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Jonah Edelman Jonah Edelman of Stand for Children bragged last year that “the union cannot strike in Chicago. They will never be able...

But after spending more than $1.5 million of investors’ money on consultants and lawyers, Vander Ark walked away from the project, and the...

I love my i-phone as much as the next guy. I've been Tweeting all morning, haven't I? And here I am at 6 a.m., on a perfectly good ...

Gates set to speak at AFT convention in Seattle More on "biting the hand" as Bill Gates preps for his "innovation" sp...

Entertainment Properties Trust recently bought five public schools for investment of approximately $44 million.What a deal! (h/t Ken Libby...

Central Falls, R.I. has become the latest battlefield in the war on teachers. After failing to get teachers to trash the district's own ...

Tom VanderArk, Kevin Carey, Lisa Graham-Keega n and other charter cheerleaders are circling the wagons in response to a study released las...

Tilson on Meier--'She should visit a charter school' In his latest diatribe, hedge-fund billionaire and educational no-nothing, Whit...

Ever heard of RevolutionLearning ? Probably not. Doesn't it sound like some radical '60s N.Y. agit/prop group? Don't worry, it...

CPS bans Twitter H/t to Russo on this one. It's Huberman's latest edict -- No communicating with students or their families via pe...

Former Gates Foundation front man, Tom VanderArk confirms pretty much everything we wrote in our book , about the disproportional influenc...

Arne Duncan sums up his communique from the DOE during his term as Chicago's school boss: “It wasn’t a call about teaching kids to read...

A week ago I wrote about former Gates Foundation lieutenant , Tom VanderArk and the way he wanted to divide states seeking stimulus money, ...

Tom VanderArk , as much as anyone, helped set the Gates Foundation's education program on its current tragic course. It was VDA who, bef...