Mike Klonsky's Blog

You know, buy a house near a Level 1 school and pay $20K more for not much of a house.  "Education is not preparation for life; edu...

From my perspective, academic freedom means that we have the right to engage in public discourse, the right to engage certainly in academ...

Robert Kraig, Wisc. Citizens Action “We have a political party in the United States that has decided it’s completely OK to hold on to ...

Azalia Martinez NEIU student Azalia Martinez  I’m not scared anymore. I’m not accepting it. I’m ready to fight, because you know, co...

NCLB Redux: Duncan wants more and more testing.  Arne Duncan... said Monday that testing U.S. schoolchildren annually in math and readin...

Bruce Rauner  "I've worked with Rahm Emanuel and (former Mayor) Rich Daley because they control the schools," Rauner told ...

University President Tom Buchanan (not the Gatsby character) had banned Ayers from speaking to a group of students last month, using threat...

Banning Ayers The banning of Bill Ayers has become a symbol of the collapse of academic freedom, residue from eight years of neocon power a...