now – ...

After Romney laid out the Republican platform on eduction , including union busting, vouchers and larger class size, the Democrats, includ...

How do we as a teaching profession create a climate in which everyone is clamoring to come into schools like this ... where this is a badge...

I must admit, I was glad when Mitt Romney fired the first education salvo across the Democrats' bow last Wednesday at the Latino Coal...

Pedro Noguera "The way we are now as a country, not only aren't we living up to the Brown decision, we're n...

Romney lands the first punch. Will Dems strike back? If not, who will? In the run-up to the elections, neither candidate(s) has said much ...

Visiting a wealthy suburban school "This is a school? I thought it was a museum." -- Terence Lewis, 17, a senior at Furness High i...

Fred Shavies "That’s our Birmingham. So, twenty years from now this movement could be the turning point, the tipping point, right. I...