Mike Klonsky's Blog

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

Sorry I can't make it to UIC at noon today for J.C. Brizard's speech. If there were time at the end, I would ask him the questions ...

Spurred on by Race To The Top While public education budgets are being slashed, federal support for privately-managed charter schools has ...

“We have to take immediate action this year. . . . Too many of our students are in what I call an educational emergency room.’’ -- J.C. Bri...

NYT's Mike Winerip gives credi t to Obama along with J ohn B. King Jr ., the New York State commissioner of education, for spurring wha...

Students from Cleveland High visit the Occupy L.A. site at City Hall to ask questions for their civics class. Occupy L.A. "It fits ...

  "CPS policies have destabilized schools in our community," said Jeanette Taylor, a parent leader with the Kenwood group whose ...

Schooling in the Ownership Society If they are going to start jailing students for cheating on standardized tests, our prison system will ...

Columbia prof, Thomas Edsall  writing in today's NY Times , points out that the GOP has become the "white party," armed strat...

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

Autocrat Rahm is determined to teach Chicago teachers and their union a lesson. Dropping the F-bomb on CTU president Karen Lewis obviously ...

University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from t...

140 Chicago schools targeted  Columnist Gene Lyons , posting at Salon.com, warns us: " Don’t believe the education “reformers.”   Publ...

Mayor Quan with peace dove in hand. Yes they were. The simultaneous and unprovoked, often violent attacks on the anti-Wall St. protesters...

Arne Duncan kicks off American Education Week today with a live #AskArne Q&A session on Twitter. I'm anticipating Arne's usua...

Fred Shavies "That’s our Birmingham. So, twenty years from now this movement could be the turning point, the tipping point, right. I...

The mayor and his Broad Academy-trained CEO, J.C. Brizard , are trying to take a page from the  Broad  play book -- merit pay for principals...

"Ohio voters just gave public school teachers something they haven’t received in a while — respect," writes Valerie Strauss at th...

Taking it to the DOE The Occupy Movement in NY has refocused the whole school reform narrative and has transformed power relationships. Wh...

Rep. Maddox and Tenn. Gov. Bredesen celebrated their $500 million Race To The Top grant in March, 2010.  But now... Race To The Top a flo...