Mike Klonsky's Blog

Arne Duncan at Boston DFER meeting supporting unfettered charter expansion. MA voters disagreed and defeated Question#2 and Trump in the p...

"I think the promise of PARCC is greater than the promise of most of the other assessments we’ve ever had. Kids can test to the edge...

Hillary at Newsday "Well, I have always supported national standards. I've always believed that we need to have some basis on ...

My good friend at New Trier High School told me that the parents in Winnetka could care less about the PARCC test. He tells me that the hi...

Brother Fred Mercedes Schneider Duncan is gone, and the USDOE test worship continues. -- Deutsch 29 Valerie Strauss [New Ed Sec. ...

Abandon the notion of subject-matter as something fixed and ready-made in itself, outside the child's experience . -- John Dewey Rem...

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, will speak at today's pre-strike rally in Grant Park amid stalled contract talks with ...

Arne Duncan gives his more-testing announcement at Seaton Elementary School in Washington, D.C. Sometimes the news is so bizarre that I ...

Supt. Trish Kocanda This time it comes from the leader of one of the nation's wealthiest and most progressive districts. Supt. Trish...

Back in the '80s I got my start in adult education, teaching GED classes in a little classroom in the back of the public library on N...

President Robert Kelly of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308 announces the organization's endorsement of Jesus "Chuy...

Regardless of what goes on in the classroom, the new Common Core tests have cut-off scores designed to anticipate the failure of more tha...

This from today's Trib -- When the freshly elected Rauner assumes the Illinois governorship in January, he will gain control of the...

Byrd-Bennett takes umbrage Barbara Byrd-Bennett She also took umbrage with the use of the term "layoffs," instead preferrin...

"It feels that the Chicago mayor wants to kick the public [school] system in the teeth at every opportunity." AFT's  Rand...

Jim Hightower The grubby little secret of today's ivory tower is that it is being propped up by an ever-growing, exploited underclas...

Eddie Farmer, 75, lives with belongings thrown on the curb after a foreclosure next door to his home  in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chic...

French Economist Thomas Piketty Economist Thomas Piketty There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save th...

Two of my favorites I got to hang out with some of my favorite folks at last night's Progressive Caucus fundraiser at Buddy Gu...

“I believe the Common Core State Standards may prove to be the single greatest thing to happen to public education in America since Brown...