Mike Klonsky's Blog

Of course, the neo-confederate GOP leadership is opposed to another probe of their 1/6 attempted coup d'etat. To them, the coup wasn...

Cal State Northridge students rally to protect cross-cultural courses. Kathryn Sorrells, CS-N communication studies professor  “Given ...

Testing companies continue to perpetuate the myth of the so-called "summer learning gap", where children supposedly forget most...

Happy birthday, Rosa Parks Actor and activist Cynthia Nixon  “We have to be more than the anti-Trump party,” she said at the annual H...

UIC Prof. Josh Radinsky  "We're getting the (CReATE) band back together... Vouchers or vouchers by any other name is just onc ...

Chicago teachers are currently reviewing the curriculum for a new districtwide course on the history of the disgraced former Chicago Poli...

Troy LaRaviere "I don't think Rahm can be elected dog catcher, and I think he knows it... Right now, I want to be president o...

"What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children." -- John Dewey , ...

Michele Bollinger, teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C. “Why should Lynne Cheney get to tell me what I teach in my cl...

According to the revisions, "there was a debate among European leaders about how non-Europeans should be treated." Wow! What an ...

Decades ago, John Dewey, America’s foremost education philosopher, asserted that students learned best through experience and that democr...

John Goodlad (1920-2014) John Goodlad on social justice “It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice...

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

Author Mike Rose If we determine success primarily by a test score, we miss those considerable intellectual achievements that aren’t eas...

St. Louis Rams protest Ferguson before Sunday's game with Oakland Cook County Clerk, David Orr “The mayor, with millions, has a...

I contend that the cry of "black power" is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes ne...

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

"The Common Core has become a rallying cry for fringe groups that claim it is a scheme for the federal government to usurp state and ...

Sam Seidel There are lots of kids who can't or won't connect with the traditional high school setting. Many brilliant and talent...