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Back in March of 2010, I responded to a WaPo story about Duncan's DOE purchase  of 27 new military-order, Remington Model, 870 pol...

Thanks to Lady Wonk Dana Goldstein for pulling together a summary of  a glut of new reports raising doubt about current administration ed...

Science Teacher "Getting through another year of AYP successfully is like passing a ridiculously large and hard stool. You do it becau...

Arne Duncan, President Barack Obama’s normally mild- mannered education secretary, has finally had enough. “Diane Ravitch is in denial an...

The school-to-prison pipeline Nathan Bootz , Superintendent of Ithaca Public Schools asks Michigan's Tea Party Gov. Snyder to make hi...

Big losers are social services and schools That's right. This week, former mayor Daley landed his pay-back job with the very firm that ...

School turnaround "miracle" myth makers, including Jeb Bush, Arne Duncan and Pres. Obama , are no match for Diane Ravitch . In a...

How do we know? Ty Fahner told us so Fahner Under pressure from hundreds of thousands of people (including me) who made phone calls and ...

But now we're losing Motown's public education system Gil Scott Heron died Friday. I've been listening to his music and poetr...

Gov. Christie toasts Arne Duncan . New Jersey has become the model for national corporate reform assaults on teachers and public educatio...

Darling-Hammond wins UFT's Dewey Award “Teacher unions are the only ones now standing up for public education funding and for real educ...

From Javier Lacayo Hi Mike,   I wanted to send some information your way on our ‘Parent Day of Action’ which kicked off at 7am this mornin...

Now that I've turned another year older, I'm trying to act my age, a little more mature if you will. So I've dropped my Friday m...

Nat Hentoff , writing in The Village Voice , has nothing but praise for the inside-of-school reportage coming from Meredith Kolodner at the...

Charter schools for those with "highest potential" Robert Schwartz' s post today on Huffington, "Why Charters and Colleg...

Looking back and remembering Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2004 speech to the GOP Convention. He ridiculed those who lacked optimism abo...

Obama's commencement speech in Memphis "We need to encourage this kind of change [small academies] all across America. We need to...

 The Problem's We All Share -- Norman Rockwell  A middle finger salute goes out to N.Y. Mayor Bloomberg for his recent ignorant...

Chicago mayor and school boss, Rahm Emanuel thinks he's found the magic bullet of school reform.He's been touting the longer school...