Citizen Stewart
Never forget: publicly-funded school choice isn’t about politics, billionaires, or hatred of traditional public schools. It’s about opening doors for kids. When the education establishment and its dogmatists engages in scare tactics and shame campaigns intended to close the roads to opportunity that school choice provides for millions of students, we must stand up for…
Sometimes I feel like I’m the last man standing in favor of standardized testing. I don’t think people know that when I ask “how are the children,” I’m usually asking about their intellectual care and development. I’m an education activist so when you answer, I expect to hear results from a relatively objective source. Like…
In a rush to find any presidential candidate that isn’t Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders, I may have been too quick to drop my commitment to important education policies and to jump on the Joe Biden express. Since it has been clear he would become the Democratic nominee I’ve assumed the role of tentative supporter…
Maybe it’s time to call the “funding inequities” in public schools what they actually are: racism and fraud.
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To all my disrupter friends, please accept this letter as my resignation from the so-called “education reform movement.” For more than 20 years I’ve been lost in the reform forest, but no more. For too long I’ve relied on false prophets who have filled me with false consciousness and bribed me with bank statements. I…
Who was it that said “never let a good disaster go to waste”? I can’t remember and I refuse to Google it, but California offers us a timely example of shameless disaster socialism in action. The UTLA, Los Angeles’ teachers’ union bought billboards that depict charter school supporters as wealthy grim reapers coming to take…
The COVID-19 school closures have been tough on both parents and teachers; however, we still must work together to ensure we can do the best for students at this time. The bottom line is school staff must communicate with parents, and if this is not happening, then parents must advocate for their children to ensure they are receiving the best education at this time.
Last week, spurred by a post on Diane Ravitch’s blog, I wrote about the unproductive narrative developing among traditional education boosters who are stoking fear about the supposed evil conspiracies behind online learning, ed-tech, and nontraditional education. COVID-19 is forcing on millions families, students, and educators to adapt quickly to a “new normal,” and it…
Did you know school principals can issue warrants and their school resource officers can arrest parents for something like recording staff abusing their children? Me either.