On Diane and Mission Hill
Dear Diane, I shall miss writing to you, but count on me to respond often to your blogs. Read Full Post >
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September 13, 2012
June 27, 2012
Is Trust a Reasonable Default Position?
The "push out" rate at charter schools—not to mention the already too high rate at regular public schools—is a frightening example of how we push and pull at the same time without much thought. Read Full Post >
June 23, 2012
Mayors Support "Parent Tricker" Law
So, two years after passage of the parent trigger law in California, here are the results. Three other states have passed similar laws: Connecticut, Mississippi, and Texas. Not a single school in California or anywhere else has been turned into a charter. Read Full Post >
June 14, 2012
Lessons From Chinese Classrooms
What both countries seem to be engaged in is how to move closer to the other, without losing the strengths of each. And, of course, their "purposes" are not wholly in synch. Both want to strengthen their economies, but the Chinese state schools are not trying also to produce feisty and critical citizens for a democracy. Read Full Post >
June 03, 2012
The Pearsonizing of the American Mind
Of course, Pearson is not just a publisher of standardized tests. It is a mega-corporation. It is a behemoth of for-profit goods and services to the education marketplace. Read Full Post >
May 26, 2012
Are Charter Schools Public Schools?
What concerns me most is the possibility that policymakers are promoting dual school systems: a privileged group of schools called charters that can select their students and exclude the ones that are hardest to educate; and the remaining schools composed of students who couldn't get into the charters or got kicked out. I wonder also whether it is wise in the long run to create one set of schools that is free from regulation and a competing set of schools that is subject to ever tighter regulation. Read Full Post >
May 15, 2012
Wall Street's Investment in School Reform
Wall Street understands success and failure. When companies fail, investors bail out. As studies continue to show that charters on average don't get better test scores than public schools, will Wall Street continue to be bullish about charters? Will they support only the ones that skim and exclude? When will they cut their losses? Read Full Post >
May 12, 2012
Privatizing Public Education in Philadelphia?
Philadelphia has had state control of its public schools for a full decade. Now the leaders of the city think that public education is the problem. Read Full Post >
May 07, 2012
So This Is Reform?
Is there any evidence that any of these changes will improve education? No, none whatsoever. Does the Jindal law follow the lead of any of the high-performing nations? No. Read Full Post >
May 01, 2012
What You Need To Know About ALEC
Dear Deborah, Since the 2010 elections, when Republicans took control of many states, there has been an explosion of legislation advancing privatization of public schools and stripping teachers of job protections and collective bargaining rights. Even some Democratic governors, seeing the strong ri... Read Full Post >
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