Mike Klonsky's Blog

“The new contracts ensure that hotel workers will keep their health care if they’re laid off in the wintertime,” UNITE HERE Local 1, the u...

Wesley Mann Sankofa co-director Raoul Roach (son of Max Roach), Harry Belafonte and Gina Belafonte at the Many Rivers to Cross festival...

Troy LaRaviere  "For those who plan on taking some kind of action, please ensure it is purposeful and well-informed. I STILL HAVE ...

Ferguson Protester Lisha Williams.  "It was no fight, it was no shots fired. The only ones who fired was police. All we did was marc...

E.L. Doctorow (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) E.L. Doctorow at National Book Awards We in this room especially have to appreciate metaphor. W...

Stanford prof  Linda Darling-Hammond , who should have been our Sec. of Education, shares her thoughts on Common Core. We should use t...

Satrapi Persepolis author, Marjane Satrapi  “For me, the worst in all of that is it’s absolutely the biggest insult to the intelligenc...

Clinton warns Indian Ed Minister Kapil Sibal: "It doesn't add up. It doesn't make a difference." The idea of Hillary C...

Plane reading --   Heading back to sweet home Chicago today, thank God. I hate hotels. Need my own pillow to sleep, these days. I've b...

Bennett K12 Inc. buys Inc.'s high school online program Kaplan has been the Washington Post's main profit center. But in the p...

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 ...

It will be much cheaper without teachers Even if the economy rebounds, the situation for public education will remain bleak. With baby boome...

Tilson The Terminator Hedge fund school reformer Whitney Tilson , whose best quotable ( "There's a very fine line between what all ...