Mike Klonsky's Blog

Credit: Creative Commons/AFGE "Ed reformers are just waiting for their turn to talk. They only want to talk about themselves. Anyt...

IEA graphic. Hillary has her picture on milk cartons since she went missing after election day.   SNL even picked up on it. Seems like t...

Students protest in Austin. Election Day headline at Huffington : "What do we tell the children?' Ali Michael, Ph.D. answers:...

Got this in my mail today from the right-wing think-tankers at the Hoover Institute: "PARCC and Massachusetts state exams predict col...

“I’m a tremendous believer in education, but education has to be at a local level. We cannot have the bureaucrats in Washington telling y...

The Cone of Uncertainty We were heading out for D.C. this morning and then on to the Bethany Beach. We turned around. Lucky we chec...

Community "rabble-rousers" protest Newark One in Feb. 2014. More lectures on civility from right-wing think-tanker Rick Hes...

Thanks to journalist Debbie Nathan writing for In These Times , for putting a human face on the disaster that is No Child Left Behind. ...

Finn (right) and his Fordham team. As thousands marched in D.C. to commemorate Dr. Kings dream speak=h, Checker Finn and his boys at ...

"My best meeting with him was off stage, away from the lights at a private table in a steakhouse." -- J.C. Brizard  CPS gran...

I don't agree. Is there any real difference between calling for an end to "urban school systems" and calling for an end ...

Checker Finn (right) and his Fordham Foundation crew are upset at White House report. “So it should concern everyone that right now – ...

In a 183-page ruling in favor of the plaintiffs Friday, Denver District Judge Sheila Rappaport ruled in the 6-year-old Lobato v. Colorado c...

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan, calls itself a "nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to improvi...

Incubator Right-wing think-tankers at the Fordham Institute are looking for answers and I'm sure they'll find them. You see, it...

Conservatives hail cuts as "an opportunity" Huffington's Joy Resmovitz reports that a UFT survey of 900 New York City schools...

Duncan's biggest fan “I’m a fan,” said Margaret Spellings, Duncan’s immediate predecessor, who was education secretary during President ...

"The report’s flawed analysis and interpretation leads to biased results and to an unsupported conclusion that many high-performing stu...

Following up on yesterday's post re. the DOE's anti-Ravitch strategy, one need look no further than this disgusting piece ( "Do...

SOS Institure Workshop (R. Sanders pic) One of the many good things that came out of the SOS conference was a committment from a signifi...