Mike Klonsky's Blog

When it csomes to ed bloggers, some of my favorites can be found on NEPC's aptly-named Best of the Ed Blogs , including the likes of R...

“...being seated at the table, which do you think is a better place to be?” -- Sen. Durbin November 6th was the election. The very next...

Damn! No sooner had I posted about Byrd-Bennett's school-closing trickery , then she came up with another bit of Three-Card Monte . Sh...

So this is why Byrd-Bennett was brought in to replace the bumbling Brizzard. Where he played Rahm's fool, she's the sleight-of-...

Rahm and his hand-picked school board can't afford drone warfare . But they have a kill list just the same, when it comes to schools ...

Reaper Drone License to Kill "Creating a legal structure, processes, with oversight checks on how we use unmanned weapons is goin...

Michael Brick , writing in yesterday's N.Y. Times,  ("When Grading is Degrading") offers a devastating appraisal of current ...

A new Harvard study shows the so-called "achievement gap" growing wider in L.A. as the neediest of the district's students ...

At City Club luncheon: i don't know what Gov. Quinn is saying, but Karen Lewis doesn't seem too impressed . Rahm's school re...

Remember back in April, when a single insipid test question sparked the pineapple rebellion and shone a light, not only on current standa...

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic. It's not only the low point of this once-progressive governor's career, it is c...

Duncan remains "We came out of the gates flying" in the first term, he said, and he plans to "replicate that as much as w...

Warning to teachers. Please don't watch this video immediately after eating. I was sickened to see Randi Weingarten and Tea-Party G...

The 2012 High School Dropouts in America survey finds that the great majority of kids who leave school early, do so because of out-of-school...

If you're looking for another reason to replace the mayor's hand-picked school board with an elected one, look no further than yes...

There was a good turnout of students and faculty Monday night at Lake Forest College, to hear Deborah Meier speak on the topic of "...

I am hardly one to try and quantify everything, particularly teaching/learning. But there are some numbers that I find fascinating if on...

Public school teachers, students, parents and activists rally against school closings inside the lobby of the Hyatt Hotel on North St. Cla...

The landslide victory for Chicago's elected school board referendum has the Sun-Times editorial board in a tizzy. Today's editori...

Election Results "Mitt Romney is the president of white male America." -- Maureen Dowd, NYT   Rehabilitating Michelle Rhee  ...