Mike Klonsky's Blog

Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyche...

...to Charles, Anne & Bill, and all those who organized and packed the house for last night's Chicago book release party for Small ...

Invade Mars? Best quote of the day comes from conservative Peggy Noonan , who launched off-camera profanities and said, "it's over,...

AFT's reform initiative Tired of conceding the mantle of school reform to top-down “market-based education reformers” the AFT is launc...

We made it over to UIC yesterday afternoon, early enough to grab some seats, to hear Democracy Now's Amy Goodman deliver a powerful an...

Torie Clarke wrote the book, Lipstick on a Pig. She was "Maverick" McCain’s press secretary who helped spin the narrative of McC...

I’m always surprised to find out who reads SmallTalk . Yesterday, I received a sharp, but friendly response to my Lipstick On A Pig post ...

John McCain has his undies all in a twist over this expression, which he used himself to describe the Clinton health proposal. Why all the...

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...

When Sid told me, he wanted to “Free Sarah” and let her speak to the media, I told him, “be careful what you wish for.” Hey Sid, who’s your ...

Edweek’s Eric Robelen , writing about charter school management companies (CMOs), finds a critical voice. It’s me. …critics say that CMOs...

Three views on learning D.C. Supt. Michelle Rhee wants to cut a check to kids who do their homework and attend school regularly. Like her...

'Equal access to education has been gained'--McCain “Education has become the civil rights issue of this century ,” says John ...

Former Wasilla Mayor John Stein in Time Magazine : Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her polic...

USA Today’s Greg Toppo has his head up his ass. A funny thing happened to the Democratic Party on the way to an education platform: The p...

Report from my friend Sid at the RNC: While Palin was speaking, the entire crowd was chanting, “DRILL BABY, DRILL!” Scary. In fact, any...

The boycott’s over —for now Day-one at at CPS The first day of school at Robeson , in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, went something...

Summer’s over. The leaves are turning. School is back in session and Bridging Differences is back on line to help us sort things out. I d...

My friend Sid, the '60s N.Y. radical who went straight--to the Republican Party's inner circles, that is-- misled me on the VP choic...

Imagine bus loads of black folks from the South Side pulling up in front of New Trier High in a wealthy, white, North Shore suburb. Some 3,...