Mike Klonsky's Blog

It looks like a record voter turnout and that could signal a crushing defeat for Trump and his down-ticket Republicans. That is, if all the ...

The sponsors tell the story Arne Duncan has long been a favorite of the neocon wing of the Republican Party. He played a big role in pumpi...

Is McCain the new dean? ASU is "reforming" its teacher education program by putting less emphasis on pedagogy and more on subject ...

When Michele NcNeil called to interview me for Edweek's assessment of Arne Duncan's first year, I carefully jotted down some notes...

Are the neocons dead? Have they folded up tent after their devastating loss in November? Uh uh, says Jacob Heilbrunn , writing in the Jan. i...

Weyrich's legacy The neo-right wingers love to think of themselves as "radicals" or "reformers" while painting progr...

Campaign of fear impacts school research Here’s how badly the Ownership Society types have politicized school research and evaluation. Ch...

Whose brilliant idea was it to make Bill Ayers the focus of McCain's campaign during this disastrous stretch run for the Republicans? ...

It’s even worse than that. His foreign policy advisor Scheunemann (yes, the lobbyist who wants to go to war with Russia ) says McCain wo...

Obama in Ohio In Ohio, Obama’s speech on education was a little fuzzy. In his appeal to the middle, he’s obviously trying to blur difference...

Thomas Frank’s new book, The Wrecking Crew: How conservatives rule , is well worth reading, even though it has little new to offer on the...

Compassionate conservative Robert Novak ( "The Prince of Darkness") always had a thing for jaywalkers. Here's a WaPo quote ...